A Study in Contrasts: Paul Thomas Anderson and Laurie Anderson
I ended my weekend by going to see the new Paul Thomas Anderson movie The Master. The film is broadly about a Scientology-like group in...Read More
Notes from New York
1. New York in the fall is ridiculously seductive. I visited this past weekend and the weather was perfect–blue skies, cool breezes. I walked all...Read More
Let there be music from pots and pans
There’s been a lot of writing on John Cage in the last week in preparation for today, what would have been his 100th birthday. You...Read More
Eleven Seventeen Garland
With the changing of the seasons comes too the changing of the art climate. In the past year in Austin we’ve seen a flourishing of...Read More
Dianthus Caryophyllus
Mikaylah Bowman‘s recent series of photographs reminds me of the 17th century Dutch still-life tradition, paintings that depict neatly arranged flowers, their edges crisp with...Read More
A love letter to Paul Rosano
Manscape: Man as Subject and Object opened last night at Lora Reynolds Gallery. The group photography and video show is curated by Christopher Eamon and...Read More
Gray Matter
The surfaces of Ben Brandt‘s sculptures are covered in gray. The objects look like they’re a thousand years old, as if they’d just been pulled...Read More
Double Feature
A friend and I used to have an ongoing joke about writing a blog titled Double Feature. In this fantasy blog we’d review films that...Read More
Happened, Happening, About to Happen
Disambiguation/Red Space Gallery/Closes February 12th Happened There are a lot of great images in Disambiguation, an exhibition currently on display at Red Space Gallery...Read More
