Melba Toast

Visual AIDS began Day With(out) Art on December 1st, 1989 as a national day of action and mourning in response to the AIDS crisis. It [...]

I live in Austin and while there is tons of art to see in this town, I believe that if you treat the state of [...]

The final buzzer is about to ring and there is a very small window of time to go and see Reality Is Only A Rorschach [...]

While researching for work I’m currently making in the studio I’ve become obsessed with white and its false reputation of purity. Here are just a [...]

Similar but Different #22: Waiting For Winter But Will Settle For (a) Fall,  daydreaming about grey skies, empty branches and temperatures below 60 degrees. Amy [...]

Adding my voice to the peanut gallery I’d like to mention a few other notable exhibitions, openings and lectures happening this fall. So get on [...]

If you missed Lady Gaga’s male drag performance at the MTV Video Music Awards last night then you also missed the shock on the faces [...]

Yes it’s still 105 degrees in Austin and while it may be hard to believe, the students and traffic are back signaling that Fall Semester [...]

Every December I wait anxiously for The Lives They Lived edition of The New York Times. It’s not because I am morbidly wanting to see [...]

I’ve been wanting to write about The Reading Room for some time now. Directly across from the Cotton Bowl and Exposition Park, The Reading Room [...]

I have to admit it’s been a hard year. Since last July Art and I have had a rocky relationship. After 2 decades of unconditional [...]

In doing research for an upcoming exhibition I couldn’t believe the amount  of contemporary art based on chandeliers out in the world. For Similar but [...]

Mirror Mirror #7 features artists Salvador Castillo, Michael Anthony García, and Hector Hernandez also known as the collective Los Outsiders. They met in 2006 and [...]

I drove up to Houston a few weeks ago to attend the DiverseWorks auction and while there I had the  chance to visit a few [...]

With an economy that is closing many galleries, combining institutions, affecting artists’ practice and curtailing art publications it is encouraging to find someone willing to [...]

In honor of Father’s Day and Dads who are in, all about or surrounded by, art – I present Similar but Different #19: Big Pop-pa, [...]

Officially the first day of summer is not until June 21st, but according to my thermostat and our electric bill it’s already too hot. Similar [...]

In America, especially Texas, guns and gun imagery are prevalent within our culture. The violence of guns & knives goes hand in hand with sex [...]

I’m a huge fan of obsessive-compulsive art making especially when it is subtle and pulls you in for a rewarding surprise of a gem. Such [...]

Today I present Similar but Different #16 in honor of mothers everywhere who come in many shapes, sizes, species and even genders. I’ll start with [...]