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There is too much to do in Austin this weekend! So whether you’re from here of need an excuse to visit these are my picks [...]

I like pink because it is bubble gum and blisters. It is the color of innocence. I also like pink because it’s a dirty white [...]

The above video is based on a letter by the artist Sol LeWitt written to the artist Eva Hesse with slight alterations by Levni Yilmaz… [...]

Humor and play pervade the exhibition New Image Sculpture at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio. It features thirteen contemporary artists and art collectives [...]

Like the intuitive and abstract connections we made as teenagers trying to make sense of that space between childhood and adulthood, Barry Stone’s exhibition Hum [...]

Elizabeth speaks quietly but carries a large stick. Chris Powell’s sculpture Elizabeth is enough. An extreme minority: just one, she is enough to keep you [...]

Not so much a Mirror Mirror of dual identity as it is two identities that have come together to influence and create something new. Mirror [...]

On a cold and (believe it or not) snowy day in Dallas, Texas I found myself at the entrance of 500X Gallery on the last [...]

Merry subversive Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and yours! I apologize to those of you who do not celebrate the holiday. I [...]

Art education at it’s best. Stephen Colbert and Steve Martin go all art insidery on the Colbert Report last week. With cameos by Frank Stella, [...]

Hot on the heels of my post about the VAC’s Anthropogenesis exhibition and because nothing says Fall in Texas quite like taxidermy and animal antics… [...]

Animals have always been an important part of my life and a great emphasis in my own work as an artist. They remind me that [...]

For the next two weekends, artist studios, art galleries and theaters all over east Austin are open to the public for East Austin Studio Tour [...]

  In honor of Halloween and my wish to always be SUPER when in reality I remain extra-ordinarily human, I present Similar but Different #11: [...]

  It seems like today we’re going through a similar technological revolution to the one we went through over 100 years ago and like a [...]

    I’m kind of upset right now. My former professor and a huge influence on my artwork is lecturing at AMOA today Saturday October [...]

These past few weeks I’ve been working my way around Austin’s gallery scene intent on introducing myself and discovering new venues as well as stopping [...]

It’s 2am and I can’t sleep, so I present Similar but Different #10: Sleeping With One Eye Open. My room is clammy and cold, Moonhandled [...]

Fittingly it was in an exhibition at Arthouse called Animations back in 2007 that I first saw the work of David Shrigley. The show had [...]

Up first the songster, writer, actor and melancholy singer of Murder Ballads whose lecture Love Song is at the top of my hit list. CLICK [...]