Stupid Painting with your lack of ideas I won’t say “Conceptual Art.” It’s a lie, and not the good you-kinda-look-like-Idris-Elba lie, but more like [...]
Monocular
O.P.P. “In Appropriation” at HCP
Yikes! That’s it? I can’t believe that In Appropriation at HCP is closing already. I’ve been thinking about the show quite a bit. And [...]
Shift Your Known Position to The Light; Alvin Baltrop at the CAMH
Alvin Baltrop’s photographs, most of them taken at the Hudson River pier between the 70s and 90s constitute the CAMH’ s latest Perspectives exhibition: Dreams [...]
Dragons; beauty at the MFAH
Can I admit that I get a major kick out of this image? That I am thankful for it? Can I say this without losing [...]
No room for Vader; Mel Chin’s Funk and Wag
Two months ago, The Station Museum’s Artifactual Realities closed. Unfortunately, I first visited the exhibition a couple weeks before the end and only had a [...]
The Big Sleep
Lawndale, I ain’t mad at ya. I love the opportunity that is your residency program, your open submission process is truly open and makes possible [...]
They Shoot Artists, Don’t They? a summer program
It’s almost July, and perhaps you have no interest in losing yourself in the waves of insect din and the swampy stickiness, even though it [...]
Lebowskis: Talking to Ed Hardy
“You talking to who?” They heard me fine, yet each time I told a friend that I was calling Ed Hardy for a quick interview, [...]
Make it Houston: notes on street art
Tumbleweeds We don’t have New York’s density, or Chicago’s architecture, or Los Angeles’ mythologized spaces. We don’t have San Francisco’s prices, Aspen’s lack of oxygen, [...]
Perestroika at the Fotofest Biennial
Let’s talk Deadwood. David Milch’s superlative television show was quite good at putting his audience just outside of a given situation. The characters [...]
