Nothing Always Happens

I am experiencing a really peculiar art/book/music mash up at the moment. Over the weekend, I saw the Turner show at the DMA . Meanwhile, [...]

I took my 3-D design class over to see the Martin Puryear retrospective at the FW Modern the other day. It’s pretty spectacular. 20 years [...]

This is too weird. On the heels of the whole Eric Trich debacle, a show comes along tailor-made to reinforce my dismay about a certain, [...]

Well, I finally broke down and went to a CAA conference . They made it especially easy, bringing it right to my door here in [...]

I found Roberta Smith’s critique  of the new Eli Broad museum at LACMA incisive and thoughtfully biting. The inaugural show and her criticisms of it [...]

{youtube}Xs54N2XdZpw{/youtube}   it’s like everybody who’s out there painting destroyed landscapes covered with graffitti and trash, only with explosions and skateboarding in slo mo. Surfing [...]

When I was 18, I met John Cage. I was in art school. He was coming to our city to do some performances and lectures [...]

Not to flog a dead horse, or thinking that anyone cares, but I thought I’d give my final two cents on O’Neil’s appearance on Stern. [...]

  image censored: The shirt-lifting image formerly occupying this space created a real broohaha. Stern’s taken it down, so must we for copyright issues. Carry [...]

Hmm, this Tyler Green vs. Voice critic thing is veddy interesting. First of all, I think Viveros-Faune was entirely too casual, even flippant, in his [...]

I have a confession. Uh – sometimes, I really enjoy an issue Vanity Fair. Occasionally I have to pick it up, like a fix or [...]

Peel Gallery in Houston is curating an amorphous experiment in vernacular design to coincide with Design Life Now : National Design Triennial opening at the [...]

Finally got over to Goss-Michael Foundation for the Hirst thing. I seem to only go there with pal Stephen Lapthisophon , when we need an [...]

I wanted to follow up on my Denver museum day musings (disheartened as I was with the new DAM building) with something positive about the [...]

Holy baby Jesus, the new Daniel Libeskind–designed building of the Denver Art Museum is worse than I suspected it would be, from seeing it under [...]

I finally got around this morning to wading through the lengthy breakdown on the message boards of CSAW ’s implosion down Houston way. Fascinating drama [...]

I thought I’d list some of the things I actually really liked in Miami. There were plenty actually. How could there not be with so [...]

Well, I’m back from Miami, visiting its (by last count) 452 art fairs. Over three days I attended about 10 of them, which by the [...]

There were a slew of gallery openings over the weekend here. I only made it to the Eastside spaces, and not even all of those. [...]

“Who the #@$% is Jackson Pollock?” That’s the title and essential query at the heart of a documentary I just watched for the first time [...]