Nothing Always Happens

Rat Artist, Rat Critic

I found the following monologue sort of humorously touching and timely, especially in light of the current poll on here on GT*. It is a [...]

Rat Artist, Rat Critic

Lost and Found

My friend Stephen Lapthisophon, who I’ve mentioned before, gave a talk the other day in conjunction with his exhibition at Conduit, and catalog release for [...]

Lost and Found

Between Heaven and Earth

A few rambling Saturday morning-in-my-warmest-robe-and-slippers-tea-drinking thoughts (its gettin chilly in Texas finally)… Lately, I persistantly find myself thinking about notions of vertical and horizontal. Roughly [...]

Between Heaven and Earth

Eliasson in Artforum

For the first time in what seems like years, I‘m actually reading a copy of Artforum, and surprisingly (to me at least,) enjoying it. It's [...]

Eliasson in Artforum

Marfa Weekend, part 2

A few more thoughts about the Marfa weekend… I was able to see for the first time Judd’s studio in town, in the old Safeway, [...]

Marfa Weekend, part 2

Marfa Weekend

This is a piece I wrote for the Ft Worth Star-T, to publish this week sometime. It feels skeletal, as space constraints kept me glancing [...]

Marfa Weekend

Posh Nosh at Goss(h)

My friend James Cope over at the Goss Michael Foundation was kind enough to invite me over to the space for lunch and a talk [...]

Posh Nosh at Goss(h)

cool video

{youtube}/v/ZxVRhcLXftg&rel=1{/youtube} I just found these guys, http://www.peterbjornandjohn.com/ I know nothing, but the video tripped me out – love the Art Deco palm frond motif. Pure [...]

cool video

Concordance

I've been fascinated for the last couple years by the 'concordance' feature on Amazon, where with many books you can see a list of the [...]

Concordance

and/or show follow up, pics

The opening went well, lots of people. We were down to the wire installing and didn't have all our i's and t's dotted/crossed (cv's, price [...]

and/or show follow up, pics

File Under: Shamless Plug

Well, in the shameless plug department (whoever once accused me of that here, this one's for you) I curated a show that opens at and/or [...]

File Under: Shamless Plug

New Horizons

After 2 ½ years teaching at University of Texas at Dallas (after moving here from Los Angeles,) I just started teaching at UT Arlington . [...]

New Horizons

Frank Miller sucks

It's midnight. Taking a break from listening to "Confederacy of Dunces" on my iPod (left over summer reading from the road-trip recently narrated,) I just [...]

Frank Miller sucks

Rocky Mountain Way

I just got back from a two week road-trip to my beloved Rocky Mountain homeland. It was a belated honeymoon for my wife and me; [...]

Rocky Mountain Way