This is my last post. Thank you for your loyal readership over the past six months. My internship at the Chinati Foundation has come to an end, and I’ve left Texas…
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Houston has often been fertile ground for some off-the-grid artist projects. This year we’ve seen a slew of artists using Houston as their playground to develop new projects, organizations and…
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The 1930s marked a complex intersection of events in America. The Stock Market Crash of 1929 and the ensuing collapse of the American economy set the course for what was…
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The Marfa Book Company’s spare, beautiful installation of works on paper by Ian Hamilton Finlay—a Scottish poet, writer, artist and noted gardener who died in 2006—creates an environment that encourages…
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Few things are more universally maligned by artists than a canvas full of bluebonnets. I admit I have been guilty of disparaging the shameless embrace of bluebonnet landscape paintings, prominently…
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For The Trees Matthew Ronay’s Between The Worlds, at the Hudson (Show)Room, Artpace, appears alternately rooted and nomadic. Yurt, grotto, hall of mirrors, night wood, it beckons a walk through…
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Marfa is full of curious things, and the Ayn Foundation is one of the most curious. The windows of the two storefronts of the old Brite Building downtown are covered with white…
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An enormous inflated creature crouches atop the building housing Marty Walker Gallery. It’s a Macrodon, a creature born from Billy Zinser’s expressionistic, Philip Guston-ish paintings, and brought to life as…
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In 2007, the German-born artist Barbel Helmert moved from San Antonio to Alpine, drawn by the wide-open skies and austere landscape. She’s found inspiration in subtle, highly textured, colorful elements…
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Vernon Fisher started off his art career as an abstract painter, but by the mid-1970s that line of inquiry came to a screeching halt. He began making small books instead.…
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Next morning in Marfa I mail a sixth postcard to Jens Hoffmann. A funny ratio you might say to the two postcards he kept, especially considering that I also sent…
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In a little casita not far from downtown Marfa, Catherine Cox is working diligently to set up her studio, which she’s named Marfa Made Paper. After spending three…
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Earlier this year, I simultaneously read Jaron Lanier’s You Are Not A Gadget and Steven B. Johnson’s Everything Bad Is Good for You, and found it, as you can imagine, confounding. Lanier argues that digital…
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On my first visit to Kurt Schwitters: Color and Collage at the Menil Collection, I overheard a man behind me whispering to his companion. “You know,” he hissed, “this stuff…
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I can sense the Hermes assist as I cross into New Mexico. Out here they call him Coyote. He’s a kind of fellow traveler for me and has provided joy,…
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Thursday morning Jeff and I head into Lubbock in separate cars. He’ll go east to Dallas for a Texas Artists Today book signing and I’ll go north, but first we…
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This year marks the centennial of the Mexican Revolution and the bicentennial of Mexico’s independence. In commemoration, curators Kerry Doyle and Karla Jasso have assembled Contra Flujo: Independence and Revolution,…
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Fell asleep last night thinking how I had the Lone Ranger flashlight with me and didn’t think to use it. As if it were a different sort of object, than…
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The lucky key continued to influence my time yesterday as I wound down from writing. I turned on the TV about one am and found John Ford’s silent film, The…
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This is day one of One Kind Favor, a trip I’m taking around the state and into New Mexico, reversing the route taken by Jens Hoffmann, Director of the CCA…