ArtPrize: where the people get what the people want and one artist gets $250,000
Local media enthusiasm has helped make ArtPrize an even bigger deal than its money has. Photo credit: Janet Tyson ArtPrize is an annual competition [...]
Dallas Video Festival
Upon arriving at the Angelika Theater on Thursday evening for the Dallas Video Festival, I immediately noticed that I was a tad underdressed in my [...]
West Texas Charm
Small Texas towns are easy to stereotype, and often, those generalizations prove themselves to be true. Conservative politics, high school football, and abundant red meat [...]
So you wanna be an artist. A successful artist.
So you wanna be an artist. A successful artist. Then these are some rules to live by. Granted, artists are good at breaking rules (and [...]
Forward March
When it comes to art, using the word ‘crisis’ is always a massive overstatement. Between the crises in painting, criticism, and photography you’d think that [...]
Time & Time Again
Patience, in the traditional sense, is a virtue I’m not fortunate enough to possess. So much so that as a child I was set down [...]
Colton Farb: Use Your Illusion
In my younger days, between my divorce in 1985 and my return from Baltimore in 2004, I moved many, many a time. Each time I [...]
Blinky Palermo: A Retrospective
Have you ever noticed than when people look at abstract paintings they’re always peeking around the edges? Clearly the painter has left some secret nugget [...]
Michael Guidry at the Galveston Art Center
I love Galveston. But, like Houston, it’s an acquired taste. It’s got lovely old buildings in various states of decay interspersed with not-so-lovely and downright [...]
The Art World and the Money-Go-Round
‘Tis the season to hand out financial advice. There isn’t a rock in existence under which we could live and not hear about the dismal [...]
Truth & Consequences
‘So, what do you do?’ Gulp, do I say artist, professor, writer, lawyer? One of these things is not like the other. Faced with this [...]
