Last year, the Houston art fairs were the talk of the town, and most people were dubious that two fairs would be able to survive. Well, not only did both…
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In Plain Sight at McClain Gallery, organized by Aaron Parazette, is an exhibition of 40 paintings by 40 Houston artists. Its essential premise, apart from a group photo-op, is…
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Texas legend (and sometime Glasstire contributor) Mark Flood, having just finished successful and controversial gallery showings in Manhattan, is set to take over a Bushwick basement, inaugurating the new Grimm…
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Dallas art writer and collector June Mattingly’s new e-book The State of the Art: Contemporary Artists in Texas, is out-available for Nook, Kindle and iPad. Mattingly, a Dallas artworld fixture…
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Questions? Comments? Ideas? Send them to: [email protected] (or leave your message below) Dear Readers, Thanks for the overwhelming number of responses! In this first post, I will be addressing just…
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Everyone’s favorite Houston art provocateur appeared in the NY Times, interviewed by Randy Kennedy: artist Mark Flood stuck up for Houston, the willful rich, and the American way, but declined…
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LONDON, England — Super-ultra-mega-collector-and-a-half Charles Ponzi has launched a porn site for art students to display not only their tentative and unresolved juvenile work, but also their tender, naked, more…
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Context matters. Given the art world, the non-art world looks rather inviting.
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We relax together, holding hands, telling stories and singing songs, dancing and passing around bottles of the special Basel Brew, made from the fermented blood of poor people.
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She looked at my proffered slide-sheet as if it was an illustrated menu of birth defects and snorted scornfully. We don't do slides, she sneered.
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The profusion of talent in the proposals we received, comparable to the massive cloud of pollen generated by a field of ragweed, made the task of our selection committee as difficult as actually defecating a gold brick.
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Nowadays, everyone intuitively understands that it's unfair to show artwork that's not mediocre, because it might bother somebody or cause a ruckus.
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It's common to cling to a desperate, irrational hope that somehow the art is not really bad at all. Often this pathology is expressed in improbable lies like "It's interesting," or "I like it."
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Although I already considered myself the greatest painter of the age, I never really felt confident in my ability to assemble a Whopper.
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My art is just sharing the beauty I see while I frolic through my life. I hope it makes you happy because my art is about feeling, not just seeing.
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I'm sorry you were born without a sense of humor.
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Last night, I had fun vandalizing the Museum of Certified Art's mission statement.
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Every bored divorcee or dreamy retiree who opens an art gallery to satisfy a vague spiritual longing is automatically, magically in league with the ruthless power brokers of Manhattan's art world.
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"The sooner every spark of human vitality is snuffed out, the easier our job will be."
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For the record, I was 12 years old and I had no respect for life.