Brandon Zech

A deep interest in aliens is so much a part of our culture that we have movie after movie (not to mention television, novels, comic books…) enthralling us with stories of other worlds and extraterrestrial life.

I’ve been looking for and dreaming up better art-world applications for Pokémon Go. After a few weeks of playing, I have some ideas.

ATX has a great new space called de stijl | PODIUM FOR ART. The gallery’s inaugural show, One / Sixth, is comprised of works by six black alumni of the University…

Alexander Paulus has created a crowded installation of grotesque figurative paintings that are unapologetically in your face and ridiculously successful.

It’s June 27. H-Town represent.

Good news: now you don’t have to travel 5700 miles to Italy to see Michelangelo’s monumental frescos. Instead, you can go to Mexico City where Antonio Berumen has created a full-sized replica…

The first issue of EXU, a full-color, tabloid-like magazine created by longtime Houston-based art writer Robert Boyd, is currently on sale for a measly $3! EXU is a tabloid. EXU is…

I shot this week’s Top Five video with Houston Airport System Curator Tommy Gregory. Before the shoot, he took me on a tour of the airport’s art collection. See a few of…

This story was too good to pass up: recently, a resin statue of a gnome was stolen from Florida’s Cornell Art Museum. “Please bring the Gnome home. He is missed dearly by…

Recently, researchers have concluded that the blade of a dagger found buried with King Tut was made using iron from a meteorite: Using X-ray fluorescence spectrometry, Italian and Egyptian experts found that…

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This Memorial Day, spend a few minutes reading about Jasper Johns’ monumental work Flag (1955): Perhaps most obviously, Flag serves to question what a painting is, and how it is to…

Enamel pins are the “hot new thing.” This past week, there was even a pin art show in NYC. They are cheap to buy, cheaper to produce, and don’t take…

Earlier today I was watching a documentary about a now defunct Texas art collective Rubber: An Art Mob. In the video, the painter Peter Saul said the following about the idea of gimmick…

Two weeks ago, The New York Times reported that researchers from the University of Maryland have found a way to make wood transparent. From the article: Using a two-step process, researchers…

Last night, at the historic Houston nightclub Numbers, Aurora Picture Show hosted their yearly screening with the A/V Geeks. The A/V Geeks travel across the US and show selections from their massive…

This week’s New Yorker cover is all too real. For the past month, my Facebook feed has been bombarded with photos of cheery-faced, cap and gown-clad recent graduates that (mostly) don’t know…

Seth Alverson’s going away party/show was last Friday at Bill’s Junk/Optical Project in Houston. The event consisted of this video showing a spinning figurine that periodically squirted blood from its mouth. Though the…

If an artist is making a time-based work, it might behoove them to work smart rather than work hard.

I recently attended Fusebox Festival in Austin and CounterCurrent in Houston. Here are five ways for festival organizers to make their festivals even better for performers and audiences.