Downsizing: 2010 at The Whitney I overheard someone at the preview say this year’s Whitney Biennial—the 75th edition of the prestigious show—was sculpturally deficient. The Wall Street Journal went so…
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Evan J. Garza
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As we become older, we begin to lose things. It’s common knowledge that most of us accept. We lose memories, loved ones, keys. Yet even amid the vast expanse of…
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As we become older, we begin to lose things. It’s common knowledge that most of us accept. We lose memories, loved ones, keys. Yet even amid the vast expanse of…
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Devendra Banhart‘s creative aesthetic pervades his entire existence. It blankets every note from his guitar, every warble and billowing vibrato of his voice, every mark of his pen, every inch…
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There are two places in Houston where you can find public images of Tom of Finland, the irreverent patriarch of homoerotic illustrations (although ‘daddy’ may be more apropos). His work…
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The argument can be made that the tools of postmodern technology, like digital imaging and video, have removed “the artist’s hand,” so to speak, from the final product.
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We don’t often think of art as something that’s transplanted, yet its occasional roaming nature makes it just that. Assessing the work on the wall for what it is, for…
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Poetry is maybe the only literary form whose intended structure (or the lack thereof) provides for an exponential increase in freedom, disorder and independence. Poetry places an emphasis on physical…