Rainey Knudson

I’m afraid I’ll never be really moved by a work of art again.

'Eternal Now' was a one-night exhibition — or more accurately, an Everything. It was truly immersive, in the way most selfie-driven installations can only dream of being.

You could publish the most interesting and entertaining article in the history of humanity on Facebook, but if you don’t put money behind it, nobody will ever see it.

I like to imagine someone would buy that place and decorate it like a 1980s Upper East Side apartment, with peony chintz and framed prints of horses.

At a meeting this week with the Houston arts community, the Houston Arts Alliance (HAA) introduced its freshly-minted CEO John Abodeely, and unveiled a host of new grants aimed at improving arts…

A century after Duchamp, I think the art world has lost its sense of what art is, and more importantly, what art can and cannot do.

In 1977, guests at an exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston famously got involved in a food fight using the work of Antonio Miralda, the pioneering food artist. The…

We knew newspapers and even magazines were a goner, eventually, but it didn’t sink in what that meant.

"Listen, Donald Trump should be the president of Sharknado."

It’s easy to make “difficult” art; what’s hard is pulling off something good that instantly elicits pleasure and recognition.

We love this city, which, as it turns out, means we love each other.

It’s surprising how many people I know haven’t been there.

No artist ever woke up one morning and spontaneously said, “I sure wish I could decorate an electrical box!”

This and That” is an occasional series of paired observations. – Ed. Today: Bullet Catching This week a couple seeking Youtube fame attempted a shooting stunt, and a man holding a…

The MFAH has brought out more bling for the huddled, sweaty, Houston masses yearning to feel something.

“This and That” is an occasional series of paired observations. -Ed.   Today: Mugshots This weekend the New York Times published an article questioning whether mug shots taken at the time…

More than anything, this is exactly the kind of show that can blowtorch away any calcified, received ideas around the kind of art that you should be looking at.

“The drive to Prairie View,” both literal and figurative, is a journey many people make.

The painting that hangs behind Rainey Knudson's desk was made by a Houston painter who was an artist's artist.

Charles Bukowski was a great writer, great lover, and a great drunk. The following passages are from the 2015 collection of his letters titled “On Writing,” edited by Abel Debritto. Bukowski…