Rainey Knudson

As reported in The Atlantic, a new Russian app called FindFace makes it possible to identify total strangers on the street using your cameraphone and its facial recognition software. The article…

The great Stephen Curry.

There’s a writeup of the great Dallas furniture maker Dan Phillips in Texas Monthly. I first saw Dan’s remarkable pieces at Webb Gallery in Waxahachie. They are the prized antiques of the…

Like all wonderfully rich cabinets of curiosities, "The Collections" rewards slow and repeated looking.

Ha ha!    

As usual with music, I’m late to the party. Outstanding singer Brittany Howard and co. apparently won a bunch of Grammys this year. This album was number one somewhere. But it’s…

We're bringing the great William Wegman to Houston on April 30th!

If nature abhors a vacuum, then so too does a grave want its body.

I came to see the Pollock; what struck me was the light.

That $4 million we’re planning to spend on public art this year is apparently THE straw that will break the city’s $2.5 billion total budget.

One wonders why ArtPace and the Linda Pace Foundation don't just join forces?

Recently I was complaining to a curator about a museum in Texas that rarely shows Texas artists. The curator replied, “Why do they have to show Texas artists?”

We really do get why you might have a dim view of Texas. We just don't agree with you.

This is a museum that has kept the torch burning in Beaumont for years, tirelessly supporting Texas artists with solo shows and catalogs.

Have you ever noticed how Rothko always gets a bench?

Lately it seems the charges of offensiveness are flying around faster than a frail 80-year-old burning at the stake in colonial Massachusetts.

Does the pressure of your debts distract you from your daily work? Has the pressure of your debts ever caused you to consider getting drunk? Do you justify your debts…

Rainey Knudson chats with visitors to the Texas Contemporary Art Fair opening night, October 1, 2015 at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston. A little Scotch helps everything.

For the high-end art collector, a vanity museum is a tricky thing to pull off. I live in the same city as the quirky, elegant Menil Collection, perhaps the best…

A few years ago, I visited some friends in Aspen during the summer. Aspen has acquired a bit of a douchey reputation, which is unfair because a) it’s beautiful, dry…