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Lubbock I rolled into town around dinner time. Texas Tech’s Joe Arredondo met me at Café J, which he deemed "the only decent restaurant in town." Due to his persistent…

After recently noticing a listing on Glasstire for the exhibition Samuel Colt: Arms, Art, and Invention at the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, I half-jokingly suggested to the editors of…

Franklin Jones (b. 1939), alias Bubba Free John, alias Da Free John, alias Dau Loloma, Da Love-Ananda, Da Avadhoota, Da Kalki, Da Avabhasa, and for the last couple years Adi…

One of my favorite area artists, Fort Worth’s Sarah Green, has discovered some unlikely muses in the whole Jackass posse, befriending and creating portraits of most of them, and is…

While the finishing touches were still being applied, I took an early walk-through of Kara Walker’s retrospective “My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love” at the FW Modern. I…

I watched one of those Art City videos this weekend, the one titled "Simplicity" (2002). There are great interviews with Richard Tuttle, John Baldessari, Robert Williams, and others. Dave Hickey,…

20 years ago, as a student, I used to type (on a typewriter!) notable quotes on 3” x 5” cards and tack them up around my studio. A few months…

Let’s keep this short and sweet: I think Ludwig Schwarz is best artist in Dallas. Probably in Texas. At least of his generation. He wuz robbed in that Texas Prize…

A few months ago, I came across this quote in Rolling Stone, from an interview with Dr Drew Pinsky : “I believe something has shifted. Frankly, something substantial happened when…

A lifetime: what does it amount to? The body moves here, the body moves there, it encounters other bodies, perhaps even producing a couple more. Years scroll by and fin,…

Have at it… "The first thing you have to do is seperate art from all the myths that are wrapped around it. The most powerful myth is to mix up…

I caught the tail end of the second annual CADD art fair last Sunday. It looked sharp. Unsurprisingly, out-of-towners I spoke with left convinced that Dallas is a vital hub…

I just returned from another fact-finding, job/home-hunting mission to Chicago (happy to report SAIC took pity and gave me a teaching job.) I like Chicago, and maybe Chicago likes me.…

  Fellow art ruminants: take a chaw on this. Agree, disagree? Examples? Let us all in on it… "…I feel the job of the artist in today’s society is not…

Arriving at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, I walked in behind a couple hundred hootin’ and hollerin’ high school students, let loose on the town. Their minders barked…

The Chelsea district ground-breaker appears to be the first A-lister to fold. I’ve always appreciated their looking beyond Williamsburg for talent. Sticking to your aesthetic guns can cost you… I…

I was surfing this morning. In case you haven’t noticed, I’m getting the idea that I may be the most ambivalent paid (kind of) art blogger in America (omg, am…

I went to Chicago the other week, mainly because of an anticipated move there later this summer (which is looking increasingly likely. Some in Dallas are rumored to be pleased.)…

That’s not the title for Paul H-O’s new documentary, but it could be. Here’s an entertaining interview with him on Salon.    At the bottom of the page there was…

  I wanted to follow up on the heels of my KC visit with my impressions of the new addition to the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art.  As I mentioned…