Titus OBrien

I thought I’d list some of the things I actually really liked in Miami. There were plenty actually. How could there not be with so much to see? Here’s a…

Well, I’m back from Miami, visiting its (by last count) 452 art fairs. Over three days I attended about 10 of them, which by the end felt like maybe 8…

There were a slew of gallery openings over the weekend here. I only made it to the Eastside spaces, and not even all of those. I'll update this week after…

“Who the #@$% is Jackson Pollock?” That’s the title and essential query at the heart of a documentary I just watched for the first time with one of my classes…

I recently sat down with Michael Auping, chief curator at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, to discuss (among other things) Declaring Space, his revelatory exhibition of four artists…

I found the following monologue sort of humorously touching and timely, especially in light of the current poll on here on GT*. It is a review by the food critic…

  Phil Collins’ “The World Won’t Listen” opened last week with more fanfare than any other solo art event in Dallas this year. There were TV interviews, luminary panel discussions,…

My friend Stephen Lapthisophon, who I’ve mentioned before, gave a talk the other day in conjunction with his exhibition at Conduit, and catalog release for it.        …

A few rambling Saturday morning-in-my-warmest-robe-and-slippers-tea-drinking thoughts (its gettin chilly in Texas finally)… Lately, I persistantly find myself thinking about notions of vertical and horizontal. Roughly speaking, these polar opposite forces,…

For the first time in what seems like years, I‘m actually reading a copy of Artforum, and surprisingly (to me at least,) enjoying it. It's the best contemporary art exhibition…

A few more thoughts about the Marfa weekend… I was able to see for the first time Judd’s studio in town, in the old Safeway, as well as the Marfa…

This is a piece I wrote for the Ft Worth Star-T, to publish this week sometime. It feels skeletal, as space constraints kept me glancing over issues I think deserve…

My friend James Cope over at the Goss Michael Foundation was kind enough to invite me over to the space for lunch and a talk by the artist James White,…

{youtube}/v/ZxVRhcLXftg&rel=1{/youtube} I just found these guys, http://www.peterbjornandjohn.com/ I know nothing, but the video tripped me out – love the Art Deco palm frond motif. Pure Swedish dreaming of John Lennon…

Further demonstrating my fundamental cluelessness, and some area dealers reluctance to tell me about their shows probably due to my unpredictably rude critiques, I just found out about another new…

I've been fascinated for the last couple years by the 'concordance' feature on Amazon, where with many books you can see a list of the 100 most used words in…

The opening went well, lots of people. We were down to the wire installing and didn't have all our i's and t's dotted/crossed (cv's, price list etc), but hopefully now…

Well, in the shameless plug department (whoever once accused me of that here, this one's for you) I curated a show that opens at and/or gallery this Saturday, September 15.…

After 2 ½ years teaching at University of Texas at Dallas (after moving here from Los Angeles,) I just started teaching at UT Arlington . Since I write reviews for…

It's midnight. Taking a break from listening to "Confederacy of Dunces" on my iPod (left over summer reading from the road-trip recently narrated,) I just watched the soul-sucking,mind-numbing, aesthetic-nullifying colossal…