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‘So, what do you do?’ Gulp, do I say artist, professor, writer, lawyer? One of these things is not like the other. Faced with this inevitable question I typically squirm.…

Child with Mother, White marble, 1972 (BH 544), Hepworth Estate Yesterday at the Glasstire panel discussion on regionalism at the Modern in Fort Worth, Art Guy Michael Galbreth repeated over…

San Antonio artist Jung Hee Mun reaches new heights of technique and conceptual audacity with her Sala Diaz show.

There is too much to do in Austin this weekend! So whether you’re from here of need an excuse to visit these are my picks to help you manage your…

‘It was plagiarism, a plain piece of plumbing’ – Anon., ‘The Richard Mutt Case,’ 1917. Who hasn’t copied something? Dress it up with whatever word you’d like, sampling, stealing, reproduction,…

Two Friday’s ago the Texas Biennial hosted a Curator’s Meeting in Austin. The event, supported by the Texas Commission on the Arts and the Linda Pace Foundation, sought to bring…

Wife: So? How was it? Terrifying? Husband: No, it was amazing! Totally different than I expected. I got completely lost in there and had to feel my way out . Wife: Holy crap,…

  A haunted swamp, an ersatz jazz hall of fame and battling saber-tooth cats make up Artpace’s “”11.1 International Artists-in-Residence” projects, curated by Heather Pesanti of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery.…

Let’s just call this one an icebreaker. There’s a saying about putting your best foot forward, but I am waffling about just which one that is. A proper entry should…

Sterling Allen’s show up at Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, called Housing Edition, is a twenty-first century lesson in the old adage “You are what you eat.” Given the sure fact…

When I officially embarked upon YESQUEST 2011 (Where I’d say Yes! to everything), I just didn’t think…well, I just didn’t think. As I’ve spent the last few years in front…

In an effort to engage other parts of town during the Dallas Art Fair in a couple weeks, some clever folks — Art Fair head honcho, Chris Byrne, and artist and…

From Luminara attended by 300,000 to the Cammie Awards at Chrispark and the Seventh Annual Dignowity Hill Pushcart Derby, Contemporary Art Month is an eclectic celebration of new work by…

Any mom that’s ever schlepped her kids to a playdate could testify to the perennial conversation fodder that is the Birth Story. Tales of hours of pain, drugs, no drugs,…

On March 3-4, 2011, I attended the “Art as a Way of Knowing” conference at Exploratorium, San Francisco, the legendarily creative, hands-on science museum founded by Dr. Frank Oppenheimer in…

I don’t know how this stuff gets out into the collective creative unconscious but I think I like it. Adam Silverman’s amazing pottery at Peel Gallery is apparently channeling diseases…

Dallas is on the cusp of something. Will it seize the moment? The new Arts District is emerging and Dallas is experiencing an influx of arts faculty and institutional curators…

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…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk2teXeGiwU it’s like everybody who’s out there painting destroyed landscapes covered with graffitti and trash, only with explosions and skateboarding in slo mo. Surfing our current apocolypse. It’s aesthetically everything…

Standing Man with Dead Man and Volcano is Alverson’s best. A man in a striped shirt stands over the body of a similar man in a green shirt in a…