This Memorial Day, spend a few minutes reading about Jasper Johns’ monumental work Flag (1955): Perhaps most obviously, Flag serves to question what a painting is, and how it is to…
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It’s rare that a two-person show harmonizes this well.
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Enamel pins are the “hot new thing.” This past week, there was even a pin art show in NYC. They are cheap to buy, cheaper to produce, and don’t take…
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Earlier today I was watching a documentary about a now defunct Texas art collective Rubber: An Art Mob. In the video, the painter Peter Saul said the following about the idea of gimmick…
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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…
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MC Hammer, “the only hammer that hates nails”, shows you how to hang your art without hurting your walls using Command Picture Hanging Strips. “Just click, stick, press, and TADOW!” –…
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This show represent a major milestone for the 27-year-old artist as proof of his artistic growth during a two-year period of concentrated work.
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Unbridled Love for the Crow Collection’s Foo Dogs Since I was a Kid and They Were at the Anatole
Remember that? Nice to grow up with them. Here’s one of the pair. Outside the Crow Collection, Dallas.
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Traffic will surely be part of this Memorial Day weekend, as it has always been, thanks in part to the low gas prices. What we need is public transportation that moves…
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Like all wonderfully rich cabinets of curiosities, "The Collections" rewards slow and repeated looking.
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Two weeks ago, The New York Times reported that researchers from the University of Maryland have found a way to make wood transparent. From the article: Using a two-step process, researchers…
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Ha ha!
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Houston artist Brian Piana recently launched his new podcast RGB (A) that will, week by week, chronicle his process as he prepares for his exhibition at the Wright Gallery on the…
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Last night, at the historic Houston nightclub Numbers, Aurora Picture Show hosted their yearly screening with the A/V Geeks. The A/V Geeks travel across the US and show selections from their massive…
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Rainey Knudson and Brandon Zech on underdog art schools, hanging with artists at parties, and goofy press releases.
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Turkish Parliament going at it.
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This week’s New Yorker cover is all too real. For the past month, my Facebook feed has been bombarded with photos of cheery-faced, cap and gown-clad recent graduates that (mostly) don’t know…
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Glasstire Off Road with William Wegman at the Glasscock School of Continuing Studies, Rice University, Houston, on April 30, 2016.
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But I wish I could have seen him in another spot. A big one with open skies. But I kinda get it. We reap what we sow. And they pay…
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Artists finding affordable housing has always been a problem, especially when looking at options designed specifically for artists. Alana Semuels writes in The Atlantic about subsidized housing for artists in Minneapolis: “Set on…