Nothing Always Happens

I am experiencing a really peculiar art/book/music mash up at the moment. Over the weekend, I saw the Turner show at the DMA . Meanwhile, I also finished DH Lawrence’s…

I took my 3-D design class over to see the Martin Puryear retrospective at the FW Modern the other day. It’s pretty spectacular. 20 years ago, he was one of…

This is too weird. On the heels of the whole Eric Trich debacle, a show comes along tailor-made to reinforce my dismay about a certain, all-too-common approach to art production…

Well, I finally broke down and went to a CAA conference . They made it especially easy, bringing it right to my door here in Dallas. But they didn’t make…

I found Roberta Smith’s critique  of the new Eli Broad museum at LACMA incisive and thoughtfully biting. The inaugural show and her criticisms of it are as good a summation…

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…

When I was 18, I met John Cage. I was in art school. He was coming to our city to do some performances and lectures and things. I didn’t know…

Not to flog a dead horse, or thinking that anyone cares, but I thought I’d give my final two cents on O’Neil’s appearance on Stern. I surfed around this morning,…

  image censored: The shirt-lifting image formerly occupying this space created a real broohaha. Stern’s taken it down, so must we for copyright issues. Carry on, readers. But for the…

Hmm, this Tyler Green vs. Voice critic thing is veddy interesting. First of all, I think Viveros-Faune was entirely too casual, even flippant, in his responses to Green, and in…

I have a confession. Uh – sometimes, I really enjoy an issue Vanity Fair. Occasionally I have to pick it up, like a fix or something. But I only read…

Peel Gallery in Houston is curating an amorphous experiment in vernacular design to coincide with Design Life Now : National Design Triennial opening at the CAM. Conceived by San Francisco…

Finally got over to Goss-Michael Foundation for the Hirst thing. I seem to only go there with pal Stephen Lapthisophon , when we need an excuse to prolong our lunch…

I wanted to follow up on my Denver museum day musings (disheartened as I was with the new DAM building) with something positive about the new Museum of Contemporary Art…

Holy baby Jesus, the new Daniel Libeskind–designed building of the Denver Art Museum is worse than I suspected it would be, from seeing it under construction the last couple years.…

I finally got around this morning to wading through the lengthy breakdown on the message boards of CSAW ’s implosion down Houston way. Fascinating drama – or comedy of errors.…

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…