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This piece, just to the right of the door (I always work counterclockwise) was the first thing I looked at at the London Open at the Whitechapel Gallery, and the…

Bryan Miller launches his new series, Glass Satire, with scenes from Richard Serra at the Menil.

I had 24 hours in NY last month and spent most of it going in and out of the enormous, heavy glass doors of Chelsea galleries (and the confusingly center-hinged…

For Part I, click here. Although Christov-Bakargiev’s concepts cohere at the Fridericianum, the most memorable Documenta site is just up the hill at the Hauptbahnhof. There, amidst massive spaces that…

This past weekend CADD hosted another effort to get people into galleries, called Design District Gallery Day. I did not, I’ll admit, spend the day participating in Gallery Day, though…

Every five years, the German town of Kassel is transformed into Documenta, a sprawling, intellectual exhibition considered a must-see by curators, collectors, and critics the world around. This year, I…

Popped into the Oxford Modern Art Museum to see some of Jenny Saville’s paintings in person- they’re based on photographs, so in reproduction you miss her somewhat annoyingly self-conscious painterly…

The new normal should be anything but. Time to fuck shit up.   Dear Young DFW Whippersnapper Artists, Whatever the last “up” economy may have taught you, in your teen…

  Questions? Comments? Opinions? Send them to Laura Lark Loves You: [email protected] (or leave your message below) Mary asks,  If you could describe and suggest a daily routine (things to…

Ernesto Neto (pronounced NEH-toh) may have created the world’s cleverest aphrodisiac: it takes a while to realize Cuddle on the Tightrope is a journey into a vagina, but as soon…

Yasuaki Onishi’s reverse of volume RG is the latest great installment in Rice Gallery’s 16-year-run of site-specific installation work. Onishi has used hardware store plastic sheeting and black hot glue…

  Stephen Vitiello is a sound artist who teaches at Virginia Commonwealth University. He has exhibited around the world and collaborated with artists such as Pauline Oliveros, Tony Oursler, Julie…

The Olympics are approaching, and my mind has been wandering in eager anticipation. Will David Beckham be shot into space at the opening ceremonies to light a lunar torch symbolizing…

I’m headed to New York next week for a brief visit wrapped around a wedding. On the top of the list is Yayoi Kusama’s retrospective exhibition at the Whitney Museum…

Questions? Comments? Ideas? Send them to: [email protected] (or leave your message below) Dear Readers, Welcome back to Laura Lark Loves You! Please excuse the lack of an umlaut in the…

Unpretentious art-rock and the collective ideas of the dorks: This is San Anto, y'all.

I really don’t understand the brouhaha over this Museum Tower thing. All I see are opportunities. Perhaps the lawyers on both sides lack vision. Lawyers, arbitrators, city council members. Not…

If you’ve been paying attention lately, you know Texas has a bit of a water problem. If you’ve been out of the loop, start with the woes in the little…

Lawndale’s annual and much-anticipated Big Show opens tonight (Friday the 13th) from 6:30 – 8:30. Curated by Marco Antonini, gallery director of Brooklyn’s NURTUREart, it’s one of the smallest and…

Let’s take a moment to check in with Galveston. Poor old Galveston, right? The city has its great old Victorian mansions and brick streets and palm-lined avenues; it also has…