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The Dallas Art Fair is back and seemed way better than last year. Here are some highlights: Conduit Gallery Dallas’ Conduit brought an interesting range of work.   Charlie James…

This Thursday April 12th will be the last of 2012’s Viewpoints lecture series at the University of Texas here in Austin. Invitees Sina Najafi and Jeffrey Kastner will give their…

I’ve been meaning to write something here about film scores for a while. You know, some kind of analysis of the role of music in movies, with interesting, specific examples…

First off, let me just say that El Rincón Social is where it’s at. It’s my answer when people talk about the glory days of Lawndale, or how underwhelming the…

183 pieces in the Museum of Fine Arts Houston’s  collection are now online in intimate detail as part of Google’s expanded Arts Project.  With the Google-powered ability to zoom in…

Last week, a little crowd gathered in Marty Walker’s small gallery space to look at artist Wayne White’s new show there called I Say A Lot of Things. We were…

Two weeks ago, I took a road trip to the coast to jury a student exhibition at Rockport Center for the Arts. I spent Saturday in downtown Corpus Christi which…

Continued from Part I… V. Reynosa, Narcolandia and sad, sad data It’s important to point out that Rigoberto Gonzalez is not a Chicano artist, though he shares a lot of…

Art on the Green is an outdoor art installation brought to life by curator Andrea Mellard at AMOA-Arthouse’s Laguna Gloria. Austin artists, architects, and landscape architects were invited to design…

Intro: This year’s honoree for Two x Two for AIDS and Art will be Richard Phillips, who is loved by celebrities and name-brand clothing and makes glossy, highly artificial compositions from…

“In a world where proving yourself is everything”… I present Similar but Different #27: Glitter! Mariah Carey Oliver Herring “After its scheduled run, Meulensteen (formerly Max Protetch) took down their…

  I first met Jill Magid in the Fall of 2006 when we team taught an interdisciplinary studio course for visual studies majors at the University of Pennsylvania. Over the…

Rigoberto Gonzalez applies Baroque technique to scenes of narcoviolence. The result isn't journalism, but epic poetry.

Weaving together the movie star and the rock star, Fame holds a place of honor in contemporary art.  The Goss-Michael Foundation’s retrospective of the work of Russell Young includes pieces…

In what can only be described as a coup, the massive ceramics collection of New York dealers Garth Clark and Mark del Vecchio was acquired by the MFAH five years…

Existing somewhere between visual poetry, scientific investigation and environmental loss is the work of Katie Paterson. It is quiet and blue (sometimes in color and sometimes in emotion) and seems…

In honor of the FotoFest 2012 Biennial, we’re republishing this 2008 classic from the inimitable Clint Willour… Just in in time for FotoFest‘s Meeting Place, veteran portfolio reviewer, curator and…

One of the best things I saw while in Los Angeles was Ming Wong’s Making Chinatown at REDCAT. The Singapore-born, Berlin-based artist turned the gallery space into a fake studio…

Choreography a collaboration by Jim Nolan and Linda Post. Documentation of opening night performance featuring: Daniel Adame, Shanon Adams, Tina Shariffskul and Prudence Sun. Documentation by Lillie Monstrum.   For…

When Richard Serra’s drawing retrospective opened at the Menil Collection, it was SERRAPALOOZA. Throngs of people congregated at the Menil, many of us on the outside lawn in festival fashion,…