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W.E.B. Du Bois created the term “double consciousness” in 1897 to describe the way African Americans split themselves into two personas, one for each side of the color line. The…

February 2, 2012. By 6:30 pm, the line waiting for the Shepard Fairey talk was already a block long. Thankfully, my RVSP and press status allowed me instant entry. After…

Russian-born Mark Cheikhet is a master violinist who also paints, seeking to fuse the arts into something that Wassily Kandinsky called “Gesamtkunstwerk,” or the total work of art. With a…

The vertical lines of factories electrify the sparse mechanical sensibility of Mark Manders, even as the DMA’s gallery space is drained of color to fit this factory’s demand for the…

When I ask Mark Goodman, Graduate Academic Advisor in the Department of Art at the University of Austin, what he wishes he could tell his 25-year-old self about a career…

My husband and I were invited to CADD’s (Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas)  latest event this weekend — The CADD Mystery Dinner: Eat Your Art Out, and I have to…

“The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power, 1973-1991” on view at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston through April 15 is a rare opportunity to see some of…

Welcome to the Creative Arts Center, hidden gem of East Dallas. You are visiting on the first Saturday of classes in the new year, so some of the most popular…

Last night, the DMA hosted its latest State of the Arts panel, on the topic of contemporary art in Dallas. The panel was made up of a brotherhood of institutional…

This year is an election year in Mexico.  This election will be a pivotal one for the entire country.  I was living in Mexico City when the current president, Felipe…

  Last Friday night, “The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power, 1973-1991 opened at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston. In it were some of my favorite Guerrilla…

I couldn’t help but take a photo of this very lonely seat on the subway in Chicago just a couple of weeks ago… Imagine my surprise when I stumbled upon…

Long gone are the days when a CEO could simply cut a company check to his favorite charity. Now that it has become clear that companies can get the social…

Wherein your narrator is roped into a dangerous collaboration in NYC, by dint of being from Texas.

  Ever discover what you want to write about something, after reading what someone else wrote about something else? Happens to me all the time—most recently, when I read an…

Why should we care about the rise of the arts management professional? Because the institutions that produce art—institutions made up of people who have a set of experiences and frameworks…

One reason to be captivated by Laying the Foundation: UNT Art Faculty, 1890-1970 is that it takes you far away from the present while leaving you in familiar surroundings. Looking…

El Anatsui has been a superstar in the art world ever since the 2007 Venice Biennale, where he received international acclaim for his large-scale sculptures made from thousands of discarded…

How I wish I could be in 2 places at once this weekend- DFW and Austin/San Antonio. My apologies to the rest of Texas but these two locations are where…

DEAD MEDIA A bibliophile: A lover or collector of books. A bookophile: A person who has sex with books, usually with the gaps between pages.   WTF Dead Media is…