Drive By

Some thoughts on two shows I caught during a recent visit to SMU's campus.

The Amon Carter: "The hang aims to be elegant, dynamic and thought provoking, and as a result our artwork is singing in ways it has never done before."

The brainchild of Fort Worth Bon Vivant Michelle Kirk, Mañanaland's quirky half-acre of Texas has delved into its connections with New Orleans, L.A., and Marfa to bring both the queer and the quixotic to Fort Worth.

"How long shall they kill our prophets, while we stand aside and look?" -Bob Marley

Last Friday marked the premiere of a new Houston art experience.

Even at their most lonely, it is comforting to know that places like these still exist. 

Fridge’s narrative first feels guttural, of the earth and intuitive, but it also speaks cinematically.

Houston artist Emily Peacock organized a comedy show featuring artists and non-artists alike. Here are a few photos from that event.

Mérida is blindingly bright and colorful, viscerally hot, and endlessly beguiling.

MoMA produced a video that demonstrates how to make a painting in the style of Willem de Kooning.

The extremely posh Menil Drawing Institute closely resembles an extremely posh convenience store on the Princeton campus.

One can question why alcohol has to be an underpinning of basically all social events, and a recent two-fer show by Amada Miller and Nicholas Frank does just that while creating a fantastic bar at a gallery. 

Today: Centers

Kitchen uses a complex process in large-format cameras to create landscape works with geometrical shapes embedded in them, creating a sense of inlaid or overlapping visual realities.

Nike just released a grass-covered shoe. As usual, an artist was there first.

Chadbourne is an artist with a background in mathematics and physics, and his work is an evocative visual symbol for mathematical ideas.

The Fyre documentaries and the debacle they depict are akin to freebasing schadenfreude.

You would know this if you knew your pop culture.

"How was I to know / She was with the Russians too?"

A single pickup truck periodically drove by the gallery at a crawl, with its windows rolled down, playing music at a volume that was surely deafening for the driver.