The Galveston Artist Residency (GAR) is currently exhibiting the work of its 2015-2016 residency artists – Zachary Moser, Diana Puntar and Michael Waugh. Zachary Moser‘s bell responds to #allswell. It…
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This story was too good to pass up: recently, a resin statue of a gnome was stolen from Florida’s Cornell Art Museum. “Please bring the Gnome home. He is missed dearly by…
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via The Browser:
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Oh, I love him so. Here’s the Guardian link. Enjoy! https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/video/2016/may/23/martin-creed-new-single-understanding-video-premiere
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Ronald L. Jones screened various films at Box 13 Art Space. This snippet is taken from “Ten:”, a film documenting Houston artists and their creative process. “I’m careful to choose…
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As reported in The Atlantic, a new Russian app called FindFace makes it possible to identify total strangers on the street using your cameraphone and its facial recognition software. The article…
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Matty Mo, also known as “The Most Famous Artist“, is selling cash as art for his most recent project titled “One Hundred Thousand Dollars”. Each piece looks to be a…
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Recently, researchers have concluded that the blade of a dagger found buried with King Tut was made using iron from a meteorite: Using X-ray fluorescence spectrometry, Italian and Egyptian experts found that…
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Louisiana Channel, a web platform for the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, Denmark, is a wonderful resource. “The Louisiana team produces videos about art and culture on an ongoing basis, and new…
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Some purple prose on a San Antonio (-ish) rose, courtesy Vice, can be found here. There’s a new book out about them by James Burns titled Let’s Go To Hell: Scattered Memories of…
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Being a part of the early 80s punk rock scene prepared the entrepreneur Henry Rollins make his creative freedom work for him. He lays it all out on Brian Clark’s…
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Moving has never been so easy! View post on imgur.com
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The great Stephen Curry.
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Researchers found large oval structures made out of stalagmites in France’s Bruniquel Cave. Seems like our ancestors also liked to build – “It was like a huge Lego set, a…
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Horst Faas, 1965, northwest of Saigon.
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This Memorial Day, spend a few minutes reading about Jasper Johns’ monumental work Flag (1955): Perhaps most obviously, Flag serves to question what a painting is, and how it is to…
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Enamel pins are the “hot new thing.” This past week, there was even a pin art show in NYC. They are cheap to buy, cheaper to produce, and don’t take…
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Earlier today I was watching a documentary about a now defunct Texas art collective Rubber: An Art Mob. In the video, the painter Peter Saul said the following about the idea of gimmick…
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There’s a writeup of the great Dallas furniture maker Dan Phillips in Texas Monthly. I first saw Dan’s remarkable pieces at Webb Gallery in Waxahachie. They are the prized antiques of the…
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MC Hammer, “the only hammer that hates nails”, shows you how to hang your art without hurting your walls using Command Picture Hanging Strips. “Just click, stick, press, and TADOW!” –…