Essay

I wondered if the house was merely unfinished, or if the entire premise had become unresolvable.

Look, if you don’t get it, Bell basically tells us, that doesn’t mean you’re stupid. It just means you have no aesthetic sensibility.

It’s an interesting undertaking, to set out on what you are doing without knowing what it is.

I realized that for a few days I hadn’t really read the news, hadn’t really felt afraid, hadn’t really felt enraged.

We headed out via I-10 for a weekend of transcendent music, provocative art, and the recurring experience of wondering whether you are actually seeing Father John Misty everywhere or whether there are just 35 dudes around you who all look exactly like Father John Misty.

He represented a kind of painting-uncle figure to me in many respects because of what and how he painted. From early on, his paintings gave me permission.

My feeling of dread has been validated in a series of grotesque tableaus that have been almost elegant in their cruelty and stupidity. I believe we are living in the universe of Greenaway’s masterpiece 'The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover.'

Whether or not Trump’s presidency ends in a full-scale nuclear war, my generation and plenty of others’ are seeing the wholesale destruction of social contracts and self-evident truths we once took for granted.

In Terry Allen’s world, late-night Lone Star-fueled joyrides down North Texas farm roads and small-time criminal escapades take on the power and significance of every great voyage, every triumph, and every retreat and defeat in the history of American civilization.

The unseen possibility lies like a snake that has swallowed a yard stick, pointing due north as would a prophecy, or the lost needle of a compass.

It’s a true paradox: objects and events get larger under indirect observation, as if memory and imagination were themselves the sixth sense.

The introduction of a new travelogue serial narrative by San Antonio artist Hills Snyder.

"It's those little happenings that knit together things in a way where one change will affect all of history in an unfathomable way."

Nostalgia has ruled pop culture for 20 years now, but Frazetta is extra special.

The best works of art put up strong resistance to easy interpretation. They encourage the physical encounter.

Welcome to the fourth installment of Studio Sounds, where I share some music I’ve been enjoying in my studio recently, often broken into four categories.

There’s no one story of any empire and there’s no one story of America. I’ve been telling my family’s story in my work for nearly 20 years now. I’ve only recently been thinking about what my identity as an American artist is.

In his act of creating a second authentic artistic identity Guston has shown me, and many generations of artists, that losing faith in an idea of yourself as an artist doesn’t have to be the end. You can make art after disillusionment.

It says something about the anxiety level of our national moment that Ross's soothing, hypnotizing presence is a phenomenon again.

Like music, art doesn’t allow us to transform our nature or bring us closer to some abstract ideal of what we should be. But both help us shift our perspective and allow more stories to come into view.