Essay

As Texans, we are still waiting for our great student. It may be Linklater.

All of art history in 1000 words.

Recently a group of central Texas cinephiles saw a phantom.

When I think back to Houston in that era, I often think of one Saturday in particular, 30 years ago: April 5, 1986.

Something for your hours in the studio: Resident concert organizer, DJ, critic and label-founder Neil Fauerso lets us in on the best music he's heard lately.

The paintings did not have any beauty to make them timeless, nor any artfulness to position them as anything but a product of rhetoric. I doubted whether they were works of art at all.

When you see something horrible, a painting is created that hangs in your mind until you die.

The premise of the video is the artist's search for a bondage fetish photograph that was taken of her in Tokyo in 1987.

If you’re not an artist this all probably sounds terrible and terrifying. If you are an artist, it still sounds terrible, but you’re going to do it anyway.

Have you ever noticed how Rothko always gets a bench?

It’s not totally Abstraction’s fault that I turned it into a religion.

America doesn't regulate the casually damned very well. These days we are learning from societies with more proactive compliance agendas.

Individual artists have to fabricate purpose because human life does not inherently possess it.

Charles Ray’s recent talk at the Menil was one of the most exciting talks I’ve heard in years.

You’d think I would have been down for the adventures in analog. I was not.

Zombie painting designed to satisfy a dying market, and a quest for identity and equality that calcifies into cultural tribalism, will have no place in the hard future.

What does it mean for an artist to be simultaneously unnecessary and exploited?

Atkins' work hooks us, and our hunger to realize his pattern of communication is engaged like a heat-seeking missile.

The human linguistic system and the sensory-motor systems used to construct art objects have been inseparable in the human being since the Great Leap Forward.

Most artists move through obsessive cycles in which we wrap our thoughts too tightly around an idea and suddenly find ourselves in a place we never intended to go and might not mean to stay.