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Around Christmas time of 1988, in the middle of my white, clean and neat senior year at Westlake High School, I discovered the first Fugazi EP at The Sound Exchange…

DISCLAIMER!  This is not a review, really, I swear it isn’t, o.k., I lied Skydive, and Lawndale Art Center. Last week, as five of you may have noticed, I did…

Just recently, Domy Books – Lower East Austin (?)’s newest and most entertaining playground to us grown-up kids that revel in fanzines, dirty pictures, in-depth chronicles of what starched shirts…

  Jerry Saltz has been using Facebook for a while now, and gaining some well-deserved press. His posts range from simple comments/questions to more recently his major commentary on the…

Fluent-Collaborative’s Testsite 09.3 – Common Sense Sheila Pepe & Elizabeth Dunbar May 31st – July 5th       Question:  Is there anything that a lifelong lover of rock and…

Recently, a young Dallas reporter was interviewing me in my gallery and asked, “Is there anything you’d like to say to the collectors in the face of this recession?” At…

Part 2 of 2: Chris Jagers interviews Dean Terry in regard to new mobile technologies.   Art making is usually thought of as Intimate. Mobile devices are usually thought of…

Ethan Azarian – Paintings On the walls of The Blue Dahlia Bistro Through June       Excuse the brief detour into the culinary arts, dear reader, as it must…

Christopher Knight is an idiot. I recently read his blog post on the LA Times website in which he criticizes Michelle Obama and the White House Office of Media Affairs…

It is the eve of the public opening of La Biennale di Venezia, I am making my way to San Marco from party to party through the aqua alta (high…

Workers are managing to unload large art-type crates from barges at the Giardini in Venezia. The Biennale is still two weeks away so I am heading to the Murano Museum…

A few days ago, an acquaintance walked up to me at an art event and asked, “Are you enjoying all your new leisure time?” I blinked, took a deep breath…

Photography’s treated pretty indifferently in the gallery scene around here. With a few exceptions (Amy Blakemore and Dana Harper are the only ones with longtime representation I can think of…

Okay, for those of you poor, pathetic types who just aren’t in step, I’m With Stupid* is presently the avatar for the nearly universally beloved Whinybabyland. I’m hoping that I’m…

Among the great myths of our time, like the Great Pumpkin, Santa Claus and Evolution is the myth that galas exist to altruistically raise money for the organization they support.…

Please Never Say That Again or I Am Going to Have to Kill You Every one of us who has ever entered a juried show or had an exhibition or…

I moved to Houston from Denton for graduate school with a copy of Baudrillard’s Symbolic Exchange and Death under one arm, The Routledge Cultural Studies Reader under the other, and…

I have made many bad pieces of art in my lifetime, and so it is difficult to decide which of those artworks truly deserves to be called The Worst Piece…

It was Sunday, January 6, 2008, at 11:09 p.m. I was looking forward to sleeping hard that night. I’d been moving for the past four days, and I was tired.…

Other than the time I was stabbed in the face with a spear by my brother, or the other time when he threw me head first into the TV set…