Op Ed

“Please, someone, do the research and write a really in depth article on the nature of getting people in the door [of galleries] versus the likelihood that they buy something…”…

Part II of my fantastic chat with artist Christina Sukhgian Houle who is in Mexico City for six weeks as part of the SOMA summer artist in residency project.  We…

  Dear Laura, I think I’m ready to approach a gallery about showing my work, and maybe even ask them to represent me as an artist. I’ve heard from older…

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of sitting with artist Christina Sukhgian Houle who is in Mexico City for six weeks as part of the SOMA summer artist…

For Part I, click here. Although Christov-Bakargiev’s concepts cohere at the Fridericianum, the most memorable Documenta site is just up the hill at the Hauptbahnhof. There, amidst massive spaces that…

Every five years, the German town of Kassel is transformed into Documenta, a sprawling, intellectual exhibition considered a must-see by curators, collectors, and critics the world around. This year, I…

The new normal should be anything but. Time to fuck shit up.   Dear Young DFW Whippersnapper Artists, Whatever the last “up” economy may have taught you, in your teen…

  Questions? Comments? Opinions? Send them to Laura Lark Loves You: [email protected] (or leave your message below) Mary asks,  If you could describe and suggest a daily routine (things to…

Questions? Comments? Ideas? Send them to: [email protected] (or leave your message below) Dear Readers, Welcome back to Laura Lark Loves You! Please excuse the lack of an umlaut in the…

Unpretentious art-rock and the collective ideas of the dorks: This is San Anto, y'all.

I really don’t understand the brouhaha over this Museum Tower thing. All I see are opportunities. Perhaps the lawyers on both sides lack vision. Lawyers, arbitrators, city council members. Not…

Questions? Comments? Ideas? Send them to: [email protected] (or leave your message below) Dear Readers, Thanks for the overwhelming number of responses! In this first post, I will be addressing just…

It’s the All Star break, a time when the very best professional baseball players have to travel for work and the rest get a four-day vacation. It’s also the dead…

Laura Lark launches her new advice column: Laura Lark Loves You… “Good, good for you and a terrific distraction from that suck-ass job.” “Words so wise you’ll think we dug…

First, because of a three day texting exchange with Ben Aqua.  These reminded me of…     …this:   Then I received an email from Armando Miguélez of his latest series…

This past weekend, I had the opportunity to assist with the jurying of Lawndale Art Center’s annual Big Show. I have volunteered for this event for the last three years,…

There’s been a lot of management turnover within top tier Texas museums over the past year. [Quick recap: Just 13 months ago, Simone Wicha replaced Ned Rifkin as Director of…

About a year ago now, I published a series of articles introducing readers to some of the financial metrics consultants, academics, and others have used to evaluate the financial stability…

There’s been a grave interruption in my tour reporting, I realize. Rigoberto Gonzalez Facebooked me thusly the other day: WTF? (I’m paraphrasing). Here’s what happened: from January through May, I amassed…

Not unlike Texas, Los Angeles suffers from some art world stereotypes. In honor of our recently launched Southern California site, Glasstire SoCal, we present Los Angeles writer Carol Cheh’s “Seven…