This is a story of a city’s growing pains in the face of standard gentrification, but with a novel, contemporary twist.
Op Ed
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What I admire most about Meow Wolf is that they explicitly want out of the art world. They want their freedom, and they figured out how to get it.
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I’ve been looking for and dreaming up better art-world applications for Pokémon Go. After a few weeks of playing, I have some ideas.
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Liberals do Trump a disservice when they act like he’s a buffoon. He’s a kind of artist—a dystopian visionary.
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Buying and selling art with people you don’t know over an Instagram post only promotes the exchange of questionable art between questionable people with questionable motives.
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Do you believe in desensitization? Do you believe in the slippery slope?
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There’s always clamor in our world. Once again I’m glad for the artists who cut through the noise, noisily.
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We are ripe for a rigorous, joyfully open-minded, unthemed, ongoing and regular survey of the best work being made in Texas.
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Already there is evidence of voters saying: "I didn't realize this would be the outcome; if I could vote again, I'd reverse my vote.”
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In a display of stammering unctuousness, the liberal film industry decided that a proper atonement for years of racist caricatures was to depict indigenous people as literal angels.
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What if artists acted more like athletes?
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People who advocate for “reconceptualizing personhood” by eliminating property and ownership are dangerous.
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We're interested in, and dismayed by, this notion that elitism is a bad thing—that wanting to be elite and to associate with the elite is negative.
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Jamie Panzer, whose current show is evolving (as we type this) at Big Medium in Austin, has given us an idea of what he would do for love.
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I recently attended Fusebox Festival in Austin and CounterCurrent in Houston. Here are five ways for festival organizers to make their festivals even better for performers and audiences.
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Stefan Simchowitz may enjoy the controversy he stirs up, but he does not fundamentally recognize why what he does induces cringes from artists and people who love art.
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This is the second installment of Studio Sounds. I hope you can find some time to give these records a spin in your studios (whatever they might be).
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We're bringing the great William Wegman to Houston on April 30th!
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The market can be cynical, cruel, and fickle, and to think otherwise would be naive. But no one forces artists to play that game.
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I’m increasingly convinced that too much contemporary art making is becoming cultic and pseudo-religious.