A podcast has recently been released on Frieze Art Fair’s site with a panel discussion about Art and Theory. (The most notable figure being Robert Storr, but the entire panel…
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Viva from kirk tuck and will van overbeek on Vimeo.
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A beautiful woman in sunbathing attire floats over the dark, glittering panorama of Los Angeles. The image is part of the diptych Wish You Were Here by Vincent Valdez. In…
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Oh, and One More Thing… Talking to Judy Nyquist About Her Collection of Text-Based Works Judy Nyquist has a passion for art and artists. A former museum curator with an…
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Art & Boats is my ongoing series of interviews and stories about artists who build boats, sail, explore and challenge themselves on the water. For background on Art & Boats,…
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And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack And you may find yourself in another part of the world And you may find yourself behind the wheel of…
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The impact of the 2008 – 2009 financial crisis is undoubtedly a global phenomenon, but there are some cities, such as London — once the world’s leader in all financial…
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Downsizing: 2010 at The Whitney I overheard someone at the preview say this year’s Whitney Biennial—the 75th edition of the prestigious show—was sculpturally deficient. The Wall Street Journal went so…
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One of England’s best avant-garde filmmakers, John Smith isn’t adverse to narrative or humor. But his work is often anti-illusionist and tends to make viewers conscious of the artifice…
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Margaret Meehan and Noah Simblist are possibly the two most compassionate people I have ever met. The married couple are both artists and recently moved from Dallas to Fort Worth…
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“Leaps into the Void: Documents of Nouveau Realist Performance” at the Menil Collection is a show you won’t see anywhere else in Texas, or most of the U.S. for that…
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Anita Valencia is a queen of recycling, creating large-scale public sculpture from aluminum soda and beer cans as well as intimate “paintings” from bottle caps, which she’s debuted at…
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Here’s a taste of the opening weekend of Fotofest: My favorite show was easily RE: groups – American Photographs Before 1950 from W.M. Hunt´s Collection Blind Pirate at Houston Center…
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Gallery director Marty Walker described how the opening-night crowd at Wayne White’s show I Fell 37 Miles to Earth 100 Years Ago queued up like airport ticket holders below those…
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I have a recurring dream that I discover a hidden room, floor or entire wing in my existing home. The expansive imaginary space defies Newtonian Physics, and the ornate architectural…
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This Saturday, March 13th, is the last day for the University of Houston student show at the Blaffer Gallery. It’s worth running by to see what the youth are up…
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The Magnum Photo Collection from kirk tuck and will van overbeek on Vimeo.
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The Sunday edition of the NYTimes featured an article on Ken Price titled “The Blobs Aren’t Talking ,” by Nick Stillman. While I am happy to see such a worthy…
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Using text in art can be tricky. Visual artists are usually more concerned about the way letters look than what they might mean when lumped together. Alejandro Cesarco goes beyond…
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Jade Dellinger on The Moon Museum from The Art Guys on Vimeo.