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In 1897, Oofty wolfed down an entire quail in one sitting each night for 30 days, finishing off each bird by downing eight glasses of beer using a spoon and smoking a cigar in less than six minutes.

Morris has turned to a kind of religious and artistic formalism, while cultivating a perhaps fanatical relationship with outdated technology, language and phenomenology.

Valdez's narrative is an allegory for the physical, emotional, and spiritual journeys faced by all human beings as we move through life.

The collected objects mingle, and the stories behind the objects create patterns, and the collection taken as a whole sends out the impression of luckiness in book form.

Bill has set before me a last terrifying example and challenge: to overcome my rage and fear and to someday die with as much grace and dignity as he did.

Out here, you could believe that any artwork could grow to unholy proportions, in a sort of 'Food of the Gods' mutation.

By the early 2000s, the artist had become interested in new digital technologies and, making his own contribution to the field, began using a camera of his own invention.

"I think some people are concerned about Diverseworks becoming too much of an institution and I don’t want that to happen."

In 1988, and an art-appreciation class introduced me to Chris Burden along with the idea that a person would have himself shot or crucified or potentially electrocuted to death for the sake of art.

The outgoing director of Lawndale Art Center discusses the Houston art scene, past and present.

Evett had his first solo exhibition at Laguna Gloria in Austin in 1956. His current show, at Hunt Gallery in San Antonio, runs through April 30.

I pointed my Instagram-primed iPhone up at the blocks, tilting back until the espresso I forgot I was holding dumped all over my face and collar. I blame you, Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis!

A telling image of a young Doug sitting on the bumper of a 1941 Buick Roadmaster holding his Gibson ES175: he’s already brimming with confidence and charisma — He knew he had it.

Best known for his distinguished body of portraits and self-portraits, Ángel Rodríguez-Díaz has also established himself as an accomplished printmaker and public artist.

Austin-based multimedia artist Luke Saviski's Ht/X event opens Houston's CounterCurrent 15 festival.

French Street Artists have changed the face of urban art for everyone, giving the genre credibility and the sort of elegance that only the French can achieve.

Cunningham-Little began her career working in a traditional craft medium, but veered far afield. Her sculptures from the early 1990s are literally glass houses, each a container for metaphoric imagery about domestic violence.

Energetically charged by the elaborate patterning and the warm glow of light, these scenarios reflect Cobb's view that, while reality is just an illusion, it is always alive and bustling with vitality.

Artist Jeff Weiss doesn’t want you on his list for Weisslink, the “nightly art / email mashup” that he’s sent out every night for the past thirteen years to a steadily growing legion of subscribers.

The daughter of a Chinese mother and a Russian-Irish father, Datchuk has faced the complexities of otherness for her entire life.