PAINTING IN PUBLIC
Kevin T. Kelly and his son, Jack Kelly, are in the same line of work. They are artists; they make paintings. This is often a solitary craft, practiced in the studio, possibly alone. Their recent project at the Cincinnati Northern Kentucky Airport was not at all like that. They worked twelve ten-hour days (9 a.m. […]
Fotofolio – Lars Anderson
“Shrouded” Lar’s statement: When I look closely at the world, I tend to see a collection of abstractions. This work is motivated by the possibility that, if enough of those elements can be assembled and arranged, something curious or sublime […]
Letter from New York
We aren’t able to sleep. Or maybe worse, we are. The panic comes and goes, and then it stays. As presidential orders are meted out at a dizzying pace by the American kyriarchy, art criticism can start to feel frivolous. Perhaps it is frivolous. There are protests to organize, senators to call, tweets to be […]
“VOULKOS: The Breakthrough Years,” Museum of Arts and Design, New York City, through March 15, 2017
“VOULKOS: The Breakthrough Years” at the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) in New York City traces the evolution of Peter Voulkos from accomplished potter to one of the most—quite arguably the most—transformative clay artist of the 20th century. The exhibition was co-curated by Glenn Adamson, former Nanette L. Laitman director of the Museum […]
Ella Weber – Artist Profile
I stumbled across the work of Ella P. Weber on Instagram. I was thumbing through my feed as I normally do. I was feeling listless, waiting on laundry, my mind in a spin cycle from the shaken wake of the past week’s governmental proceedings. I was looking for an out. It’s been feeling most important […]
Trans rights, melting glaciers, evil-thwarting shields: just another Houston gallery-hop, just another January in America
In a month when most of us are struggling to find a concise slogan for our protest signs, Houston’s inner loop as usual is a nest of artistic treasures. This month, I couldn’t bring myself to pay to see Edgar Degas painting at the MFAH (if it’s really “more than ballerinas,” why are you still […]
Mind The Gap
Mind The Gap When fashion designers gather to showcase their haute couture collections in Paris twice a year, it’s generally an anything goes scenario. To be included in this elite company of artisans, chosen specifically by the Paris Chamber of Commerce, is an honor and only given to those designers at the top of […]
Maxwell’s Poetry Corner
Expecting My wife is expecting me to be the man I promised to be when I told her “even when we return to dust, I am certain our molecules will be holding hands creating something solid like we always have.” My wife is expecting a sober husband soon. One who tears through expectations […]
“The Dispossessed” by Szilard Borbely
The grinding dailiness of poverty is so well delineated in Szilard Borbely’s novel The Dispossessed, that we realize that we may have become inured to the sufferings of other people (once known as “compassion overload” a couple of presidential cycles ago). This Hungarian novel swept that country by surprise; it takes place as Communism took […]
“Transit” by Rachel Cusk
If you haven’t yet discovered the young English writer Rachel Cusk, I urge you to do so. Last year’s offering from her , Outline, was just a shard less spectacular than her just released new novel Transit (note the use of single words as her titles: her writing’s as spare as those one words, with […]