Monday March 11, 2013
On February 26, The Art Guys walked the 29.6 miles of Houston's longest street. Otis Ike drove his van, and brought along his cameras.
Jack was spry, dressed business casual, in contrast with Mike, who looked like a bank manager whose car had broken down.
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Terry Mahaffey follows Mexican artist Pedro Reyes on his quest to turn swords into plowshares.
He created soap-opera styled TV ads inviting citizens to voluntarily exchange guns, no questions asked, for coupons that could be redeemed in local stores for domestic items.
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Regina Agu gets closer to participation artists Carrie Scneider and Alex Tu as they humanize Michael Galbreth's 1987 cyborg-shaped drive through Houston's neighborhoods.
My commutes are by car, alone, sitting in congested rush hour traffic routes, to and from garages and parking towers. This time, on foot, my senses were engaged by the sounds and smells of the street.
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Houston sculptor Meredith Jack bemoans a passionless artworld awash in spectacle, money and postmodern malaise.
It's more convenient to make art if you don't have to know how to make it. Spectacle, scandal, and scale became the basis for much that has been presented as "cutting edge" (read expensive) art in the past few decades and it dominates the exhibits, the secondary market, and auctions today.
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They've built rooms inside buildings, and built installations into rooms, but for Diffuse Reflection Lab, artist/architects Daniel Mihalyo and Anna Han of Lead Pencil Studios have built a two story building inside UT's Visual Arts Center.
“This is the first time that we have tried to make a building that is an artwork.”
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Matthew Bourbon asks painter Alan Reid a few simple questions, and hears about Calvino, W. Benjamin, Fitzgerald, Haydn, Bach, Ikko Tanaka, Pierre Klossowski, Matthew Brannon, and Frederick the Great.
Essays haunt me. I find my reflection in films. And music is a constant companion. It’s weird, now entering middle age I still completely surrender to music. I bore Jenny constantly with philosophic interjections—talking forever about insignificant minutiae.
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