Art-sports: Tom Russotti brings levity to Big D
I wrote awhile back about the need for more unsanctioned, free-thinking, button-pushing art to take place in Dallas — things out in the public that recall, maybe, Dallas’ renegade spirit, or at least incite one. So I was greatly pleased to hear of Centraltrak artist Tom Russotti’s little antic-ful operation called Aesthletics –a project that brings folks together to play sports with [...]
Colton Farb: Use Your Illusion
In my younger days, between my divorce in 1985 and my return from Baltimore in 2004, I moved many, many a time. Each time I moved, I would cull through the shelves, and drawers and cabinets of my house and get rid of the old band aid papers, and tags and spare thread and extra [...]
SketchCrawl: network of plein-air artists take over Houston, Dallas, and everywhere else Saturday.
SketchCrawl, the latest of a new breed of trademarked “let’s all be individuals together” events spawned by the instant international communications network, is coming to Houston (and everywhere else) on Saturday, July 23. Here’s the deal: everybody gets together at a specific location in their city, sketches whatever’s around, then moves on en masse to [...]
Lucian Freud, re-generator of figurative painting, dies at 88
Lucian Freud, the man who has done more to renew the reputation of figure painting than any other, is dead at 88. Known for his fleshy figures and subtle surrealism, the artist’s career exploded from what William Grimes in today’s NY Times called “deeply unfashionable” to superstar almost overnight when the eighties po-mo shakeup gave [...]