The Ten List: Walk as Art
“Walking, in particular drifting, or strolling, is already – with the speed culture of our time – a kind of resistance…a very immediate method for unfolding stories.” – Francis Alÿs Lots of folks walk all the time and don’t call it art, but some of them do. In many parts of Houston, walking is so bizarre [...]
Noted Licker, Gnawer, Weaver and Acrobat Janine Antoni to Speak at Glassell Tonight!
This evening, Thursday, October 13, sculptor Janine Antoni will be delivering the first of this season’s Core Program Lectures at the Glassell School’s Freed Auditorium at 7pm. Antoni achieved instant notoriety in 1992 with Gnaw, a 600 pund cube of chocolate that she chewed at, forming the gnawings into lipsticks. Combining PG-13 feminist body art [...]
Dallas Video Festival
Upon arriving at the Angelika Theater on Thursday evening for the Dallas Video Festival, I immediately noticed that I was a tad underdressed in my jeans and sandals. Surrounded by a proliferation of platinum blondes sporting five-inch-high stilettos, I waited in line for what seemed an interminable length of time. I’m in awe of anyone [...]
The State Fair of Texas: A Feeling, in Pictures
It’s State Fair time again. I haven’t been in nearly a decade, but I’ve promised my small people I’ll go this year. I look forward to it with a kind of glee mixed with fear – a potent cocktail born of memories of sickness and stickiness and the smell of livestock. In honor of those [...]