The Ten List: Art Loves Baseball
It’s the All Star break, a time when the very best professional baseball players have to travel for work and the rest get a four-day vacation. It’s also the dead of summer, when the Houston art world generally slows to a trickle and creative group shows compete for the attention of whoever’s not in Aspen. [...]
Ai Weiwei freed, China bends to popular outcry
Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei was released “on bail” after three months in prison in a secret location. Slightly thinner, but in good health, Ai remains in a sort of house arrest, described by China watchers as a face-saving way of dropping prosecutions that don’t seem worth it, pending the parolee’s good behavior. The release [...]