I Wanna Be Curator/ Curatorial Idol 5

I know I owe you some words. A lot of words.
I haven’t even worked on this, which has been brewing for almost 2 years. I wanted to post this back in August. I’ll try to update with the format I’ve been using, but for now I’m gonna ask you to do some leg work and [...]

I Wanna Be Curator/ instigate! 4

John Sonsini

vs
Kehinde Wiley

This post is making a premature appearance. With Mr. Wiley making an appearance up and down the I35 corridor this past year, I thought he could use a figure painting challenger. This example was my favorite at Artpace (that’s not to say I have changed my disapproving opinion of his [...]

Earth Day

I am assuming you are already familiar with Austin Green Art.
So I want to introduce you to Deborah Fisher.  She is an artist and blogger from Brooklyn and as long as things go according to plan, you will see her work in San Antonio later in August for “This … Is Your …, This … [...]

I Wanna Be Curator/ instigate!!!

Adel Abdessemed

vs.
Buster Graybill

I’m getting hungry.
I’ll tell you ’bout what I sees.

Stupid Is As Stupid Does

As the Blanton’s latest artist in residence prepared to head back home, Diego Perez Garcia gave an artist’s talk about his work and his current collaboration with Flatbed Press last week. He admitted his reluctance to work with such a different medium. And although he stated his dislike for printing in a later [...]

I Wanna Be Curator/ instigate!!

For this round of instigate! it’s a melee. Every artist for themselves. Or maybe it’s tag team UT vs. US?
Jared Steffensen

Jeremiah Teipen

Alec Appl

Misako Inaoka

I’ll tell you ’bout what I sees.

I Wanna Be Curator/ Curatorial Idol 4

I’ve had this brewin’ since just after I conjured Idol 3, in November of ‘07.
The premise is still the same. If I could convince a gallery to let me curate a show and persuade some top notch artists to participate in it? This would be my (next) show:
If you know these streets, then these streets [...]

Fuck Fairey

Mo’ drama fo’ yo’ mama.
Please don’t call him an artist. He’s an advertising/ marketing creative- hiding behind street culture- hiding behind Art (academic, fine, high, what have you. Just notice that it’s Art with a capital A).
myartspace.com>blog has been hounding him for months. Even though I mostly agree with them, my understanding of [...]

Museum-Go-Round

If you haven’t been listening to art news these past couple of weeks, man have you missed out on some drama!
Fortunately, Tyler Green has most of the info and related links to the Brandeis Garage Sale, I mean, Rose Art Museum Fiasco.
There’s also the recent WTW exhibiting artist, Emily Jacir at SFMOMA. Again, MAN [...]

I Wanna Be Curator/ instigate!

I’ve known for 6 months now that I would be going up against the big three art venues here in Austin. Arthouse opens Rapture in Rupture on Friday with an artists talk on Saturday, AMOA opens a photo show and Chair Project on Friday, the Blanton inaugurates the new Smith building with a celebration [...]