Issue # 160Focused IRL AttentionJanuary 7, 2011share with a friend:Amanda Ross-Ho, THE SKIES THE LIMIT (LEAVE ME ALONE), 1998-2009, Hand painted, rainbow tie-dyed T-shirt, acrylic, graphite and oil pastel on canvas, 96 x 75 inches. Courtesy the collection of Sandy Heller, New York. (detail)from the editorAt the beginning of 2011, we find ourselves at the dawn of a new decade—one … Read More

Issue # 159Shape Becomes the StoryDecember 17, 2010share with a friend:Eric Zimmerman, So Long To The Good Old Moon (detail), 2010, 12 page BW newspaper. Courtesy of the artist. (detail)from the editorThis holiday season finds us taking stock more soberly. The passing away last week of Peter Marzio, the longtime Director of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, tallies another huge … Read More

Issue # 158Another Life of the MadeDecember 3, 2010share with a friend:Cromosaturación (Choromosaturation), 1998 (Detail), Cruz-Diez Retrospective: 1954-1998, Satdistiche Museum, Gelsenkirchen, Germany, 1998. (detail)from the editorAs a follow-up to this week’s Letter from the Editor and in support of David Wojnarowicz’s work and the exhibition Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, Fluent~Collaborative has released a statement from Dan Cameron, which can … Read More

Issue # 157By Any Means NecessaryNovember 12, 2010share with a friend:Art Workers Coalition, Art Workers Won’t Kiss Ass, 1969. (detail)from the editorThis issue of …might be good, the first after the midterm elections, revolves around reconceptions of the artwork and the art world. Dropping out, getting off the grid and appropriating space for radical purposes—whether in the pages of a magazine, … Read More

Issue # 156Just Like a Filtering SystemOctober 29, 2010share with a friend:Ryan Hennessee, The Specious Present at 700 Congress, 2010, Video animation commissioned by Arthouse. Courtesy of the artist. (detail)from the editorBy the time this issue goes live, many of you in Austin will have already visited Arthouse at the Jones Center. After a long and suspenseful wait, the building, transformed … Read More

Issue # 155The Medium is the MummyOctober 15, 2010share with a friend:Mary Ellen Carroll, Prototype 180 site (mid-rotation), 6513 Sharpview Drive, Houston. Photograph by Kenny Trice.from the editorTwo spectacular art events were slated to take place in Houston last week. The explosion on October 6 of Cai Guo-Qiang’s gunpowder drawing Odyssey, commissioned by the Museum of Fine Arts Houston for a hefty … Read More

Issue # 154Foraging for New DefinitionOctober 1, 2010share with a friend:Photo: Be Johnny Video Design: http://bejohnny.com, location: Giddings, TX highway 290 & 70.from the editorFall is here, and with it comes a new chapter in the history of …might be good. For weeks now, I’ve been thinking about the best way to introduce myself to you as your new editor. It … Read More

Issue # 153For the art enthusiast in the grip of serious seasonal ennuiJuly 30, 2010share with a friend:Minerva Cuevas, Detail, Crossing of the Rio Bravo, 2010, Action, string, lime, water, brush, metallic bucket, historical documents, postcards, map, petrified wood, petrified dinosaur bone, tire piece, pavement paint, rocks, compass, flowers. Photos by Erika Blumenfeld. Photography © Fredrik Nilsen.from the editorI find it … Read More

Issue # 152Quantifying the QualitativeJuly 16, 2010share with a friend:Cameron Fuller, Detail, As It Is, From the Collection of the Institute for the Perpetuation of Imaginal Processes, 2010. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: by Torno Bros.from the editorThere is something so fun about mixing art and science. For one, it’s got a certain naughtiness about it—an illicit union between two fields that, … Read More

Issue # 151What I am waiting for is some kind of fusion between art and lifeJuly 2, 2010share with a friend:Eric Zimmerman, Spiral Model, 2010, 8.5 by 11, Ink on Paper. Courtesy of the Artist.from the editorDear Reader, In this guest-edited issue of …might be good I sought out writers who just-so-happen to be friends, gave them a lot of … Read More