Issue # 105Missing a FrameSeptember 5, 2008share with a friend:Brian Lund, A Very Real and Very Dark Time (Bob Fosse’s Cabaret, 1200+ Edit Cuts), 2008, Colored pencil and graphite on paper, 12 x 15 1/2 inches. Photo by Cathy Carver. Courtesy the artist.from the editorAt risk of beating a dead horse, I agree with Austin’s bloggers: the state of art criticism … Read More

Issue # 104Trimming the FatAugust 22, 2008share with a friend:Andy Warhol, Princess Caroline of Monaco, 1983, Polacolor ER; 4 1/2 x 3 3/8 inches. Collection University of Houston. Gift of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Courtesy Blaffer Gallery. (detail)from the editorThis issue has become, somewhat informally, an issue largely dedicated to arts institutions. Two interviews offer a … Read More

Issue # 103Alleged RuptureJuly 25, 2008share with a friend:Sarah Stevens, The Staypuft Harbinger, 2008. Courtesy the artist and Co-Lab. (detail)from the editorA number of new art venues have sprouted up around Austin over the last six months. Most notably, Domy Books, of Houston fame, opened a branch in Austin this spring. The bookstore not only carries an eclectic mix of art books, … Read More

Issue # 102We Live Uneasily with PrettinessJune 27, 2008share with a friend:Alec Appl, Mt. Solar, 2007, Cement, moss, solar-panel, motor, silver, desk lamp, 17 x 36 x 36.” Courtesy of the artist. Currently on view in New American Talent: The 23rd Exhibition at Arthouse, Austin, TX. (detail)from the editorIn the words of artist Cliff Hengst, a number of small galleries … Read More

Issue # 101Freefall in PerpetuityJune 13, 2008share with a friend:Stephen Vitiello, First Vertical, 2008, Graphic score, ink jet, 11 x 17 inches. Courtesy The Project. (detail)from the editorDuring a short visit to Houston last week, I stopped by CAMH to see curator Toby Kamps’s exhibition, The Old, Weird America, and then popped over to DiverseWorks to visit artist Stephen Vitiello’s installation, Four … Read More

Issue # 100Universally Longer SentencesMay 30, 2008share with a friend:…might be good Birthday Cake. Courtesy Ben Willcott, Executive Chef, Texas French Bread. (detail)from the editorThis, our 100th issue, celebrates …might be good’s 5-year anniversary, almost to the day. On May 28, 2003, Fluent~Collaborative sent out the first edition of …might be good: a short listing of current art events in Austin—“choice cuts,” as the editors … Read More

Issue # 99Unrealistically OptimisticMay 16, 2008share with a friend:Installation view of Ali Fitzgerald Swan School; The Matriculation, 2008; Photograph by Carling Hale. Image courtesy of the artist.from the editorThis issue opens with an interview with Jessie Otto Hite, who recently retired after 15 years as the Director of the Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art. In the interview, she talks with …might be good about, … Read More

Issue # 98The Historian and The AstronomerMay 2, 2008share with a friend:Tycho Brahe’s Stjerneborg from Johan Blaeu’s Atlas Major, Amsterdam 1662, vol. 1. Image courtesy of the artist.from the editorWhen I was invited to guest edit this issue of … might be good I had just wrapped up a conversation with Michelle White, wherein we talked at length about what we have termed “intellectual whimsy. ” It … Read More

Issue # 97A General (and Unanswerable) QuestionApril 18, 2008share with a friend:Performance Documentation of Etiquette. Created and produced by Rotozaza (London). Presented as part of the Fuse Box Festival. Image courtesy of Rotozaza. (detail)from the editorThis issue opens with the second installment of a series of conversations with art critics spearheaded by our Associate Director, Caitlin Haskell. This installment, an interview with … Read More