Jackson Pollock

Capsule Art Reviews: "Flying Solo," "[Houston Times Eight]," "Jonathan Faber: Surface," "Joseph Havel: Hope and Desire," "Shane Tolbert: Talk of Montauk"

''Tre Impasto: Hans de Bruijn, Justin Garcia and Tomas Glass''

Capsule Art Reviews: "A Crack in Everything," "John Sonsini: New Paintings," "New Paintings: Geoff Hippenstiel," "Reconstruction," "Sherrie Levine: Selected Works, " "Since I've Been Away"

Capsule Art Reviews: "New Formations: Czech Avant-Garde Art and Modern Glass from the Roy and Mary Cullen Collection," "New Paintings: Geoff Hippenstiel," "Perspectives 177: McArthur Binion," "Peter Massing: Time After Time," "Sherrie Levine: Selected

Looks Can Be Deceiving at PG Contemporary

David Lozano's paintings lie to you. In "Since I've Been Away," his solo show at PG Contemporary's new space, there's image after image of psychedelic patterns of blues, magentas and greens. These ribboned, weaving or spastic splashes of color stretch out, like pours of paint, over fuzzed-out, blown ... More >>

Authors Talk: Van Gogh: The Life

Rocks Off Wishes Wyoming A Happy Birthday

​If you're anything like Rocks Off, you've been marking off the days on your calendar until you could let loose and celebrate Wyoming Statehood Day this coming Sunday. OK, so that's a lie, but here at Rocks Off we do enjoy the lesser known-holidays and putting together playlists to honor them ... More >>

Top 5 Celebrities Who Tried to Go All NASCAR...and Failed

Kyle Busch: Qualified to break traffic speeding laws.​If you're going to travel at more than 80 miles an hour over the limit, you should probably be a professional speedster and not a celebrity with run-of-the-mill driving know-how. On Tuesday, Kyle Busch, a championship-winning NASCAR driver ... More >>

Food Fight: Battle Banh Bot Chien

​Let's face it: You don't want to listen to me ramble on about banh bot chien, do you? If you know what it is, you love it with the kind of passion and devotion usually reserved for the Virgin Mary or rare G.I. Joe figures still in their original packaging. If you don't know what it is, famili ... More >>

Rid Of Me And Other Great Albums With Truly Hideous Covers

​MGMT's new album, Congratulations, comes out in April! We're excited. MGMT's 2008 debut album, Oracular Spectacular, was fantastic, and we can't wait to hear what they've got in store for the follow-up. We're positive it will be awesome, as those weird-ass kids are only going to get weirder as th ... More >>

And Your 2009 Art Car Winners Are.........

Photo by Bryan PlocekThe 2009 Art Car parade featured terrific weather (C'mon, everyone likes it hot), a big crowd and lots of fun. In other words, it was your typical Art Car parade. Here's some video of it.And here is the (long) list of winners........Mayor's Cup -- Grand Trophy & $1,500 ... More >>

Spain Colored Orange

Gilbert Alfaro and Eric Jackson sound off.

(Another) Local Album of the Week: Spain Colored Orange's Sneaky Like a Villain

Spain Colored Orange Sneaky Like a Villain www.myspace.com/spaincolouredorange Thanks to differences with Spain Colored Orange's former label Lucid Records, the songs on the local psych-pop quintet's brand-new disc Sneaky Like a Villain are already old hat to the band members. For the rest of u ... More >>

"Iraqi Artists in Exile" Showcase Their Haunting Works

Cut and Shot

A Classic-Rock-Free Morning

Capsule Art Reviews: "Comic Books: A Visual Journey," "Drapetomania: A Disease Called Freedom," "The Joannaversary: Parachutists Are the Loneliest People," "Sterne and Steinberg: Critics Within"

Capsule Art Reviews: "Comic Books: A Visual Journey," "Dave Darraugh & Hana Hillerova," "Defending Democracy," "Drapetomania: A Disease Called Freedom," "The Joannaversary: Parachutists Are the Loneliest People," "Sterne and Steinberg"

Capsule Art Reviews: "2008 Houston Area Exhibition," "Dave Darraugh & Hana Hillerova," "Defending Democracy", "Designed by Architects: Metalwork from the Margo Grant Walsh Collection," "Sterne and Steinberg: Critics Within"

Capsule Art Reviews: "2008 Houston Area Exhibition," "Dave Darraugh & Hana Hillerova," "Designed by Architects: Metalwork from the Margo Grant Walsh Collection," "Dramas: Real and Imagined" The artists of "Dramas," "Sterne and Steinberg"

Capsule Art Reviews: "Dave Darraugh & Hana Hillerova," "Dramas: Real and Imagined," "The Old Weird America: Folk Themes in Contemporary Art," "Sterne and Steinberg: Critics Within"

The Houston International Festival Is Upon Us

The Deep by Jackson Pollock

A discussion of the masterwork

“A Modern Patronage: de Menil Gifts to American and European Museums”

From Warhol prints to African artifacts, the de Menils stocked museums around the globe

Mexican-American Culture

Why do prietos always get the blame?

Mojo Risin' Coffee House

Dave Ransom and Abi Tapia

Brush With Greatness

Okami shows that videogames can be art.

Admire the Landscape

How About Them Apples?

The Menil unveils a Frank show

Universal Studio

Tom Burckhardt creates an amazing cardboard atelier

Black-Ass Fleas

Are they sellouts -- or just really bad rappers?

Keeping It Reel

The Ann Arbor Film Festival showcases edgy cinema

Gang Signs

Booker-Lowe Gallery showcases "Hot" young aboriginal art

Black Power

Two exhibitions explore the deepest of hues

Image-Free Art

Julian Dashper gives us audio but no visuals in his recordings of the museum exhibit environment

Best Place for a Kid's Birthday Party

The Mad Potter

People Person

Bob Knox's work comments on the world we live in

But What Does It Mean?

An abstract show at Mixture points out why you shouldn't even ask

Playbill

The Butthole Surfers

House of the Rising Sun

The stars align at Scott Tycer's Aries

Double Dribbling

Ed Harris's biopic on Jackson Pollock coasts on the merits of its tormented subject

Harden's Crossing

She's finally been invited to the Oscar party, but what will she do after the ball?

A Room of Its Own

With the added gallery space, the MFA can dust off and display much of its extensive permanent collection

Psyched Out

Mumford muddles through fantasyland

What's So Great About Painting

Night & Day

April 9 - 15, 1998

Press Picks

Graphic Ideas

Sound Check

Black and White World

Made in Houston

Hometown stages feature more than one sort of menagerie