My Texas ramble continues in Austin with a reason to return: earlier this month, the Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas Austin announced the imminent alightment of Ellsworth Kelly’s Austin on university grounds. For the 91-year-old artist, Austin marks many firsts: It… Read More
Monthly archives of “February 2015”
Happy birthday
To me. Yesterday, I celebrated my birthday in a wonderland with a wonderful friend. A West Texas mirage made real in the details: the art film, immaculate and tragic; the flawless bookstore with tabletop stacks; the… Read More
Big love
A different lens on love: too big to be contained, frothing from notions of domesticity and security. Delicate white balloons spill from a suburban home somewhere/anywhere, a scene staged by French photographer Charles Pétillon as part… Read More
Tunnel vision
On this Valentine’s Day, as the luxury of peace finds many places saturated with pink, it seems timely to spotlight a perspective on love amid conflict: love as optimism; love as a construct growing from rubble; love as green and lush as this lace top.… Read More