Beth Secor

The exhibition contains 120 artifacts made by detainees during the four years of their confinement. Nearly every person interviewed who had been interned said that the only way they could bear their time of detention was by being creative.

We are treated to what feels like an all-nighter fueled by an excessive intake of ecstasy and coke. You start out having fun, you imagine there is no one sexier than you are, and then hours later you’re crying blood.

The cities and neighborhoods within these drawings seem to have sprung full grown from House’s larger-than-life cranium, like Athena from the head of Zeus.

Last weekend I went with a friend to a string of local openings. Some of the shows I saw I don’t even remember looking at, although I distinctly remember every…

Now with two art fairs under my belt, not only does it really hurts when I sit down, but I have also become the world’s leading authority on ALL THINGS…

  Until Thursday September 15, I had never once been to an art fair.  I find this astonishing since I am 55.  I once had a piece in an art…

In 2001 I lived in Baltimore, Maryland, and among other places, worked at the American Visionary Arts Museum (AVAM). The following is my recollection of 9/11. I want to thank…

In my younger days, between my divorce in 1985 and my return from Baltimore in 2004, I moved many, many a time.  Each time I moved, I would cull through…

Isn’t it true that you start your life a sweet child, believing in everything under your father’s roof? Then comes the day of the Laodiceans, when you know you are…

I recently attended a press preview for The Masterworks of Charles M. Russell at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. I especially wanted to see this show because it reminded…

The great skill of The Yes Men, the political activist artist duo of Mike Bonanno and Andy Bichlbaum, lies in their capacity to deceive the deceivers by mimicking their dress,…

Disclaimer: Quod tu es, ego fui, quod ego sum, tu eris. About a half a block from where I live is a family of Christian Republicans, whose patriarch walks across…

Disclaimer: A mother and a child did not actually push me out of the way; they shanked me over and over again until I finally moved. I know that Gallery…

Disclaimer: I am so confused, do you go by Robert or Rob? CLICK ON THE LINKS OR YOU MAY NOT GET THIS ONE AT ALL Two weeks ago I went…

Disclaimer: Swallows actually have extremely keen eye sight, and if anything are hyperopic.   You are probably wondering where I have been, as it has been weeks and weeks since…

Disclaimer:  This story, like any large sculpture, is fabricated.     Art League Houston   Last week I went to Art League Houston to see Brent Kollock’s Obsession of the…

DISCLAIMER: Despite evidence to the contrary, I prefer cash.   Last week, before going to Will Henry and Matthew Sontheimer’s shows at Butler/Borden Gallery, I stopped in at the Gem…

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  The Joanna Resort Hotel and Gallery DISCLAIIMER: I have not nor will I ever accept any gifts from the staff and management of The Joanna Resort Hotel and Gallery. …

DISCLAIMER:  Once again, I have used a lot of words (including a back assward type of pigeon Spanish) and said absolutely nothing, which can be easily explained by the fact…