Every goddamn day: 07/17/26

      Art gets a bad rap. Ponderous, often. Incomprehensible, or else too apparent. Trivial, derivative, unskilled—the list of flaws goes on...

     Not many events require even the most basic ceremonial dress nowadays. You can be a pall bearer in jeans, get married in a t-shirt. Peo...

      The Bible is not the gateway to history that some wish it to be.      The Passover story? Enslaved Jews making bricks, Moses, plagues,...

     Never write in books.      I certainly can't do it.  Underlining, highlighting, jotting notes in the margins, even folding over the...

Bill Mauldin      “Who is Bill Mauldin?” reads lamppost banners outside the Monroe Building, where “Drawn to Combat: Bill Mauldin & the ...

   Metropolitan Museum of Art            Molly Jong-Fast first registered on my radar about a decade ago, when collecting quotes for "O...

      Sometimes things are so obvious that you almost forget to say them. But Caren Jeskey is a rock. As you know, the heretofore Austin bur...