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After Edward Hopper. Jerden Purmort. Slideshow with midi (2:32).
The Age of Emesis: 1900-2000. Diebold Essen. The old century finally gets a name.
American Landscape Engravings. Sixteen engravings ca. 1840 by W.H. Bartlett.
Anthills. Where the sun's rays meet even deep underground.
Architectural Conundrum. Robert L. Tufford on our antediluvian structures.
Arklets. Joey Ancaster. Gently ambiguous images set to Vivaldi. Slideshow with midi (3:57).
Art Smarts. Maurice Fitznuggly on art, past, present, future, and "other."
Arts of Smoking. Beyond Starbuck's.
Beauty Break. Escape from all these words. 7 pictures with music.
Beauty by the Dozen. Our first year's most beautiful graphics.
Beethoven and Barnett Newman.
Behold and See! Thirteen drawings from the "comically illustrated" Bible of 19th-century freethinker Watson Heston.
Blue Red. Three wee sentences to help with today's synamptic re-wiring. You're welcome.
Bodies. Nine unusual photos for the epidermally inclined.
The Buddha at Kamakura. John La Farge's old watercolor, with midi.
Bye-bye, Best Products. Diebold Essen on an iconic 20th century building. With panoramic photo.
Captain's Corner. The staff's pix picks, with music.
Caravaggio. Diebold Essen on Peter Robb's M: The Man Who Became Caravaggio.
Caravaggio or Bust. Doc Cuddy struggles to track down two 400-year-old pictures and then tries to explain why.
Caravaggio paintings in the United States.
Cars & Crystal Balls: The Critic Despairs. Pedkop Bumbera on the latest car designs.
Cars longa, vita brevis. Six vehicles from the 2002 Houston Art Car Parade.
Chaos & Old Night: Babble On. Joey Ancaster. The state of civilization. Slideshow with midi (2:24).
China X 15. Wm. S. Pollard III. New photographs of China.
Chinese Classical Landscape Paintings. With music.
China Spring. Take a dharma break with 7 Chinese woodcuts and a peaceful midi (2:32).
The Chrome Series. Mixed media works by Kai Sonderling. Music by John Dowland.
CLARITY. Alkan's "Festival of Aesop" plus 70 montages. Slideshow with midi (9:05).
Clone, Sweet Clone. Architecture then and now. Twelve old buildings and their recent clones.
The Cocksucker Sings of Paradise. Didio Antis's 3 quatrains on the still-born millennium.
Cole paintings. Thomas Cole, with music.
Contrastingly. Artist Joey Ancaster re-thinks the yin-yang symbol.
Craft Counts. Diebold Essen on the fundament of esthetics, past and future.
c u b e z. Beethoven and lots of pictures. Slideshow with midi (6:43).
The Curse of Realism.
Dadd: The Fairy Feller's Master Stroke. Joey Ancaster.
Dingleberry Esthetics. We hit a new low with helpless laughter at an alleged "art" site.
DIY Hermits. Anna-Marie Quave on art, what it means, and what to do about it.
Drone on the Range. Minimalist midi plus minimalist gif equals serenity.
Dualities. Kai Sonderling's latest painting, with some old music and older words.
Easy Choices/Hard Choices. Harriett Lobdell on Gregg Araki's "The Living End."
EXCITABILITY. Slideshow with midi (4:51).
EYEmageS. Isometrics for the retina.
Fathers and Sons. Caravaggio's estimate of the risk of being young.
50 Plus. Looking up at buildings of more than 50 stories in Houston. With midi.
F O G. Verbal paradox + a Japanese Buddha + Schubert = ?
Galle(r)y. More staff pix, with music.
Gehry's Tattered Titanium. Carl Yadkin. Slideshow with music (1:34).
George Grosz (1893-1959): The Faces of Greed (27 drawings).
Gregorian Chant. Midi sequences by Richard Lee.
Handle with Care. Hinko Livernoix. Remarks on the theater and other matters.
Hearing Is Believing. Sawyer Brown on Alexander Sokurov's The Russian Ark.
Herds & Stories. Sylvia Thodhiss on conformity and non-conformity.
Herky-jerky World: The Short Shelf-life of Movies. Scott McComb.
Les Heures du Mal. A book of hours for eras in distress.
The Hills of Herculaneum. Kai Sonderling's manipulation of his painting, with midi.
Houston Mausoleum.
How Far Is It to the Next Lascaux?
If I Were a Mandala. Harriet Lobdell. Kohinoor drawings from the gender wars.
Interior Trends. Happy with your cubicle? No? Find out why.
Jean-Marie Putnam Jonré: Recent Work 1999-2001. Latest paintings.
Mary Jenewein: Paint on Paper. Sixteen powerful mixed media works.
Jumbelodeon. Random images plus Bach. Slideshow with midi (1:32).
The Labors of Hercules, Nos. 84,531-84,539. Colice Jeanne Pisgah. Slideshow with music (2:49).
Lachrimae (with midi, 2:44). Thomas Cole plus Thomas Dowland.
Lamentations. Seven recent paintings by Jean-Marie Putnam Jonré. With midi's from Handel's Aylesford Pieces.
Meanwhile, Back at the Louvre... The current state of High Art. Slideshow with midi (1:59).
Mindfulness. Animated digital painting by Kai Sonderling, plus Handel's Sarabande. Slideshow (3:12)
Mnemonicae. 80 wee photos to help remember that which cannot be forgotten.
Montages de l'Empire. 25 collages with midis.
Naked Jesus. Maurice Fitznuggly. Our art critic sets out to shock you.
Nekkid People. An unabashed looked at old Greeks without clothes on.
Optical Allusions. Pictures to cross your eyes by.
The Ox-herding Pictures. A bit of Zen art to whittle away the hours.
The Paintings of Jean-Marie Putnam Jonré.
Jean-Marie Putnam Jonré: Recent Work 1999-2001. Latest paintings.
The Magellan's Log Ego Altar.
Panoramic Photographs from the Library of Congress, with music.
Petrophilia. Found stones as art- and meditation-objects.
PIK-chur.com. What if in the past there'd been a site that was for painting what Flickr is for photography...
Pixel de Light. Don Pfingston. Art on the net.
Practitioners. A few words to the wise concerning kultural kwiksand.
PS, I Love You! In Praise of Photoshop. Jason Twinhaft.
Quilts. Feast your eyes on handiwork that becomes art.
The Relentless Pursuit of Ragged Perfection. Ceci Lumley on the lack of real genius in the present era.
Retinal R&R. Our choices for the best eye candy programs around.
RIFT. The poet of the Rubaiyat, plus Bach, plus a computer graphic...***
Rosson's Rocks. Nine contemporary American scholar's stones.
Rules of Human Cultural History. A photograph. Of a wall. With words.
Sacred Objects. Harriet Lobdell. A brief tribute to small, ancient tools.
St. Basil Chapel. A photographic visit to Philip Johnson's small religious masterpiece.
St. Francis in Ecstasy. Caravaggio plus Handel = ?
Santa Fe. One photo of old Santa Fe with an even older melody.
Satyr Alert! An anonymous reader's photographic proof of a mysterious encounter beside a Texas Hills Country lake.
Searching for a House Under $40K in the Texas Outback. Kai Sonderling looks for cheap studio space. Slideshow with midi (3:05).
Sept petits objets de méditation. Paintings by Jean-Marie Jonré, our most popular artist, with music by Handel (3:17).
Serious. Photos of Houston by the well-known cinematographer, Tom Richmond.
7 x 40. Forty photos from our archives to celebrate our 7th anniversary.
Sillinesses. Revered smartpants get their comeuppance (sort of).
Skintones. Kai Sonderling. 17 highly ambiguous G-rated images.
S M I L E. Watch us work a little jigsaw while listening to Dowland's "If My Complaints" (1:28).
The Spitting Image. Diebold Essen. Frank Stella's Prince of Homberg.
Stained Glass & Music in a Time of War.
Stained Pixels. Buxtehude organ music plus animated gifs (6:03).
Summing It Up. Chardo Blue Plains on what it all means, Alfie.
Tattoos. Skin art slide show, with music.
Tears. Photo by Douglas Huang. Music by John Dowland (4:32).
Things Fall Apart. Joey Ancaster.
Thomas Cole: A Shared Vision. Diebold Essen on The Voyage of Life. Slideshow with midi.
A Thousand Hounds. Reppy Duart. An unlikely, all-stops-pulled review of an unlikely book.
3 x 3 x 50. 450 random images from our massive archives. NOT safe for work. Slideshow with midi (5:17).
Times Square in the Round. Paul Hester's 270-degree panoramic night photo.
Today's Obscene Statistic. (See for yourself.)
tomseyes. Still images captured by cinematographer Tom Richmond.
tom's world. A small portfolio of recent still pictures by cinematographer Tom Richmond.
Toward Gingerbread. Back to Hansel and Gretel.
Turner paintings. With music.
TV Commercials as Haiku. Diebold Essen.
21 flowers. Sylvia Thodhiss. Slideshow with midi (2:04). Give the page (850K) time to load.
Two Rooms in Houston. Edward Hothi re Rothko and Twombly in 12 lines.
The Ugliest Building in the World? Woodrow Stockdick does architecture. Bigtime.
The Water or the Wave? A question from John Fowles's The Magus. Image with midi.
What Happened to Movies That Matter? Ceci Lumley.
What's Going on Here? Hope for the hopeless, thanks to Albrecht Altdorfer, with a little help from his friends at Magellan's Log.
When Art Smarts. Diebold Essen. Derek Jarman's The Last of England.
The Willed Suspension of Belief. Douglas Milburn. Life among the sleepwalkers.
Woodcuts. Old-timey pix with old-timey music.
You gotta s-m-i-l-e. Watch us work a little jigsaw while listening to Dowland's "If My Complaints" (1:28).

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