Making A Killing

Here is my analysis of "The Price of Everything" and "Velvet Buzzsaw," two recently streaming films that take different looks at the high-end art market. Click here for the web version and on the image below for the March 2019 ISSUE magazine pages.

50: Keith Carter

I recently interviews Beaumont artist Keith Carter to talk about his career and the publication of his new retrospective book "Keith Carter: Fifty Years." Click here for the online version of the story and on the image below to read the print pages. The story is in the March 2019 edition of ISSUE magazine. I …

Review: ‘Roma’ is Cuarón’s masterpiece of memoir

The opening credits of Alfonso Cuarón’s “Roma” feature water sloshing across a tile floor, wave after wave. This foreshadows what is really the only “dramatic” moment of what is effectively a slow burn. The water flows, cleaning what we later find, is the constant dog shit that covers the driveway of the family home in …

C-Span bus stop challenges assumptions

I was excited to take my media writing students to see the C-Span bus when it visited the Lamar University campus, Feb. 1. The class is mostly freshmen and I figured it was an excellent supplement to their class work. I let the class out early and as they left, one student asked, “What is …