Houston’s Insiders Say the City’s Cultural Scene Remains One of the Art World’s Best-Kept Secrets "Houston is a city of transplants, and I think that constant influx makes the cultural fabric richer," dealer Laura Burton told Observer. By Elisa Carollo
Collector Carl Thoma Has No Holy Grails and No Regrets "I'm drawn to where art is going. The experimental, digital, time-based work that's redefining the medium's boundaries," he tells Observer. "We do not collect in accordance with the art market." By Yana Talke
Repeating Patterns: How Artist Eamon Ore-Giron Is Keeping Ancient Deities Alive "Depending on the heritage, a lot of abstraction lives side by side with the figure in the form," he tells Observer. By Mya Ward