Art
December 22, 2021
Dave Hickey Wasn’t Just a Great Art Critic. He Was an Extraordinary Friend.
He wasn’t always kind, but he was kind to me in ways that mattered a great deal.
Dave Hickey
Art
November 20, 2021
Remembering Dave Hickey, Brilliant Art Critic and Renegade Texan
The celebrated Fort Worth writer and entrepreneur spent most of his life in exile from his home state. But it never lost its grip on his imagination.
Art
May 13, 2021
The Risk-Taking, Boundary-Breaking Austin Gallery That Changed the Face of Texas Art
A half century ago, the maverick curator Dave Hickey closed down A Clean Well-Lighted Place. He left behind an art scene that would never be the same.
Art
March 1, 2008
Being an Art Critic
Dave Hickey on being an art critic.
The Culture
March 1, 2005
Return to Splendor
From humble Oak Cliff roots did a hip intellectual giant grow. In this oral history, friends and fans remember the late Grover Lewis, one of the great magazine writers of our day.
Art
February 1, 2000
The Art Guy
He looks like a cross between Ed Asner and Uncle Charley from My Three Sons, but don’t get Dave Hickey started on the subject of beauty— his own or anyone else’s.