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wedding
Houston Chronicle - "The Art Guys' big fat no so gay wedding" by Douglas Britt
Houston Chronicle - The Art Guys, Chris Burden, that New Yorker cover and the Jonas Brothers by Douglas Britt
Houston Chronicle - sexyATTACK’s missed opportunity by Douglas Britt
Houston Chronicle - Final-ish judgment on the Art Guys’ wedding (w/blooper reel) by Douglas Britt
Houston Chronicle - The Art Guys’ Michael Galbreth responds by Douglas Britt
Houston Chronicle - Response to Art Guy Michael Galbreth’s open letter by Douglas Britt
James Surls Blog Spot - "The Art Guys Marrying a Tree: The Duality of Belief" by James Surls
Glasstire - "The Art Guys: Dead Serious" by Michael Bise
Houston Press - "Meta-Colonialism" by Troy Schulze
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dedication
Nuptials Stranger Than When The Art Guys Married That Plant, Meredith Deliso of HoustonPress
Eligible gay bachelor desperately seeks single female art critic for short-lived marriage, Douglas Britt, 29-95.com (Houston Chronicle)
Should I Marry Douglas Britt? (A Contemporary Art Critic's Dilemma), Jen Graves, SLOG (The Stranger)
Married But Two Years, the Art Guys Plant Spouse in Menil Lawn, Alive Yet!, Bill Davenport, Glasstire
Houston Art Critic to Pan Performance Art with Performance of His Own, Meredith Deliso of HoustonPress
Chron Critic Britt Goaded into Counter-Art by Art Guys Menil Tree-Marriage Stunt, Bill DavenPort, Glasstire
The latest chapter of Art Guys Marry a Plant divides Houston arts community, Tyler Rudick, CultureMap Houston
Art Gay Marries a Woman: Britt Counter-Ceremony Tonight; Art Guys Marry a Plant Dedication Tomorrow, Bill DavenPort, Glasstire
'THE ART GAY MARRIES A WOMAN' TO BE WARMUP ACT FOR AMATEUR STRIP CONTEST, Douglas Britt, 29-95.com (Houston Chronicle)
The Art Guys Marry a Plant: Part II, Meredith Deliso, HoustonPress
Uproar over The Art Guys Marry a Plant ends with peaceful tree dedication ceremony at Menil, Tyler Rudick, CultureMap Houston
Britt-Darby Guerrila Action On YouTube: Art Guys Plant Piece “Sucks”, Bill DavenPort, Glasstire
Update on the Art Critic Who Asked Me to Marry Him, Jen Graves, SLOG (The Stranger)
UPDATED: The Art Guys' Controversial Plant Attacked By Suspected Vandals, Meredith Deliso, HoustonPress
ART GUYS' TREE-BRIDE VANDALIZED, 29-95.com (Houston Chronicle)
Art Guys Tree-Bride Chopped: Vandals Deface Controversial New Menil Installation, Bill Davenport, Glasstire
A tree dies in Montrose: Controversial Art Guys project at Menil Park is vandalized, Clifford Pugh, HoustonPress
Chron Art Critic Douglas Britt's Very Odd Meth-Filled, "I'm a Hooker" Blog: Bad Performance Art Or Sign of a Personal Crisis?, Meredith Deliso, HoustonPress
A Town Without Critics, Theodore Bale, Arts Journal Texas
Homophobia in the Arts, James Payne, Huffington Post
The Art Guys-Devon Britt-Darby Saga Continues by Robert Boyd, The Great God Pan Is Dead
DEBRIS: This Month in Art-Killing Nonsense by Sean Morrisey Carroll, Free Press Houston
The Tree of Strife by Mimi Swartz, Texas Monthly
A Tree Grows In Menil Park by Robert Boyd, The Great God Pan Is Dead
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tree removal
On Monday, January 14, 2013, the live oak tree and accompanying bronze plaque from "The Art Guys Marry A Plant" was removed from the Menil Collection.
On Institutional Cowardice: The Menil Collection - Rainey Knudson, Glasstire
Menil, Surls Comment on Art Guys Marry A Plant Removal - Bill Davenport, Glasstire
Art world shocker: Art Guys confirm Menil Collection plans to remove controversial tree project - Tyler Rudick, Glasstire
The Menil Divorces the Art Guys - Mimi Swartz, Texas Monthly
'The Art Guys Marry A Plant' Removed From Menil Collection Under Mysterious Circumstances - Priscilla Frank, Huffington Post
Update: Menil Says the Art Guys Tree Was Moved to Save It & It is Still Part of Its Collection - Meredith Deliso, Houston Press
Response: The Menil’s fake deaccessioning scandal - Douglas Britt, Houston Arts & Culture
Divorce, Art Style - Elaine Wolff, Plaza de Armas
The Menil's PTSD - Robert Boyd, The Great God Pan Is Dead
When two guys married a tree - Peter Simek, Salon
How Not to Handle an Art Controversy - Bob Duggan, Big Think
The story of one of the best performances of the last ten years in america and the critic who put it on the map - Alfredo Triff, Miami Bourbaki
Controversial Tree Removed from Menil’s Permanent Collection as Supreme Court Mulls Gay Marriage - Glasstire
The Tree That’s “Not About Gay Marriage” Gets Removed - Art Fag City
