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In this Art Dirt podcast Brandon Zech and Christina Rees talk about what makes each of Texas' distinct art regions tick. 

Maybe it’s a coincidence, and surely there is lots of environmentally minded work out there at the moment, but this trend could also represent an emergent point of view for the Lubbock art space.

Summer Special! Christina Rees and Brandon Zech run down some of their favorite contemporary and historical artworks about snow and ice.

Horn’s works argue an essential point: the pursuit of truth through knowledge is a quixotic endeavor.

As an artist, educator, and civic leader, Cooke’s impact continues to reverberate within Lubbock as a whole.

The finished structure indeed has the gravitas of a temple, and is as much a work of art as the collection it houses.

What is a Whitney Biennial without a little controversy? Perhaps it’s a modest curatorial achievement that deserves great praise.

The exhibition asks us to consider queerness not so much as a static definition, but instead through the lens of a dynamic, ever-evolving narrative.

Christina Rees and Brandon Zech on a Dallas show you may need to see for yourself, a discovery in Waxahachie, and a long-overdue solo show for a San Antonio favorite.

Given the almost aggressive blandness of so much of the artist’s subject matter coupled with the relatively generic facture of the paintings, we might find ourselves a bit hard-pressed to know exactly what to make of this show or why the museum has chosen to anoint Wood with its institutional imprimatur.

Two shows on the southern edge of the greater-Dallas area are on view, in varying states of air conditioning, through much of the summer.

In this Art Dirt podcast, Brandon Zech and Christina Rees talk about censorship, the pitfalls of didactic messaging, and what not to do when making political art.

Christina Rees and guest host Jonathan Seaborn on a show that ‘interweaves’ two Dallas museums, a new collective in Lubbock, and a show by a Houston sound artist in San Antonio.

As an Independence Day special, we bring you a profile of one of the true greats.

Even at their most lonely, it is comforting to know that places like these still exist. 

What was so familiar fades, if only for a moment, back into mystery.

Existence is confusing and painful and people like to try out a lot of things to bear it. Extreme times can lead to some fascinating art!

The show at Houston Center for Photography, collecting the late Howze’s extraordinary, intimate portraits of Freedmen’s Town residents, is an attempt to slow down a disappearance.

Christina Rees and Brandon Zech on a show by a newly-minted MFA, an artwork that doesn’t quite fit into a gallery, and why our number one pick is our number one pick.

Youngblood’s underlying theme is the complexity of human lives and our conflicting desires for stability and change.