Today: Animals and sprinkles

I recently visited an antique shop in Houston and discovered several bronze statues from Benin.

"I wouldn't be making this work without the funding. It's just not possible for me. Grants are very important to me, especially coming out of the pandemic.”

I took my first art class, and now it’s almost as if long-dead artists were making their works before my eyes.

"Horlander challenges the viewer’s relationship with time, nature, and the space we live within to open up dialogue about what it is to be."

"It is always good with the bad. We all struggle, our failures test us, it’s what action we take to correct them that matters most." 

"Two exhibitions featuring new work by Fort Worth-based artist Rachel Livedalen and Austin-based artist Katy McCarthy."

"The work can be understood as pop art through a particular south Texas, Mexican American lens that takes us on a ride that might not be posh, but it will get us there with its own unique style."

The desert art-post invites visitors back for outdoor, self-guided tours beginning this Thursday, May 6.

"'Insta11ations' is made up of artists who are experimenting with the ways people interact with public art, who reimagine public spaces, and who express stories of social justice and equity in their work."

"Mohsenin is motivated by the challenge of exploring light, color, and space in a more constricted scale reflecting on her recent experience with motherhood and a child's world, especially during the pandemic."

The story of librarian Juan Sandoval, his preeminent Mexican and Latinx art collection, and how El Paso’s political climate shaped his legacy.

It makes sense that many of the current art offerings touch on themes from the pandemic: physical connection, mundane domesticity, and mental health.

Biczel's work has focused on how migration and social justice movements influence Latin American experimental art.

“I don’t know if it’s some kind of weird time warp or something, but I feel like I run into different versions of myself at different stages.” 

U.S. and Chilean-based artist Claudia Bitrán has been re-creating the blockbuster 1997 film, scene by scene, with more than 600 participants across 19 cities internationally.

Christopher Blay and Christina Rees on a show that deconstructs our public-facing identities, a Hill Country show featuring 50 years of a Texas printmaker’s history, and a Dallas show featuring some deceptively sublime imagery. 

A few pictures to mark the recent news that Jeff Koons has jumped ship from David Zwirner and Gagosian and moved to Pace Gallery.

"Most of the works are recent black-and-white paintings presented as suspended cores."

"Through video installation, staged production stills, drawing, performance and sculpture, the artists examine containers of spiritual and mnemonic residue."