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This article is the second in an annual exploration of Catrina-related phenomena in art and popular culture written for Glasstire.

The first installment in Glasstire's video and audio podcast series, Artist on Artist, in which Glasstire's News Editor Christopher Blay, also an artist, hosts Texas-based artists and art professionals in one-on-one conversations.

McNeil's understatement and structural references belie a strength in subterfuge, like an unsensed yet omnipresent virus lurking in our midst.

Decades ago, I accidentally began collecting stories and images of Texans who carried out unusual activities in the past. I came to see the individuals as outsider artists who engaged in performance and conceptual art. Here are some of their stories.

Christopher Blay and Christina Rees on a power nap for 2020, the creative advantage of dyslexia, and a show in Austin titled "People the We."

Bone theater. It is probably art. It is thrilling, impractical, odd, a little vulnerable.

Tooling down South Flores Street from one thrift store to another in April 2014, I passed what has become one of my favorite works of art in San Antonio.

"Cabrales’ multi-media installations and sculptures combine playful — even comic — imagination with today’s headline topics: immigration, financial disarray, consumerism, and terrorism."

Open Weekend is, historically, a wonderful way to access a lot of art, and through the online format: art ideas.

Cordova's final installment in the series covers works by Reyes that address the struggle for political representation and social services in Texas, reviews the “Southern Strategy” and race, and concludes with Trump and the 2020 election.

Christina Rees and Brandon Zech discuss the implications of closures of a blue-chip London gallery and a storied NYC nonprofit, and tackle recent vandalism at three German museums.

"To define contemporary craft in 2020, one should look well beyond the edges of the labels historically attached to the practice and the associated objects."

Here Lauren Moya Ford is in conversation with curator and artist Jesus Treviño and artists Cande Aguilar, Jessie Burciaga, and Samantha Isabel García about how a current show at UT Austin speaks to the Borderlands and its soulful hidden currents.

Christina Rees and Brandon Zech on when painting turned into sculpture, a drawing that can’t exist without sunlight, and a showcase that helps you imagine art in your (alter ego’s) house. 

Works from a diverse set of artists in the United States, Latin America, and Brazil showcase the many ways that artists in the mid-20th-century Americas experimented with light, color, and materiality.  

"AWS’s annual exhibition is one of the most revered watercolor exhibits in the world. Forty paintings were selected from more than 1,100 artists worldwide."

"Exquisite Adornment," a promised expansion of SAMA’s collection, indicates an evolving approach toward displaying and contextualizing Asian art.

"Through a conjured manipulation of substance and light, the show oscillates between visceral physicality and ethereal immateriality."

This week, On Video spotlights two landmark films by artist Arthur Jafa available online.

"Every day try to be more human, and less of a consumer."