"Aqui Descansaba" shows vulnerability by accepting the painful truth and the contemporary reality of la frontera.
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Jessica Fuentes talks with Fort Worth artist Michelle Cortez Gonzales about her move into her first studio space.
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Red Star’s artwork is an autobiographical revelation, both personally and culturally, offering up lesser-known parts of our history through a living, breathing heritage.
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Essay
Dispatches from Spain, Part Three: Accidental Residencies: What Ávila, Spain and Taos, New Mexico Have in Common
While visiting the work of Guido Caprotti in Spain, I was struck by how the Italian painter’s professional trajectory mirrored that of the Taos Society of Artists in New Mexico.
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Review
Cande Aguilar & Jesse Amado: “Dos Manos Dos Toques” at Cothren Contemporary, Houston
by Carris Adamsby Carris AdamsWe can think of Cande Aguilar and Jesse Amado as two artists on different sides of the same coin.
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This week: monoprints in Lockhart, tintype photographs in College Station, a group exhibition investigating issues related to land in Houston, and more.
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Five-Minute ToursVideo
Five-Minute Tours: Janavi Mahimtura Folmsbee at Heidi Vaughan Fine Art, Houston
by Glasstireby GlasstireA virtual tour of artist Janavi Mahimtura Folmsbee's exhibition at Heidi Vaughan Fine Art in Houston.
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Five-Minute ToursVideo
Five-Minute Tours: Shawn Camp and Michael Villarreal at ICOSA Collective, Austin
by Glasstireby GlasstireA virtual tour of a show by artists Shawn Camp and Michael Villarreal at ICOSA Gallery in Austin.
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Op EdReview
Dead Edges and Open Wounds: Considering “The Border is a Weapon/ Frontera es un Arma,” Curated by Gil Rocha
by Ricky Yanasby Ricky YanasPhiladelphia based artist and writer Ricky Yanas reviews "Border is a Weapon," a group exhibition about the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Review
Foreign Body: Danielle Becknell and Jayné Valverde at Rojo Gallery, San Antonio
by Ashley Allenby Ashley Allen"Foreign Body: Works on Navigation" puts forth a notion of the body that is malleable to outside dangers, and offers a path through which respite is realized.
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Maritza Bautista reviews artist Ana Laura Hernández's solo exhibition "Code-Switching" at the Laredo Center for the Arts.
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This new body of work by Fort Worth-based artist Adam Fung is at once captivating and haunting.
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William Sarradet and Brandon Zech discuss the similarities and differences between two new Netflix documentary series.
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The decision to comment or not comment on what is happening is now a constant, because the 24 hour news cycle has become global.
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Like Marfa, Cuenca’s status as an international art mecca was seeded by a singular artistic personality and vision — in fact, Cuenca predates Marfa in this regard.
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Hills Snyder on time spent during the pandemic, loss, and the cycles of life.
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This week: sculptures in Dallas, graduate students and artist residents have exhibitions in Houston, and mysteries of fraternal organizations are revealed in Austin.
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Five-Minute ToursVideo
Five-Minute Tours: Rising Eyes of Texas 2022 at the Rockport Center for the Arts
by Glasstireby GlasstireA video tour of the 2022 edition of the Rockport Center for the Arts' "Rising Eyes of Texas" exhibition.
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EspañolInterview
Una visión de panlatinidad: Roberto Tejada conversa con Mari Carmen Ramírez del MFAH
"El arte latinx sigue esperando a que las adquisiciones de museos y una base de coleccionistas lo acoja. Es un arte que todavía está en el proceso de legitimación."
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Review
Live Forever: Donald Moffett’s “Nature Cult (early freeze, late sleet)” at Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin
There is a shellacked magic to Donald Moffett’s resin paintings, an edibility of cured color that satisfies the eye like candy.