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

“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."

"Wear is inspired by her combined interests in Cubist and early 20th Century sculpture with natural forms found in her garden."

Michelle Kirk of Fort Worth's Mañanaland was at the in-person Invitational in West Texas and sent back this report.

"If you give something time, and you focus on it — almost anything — you'll find something interesting about it." 

"This idea of self-sabotage, lust, and immortality are running themes in my work, and I always have those three shadows behind me in the studio, so that’s probably where I’m headed."

Bartlett is in a moment in which the collision of its anachronisms may end up mapping what its future can be. 

William Sarradet and Brandon Zech discuss how art meme accounts have taken over Instagram.

"The objects have also become significant as symbols for #BLM. It’s interesting how both sides appropriate the objects for their own use."

Our memories of movies are inevitably tangled up in whatever else was going on in our lives when we saw them.

Although not created for Earth Day, the following works both celebrate and offer glimpses of the the sublime and sobering reality of this third rock from the sun.

From incorporating family life and traditional Latin recipes, to documenting Houston's severe and unpredictable weather and its aftermath, the second part of this student show reflects Houston's diverse community and its up-and-coming photographers.

Brandon Zech and Christina Rees hit the road! This week: Text writ LARGE in Dallas, musicians interpret art in Austin, and a must-see show in Corpus Christi.

"In the last year we have been developing through necessity the skills that Maggi would have had us cultivate in art."

"Through the commonality of material, both female artists use thread as a metaphorical armature to explore the nature of the line and the potential held therein, abandoning two dimensional restrictions of painting, and challenging the viewer’s visual and tactile perception."