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In our latest Art Dirt podcast, Brandon Zech and Christina Rees talk about the merits of shock value, the uselessness of labels, and the dread of getting stuck watching a bad performance.

The artist has learned the rules, and now he can break them.

Brandon Zech and William Sarradet on the power of language as art, a destination opening in Corsicana, and a mail-art project that has a life of its own.

Lester uses blind contour — the act of drawing an object without looking at the paper — to physicalize the inherent impossibility of a perfect copy in the propagation of life.

The show allows viewers to consider our shared reality with our neighbors on the other side of the border and, perhaps, to see ourselves from their perspective. 

In introducing five new intaglio pieces titled The Kakistocracy Portfolio, Ted Kincaid is moving his art practice into strident new terrain.

There remains compelling early Texas art still undiscovered. The greater art world needs research programs like CASETA.

Höller has used every bit of space, including the building’s rooftop, to place the viewer in an altered state — pleasurable and disturbing at the same time.

Höller ha utilizado todo el espacio, incluida la azotea del edificio, para colocarnos en un estado alterado, placentero y perturbador al mismo tiempo.

Christina Rees and Rainey Knudson on real-estate branding, some great photography shows, and one upshot of very short films.

Vouros' drawings are rife with quiet drama, and teeter between storybook wonder and the heightened precariousness inherent in the natural world. 

The objects on display are less like home goods, and more like insolent props for an unwholesome funhouse. 

The intensity of this particular collective experience is hard to convey to someone who wasn’t there.

Artists who enter into so-called art with the idea that they are starting a business — a transaction of something for money — are almost never making art.

"An ongoing goal of the project has been to introduce the local audience to work that they are not likely to see in other venues."

Rainey Knudson and Neil Fauerso on disappearing art and artists, the Asian diaspora in Texas, and a hot tip for Mother's Day.

These days, what is the provocateur to do?

For a casual observer or pedestrian, the spaces Hegert calls into focus go unseen.

Mérida is blindingly bright and colorful, viscerally hot, and endlessly beguiling.

In our latest Art Dirt podcast, Brandon Zech and Christina Rees start out talking about artists who have been kicked off of Instagram, but quickly devolve into how social media platforms can be problematic ways of engaging with the art world.