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"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." 

Christopher Blay and Christina Rees on a Dallas show Killer Mike wants to see in person, one of the most limber political artists in the state, and what it’s like to jury a show if you’re from these parts.

Featuring works by Rachel Comminos, Julie DeVries, Soomin Jung, Paloma Mayorga, and Ryan Runcie.

I felt a bit like Alice down the rabbit hole: the surreal quality of masked visitors quietly whispering oohs and ahhs, while I played detective trying to locate and identify the local artists’ work.

Austin, Dallas, San Antonio, Fort Worth, and just 10 days ago, Houston, have all passed proclamations declaring the second Monday in October Indigenous Peoples' Day.

Christopher Blay and Christina Rees discuss how a recent national report about culturally vibrant cities, which only counted one Texas region among its top 40 places, impacts about ideas of the state and its artists.

Sure, it’s a little weird to catch half a Bergman film at 3 a.m., or an Italian horror film in the afternoon between Zoom meetings. But these are weird times.

White explores ontological questions of singularity-immensity, time, and being.