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"Who did this?! It may look funny but harming our historic monuments is no laughing matter.”

"We are all in the business of not being forgotten. Let’s remember that."

While I was walking around Marfa, I began to notice the various states of its stop signs: Some were faded, some were defaced, some were political, and some were minimal.

There's no reason why the opening season for art in DFW doesn’t happen on two consecutive weekends, one for each city. We’ll still show up, guys. Promise.

Rawlings wants to walks us through what we’re looking at when we seek to be healed. 

Back in a time before YouTube existed, when memes were just a glimmer in our collective eye, artist Christian Marclay began making intensive video works that culled Hollywood films for auditory and visual patterns.

Churches are a low-key revelatory spot for installations and performance.

I like to think someone killed a man down there; it's the romantic in me.

On a marvelous 16th-century drawing of a steeple.

If you've been around Houston or West Texas, it's possible you're familiar with Downes and his work.

Let’s take a quick breeze around town and catch some of the current art at some galleries and boutiques. 

Today: Birds

"Nothing ever stays the same, especially if you’re in the creative business. You either accept that and evolve, or you die."

To find distinctly Texan work could mean a lot of different things. We are a borderland and a coast, with a fever-pitch politic surrounding guns, vaccines, and a host of other things that pisses everyone off one way or another.

"I don't even really think that mainstream advertising is trying to sell anything to a person like me."

Photos by Jennifer Battaglia  The Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts often hosts up to four exhibitions at a time in its Lubbock Cultural District space. The following works are…

Hey painters: Can you do this?

It's understandable that an art-world dweller would brush off a list focused only on paintings made in the last 18 years, but before dismissing me, at least consider my thesis.

You can’t find this anywhere else. Once you're here you’re family. I hope everyone realizes that.

Houston-based artist Iva Kinnaird does a renovation job for her landlord. "This man, whom I've never met, has great trust in my handyman abilities. I will not let him down."