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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.

Christopher Blay and Brandon Zech on a founder of glitch paintings, tapestries of sex and car crashes, and some infernal pictures in East Texas.

The paintings sanctify the 12.26 space like altarpieces. And they’re New Agey in the best way.

"These paintings — portraits of the memoirist Cat Marnell juxtaposed with observed interiors — are arranged within the exhibition to foreground the relationship between their content and the space around them, occupied by a viewing subject."

"The artist utilizes the iconography, brilliant colors, and elaborate designs of medieval manuscripts as a stage for the exploration of everyday contemporary life, often incorporating familiar faces from the Houston art scene."

Big Tex is an abstract everyman who somehow manages to be nobody.

By different degrees, everyone is a stranger. Our inner worlds are largely obscure to each other. It’s not a stretch to wonder: can we grasp anything substantial about another person’s…

This week’s picks especially benefit from better sound than your laptop speakers.

Aquí nos echaremos un clavado a una discusión sobre más héroes y villanos.

Christina Rees and Brandon Zech on a show that starts with a stolen car, a Houstonian’s photographs in Dallas, and an artist who exploits targeted advertising.

"Utilizing visual language as action, barnes allows her figures to challenge patterns of complacency and grab hold of power."

"Created through large-format means, this body of work seeks to discover the nature of the photograph and translate the medium into new contemporary forms of visual language."

Kitchen’s careful manipulation of sometimes lush, sometimes desolate snapshots from the American Northwest probe the contours between documentary and craft.

Artists also included in the "New Walls | New Corners" exhibition are Susan Budge, Kelley Devine, Tatiana Escallon, and Lorena Morales.