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Christina Rees checks in with curator and writer Leslie Moody Castro, who is sheltering in place in Mexico. They talk about the true meaning of being an introvert, the beauty of studio visits, and their attempts to keep a handle on art across the whole state of Texas.

The founder of "The Great God Pan is Dead" sent us this, in the spirit of our current Five-Minute Tours series.

Featuring work by Latifa Albokhari, Sebastien Boncy, J Bilhan, Erin Carty, Colby Deal, Cary Fagan, Ronald L. Jones, Lovie Olivia, and Jamie Robertson.

"Sculpture wire, canvas, burlap, acrylic paint, and a fiberglass compound were used to construct the work’s Texas-sized caricatures of rodeo archetypes — including the rodeo queen, a bucking bronc, rodeo clowns, and a giant yellow bull named Butter."

Christopher Blay talks with Denton-based artist Annette Lawrence about working with what you have in your studio, jurying art you can only see online, and art as essential work.

Christina Rees and Brandon Zech give you some hot tips on art you can still actually GO see.

Not getting to see art in person has gone from feeling like a temporary and honorable discomfort to a kind of psychic pain I didn’t predict.

I hope we are all Captain Kirks, stepping out of the program to find a different way to the other side of this thing.

Michael Ray Charles' "(Forever Free) Ideas, Languages and Conversations" is a site-specific artwork commissioned by Landmarks, installed in the Gordon-White Building (GWB) Atrium at UT Austin.

Episode One is titled "HUGS" and features a wide cast of artists; Episode Two is currently in production.

Turrell's "The Color Inside" is a site-specific artwork commissioned by Landmarks, installed on the William C. Powers, Jr. Student Activity Center Rooftop at UT Austin.

"A Mathematical Theory of Communication" is a site-specific artwork installed in the North building of The Bill & Melinda Gates Computer Science Complex & Dell Computer Science Hall at UT Austin.

"Blakemore and Leciejewski participated in a cultural exchange between Houston and Leipzig, Germany, to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the two being sister cities."

"A tour of founder Linda Pace’s artwork in Ruby City’s inaugural tripartite exhibition, in honor of Pace’s birthday on April 17."

"Delicately charting the human condition with all the gravity and humor of real life, Beth Campbell’s drawing and mobile for the Dell Medical School reveals the interconnectedness of shared experience."

"Using state-of-the-art techniques and a vast knowledge of art history and portraiture over 20 years, Ball has created two predominate and ongoing series, Portraits and Masterpieces."

Featuring photography by Arius Holifield, Montinique Monroe, Tyeschea West, Bertie Pearson, Hector Hernandez, and Ryan Junell.

While the pandemic was certainly not a part of the conceptual planning for the show, it has become a major protagonist in the unsettling timeliness of the exhibition itself.

Despite the difficulty of continuing the yearly tradition in the middle of the pandemic, CAM found ways to work around shutdowns and social distancing.

While we think we are the hero of our own movie, we're actually merely one villain of many in a rogue’s gallery that just drifts on and on, like a steadicam tracking shot.