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The show of 1990s fashion at the McNay in San Antonio makes me wonder if, even as the digital revolution has sped things up, our collective progress has slowed tremendously.

Yet another artist-run space is having its monthly performance blowout practically in the middle of the city.

Christina Rees and Christopher Blay are joined by Houston artist Patrick Renner to run down the top five art events in Texas this week.

As Gil Scott-Heron put it in 1976, it's “partial deification of partial accomplishments, over partial periods of time.”

Material Art Fair, CDMX, Vol. 7, Feb. 7-9, 2020

Glasstire’s William Sarradet was invited by the Belgium-based gallery Harlan Levey Projects to be a writer in residence for one month in Brussels. In this series, Sarradet relays his findings on art and life in that city.

"I have a real fondness for the brains of artists. People laugh about artists not being good communicators, and I think that’s a load of crap."

Today, let’s celebrate art's penchant for the longing heart.

Brandon Zech and Christina Rees on an unmissable Valentine’s Day party, Charlie Chaplin losing a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest, and full permission to get your hands around the work in a major exhibition.

Back rooms in galleries are difficult spaces for artists. Always cul-de-sacs, they are usually the smallest spaces and contain work by either the young and up-and-coming or by artists who…

The Media Center’s upcoming anniversary series will shed light on some fantastic slivers of its history as it presents a photography exhibition, guest talks, and free-admission screenings of narrative, documentary, and experimental films.

What makes the exhibit unique is that it moves beyond Day of the Dead as tradition to include artwork that explores death in Mexican folktales and the interplay between the sacred and the secular.

Ripple's one-week IG takeover was a savvy explosion of video, video-still, and photo collage that had some fun with the way we absorb and process pop culture, and online images in particular.

Art is great, but so is nature, and food, and movies, and books.

Glasstire’s William Sarradet was invited by the Belgium-based gallery Harlan Levey Projects to be a writer in residence for one month in Brussels. In this series, Sarradet relays his findings on art and life in that city.  

We can be taught to understand the world in new ways, starting with how we understand art.

Christina Rees and William Sarradet on a sculptor’s leap into oil painting, the therapeutic DNA of craft, and a show by Texas’ newest honorary intrepid explorer.

Austin-based photographer Leonid Furmansky got to know Galveston on his BMX bike — riding, sometimes trespassing, along old buildings and empty streets to document what he describes as its strange beauty.

"The best films of global cinema are better than any TV show that’s ever been made … and that really comes through when you see the films in a movie theater." 

"My work speaks of the uncomfortable. It makes viewers uncomfortable because uncomfortable is the air I breathe."