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Christina Rees talks with Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth curator Alison Hearst about the museum's acclaimed Focus exhibition series, the politics of art acquisitions, and the work of current Focus artist Martine Gutierrez.

The Blanton’s exhibition speaks to the contradictions — cultural, geopolitical, historical — of living on the border between the United States and Mexico. 

Lubbock is kind of on a roll right now.

Brandon Zech and Christopher Blay on museum cabaret in Dallas, four surefire art days in Austin, and a reworking of the “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” narrative in Houston. 

“Fine art is good medicine.”

"We love this work and are trying to figure out how to manifest more hours in the day." 

In 2017, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (HCCC) featured the work of Ehren Tool, a war veteran who uses craft (and an attendant kind of art) as a therapeutic practice to deal with trauma.

Today, Veterans Day, we browsed Instagram and Facebook to see how artists are commemorating the holiday through their posts.

"A lot of the art attractions that have a weight behind them are the hallmark pieces of art history, or the pieces that have come into the public eye — like the Sistine Chapel or the Mona Lisa." 

The setting of 'The Uncolonized' precedes us by a few centuries, but the discourse doesn’t seem too distant. 

Christina Rees and William Sarradet on the fruits of an artist’s travel, a deep dive into the iconography of Mexico, and a show of Dallas artists doing an institutional critique of… Dallas. 

“It’s harder to get people out during the holiday season for truly transgressive work,” she tells me. “Wait 'til the new year.” 

In order for watching movies to not feel like work, there has to exist the possibility of movies like Dune.

Mexico City is place of wonder. You never know what you will find around the next corner.

Why did Catrina become so popular, so central to Mexican artistic and cultural identity?

Here's what you can do with some cardboard and a little imagination... .

In light of wholesale destruction, what can we say about Aztecs beliefs?

Christopher Blay does a round-up of his top five places to see art in Fort Worth, with Fort Worth artists Raul Rodriguez, Jessika Guillen, Fabiola Valenzuela, Nancy Lamb, Billy Hassell, and Devon Nowlin.

The work has traveled to Amsterdam, New York, London, and Frankfurt. Now: Lubbock.  

"Do we seek to embrace or to dominate? Do we seek a thoughtful exchange of ideas or simply to impose our own?"