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Ruben C. Cordova writes about the life and career of longtime Texas artist Octavio Medellin.

Rosa Boshier González reviews "Troy Montes Michie: Rock of Eye," currently on view at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston.

Macaella Gray and Zoe Roden recount how, through their experience with the Land Arts of the American West field program at Texas Tech University, they found a mindful way to engage with humans' impact on the land.

Jessica Fuentes reviews a Dallas exhibition featuring light-based installations and works rooted in kineticism.

Christine Gwillim on how museums can incorporate theater and performance to break down barriers and challenge visitors.

William Sarradet writes about recent exhibitions at Conduit Gallery, SWIM CLUB 수영 클럽, The Nasher Sculpture Center, and PRP in Dallas.

This week: a group show featuring early 20th-century artists in Wichita Falls, a solo show that transforms the urban city into a lush jungle in Houston, a solo exhibition exploring our relationship with nature in Austin, and more.

Bucky Miller reviews four photography books published in 2021 and 2022, including a tome on Diane Arbus, a curious book by Michael Yuan, and others.

UTSA Professor Teresa Eckmann and her students talk with Victoria Lyall, Terezita Romo, and Lucía Abramovich Sánchez, the curators behind a traveling exhibition that aims to pull back the curtain on La Malinche.

Megan Wilson Krznarich on the veiled social critique in the work of artist Bernardo Vallarino.

Today: Reading letters

Jessica Fuentes shares New Year's resolutions inspired by art, including works that have been on view in Dallas, Albany, Lubbock, and beyond.

Jessica Fuentes and William Sarradet discuss how looking at art and being in art spaces impacts our mental health. 

Benjamin Ogrodnik traces the decidedly queer sensibilities in the exhibition "Warhol, Johns, Stella: Revisited" at the Art Museum of South Texas.

This year, we covered art and other happenings across our great state of Texas and beyond.

This week: a touring exhibition exploring an artist’s creative process comes to Houston, a pairing of paintings by artists working three centuries apart in Dallas, a pairing of works by Modern European and American artists with medieval objects in Austin, and more.

Bucky Miller reviews Michael Lundgren’s photobook "Geomancy," published in 2019 by Stanley/Barker Books.

Barbara Purcell on the community-centered practice of artist Margarita Cabrera, whose work is currently on view in a solo show at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio.

Jessica Fuentes, William Sarradet, and Brandon Zech count down some of their favorite art books of the year. 

Today: Large black assemblages