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"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." 

Christina Rees and William Sarradet are joined by Houston Center for Contemporary Craft’s Kathryn Hall and María-Elisa Heg to run down the top five art events in Texas this week, including two at HCCC.

The crux of the collaborative practice of Gaye Lynn and Michael Hodgson, over thirty years in the making, is that eating and drinking is a performative act that should be honored.

The obvious connection between Larkey's formal play and language are the echoes of text — the line from written language rerouted into sensory objects

"He and the de Menils did some big-idea thinking, and committed themselves to getting it done in Houston."

You can experience the immersive installation once more this Saturday, January 25, 2020.

The work, commissioned by the Nasher, broadcasts recorded testimonies, primarily from women describing the positive attributes of the sperm donor profiles they’re perusing from a sperm bank.

Christina Rees and Brandon Zech are joined by artist Emily Link to run down this week’s top art events, and to chat about what it takes to run a successful artist-run space.

Two stellar but very different exhibitions in Lubbock for its First Friday Art Trail in January hit upon eco-centric themes.

Alison Hearst is Associate Curator at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, and the curator of the museum’s FOCUS exhibition series.

As we celebrate today's commemoration, Glasstire has compiled a list of artists who have honored Dr. King through their work.

"I want a residency to change my perspective — you want to make something new and to be affected by the space, the place, and the people."

In the survey up now at the Blaffer, we feel the myriad ways in which this young gay black man grapples with representing his identity, and that representation’s relationship to art history.

Christopher Blay and Christina Rees stop in at Art League Houston during its three-show installation process, and fill you in on the top five art events to catch in Texas this week, one of which prompts this from Blay: "We live in 2020 and we should make art that reflects 2020."

I made sure prior to the Austin screening to post on social media jokes about no one wanting to go with me, to secure that I couldn’t bail the day of, like a poser. What is the purpose of depicting such misery, especially in almost real time (sometimes in a surreal, slower than real time)?

It’s thrilling to see artworks up close and unframed, and viewers seem to slow down in the pop-ups’ intimate, informal atmosphere.

His legacy will live in the artists and students he inspired, mentored, and befriended.

The curator dates the beginnings of a focus on the “complex relationship” between contemporary art and anthropology to the early 1990s.

Libertad, Menchelli and Moody Castro not only restructure the roles they play in the making of the show, but they also unfurl the medium, and persistently inhabit the in-between.