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Today: Marbles

Part two of Leslie Moody Castro's reflections on her recent visit to the NART Residency, which is located in the Estonian border town of Narva.

Christian Cruz collapses Brancusi’s "Endless Column" and the myth of Sisyphus into a story of unrecognized labor.

This week: Pop gets political in Austin, an annual juried LGBTQIA+ exhibition in Dallas, transborder art in El Paso & more.

A video tour of artist Greg Edmondson's exhibition at The Cole Art Center at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches.

“Many people think photography is realistic. I think it lies. I am often astonished to see something after I have seen a photograph of it. Often it isn’t accurate. It can be quite a bit different from the real thing.”

While much has been written about Milton Avery’s work, I was unfamiliar with that of his wife and daughter. In researching their work, I became aware of what has been termed the “Avery style”.

"With his sculptures, including wall-dependent works, Glentzer often juxtaposes delicacy and tensile strength. His colorful, slender forms and barely tethered lines dance joyfully through space, sometimes disrupting perceived edges."

Today: Curved paintings

Lauren Winchell Bechelli firmly believes in the impossibility of specificity. Her artworks are undecipherable composites of old ideas made new again.

William Sarradet writes about recent San Antonio art exhibitions, performances, art walks, and more.

Leslie Moody Castro on how a trip to the Estonian border town of Narva brought up memories of her family and life on the U.S.-Mexico border.

The narrative is intriguing and can be contextualized as part of a larger movement of revisiting and investigating the lives and work of women artists who have been overlooked, undervalued, and sometimes completely forgotten by the art historical canon.

South Texas’ artists and artist-run spaces are projecting familia into an uncertain future.

This photograph of Rembrandt's "The Night Watch" is "the largest and most detailed photo ever taken of a work of art."

Jessica Fuentes, William Sarradet, and Brandon Zech discuss anticipated upcoming exhibitions, including the Obama Portraits' trip to Houston, a solo exhibition of Wendy Red Star at SAMA, and a focus on female portraits at the Modern.

Los hilos de la fe y la incredulidad están profundamente entretejidos en el arte de Lisette Chavez.

Often art either asks the audience to ignore their surroundings or references the site as an afterthought — it really thrills me when a site-specific work utilizes the nature of a site to successfully drive a concept home.

How do people cope under circumstances that deny explanation? How does belief operate?

Fashion is psychology. It deserves respect as the most personal of design fields, and the most operative visual expression of an individual’s identity.