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Christina Rees and Brandon Zech on the ongoing debate about museums deaccessioning objects from their permanent collections. 

"I’m out here making really brave art, taking risks. It’d be nice if I had a little help locally."

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Brandon Zech and William Sarradet on a spate of new exhibitions opening this weekend, including the Austin debut of a DFW artist.

“The real impetus for me is something I just can’t out of my head, and I just keep thinking: I need to make this; I have to make this.”

"Turtles About Town" is a community art project that showcases the City of Galveston and the conservation efforts of nonprofit Turtle Island Restoration Network.

La frase “arte popular” es una pequeña pero importante redefinición de la amplia y nebulosa categoría “arte folclórico.”

“It’s a century where artists think very deeply about what drawing is as a concept, but also about materials and how to use them.”

“We see this monolithic idea of what the world thinks is Blackness, but we know that the Black experience is whatever the Black person has. That’s the Black experience. And that’s the individual experience.”

Artists are often their own advocates as they forge new strategies to create work in spite of a political gridlock that often forgets about them.

Neither the pandemic nor the other rattling events of 2020-21 slowed these students down or compromised the rigor of their work. It may be just the opposite, actually. 

Christopher Blay and Christina Rees on Texas barns in danger, Italian drawings in Space City, and an artist who has her finger on the pulse of human awfulness.

“What gets me going creatively is the community that I live in. It's really just absorbing everything in the community, and then how I replicate that in the studio practice."

Deborah Roberts’ context is very much the America of our lifetimes.

Austin-based artist Deborah Roberts' solo exhibition at The Contemporary Austin opened January 23 and will be on view through August 15.

“I wonder if artists are being commissioned to beautify cities in a way that ignores the time that we live in.”

"Attention to the relationships between humans and the nonhuman environment defines the practice of Santa Fe-based artist Will Wilson (Diné/Navajo)."

Reiland's pictures of women are not so much documentary portraits as gestures of a sort of imaginative empathy, where historical facts and artistic interpretations collide.

Brandon Zech and Christina Rees on the reopening of Dallas Contemporary, a show by some New York legends in the Panhandle, and one artist's way of making the frame a part of the art. 

Onifadé isn’t jumping through a department store window to get your attention. These paintings are pageants of restraint.