Top Five

Christina Rees and Brandon Zech run down a list of great ways to take in the arts even as we hunker down during the pandemic.

In Fort Worth, Christopher Blay is joined by the one-and-only Mark Bradford. They run down the top art events in Texas this week — including a money-prize show for youngsters.

Brandon Zech and guest host Leslie Moody Castro are in Austin this week to run down the best art events across the state.

Brandon Zech and Christina Rees on an unmissable Valentine’s Day party, Charlie Chaplin losing a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest, and full permission to get your hands around the work in a major exhibition.

Christina Rees and William Sarradet on a sculptor’s leap into oil painting, the therapeutic DNA of craft, and a show by Texas’ newest honorary intrepid explorer.

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.

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.

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."

Christina Rees and Christopher Blay are joined by artist and gallerist Wayne Gilbert to run down Glasstire’s top art picks of the week, including one in a gallery called G Spot.

Glasstire counts down the most anticipated shows opening across the state this spring, including one that employs a really unexpected material.

Christopher Blay and guest host Robert Hodge visit Sig's Lagoon Records to talk about DJ Screw and their picks for the top five Hip-Hop Christmas songs of all time.

Christina Rees and Brandon Zech on a host of solo shows to catch across the state as you break for the holidays.

Brandon Zech and Christopher Blay on a novel way to show photographs, a novel way to depict women, and two solo museum shows opening this weekend in Beaumont.

Christina Rees and Christopher Blay on a Dallas veteran's retrospective in Houston, the intersection of art and design, and a show by someone who runs one of the best art spaces in the state.

For this special Thanksgiving edition, Christina Rees and Brandon Zech run down their favorite food-related art. 

Christina Rees and Brandon Zech on alternative monuments for Dallas, an East Texas homecoming, and a couple of artists who bring the humor.

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. 

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. 

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.

Christina Rees and Christopher Blay on a show about art-fair exploitation, a show featuring a true radical of Latin America, and Christopher’s introduction to Bert Long, Jr.’s work.