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Brandon Zech and Gabriel Martinez discuss their anticipated fall exhibitions in Texas, including a major survey of an important Texas artist in Houston, a homecoming for a Dallas-born artist at the Nasher Sculpture Center, an exhibition in San Antonio highlighting an influential Chicana artist, and more. 

Today: Dying birds

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

Valentin Diaconov reviews Vincent Valdez's 2023 Texas Artist of the Year exhibition at Art League Houston.

Ruben C. Cordova reviews the Cheech Marin collection and building, and compares it to the inaugural exhibition of Marin’s collection at the San Antonio Museum of Art in 2001. 

This week: a solo show featuring portraits of disappeared individuals from Central and South America in Houston, a Dallas-based artist's first solo museum exhibition in Fort Worth, an exhibition of objects and structures that draw on the visual language of plumbing and drainage in Austin, and more.

Art League Houston has announced the recipients of its annual Texas Artist of the Year and Texas Patron of Year awards, as well as its biennial Lifetime Achievement Award in Arts Leadership.

Semblanza que David S. Rubin hizo en el 2015 acerca del artista texano Vincent Valdez y su obra.

The Mellon Foundation and the Ford Foundation have announced the 2022 Latinx Artist Fellowship cohort, which includes three Texas artists.

The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. announced the finalists for its sixth Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition.

The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth has announced the 2022 spring schedule for its long-standing lecture series, Tuesday Evenings at the Modern.

Jennifer Ling Datchuk, Xxavier Edward Carter, Adrian Aguilera and Betelhem Makonnen, Jenelle Esparza, Vincent Valdez, and Jenn Hassin consider the U.S. flag.

“Our desire to partner with incredible museums in San Antonio and Houston led us to organize a project that is iterative in form and expansive in scale.”

The exhibition is co-curated by Tyler Blackwell and Steven Matijcio.

Valentina Jager​, Cindee Travis Klement​, ​Bria Lauren, Anna Mavromatis​, and ​Phillip Pyle II have been selected as finalists for the award.

The 30-minute noontime talks will begin in January of 2021 and will run weekly, with each conversation highlighting a different institution and artist.

“Perhaps more than others in the Houston cultural community, HMAAC is sensitive to the need for spaces where people of color control their narrative and are not interpreted by others."

Artists include Vincent Valdez, Guerrilla Girls, and Jenny Holzer, and Texas art spaces include Ballroom Marfa, the Blanton, DiverseWorks, the Fort Worth Modern, the Nasher, and The Contemporary Austin.

Notable visual artists on the roster have included Vincent Valdez and Dornith Doherty, and some of the most recognizable names in Texas music.

In addition to $10,000 in unrestricted funds, Corral and Valdez will have access to ongoing benefits of the Artadia Awards program.