Between ‘Worlds’
Viewers bring their own preconceptions to visual art even as the creators have their own fully formed ideas and messages in mind. Bridging the...
Reaching Out
When Amanda Blake launched the Carter Community Artists in 2017, she did so based on lessons she learned from her previous work at the...
Feats of Clay Stinnett
I don’t know how else to put this: Making sense of Clay Stinnett’s paintings in his solo show Honky Tonk Lagoon at Fort Works Art...
Mapping Time and Space
“War Horse in Babylon” captures a horrifying scene. The large oil painting by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith centers on the gray silhouette of the animal...
Escape to Reality
The works of Western artists have long oscillated between escapism and the minutiae of daily life. While the otherworldly paintings of Salvador Dali and...
Remembering Aimee Cardoso
The first locals to learn of the recent car crash that killed artist Aimee Cardoso and husband Lucas Cardoso were Aimee’s closest friends, Ariel...
Make the Revolution Irresistible
America’s white power structure has historically resorted to violence as a first and last means of quelling Black-led movements seeking social and economic equality.
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Down to Earth
Archeologists, linguists, and historians have spent centuries piecing together fragmented clues left by the once-dominant indigenous culture of Mesoamerica. The beautiful chain of Mayan...
Lost in The Real Unreal
Inside Grapevine Mills is a house. Inside that house is a refrigerator. Inside that fridge is a room full of more fridges. And inside...
Summer Sights and Stages
In the Pleistocene Era (circa 2010), when flip phones were unironic, most museums and theaters essentially took summers off, reserving blockbusters for the fall...
