Art Review
Sable Elyse Smith Reveals the Shapes of State Violence
The artist’s critique of the prison-industrial complex simultaneously deepens and skewers the legacies of Minimalism.
Liz Kim
Liz Kim is an assistant professor of art history at Texas A&M University-Kingsville. As an art historian and critic, she specializes in late 20th century American art, psychoanalysis, queer theory, moving images, and digital media.
Art Review
The Canonization of Frida Kahlo
An exhibition blasts apart any crystallized conception of the artist until no easily digestible singular figure emerges.
Art Review
Sonya Clark’s Communal Tapestry
A mid-career survey at two Houston institutions redirects discourse from her hair works toward her fiber and collaborative works.
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Celebrating 35 Years of Rasquachismo
An exhibition explores the distinctions in the term, conceived by scholar Tomás Ybarra-Frausto to describe a Chicanx aesthetics of resourcefulness.
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The Gustatory Pleasures of Rolando Briseño
The artist’s works interweave regional dining histories, including the Mesoamerican and the American, in a call to un-Whitewash history.
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Whitfield Lovell Quarries Black Histories
Across installations, paintings, and drawings, the artist searches for community and ancestries.