Interview with Camellia Paul
My work celebrates the spontaneous, the whimsical, and the beautifully chaotic.... Read more.
Montevideo Water Crisis
Since the beginning of this decade, I’ve lived through a winter storm that caused cascading infrastructure failures in Austin, Texas, and a pandemic that affected... Read more.
Revived
A Q&A with Texas artist Jorge Losoya.... Read more.
Q&A with Brianna Keeper
On the water with Texas painter and boatwright Brianna Keeper.... Read more.
Q&A with Eric Flanagan and Sam Voutas
A discussion with the authors of White Faced Lies.... Read more.
Q&A with Juan Camillo Garza
Including photographs from the series "Dark, Dark."... Read more.
Q&A with Roger Leege
Photography, photomontage, and rephotography with Roger Leege.... Read more.
Archeologies of the Environment
A series of oil paintings by Fernanda Morales Tovar.... Read more.
Q&A with Xavier Vanderblue
San Antonio actor Xavier "Blue" Vanderblue encourages perseverance.... Read more.
Beauty in Decay
A Q&A with conceptual artist Jennifer Weigel.... Read more.
Timeline of Irresponsibility
The many times Texas leadership had failed the people of Texas, as well as failed to adequately respond to multiple health and natural disasters during 2020 -2022...... Read more.
Book Review: “Reverberations of Racial Violence: Critical Reflections on the History of the Border”
In the summer of 1975, doctoral student James A. Sandos happened upon carbon copies of the first two volumes of the three-volume 1919 report, “An Investigation... Read more.
Juneteenth
Slavery didn’t end in the United States on January 1, 1863, with President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. As the National Archives notes, the proclamation.... Read more.
Short Book Reviews
Kim Stanley Robinson doesn’t quite prove the famous Fredric Jameson quote used as Ministry for the Future’s epigraph incorrect but he does offer a readable speculative... Read more.
Q&A with Andrea Muñoz Martinez
1. Let’s start with the basics, tell us about yourself. My name is Andrea Muñoz Martínez. I am a visual and performance artist currently living and working... Read more.
SAR II in Collage
Among the few pleasant surprises of 2021 are the emails I’ve received from Sady Sparks, a new resident of Austin. She emailed to inquire into the status of the... Read more.
Q&A with Chris Manno
Cartoons are a hardcore visual way to unleash the emotions we all feel but can’t always express.... Read more.
Q&A with Kerry Hugins
Austin watercolor artist Kerry Hugins opens up.... Read more.
Book Review: “A Worker’s Worth”
Dr. Eve Tracy Coker is the first person I befriended on the Internet — about a quarter of a century ago. It’s my pleasure to read and comment upon her first... Read more.
Book Review: WARBLES
Having put aside my recent readings inquiring into the goals of white supremacists, the connections between free-market right-wingers and Bitcoin enthusiasts and... Read more.
National Shrine of Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos, New Orleans
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA2016Digital photograph... Read more.
The Mobbing of John R. Shillady
THE following account of the mobbing of John R. Shillady, Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, at Austin,... Read more.