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Good as Gone Treats Women Mysteriously Like People
Meet the Texas Scholar Who Unearthed Walt Whitman’s 19th Century Clickbait
A closer look at the poet’s musings on “Manly Health.”
The many turns of fate that brought Dripping Springs native Zachary Turpin to an undiscovered Walt Whitman archive covering the hinterlands of health....Read More
Graphic Novel Profiles Brilliant, Bipolar Daniel Johnston
The Incantations of Daniel Johnston, a graphic novel released in July, narrates the creative, chaotic life of an artist and musician with bipolar disorde...Read More
Isn’t It Iconic?
The price tag on a new public sculpture in San Antonio renews a 20-year debate over whether a city program creates art — or just controversy.
The price tag on a new public sculpture in San Antonio renews a 20-year debate over whether a city program creates art — or just controversy....Read More
In the Name of Our Ancestors
Against the odds, indigenous activists take on an international coal mining firm.
Against the odds, indigenous activists take on an international coal mining firm near Eagle Pass, saying the state is putting profits before native peoples....Read More
‘Trapped’ in the Limelight
The everyday struggles of a San Antonio abortion clinic services director are at the heart of the acclaimed documentary 'Trapped.'
San Antonio clinic director Marva Sadler is at the center of an acclaimed new documentary tracking anti-abortion laws' effects on providers and patients....Read More
Photos of Dystopia
FotoFest, Houston’s biennial art photography fair, bears witness to a planet in peril.
FotoFest, Houston’s biennial art photography fair, bears witness to a planet in peril in alternately beautiful and disturbing ways....Read More
Captive Genius
From the isolation of a psych ward, Mexican immigrant Martín Ramírez became a 20th century master.
From the isolation of a psych ward, Mexican immigrant Martín Ramírez became a 20th century master. The content of Ramírez’s drawings shows that he was d...Read More
Houston’s Absent Son
The Bayou City displays the personal collection of its beloved-in-absentia Mark Rothko.
The Bayou City displays the personal collection of its beloved-in-absentia Mark Rothko....Read More
Narco Violence, as Seen by a Journalist-Turned-Artist
Binational artist Luz Maria Sánchez grapples with killings that haunt her family and her country of birth.
In person and in her art, Sánchez’s style is observational and exact, almost without an expressive first-person stance, except for, perhaps, one of detached ...Read More