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      Embracing Your Fears as Fuel With Zinzi Gugu Johnson
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      Filming the ‘Arthouse’ Pilot
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      Mary Sherwood Brock and Joshua Wattles On Hope and Aspiration for Indivisibility in America
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      Indivisible 2020: Political Art Exhibition Opens Online October 24
      Leroy Johnson: What It Means to Be A Political Artist Today
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      Everything Worth Seeing, Hearing, and Thinking About in Art This Year
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      Catching Up With Joan Cox, Winner of the 2022 NOT REAL ART Grant
      Ben Frost: Directions for Navigating Modern Life
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      The NOT REAL ART Guide to Summer Festival Season 2023
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      Call For Artists: Apply Now for the 2021 NOT REAL ART Artist Grant. Don’t Miss Out. Deadline May 1, 2021!
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      How Alicia Garza Turns Thrifted Finds Into Wearable Art
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      Why This Pakistani Artist Washes Away Her Own Paintings—And What It Reveals About Memory and Migration
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Q+Art 6 min read
How Alicia Garza Turns Thrifted Finds Into Wearable Art

Rio Grande Valley artist Alicia Garza transforms secondhand textiles into something bright and unexpected, somewhere between fashion, craft, and activ...

Morgan  Laurens  Morgan  Laurens 
Podcast 2 min read
FotoFest at 40: Chris Wicker Unpacks Houston’s ‘Global Photo Party’—and His Own Absurdist Art

Chris Wicker, exhibitions manager at FotoFest, shares insights on organizing Houston's 40th anniversary photo biennial and his own multidisciplinary a...

Morgan  Laurens  Morgan  Laurens 
Q+Art 3 min read
Why This Pakistani Artist Washes Away Her Own Paintings—And What It Reveals About Memory and Migration

Dallas designer Maria Rasheed transforms heirloom carpets into fragile paper art that fades over time, a meditation on diaspora and disappearing histo...

Morgan  Laurens  Morgan  Laurens 
Q+Art 4 min read
Brazil and Texas Suburbia: Julia Fisher Photographs the Space Between Two Worlds

Houston’s Julia Fisher uses color and collage to reconstruct childhood memories, exploring the gap between her Brazilian heritage and American upbring...

Morgan  Laurens  Morgan  Laurens 
Q+Art 4 min read
Chris Wicker's Houston Studio Is Where East Texas Nostalgia Goes to Get Weird

In this Quick Q+Art interview, Houston-based new media artist Chris Wicker discusses how his East Texas upbringing shapes his video installations.

Morgan  Laurens  Morgan  Laurens 
Q+Art 7 min read
Standing at the ‘Universal Corner’: Punk Poet Mitchell L. H. Douglas on Finding Your Creative Intersection

Collage artist Mitchell L. H. Douglas discusses his upcoming poetry collection, ‘Universal Corner,’ where different worlds and cultural influences col...

Morgan  Laurens  Morgan  Laurens 
Podcast 1 min read
Embracing Your Fears as Fuel With Zinzi Gugu Johnson

Filmmaker Zinzi Gugu Johnson joins us to discuss ‘Fears,’ her new short film that turns American anxieties into darkly humorous cinema.

Scott Power Scott Power
Features Curator Statements 3 min read
Lone Star: An Exhibition Statement From Curator Kirsten Bengtson-Lykoudis

Our first exhibition of 2026, Lone Star, features an inspiring array of work in a range of media created in or about Texas.

Kirsten Bengtson-Lykoudis Kirsten Bengtson-Lykoudis
Features Events & News 6 min read
Everything Worth Seeing, Hearing, and Thinking About in Art This Year

From witch hunts and biometric portraits to reality TV art shows and tarot decks, here's the work that defined NOT REAL ART's 2025.

Morgan  Laurens  Morgan  Laurens 
Features Events & News 1 min read
Watch: Remote, S2E6: Historical References

In the season’s sixth episode, Remote series creator Badir McCleary visits Sal’s Famous Pizzeria, the Blythe Intaglios, and the Pyramids at Giza.

Morgan  Laurens  Morgan  Laurens 
Curator Statements Features 3 min read
Pulp Fiction: An Exhibition Statement From Curator Kirsten Bengtson-Lykoudis

Our December 2025 exhibition, Pulp Fiction, features contemporary artists in a range of media exploring the unlimited possibilities of paper.

Kirsten Bengtson-Lykoudis Kirsten Bengtson-Lykoudis
Features Events & News 1 min read
Watch: Remote, S2E5: Commercial vs. Creative

In the season’s fifth episode, Remote series creator Badir McCleary visits ‘Stonehenge II’ in Texas and Tom Fruin’s ‘The Glass House’ in Orlando, FL.

Morgan  Laurens  Morgan  Laurens 
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