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A recent film trilogy addressing the insidious and violent nature of whiteness, privilege and misogynyNew York-based artist Jordan Strafer (born 1990) makes highly narrative films that are absurd and fantastical meditations on power and violence. This volume presents her latest trilogy of videos, drawing from autobiography and cultural sources to create a "Mad Libs-like" collage of visual and textual references.

Celebrating hip hop legend DJ ScrewThis book documents a two-part exhibition on the legacy of the late Houston legend DJ Screw (1971-2000), best known as the creator of the now-famous "chopped and screwed" DJ technique, the leader of Houston's Screwed Up Click and an influential figure in the Houston hip hop community. DJ Screw distorted songs by musical artists, creating "chopped and screwed" versions of the original by slowing tempo, reducing pitch, chopping lyrics and layering freestyles by Houston-based rappers. Known for his signature stretched sound, he also displayed deft skill evident in his transitions, sampling choices and beat juggling. Slowed and Throwed: Records of the City through Mutated Lenses explores visual arts practices that parallel the musical methods of the innovative DJ. It features unconventional photography and new media works by artists with personal ties to Houston, including B. Anele, Rabéa Ballin, Tay Butler, Jimmy Castillo, Jamal Cyrus, Ben DeSoto, DJ Screw, Robert Hodge, Shana Hoehn, Tomashi Jackson, Ann Johnson, Devin Kenny, Liss LaFleur, El Franco Lee II, Karen Navarro, Kristin Massa, Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud, Sondra Perry and Charisse Pearlina Weston.

Marking the 50th anniversary of the protests with work by LGBTQ artistsStonewall 50 marks the anniversary of the police raid and subsequent riots with work by Leilah Babirye, Tony Feher, Chitra Ganesh, Barbara Hammer, Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt, David Lejeune, Nick Vaughan & Jake Margolin, Troy Michie, Zanele Muholi, Catherine Opie, Jean-Michel Othoniel, Christina Quarles, Paul Mpagi Sepuya and Anthony Sonnenberg.

Published on the occasion of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston's 65th anniversary, Outside the Lines documents the conceptual framework of the institution's ability to act and think outside the norm. This publication, originally conceived as an ongoing curatorial dialogue, features six exhibitions on abstract painting, focusing on the legacies and contemporary manifestations of the genre. With text and analysis by museum director Bill Arning, curator Dean Daderko and senior curator Valerie Cassel Oliver, Outside the Lines details, in three sections, Arning's UIA (Unlikely Iterations of the Abstract) and Painting: A Love Story; Daderko's Outside the Lines and Rites of Spring; as well as Cassel Oliver's Black in the Abstract: Epistrophy and Black in the Abstract: Hard Edges/Soft Curves. Each section includes texts and images for the exhibitions featured, as well as information on over 90 artists whose works are highlighted.