Leslie Moody Castro

Leslie Moody Castro is an independent curator and writer who splits her time between Mexico and the United States. Leslie relies on itinerancy to keep her on her toes and is a firm believer that mariachis make everything better.

Nathan Randall Green collapses cosmologies

Recently, Nathan Randall Green returned to Austin with “Everyone Universe, Everyone Dust,” a solo exhibition presented by the roving gallery DEASIL at Big Medium’s auxiliary space at Canopy. The...

Ephemeral moments: Yoonmi Nam and Amze Emmons at Grayduck Gallery

The works on paper by Yoonmi Nam and Amze Emmons, on view at Grayduck Gallery in separate shows, illustrate the power of simple gestures on paper. Both Nam and...

Mike’s “Fully Curated Timeshare” — Michael Smith at Museo Jumex

The Museo Jumex is plopped in the center of Mexico City’s Plaza Carso, a sleek mixed-use development of shiny high rises for the super-rich and a posh shopping mall...

Extremes and Commonalities: The Art of Buster Graybill and Jasmyne Graybill

At the Galveston Arts Center, Jasmyne Graybill’s solo exhibition "Cultivate" is upstairs, in a small gallery that has an immediate emptiness about it. You can barely see the tiny...

Body Memory: In “Figures,” A Quartet of Women Artists Examine Trauma and the Body

Two large vessels perch on top of cinder blocks in the entryway of DORF, the new Austin house gallery. Each urn is earth toned, a deep reddish brown hue...

Dennis Nance Makes It Present: Curating in Galveston, Practicing Art Everywhere

My first visit to Galveston happened one year ago on the invitation of Dennis Nance, the newly hired curator at the Galveston Arts Center. Over the course of the...