Wait, what? There's another Texas Biennial? According to their website, the Wichita Falls Museum of Art's upcoming exhibtion, Texas Twelve: The 2nd Biennial Survey of Texas Art and Artists is "the only invitational biennial exhibition of Texas artists in the state."

Museum director Cohn Drennan says, “...we’re not looking for the newest of practitioners, but definitely those artists whose work is relevant in the current development of art and its dialogue across the state.”

This seems like a deliberate response to our rabble rousing local version and brings up many questions about how best to represent a state's artistic output. Specifically, it appears that this alternate attempt seeks to include a variety of mid-career artists (hell, even Eric Zimmerman seems mid-career in the context of Austin's TXB!).

The WFMA has taken on interesting curatorial challenges before—one of our favorite shows in the last few years was Leona Scull-Hons' and (our own staff writer) Rachel Cook's exhibition, Cherry Picked: 2007 Survey of Texas Art and Artists. Read Glasstire's Rainey Knudson's May 2007 story about the controversy that show kicked up.