1. Lance Esplund of the Wall Street Journal writes about the Rachel Whiteread exhibition at the Nasher Sculpture Center, and he wasn’t that enthusiastic about what he saw:

This is a tasteful, sometimes elegant, yet ultimately bland and unaffecting exhibition.

And later on:

But most of her works on paper are about as exciting as coffee stains and should be left in the studio. Some of the sculptures on view are captivating. But rather than offering insights into Ms. Whiteread’s working process, the artist’s drawings, as well as the objects displayed in the vitrine, generate the opposite effect from the one the curator surely intended: In shedding light on the artist’s sources and the humdrum, two-dimensional affairs of her studio practice, this show raises the curtain just enough to demystify what is actually mystifying about Ms. Whiteread’s sculpture.

2. I hope you plan on heading over to Deep Ellum’s Dallas Hub Theater tonight for the first annual Hub Shorts Film Festival. Here’s a pre-fest Q&A with shorts curator Lauren Guyer, who has culled films from local filmmakers and universities for tonight’s program.

3. What does “the future of contemporary art and its economies” look like in Dallas? That’s the question being put to art historian / curator Nancy Cohen Israel and the Dallas Art Fair’s Chris Byrne tomorrow morning at the Ross Akard Gallery.