When prolific Dallas artist John Wilcox died in 2012, his younger brother David was left with a massive collection of notebooks and unsold paintings — and very little knowledge of the minimalist art scene.

• In a documentary airing tonight on KERA, Dallas directors Daniel Driensky and Sarah Reyes, known collectively as Exploredinary, chronicle what happened next.

Why it matters: "John Wilcox: The Relinquishment of Time" tells the story of a brother left to manage a legacy, but it also explores the nuance and artistry that go into minimalism.

• The film delves into John's life, his artistic processes, his experiences growing up in Texas and his battle with AIDS.

Context: David Wilcox originally hired Exploredinary to document his multiyear effort to memorialize his brother, who left no instructions on what he wanted done with his work when he died.

• David hired scholars to curate and archive the paintings John left behind for six posthumous shows.
• "We understood pretty quickly that what we had was something bigger," Reyes told Axios. "When an artist dies, what happens to their artwork?"

What they're saying: "John's work works in both ways — both as apparently cool and apparently uninvolved with the emotional aspect of the world," Dr. Richard Brettell, founder of the Edith O'Donnell Institute of Art History at the University of Texas-Dallas, says in a statement about the film's release.

• "Then as you plummet it and get to know about the mark makings and [John's] reasons for doing things you begin to understand that it too is an art which has as much depth as any work by Van Gogh or Delacroix."

The intrigue: The documentary premiered at the Hill Country Film Festival earlier this year, and won the top prize for Best Texan Film. It's already been accepted into several other festivals.

Details: "John Wilcox: The Relinquishment of Time" airs tonight at 10:30pm on KERA.

• It will also show next month at the Fort Worth Modern Art Museum as part of the Lonestar Film Festival.

You can watch the trailer here.

Eight months after February's winter storms left millions of Texans without power, U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-San Antonio) introduced a measure yesterday to stop price gouging in future disasters.

The big picture: The measure, known as the Gas Consumer Emergency Market Protection Act, would impose natural gas trading limits during national emergencies.

What they're saying: Castro says the bill will put "safeguards" in place to prevent entities from price gouging Americans in an emergency.

• "While Texas families faced life-or-death situations and struggled to stay warm amid freezing temperatures, natural gas sellers raked in over $10 billion in profits by raising prices as much as 10,000%," Castro said in a statement.

Flashback: At least 200 Texans died during February's winter storm, which led to $300 billion in economic damages.

• Yet, the natural gas market spiked more than 10,000%, and consumers were strapped with massive bills.
• Nearly 2,000 Texans filed price gouging complaints to the state attorney general after the February freeze, and companies like BP, Kinder Morgan and Energy Transfer made billions by selling gas and power during the storm.

📚 A Fort Worth Republican running against Ken Paxton has initiated an investigation into what types of books on race or sexuality Texas school districts have. (Axios)

✈️ A federal judge ruled Dallas-based Southwest Airlines can, in fact, require its pilots to be vaccinated against COVID-19. (POLITICO)

🏈 Injured Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott was at practice yesterday in hopes that he will be ready to start Sunday against the Minnesota Vikings. (NBC DFW)

💰 Dallas County will receive $2.3 million from Janssen, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, as part of a $26 billion settlement connected to thousands of lawsuits over the opioid epidemic. (KERA)

🌭 Chicago-style hot dogs are coming to North Texas. Portillo's CEO says Texas buys the most hot dogs from the company already. (FOX 4)

🎥 The 1980 ax murder of a Wylie teacher is the subject of two different streaming series, one on HBO and one on Hulu. (DMN)

💬 Quote du jour

“This is a major, major situation that we're having here at the City of Dallas.”

—Council member Omar Narvaez said before the Dallas City Council approved a $548,450 contract with a law firm to investigate the data loss from the police department.

Remember when the Texas Rangers were good? Ten years ago Rangers fans started their day hoping that the team would shake off the horrors of Game 6 and come back to win the 2011 World Series.

• They didn't.

Flashback: Losing Game 7 isn't quite as memorable as the night before when the Rangers were one strike away from winning the series against the St. Louis Cardinals.

• Nelson Cruz didn't catch the ball, earning David Freese a triple to tie the game.
• You can watch it here if it's not too soon. (It is.)

One strike away is such a common refrain among Rangers fans that two Keller teachers wrote a high school play about it.

• “We are trying to make it so that people who walked away hurt in 2011 can realize that the journey along the way is almost more important than the wins and losses,” teacher Brian Ketcham told DMN baseball writer Evan Grant.

The bright side: For those looking for a silver lining, take comfort in rooting for the Braves in their World Series bid against the Houston Astros.

• Former Rangers manager Ron Washington is Atlanta's third-base coach.

Our thought bubble: Yes, the Rangers are coming off a 100+ loss season, but Houston will always be the Lastros in our hearts.