“I’m trying to tell my own truth,” says Laurie Simmons. When we speak on the phone, she is in the midst of preparing for Big Camera/Little Camera, a major survey of her work at The Modern Museum of Fort Worth on view Oct. 14 through Jan. 27, 2019....
Once identified as the oldest microcinema in the Southwest, founded by then-MFAH Core Fellow Andrea Grover and situated in a church-turned-screening venue on Aurora Street in Houston’s Heights neighborhood, Aurora Picture Show has since grown into a full-fledged media arts center....
Thank goodness, because one thing our arts communities do not need is another wannabe dictator (ditto the world for that matter). Give us a little room for curiosity, however, and we’ll happily run with it....
Lawndale Art Center’s exhibition Between Love and Madness: Mexican Comic Art from the 1970s, on view Jan. 18-March 25, is comprised of approximately 380 works...
An adobe brick archway made by artists Rafa Esparza and Beatriz Cortez reorients and frames the entrance of Ballroom Marfa for the exhibition Tierra. Sangre. Oro., on view through March 18. ...
The art scene in Dallas has long been influenced by avant-garde women: From the The Betty McLean Gallery, which opened in 1951 as one of the first modern art galleries in Texas, to Valley House Gallery, founded by Peggy and Donald Vogel, to the visionaries of today who show no signs of slowing down....
Eyebrow-plucking as critique of conventional gender roles; wigs that mimic authenticity but question identity; porcelain mugs in service of social awareness: These are just a few of the recent artworks by Jennifer Ling Datchuk that provoke important, if not awkward, conversations....
Nancy Zastudil is owner and curator of Central Features, a contemporary art venue that promotes social progress, environmental stewardship, and the intrinsic value of creative acts.
