Imaginative Freedom: Antony Gormley at the Nasher Sculpture Center
Stop reading for a second and close your eyes. What do you see?
Chris Becker
Performative and All-encompassing: David-Jeremiah: The Fire This Time
One of the profound joys of being a curator (and an arts writer) is discovering the work of an artist and, over the course of years, witnessing and supporting the development of their unique and uncompromising creative vision.
Style & Luminosity: Tamara de Lempicka at the MFAH
Climb the stairs to the second level of the Law Building at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and you encounter two silent, black-and-white films, projected on the wall near the entrance to Tamara de Lempicka, the first major museum retrospective of the Art Deco pioneer and one of the 20th century’s most underappreciated artists.
Speaking of Beauty: Six Centuries of Painting from Museo de Arte de Ponce at the Meadows
The Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, whose extensive collection of Spanish art has earned it the nickname “Prado on the Prairie,” is the first stop for The Sense of Beauty: Six Centuries of Painting from Museo de Arte de Ponce, an exhibition of over sixty European, American, and Puerto Rican masterworks dating from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first.
Labor, Practice, and Knowledge: Designing Motherhood Explores the Connections between Caregiving and Craft
Surprise, delight, and discomfort are a few of the feelings you may experience upon entering Designing Motherhood, an ambitious, wide-ranging, but ultimately cohesive survey of the physical, psychological, and political experience of human reproduction.