Arts and Culture Texas magazine

A Half-Century of Vision: Moody Gallery Celebrates 50th Anniversary

Donna Tennant·July 23, 2025

After 50 years in business, Betty Moody continues to run her gallery with passion and enthusiasm. She is celebrating this landmark occasion with two shows featuring gallery artists: Part I runs from Sept. 13 to Oct. 25, and Part II from Nov. 8 to Dec. 20.

Houston Visual Art

Dallas artist Du Chau Wins Lifetime Achievement Award

Donna Tennant·January 22, 2025

In 1981, artist Du Chau and his family left Vietnam, emigrating to Dallas.

Dallas/Ft Worth Visual Art

Chance and Fate: Tacita Dean’s long overdue exhibit at the Menil

Donna Tennant·August 17, 2024

Tacita Dean is possibly the most significant artist not widely known in the U.S.

Houston Visual Art

Making Waves: Discovering Contemporary Cuban Photography at the MFAH

Donna Tennant·August 14, 2024

Thanks to a gift from Chicago collector Madeleine Plonsker and her husband Harvey, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, now has the most complete collection of post-revolutionary Cuban photography anywhere—nearly 400 works by some 80 artists.

Houston Visual Art

Power and Glory: The Battle of Pavia Tapestries at the Kimbell

Donna Tennant·June 11, 2024

Imagine installing seven massive Flemish tapestries, each measuring 14 feet tall and 28 feet wide.

Dallas/Ft Worth Visual Art

Clay into Flora: Rebecca Manson at The Modern

Donna Tennant·April 18, 2024

Rebecca Manson transforms clay into charged flora in her immersive installation, Barbecue, at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth from May 25 through Aug. 25.

Dallas/Ft Worth Visual Art

Drawing as a daily process: Ruth Asawa at the Menil

Donna Tennant·April 8, 2024

Ruth Asawa Through Line is the first exhibition to focus on Ruth Asawa’s lifelong drawing practice.

Houston Visual Art

Mysticism, spirituality, and revolution: Black and Caribbean Surrealists at The Modern

Donna Tennant·February 8, 2024

The exhibition title, Surrealism and Us, references the essay “1943: Surrealism and Us” by Suzanne Césaire (1915-1966), a Martinique writer, feminist, and anti-colonialist. Césaire believed that the concepts, aesthetics, and power of Surrealism could encourage self-determination and independence.

Dallas/Ft Worth Visual Art

Diversity, Connections and Community: Black Collage Comes to MFAH

Donna Tennant·February 6, 2024

Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage, on view Feb. 18 through May 12 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is the first museum survey of Black collage artists.

Houston Visual Art

Pioneering Paintings by Janet Sobel Reunited at the Menil

Donna Tennant·February 6, 2024

Inspired by a gift from her grandson of one painting and four drawings, Janet Sobel’s early but short-lived career is now the subject of a compelling exhibition at the Menil Collection from Feb. 23 through Aug. 11.

Houston Visual Art

Poetic Radiance: ‘An Archeology of Silence’ by Kehinde Wiley at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Donna Tennant·December 30, 2023

Kehinde Wiley and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Director Gary Tinterow first met in New York when Tinterow, then a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, proposed the acquisition of Wiley’s The Veiled Christ, a large 2008 watercolor.

Houston Visual Art

Legendary Threads: Anni Albers at the Blanton

Donna Tennant·December 4, 2023

The German-born artist Anni Albers is not more widely known for several, unfortunately, common reasons.

Austin Visual Art

Visual Art

Presence, Absence and a Certain Tension: Timothy Harding Redefines Space

Caught in Motion: Robert Rauschenberg at the Menil

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Gallery Row

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Dance

Big Moves Ahead: Bruce Wood Dance Dallas Leans Into Legacy for 2025–26

Vision and Variety: Texas Performing Arts Celebrates International and Local Artists

Dance with Abandon: Avant Chamber Ballet Grows a New Audience with Biggest Season Yet

Music

Fort Worth Symphony: From Beethoven and Brahms to the Bard and Ballet

Vision and Variety: Texas Performing Arts Celebrates International and Local Artists

A Season of Discovery and Wonder at Harmonia Stellarum Houston

Theater

Innovation, Ingenuity and Intimacy: Texas Theater Designers Create Big Worlds in Small Spaces

Vision and Variety: Texas Performing Arts Celebrates International and Local Artists

The Ballad of Stage West: Fort Worth theater company’s 47th season is a matter of life and death

Donna Tennant

A Half-Century of Vision: Moody Gallery Celebrates 50th Anniversary

Dallas artist Du Chau Wins Lifetime Achievement Award

Chance and Fate: Tacita Dean’s long overdue exhibit at the Menil

Making Waves: Discovering Contemporary Cuban Photography at the MFAH

Power and Glory: The Battle of Pavia Tapestries at the Kimbell

Clay into Flora: Rebecca Manson at The Modern

Drawing as a daily process: Ruth Asawa at the Menil

Mysticism, spirituality, and revolution: Black and Caribbean Surrealists at The Modern

Diversity, Connections and Community: Black Collage Comes to MFAH

Pioneering Paintings by Janet Sobel Reunited at the Menil

Poetic Radiance: ‘An Archeology of Silence’ by Kehinde Wiley at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Legendary Threads: Anni Albers at the Blanton