A Line, Learning: Cy Twombly at Menil Drawing Institute
There is a moment, standing before a work by Cy Twombly, when language begins to loosen.
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The Image Bears Witness: Black Photojournalism Explored at The Carter
A camera moves through a crowd and pauses.
The Hands Shaping Houston: Clutch City Captures the City’s Character at HCCC
Houston has always answered to more than one name. Bayou City, Space City, H-Town, Screwston: each nickname captures a real part of its character, but none can contain the whole of it.
Dreaming in Data: Running the Code at the Blanton
In Run the Code: Data-Driven Art Decoded by Thoma Foundation X Blanton Museum of Art, code does not sit invisibly in the background. It becomes the medium itself: elastic, unstable, and strangely luminous.
Motion & Memory: Dynamic Exhibit of New African Masquerades at San Antonio Museum of Art
It’s been 11 years since painter Francisco Moreno took the local art world by storm with a hot-rod performance in an empty warehouse.
What the Eye Can’t Settle: Rubén Guerrero at the Meadows Museum
The canvas can be a site where architecture tries to remember itself and fails on purpose.
Photography as a Question: Wendy Watriss Curates at The Menil Collection
A documentary photograph can make a promise and then break it.
Global Visions, Local Ground: FotoFest at 40
Houston has a way of turning scale into a language.
The Stories We Carry: Angelica Raquel: Mystic Threads at the McNay Art Museum
Stories first live in the body. They prickle across the skin as goosebumps, catch in the throat as a gasp, and move along a family line, changing slightly with each retelling. A good story lingers, reshaping memory and place so that a river, a vacant lot, or a patch of brush never feels quite the same again.
From Pop to Pokémon: The House of Pikachu at Asia Society Texas Center
In the House of Pikachu, Memory Speaks in Color.
Making & Becoming: The Glassell’s Block Program Celebrates 10 years with Two Shows
In a city like Houston, one vast, improvisational, and definitely plural, artists often find their footing not through institutions, but through the communities that rise between them.
It used to rain in my TV: Lines of Resolution at the Menil Drawing Institute
Nam June Paik’s faint inscription, It rains in my TV as it rains in my heart, drifts between a drawing, a poem, and a weather report.