From Comedy to Tragedy: Expect Variety at Fort Worth Opera’s 2020 Festival
Attention, opera-goers: If you’ve been looking for a chance to change the mind of “that one friend” who swears they don’t like opera, this could be the time.
Texas Studio: Lina Dib
Lina Dib is a collector. Objects, affects, memories, and sounds; one may be stored in a cabinet, another on a hard drive.
Texas Studio: Matt Clark
Artist Matt Clark, painter, professor, collaborator, and entrepreneur thinks art makers “sharpen that trait over time…
Texas Studio: Katy Heinlein
Sculptor Katy Heinlein’s studio is quiet, cozy, exploding with texture and color, and perhaps most important of all, stable.
It Happened in Texas: San Antonio Collector/Visionary Robert L. B. Tobin at the McNay
Standing six-foot-six, sporting a luxuriant silver mane and beard, decked out on formal occasions in flamboyant capes, he turned heads from Texas to New York.
The ACTX Top Ten: March 2020
Our top ten picks for arts and culture events happening across the Lone Star State in March 2020.
Virtual Flores Mexicanas exhibition
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION Flores Mexicanas: Women in Modern Mexican Art surveys changing representations of women in paintings, works on paper,...
The Not-So-Secret Life of Objects: Hillerbrand+Magsamen’s Devices Spread Throughout Texas
Houston-based artists Stephan Hillerbrand and Mary Magsamen, known collectively as Hillerbrand+Magsamen, address topics of family, communication, and consumerism, most recently through their ongoing body of artworks called The Devices Project.
Reunited Lovers & Maritime Allies: Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin on Louisiana’s Queer History
For artists Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin, putting up plaques and statues or writing books are still absolutely necessary, but still they see many opportunities to let queer folk “be super queer in how they honor and preserve these histories.”
Mark Dion’s “perilous Texas adventure” debuts at Amon Carter
Mark Dion, a conceptual artist, has spent the past four years tracing the four characters’ journeys through Texas for the exhibition The Perilous Texas Adventures of Mark Dion, which runs through May 17 at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth.
Dallas Black Dance Theatre and Dallas Opera Collaborate for ‘Pulcinella’
Pulcinella is an odd duck of a ballet.
State of the Art 2020: San Antonio Artists at Crystal Bridges and The Momentary
San Antonio is having a moment, and it’s a good one.