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Texas Studio: Jennifer Ling Datchuk

Nancy Zastudil·June 22, 2017

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.

San Antonio Texas Studio Visual Art

Shaping the Public Realm: A Look At Austin’s State of Public Art

Jeanne Claire Van Ryzin·June 22, 2017

Ai Weiwei’s Forever Bicycles lit up Austin social media feeds days before the dizzying sculpture had its official June 3rd opening.

Austin Visual Art

Rec Room’s Punk New Season

Tarra Gaines·June 20, 2017

“What the heck is a Rec Room?” was the question I set out to answer almost a year ago when I interviewed the performance art space co-owners and founders, Matt Hune and Stephanie Wittels Wachs

Houston Theater

Over the Borderline: Exhibitions at Artpace Address Contemporary Divisions

Nancy Zastudil·June 20, 2017

It could be argued that art is limitless. But is it borderless? This summer, Artpace embraces this question with two solo exhibitions of work by Sabine Senft and Doerte Weber, artists who are addressing global issues of migration and geopolitical borders.

San Antonio Visual Art

Lynn Lane’s Transitory Sound and Movement Collective is Making Shifts in Houston

Evan Wildstein·June 20, 2017

I think of Houston as a creative Bento box, in the way that New York is a melting pot. Art people go to galleries and museums, music people go to the opera and symphony, and so on.

Houston Music

Collective Art: The Propeller Group at Blaffer Art Museum

MICHAEL MCFADDEN·June 20, 2017

There’s something deceptive about the exhibition on view at the University of Houston’s Blaffer Art Museum.

Houston Visual Art

Simulate the Revolution: Digital Projections Enhance MFAH’s Mexican Modernism Survey

Devon Britt-Darby·June 15, 2017

Mexican modern art is having a moment in Texas museums.

Parallel Lines: Uniting Jim Crow-Era Works by Black, White Artists at Houston Public Library

Devon Britt-Darby·June 15, 2017

Houston audiences will get a rare glimpse into the Bayou City’s pre-boom, Jim Crow-era art scene when the exhibition Planned, Organized and Established: Houston Artist Cooperatives presents paintings and ephemera from two 1930s collectives—one white, one black.

Books Editor's Picks Houston It Happened in Texas Visual Art

Roni Horn: Nasher Sculpture Center

john zotos·June 15, 2017

For the first time at Dallas’ iconic Nasher Sculpture Center, curators have allowed for a physical alteration of the building: removing two rows of the site-specific oculi in the ceiling of the Renzo Piano structure.

Dallas/Ft Worth Editor's Picks Visual Art

Unpeopled Landscapes: Esteban Delgado, Tom Turner, and Victor Pérez-Rul at Southwest School of Art

casey gregory·June 15, 2017

Depending on one’s frame of mind, the new exhibitions on view through July 16 at San Antonio’s Southwest School of Art—created by three very different artists in three divergent mediums—offer either hopeful or apocalyptic visions of landscapes.

San Antonio Visual Art

Full Season Ahead for Houston’s Horse Head Theatre

Tarra Gaines·June 15, 2017

Houston’s Horse Head Theatre company has a reputation for staging intriguing and occasional avant-garde contemporary plays in nontraditional and even bizarre venues, from the back porch of a bar to a geodesic event dome on the banks of Buffalo Bayou.

Disco Balls in the Desert and other Marfa Adventures

Nancy Wozny·June 14, 2017

When I saw that this year's Marfa Sounding focused on the great California-based legend and dance maker Anna Halprin, I knew that I had to make trek to Marfa for Memorial Day weekend.

Dance West Texas

Visual Art

A Call to the Curious: Liliana Bloch Gallery and the Art We Need to See

Pop up Power: Showing Adventurous Art in North Texas Is Strictly DIY

A Layered Intimacy: Rashid Johnson at The Modern

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

Your Move, Partner: Bombshell Dance Project whisks audiences to the Wild West and Flower Mound Arts Festival

A New Flock: Jennifer Mabus Launches Grackle Dance Collective in Dallas

Creative Collisions: Pegasus Contemporary Ballet Brings Music and Dance in Concert

Music

Living in the Sacred Moment: Austin Opera’s 2026-27 season honors heritage, innovation, and empathy

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

Sonic Majesty With a Message: DSO Performs Mahler’s Symphony No. 8

Theater

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

A Last Entrance: ‘Leopoldstadt’ at Main Street Theater

Diaspora Stories: Spring offers a bounty of Latinx Theater Festivals

Texas Studio: Jennifer Ling Datchuk

Shaping the Public Realm: A Look At Austin’s State of Public Art

Rec Room’s Punk New Season

Over the Borderline: Exhibitions at Artpace Address Contemporary Divisions

Lynn Lane’s Transitory Sound and Movement Collective is Making Shifts in Houston

Collective Art: The Propeller Group at Blaffer Art Museum

Simulate the Revolution: Digital Projections Enhance MFAH’s Mexican Modernism Survey

Parallel Lines: Uniting Jim Crow-Era Works by Black, White Artists at Houston Public Library

Roni Horn: Nasher Sculpture Center

Unpeopled Landscapes: Esteban Delgado, Tom Turner, and Victor Pérez-Rul at Southwest School of Art

Full Season Ahead for Houston’s Horse Head Theatre

Disco Balls in the Desert and other Marfa Adventures