Arts and Culture Texas magazine

Dallas’ Frontiers of Flight Museum Celebrates National Moon Day with Commissioned Apollo Program Artwork and an exclusive David Clark Co exhibition

ACTX Staff·July 16, 2024

Molly Searcy, voice actor and member of the Dallas Theater Center’s Diane and Hal Brierley Resident Acting Company, had the performance bug early.

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Show Up: Tammie Rubin at Big Medium

casey gregory·February 3, 2023

When I caught up with artist, professor, and 2022 Tito’s Art Prize winner Tammie Rubin, she was deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains, about to begin her second session at the Penland Artist Residency.

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All in for Beauty: Charlotte Smith at Camiba Gallery

Sherry Cheng·August 3, 2022

For more than 20 years Dallas-based artist Charlotte Smith has reveled in experimenting with paint, and occasionally other materials, creating a signature style grounded in process-driven abstraction.

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Show Up: Kelli Vance at Cris Worley

casey gregory·May 17, 2022

The best parts of horror movies are always the early scenes, when a director can revel in the shadows and tease us with glimpses of the monster, allowing our brains to fill in the blanks.

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Show Up: Jo Ann Fleischhauer at the Old Jail Art Center

casey gregory·January 17, 2020

But now she is the recipient of a grant through the Houston Arts Alliance, and her impending exhibition will debut at the Old Jail Art Center on Feb. 22, before making its way to the Institute for Art and Olfaction in Los Angeles in May, finally landing at Rudolph Blume Fine Art/ Artscan Gallery in Houston in October.

Albany Houston Show Up Visual Art

Show Up: Amber Eagle at Galveston Arts Center

MICHAEL MCFADDEN·November 14, 2019

Monja Coronada (“crowned nun”) paintings are portraits of nuns completed either at the profession of their vows or upon their deaths.

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Show Up: Marcelyn McNeil at Conduit Gallery

Laura August·October 16, 2019

“I’ve tried to make an intentional shift in the work in the past few years,” Marcelyn McNeil tells me, recently. When we talk, her exhibition of new paintings, Slow Eddy, is about to open at Conduit Gallery (Oct. 19-Nov. 23).

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Show Up: Margarita Cabrera

casey gregory·September 16, 2019

To artist Margarita Cabrera, loose threads are “a reference to the labor and the importance in the act of making by hand.”

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Show Up: Vincent Falsetta

casey gregory·July 31, 2019

At first glance, Vincent Falsetta’s studio doesn’t seem different than that of any other established painter, with its high ceilings and ample light.

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Show Up: Buster Graybill

casey gregory·September 19, 2018

“The gateway drug to art is drawing,” Buster Graybill laughs.

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Show Up: Francesca Fuchs

casey gregory·August 29, 2018

Francesca Fuchs’s subtle alchemy takes place under the bright light of her studio, where shadows aren’t quite banished but rather lifted.

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Show Up: Lillian Warren

casey gregory·May 14, 2018

Lillian Warren thinks certain events in life are overemphasized, in particular, “big goals and career choices,” the kind of striving that defines so many American lives.

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Visual Art

Awe and Wonder: Space City at Asia Society Texas

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

A Culture Examined: Kimbell Art Museum offers a window into Dutch art in the Global Age

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

Texas Studio: Jordan Fuchs Starts with Choreography

Engaging Audiences: Frame Dance’s 2024 Frame x Frame Festival Focuses on Screendance’s Unique Space in the Dance Ecology

Cheers to 15 Years: Bruce Wood Dance Dallas isn’t afraid to mix things up for 2025

Music

Kinetic at 10: Virtuosic Ensemble Grows Deep Roots in Houston

A Scandinavian Frozen Highlights the TUTS season

Art Thrives on the South Plains: A Survey of Lubbock’s Cultural Scene

Theater

A Succession Story: Houston’s 4th Wall Theatre Company Secures its Future

A Scandinavian Frozen Highlights the TUTS season

Through An Inclusive Lens: Diversity and divas populate Uptown Players’ 2024-25 season

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Dallas’ Frontiers of Flight Museum Celebrates National Moon Day with Commissioned Apollo Program Artwork and an exclusive David Clark Co exhibition

Show Up: Tammie Rubin at Big Medium

All in for Beauty: Charlotte Smith at Camiba Gallery

Show Up: Kelli Vance at Cris Worley

Show Up: Jo Ann Fleischhauer at the Old Jail Art Center

Show Up: Amber Eagle at Galveston Arts Center

Show Up: Marcelyn McNeil at Conduit Gallery

Show Up: Margarita Cabrera

Show Up: Vincent Falsetta

Show Up: Buster Graybill

Show Up: Francesca Fuchs

Show Up: Lillian Warren