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.
Visual Art
A Call to the Curious: Liliana Bloch Gallery and the Art We Need to See
When gallerist Liliana Bloch said to me, "If you keep giving people what they want, then you're going to miss what they need to see," I considered ending the interview right then and there. What more was there to say about how to make a meaningful impact?
Pop up Power: Showing Adventurous Art in North Texas Is Strictly DIY
Fresh art spaces are popping up like wildflowers all around the Metroplex.
A Layered Intimacy: Rashid Johnson at The Modern
Experiencing Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers is such an emotional journey you need to go to therapy afterward.
A World of Pure Beauty and Magic: Janavi Mahimtura Folmsbee blends art and ecology at Rockport Center for the Arts
“There is only one ocean, and it connects us all,” said Janavi Mahimtura Folmsbee, who has dedicated her life to protecting the world’s oceans and ensuring the resilience of marine ecosystems.
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.
Day, Night, Repetition, Impossibility: Hong Hong at DiverseWorks
The black box theater at DiverseWorks' MATCHBOX 1 is dark except for four massive video projections—twelve feet tall, twenty feet wide—filling each wall.
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.
Sci-fi Surrealist: Mexican-American artist Francisco Moreno levels up with an epic survey at Dallas Contemporary
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.
An Artful Camaraderie: Member-owned and operated Archway Gallery celebrates its fiftieth anniversary
Fifty years ago, on April 1, 1976, Dada artist Max Ernst passed away; Steve Jobs launched Apple Computer; and in Houston, 12 artists opened Archway Gallery in the Jung Center.