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.
Visual Art
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.
Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries
Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries
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.
A Prayer in Gold: Holy treasures make the pilgrimage to Fort Worth’s Kimbell Art Museum
If there’s one thing Louis XIV was known for, it was opulence.
Global Visions, Local Ground: FotoFest at 40
Houston has a way of turning scale into a language.
Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries
Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries
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.
Head West: Contemporary artists reimagine the American West at the Amon Carter
When visitors step into New Horizons: The Western Landscape at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, they won’t find sagebrush clichés, cowboys in silhouette, or sweeping vistas painted to satisfy nostalgia.
Stitched Across Time: Marilyn Henrion brings a lifetime of textile works to the Irving Arts Center
The first stitch in Marilyn Henrion’s journey to becoming an acclaimed textile artist began in two rooms on New York’s Lower East Side where she lived alongside her parents and seven siblings.
Image and Identity: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston explores the work and influence of Frida Kahlo
From a self-portrait worth $55 million to hand-painted shoes on Etsy, from egg cups to a biographical ballet and lookalike festivals across the globe, very few artists have ever inspired and driven the world’s imagination like Frida Kahlo.