French Invade Fort Worth
On March 11, “The Age of Impressionism: Great French Paintings from the Clark” opens at the Kimbell Art Museum, the only U.S. venue for this first-ever international touring exhibition of French Impressionist [...]
Visual Art
From Russia With Love
Irina Chmyreva and Evgeny Berezner do not rush to answers. After each question, there is a moment when they allow themselves a glance, and perhaps a few words in Russian. They then launch into long, measured responses[...]
A Day at the Museum
Talking about art is good for kids’ minds: it helps them think critically, develop strong reasoning skills, pay attention to nuance, and explore new ways of interpreting the world. But facilitating a rich discussion about an abstract [...]
Young Masters at DMA
Peruse the concourse of the Dallas Museum of Art this month and 53 pieces of artistic almost majesty pop off the high ceiling walls, begging passerby to take pause. Just who is or are the creative mind(s) [...]
A Collision of Thoughts
Born and bred in New York City, artist Glenn Ligon infuses the sumptuous surfaces of his paintings with the iconoclasm of a smart, young, super intelligent malcontent. Though he works across media with great agility [...]
Review: Luminous
As the name suggests, “Luminous” is a show meant to shine light on, well, light. The seven contributing artists explore our often paradoxical associations with light — as an immaterial medium, a massless energy, a natural technology [...]
Review: Otabenga Jones “Fort HMAAC
“Fort HMAAC” is the latest offering from Houston-based collective Otabenga Jones. The inaugural exhibition marking the opening of the Houston Museum of African American Culture’s new space on Caroline Street [...]
Review: Brendan Cass “Texas”
Brendan Cass’ bright landscapes may seem crude, garish and generally unsettling at first, but the irresolvable images have a haunting quality that rewards extended viewing. His painting superficially resembles a style of figurative painting [...]
Review: “Revelation: Major Paintings by Jules Olitski”
“Revelation: Major Paintings by Jules Olitski” is a tight and quietly heroic retrospective of the work of Ukrainian born American painter Jules Olitski (1922–2007). The crowding of the exhibition’s 30 paintings is [...]
Review: Lia Cook “Bridge 11”
These photographs aren’t prints: they’re woven fabric. Trading pixels for thread, Lia Cook weaves photography and neuroscience to create objects of emotion and reflection at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft [...]
Review: Joel Shapiro “New Installation”
Installation art can mean many things. Often it suggests the contiguity and continuity of stuff, the interconnection of materials and objects, found and made, in three-dimensional space. Boxy, craggy [...]
Ruffling the Fringe
WOULD YOU ATTEND YOUR OWN funeral? Would you let a stranger wash your hair? Would you put your art in the fridge? Consider also four-hour artist mini-residencies that run ’round the clock [...]