Arts and Culture Texas magazine

Beyond the Binary: Women Painting Women at The Modern

Nancy Zastudil·May 6, 2022

On view at The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth May 15 through September 25 is Women Painting Women, a thematic exhibition of forty-six women artists who choose women as subject matter in their works.

Dallas/Ft Worth Visual Art

Progress Ahead: PrintHouston Returns with Momentum

Steven Brown·May 2, 2022

The pandemic forced PrintHouston to sit out 2021. Now that the virus is largely under control, the city’s biennial celebration of the printmaking art isn’t waiting for another odd-numbered year to roll around.

Houston Visual Art

Texas on Stage at the McNay

Steven Brown·May 2, 2022

The Tobin Collection of Theatre Arts contains artifacts dating back centuries, and its exhibitions sometimes revel in that broad historical panorama. But The Great Stage of Texas, running through July 24 at San Antonio’s McNay Art Museum—the collection’s home—could hardly be more contemporary.

Dance Music San Antonio Theater Visual Art

The Pace of Place: Jamal Cyrus at The Modern

Nancy Zastudil·April 12, 2022

Cyrus shares aspects of his spirited path along sonic territories by creating sculptures, denim works, drawings, and sound, all of which are part of his upcoming solo exhibition at The Modern in Fort Worth, on view through June 26 as part of the museum’s ongoing Focus series.

Dallas/Ft Worth Houston Visual Art

Texas Studio: Sarah Fox’s Bad Bunny Gets Real

Sherry Cheng·March 21, 2022

“My work starts with a character,” says San Antonio artist Sarah Fox.

Film San Antonio Texas Studio Visual Art

Texas Lens: Leading The Crossings in San Antonio

Amber Ortega·March 10, 2022

Damaris Ferrer describes a bridge as a portal and any path or structure that serves as a connector. The Crossings is her global project which uses a massive, red fabric with eight elastic waistbands for eight movers as a catalyst.

Dance San Antonio Texas Lens Theater Visual Art

Indigenous perspectives: ‘The Language of Beauty in African Art’ at the Kimbell Language of Beauty in African Art

Amy Bishop·March 10, 2022

More than a century ago, the western art world found a new subject of intrigue. As Europeans began heavier colonization of Africa, they began returning home with a variety of exotic art unlike anything the public had seen before.

Dallas/Ft Worth Visual Art

To See and Be Seen: Dawoud Bey at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Nancy Zastudil·March 10, 2022

Bey is one of the most important artists working today, and that isn’t hyperbole. Dawoud Bey: An American Project, co-organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, is on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, through May 30.

Houston Visual Art

Meaning in the Making: Kinji Akagawa at the Amon Carter Museum of Art

Nancy Zastudil·March 10, 2022

Art Making as Life Making: Kinji Akagawa at Tamarind, on view April 23 through Oct. 30 at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, showcases the meaning and impact of collaboration in this renowned artist’s life.

Dallas/Ft Worth Visual Art

Ancient Wisdom: Spirit Lodge at Dallas Museum of Art

Amy Bishop·March 4, 2022

It’s no exaggeration to say that Spirit Lodge: Mississippian Art from Spiro, on view at the DMA March 13-Aug. 7, could be the last time a show of this magnitude comes around, at least in our lifetime.

Dallas/Ft Worth Visual Art

Building on Partnerships: Fusebox Festival Returns to Austin

Tarra Gaines·March 4, 2022

“Sonic partnerships.” If we had to describe the return of Austin’s Fusebox Festival in 2022 after its pandemic interruption, a plethora of sound performances and projects emerging from very unique partnerships leads to such a description.

Austin Dance Music Theater Visual Art

Hovering Words: Ignasi Aballí at the Meadows

casey gregory·March 4, 2022

Palabras Vacias, which means “Empty Words'', is on view at SMU’s Meadows Museum through June 26, a minimal contemporary installation in an institution more often associated with the gilded frame than the white cube.

Dallas/Ft Worth Visual Art

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

Visual Art

Beyond the Binary: Women Painting Women at The Modern

Progress Ahead: PrintHouston Returns with Momentum

Texas on Stage at the McNay

The Pace of Place: Jamal Cyrus at The Modern

Texas Studio: Sarah Fox’s Bad Bunny Gets Real

Texas Lens: Leading The Crossings in San Antonio

Indigenous perspectives: ‘The Language of Beauty in African Art’ at the Kimbell Language of Beauty in African Art

To See and Be Seen: Dawoud Bey at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Meaning in the Making: Kinji Akagawa at the Amon Carter Museum of Art

Ancient Wisdom: Spirit Lodge at Dallas Museum of Art

Building on Partnerships: Fusebox Festival Returns to Austin

Hovering Words: Ignasi Aballí at the Meadows