Reckoning with History While Interpreting the Future: Emancipation explored at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art
Today, a bronze cast of The Freedman can be found at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth.
Visual Art
Moon Over Kathmandu: Lain Singh Bangdel at Asia Society Texas Center
Twenty years after his passing, the extraordinary twentieth-century polymath and pioneering modernist Lain Singh Bangdel is finally getting some much-deserved recognition in the United States.
Texas Studio: Jose Villalobos
In my first brief conversation with San Antonio-based artist Jose Villalobos regarding his 2018 Luminaria artwork, La Carga de Tradición, the artist was incorporating dance-based performance with wearable sculpture.
Serious Screentime: ‘I’ll be Your Mirror’ at The Modern
More than 25,000 square feet of gallery space at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth are devoted to I’ll Be Your Mirror: Art and the Digital Screen (Feb. 12- April 30, 2023).
Show Up: Joey Fauerso at Galveston Arts Center
When planning her show of paintings, sculptures, and videos at the Galveston Arts Center (Jan. 14-April 16, 2023), Joey Fauerso decided to consider the large, high-ceilinged main gallery as the site of a single installation.
Deep Time: Michelle Mackey at Holly Johnson Gallery
The solo exhibition Michelle Mackey: Beyond Measure (Nov. 19, 2022-Feb. 11, 2023), at Holly Johnson Gallery in Dallas, is in many ways a homecoming for the artist.
The Meaning of Meaningless: Walter De Maria at the Menil Collection
What constitutes meaning? It’s not a simple question, and it’s one that has captured the imagination of artists, philosophers, and scholars alike for millennia.
Moving Bodies, Moving Cameras: Frame x Frame Expands to Three Locations
With a tagline of “international, powered by women & curiously lo-fi,” Frame Dance’s line-up this year for Frame x Frame Film Fest 2022 offers a range of impactful films.
Lone Star Legacy: Anne Windfohr Marion’s Philanthropy Lives On at The Modern
Anne Windfohr Marion’s life story has the makings of a Lone Star legacy. Recognized as an oil heiress, rancher, horse breeder, and business executive, her philanthropy included support for the arts as well.
Dali and Vermeer in Dialogue at the Meadows
Meadows Museum in Dallas secured Vermeer’s Woman in Blue Reading a Letter for its new exhibition, Dalí/Vermeer: A Dialogue, on display Oct. 16, 2022 through Jan. 15, 2023.
‘Survivance’: The Carter Turns the Lens Over to Indigenous Photographers
Speaking With Light: Contemporary Indigenous Photography, on display at the Amon Carter through Jan. 22, 2023.
Texas Studio: Matthew Bourbon on Blunting the Edges of Certainty
Like so many artists, Matthew Bourbon holds an array of roles in the field.