Informed by Labor: Day Jobs at the Blanton Museum of Art
There is actually no way to know how many artists support themselves solely through their artwork, but most people agree that it’s a fairly low percentage.
Visual Art
The Curatorial Imagination: Walter Hopps at the Menil
During a visit to the Getty Research Institute years ago, on an informal tour through the archives, I caught a glimpse of a box filled with Walter Hopps’s letters, marked “Top Secret” or some such about how the contents were to remain sealed until a certain date.
Show Up: Tammie Rubin at Big Medium
When I caught up with artist, professor, and 2022 Tito’s Art Prize winner Tammie Rubin, she was deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains, about to begin her second session at the Penland Artist Residency.
A Feast for the Eyes: Dallas Museum of Art overflows with 300 years of Flemish masterworks
“Stepping into this exhibition truly feels like you’re embarking on a journey through time,” says Dr. Nicole R. Myers, Dallas Museum of Art’s interim chief curator and The Barbara Thomas Lemmon senior curator of European Art.
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.
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.