Arts and Culture Texas magazine

Mark Dion’s “perilous Texas adventure” debuts at Amon Carter

James Russell·February 18, 2020

Mark Dion, a conceptual artist, has spent the past four years tracing the four characters’ journeys through Texas for the exhibition The Perilous Texas Adventures of Mark Dion, which runs through May 17 at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth.

Dallas/Ft Worth Visual Art

State of the Art 2020: San Antonio Artists at Crystal Bridges and The Momentary

Nancy Zastudil·February 18, 2020

San Antonio is having a moment, and it’s a good one.

San Antonio Visual Art

Rock reset: With her Tito’s Prize exhibition, Betelhem Makonnen suggests an alternative to our current climate of temporal anxiety

Jeanne Claire Van Ryzin·February 13, 2020

Time is of the essence for Betehelm Makonnen.

Austin Visual Art

A Rear-View Mirror on Humanity: FotoFest Explores African Cosmologies

MICHAEL MCFADDEN·February 13, 2020

Photography, as with many aspects of Western culture, comes loaded with a eurocentric canon that shapes the everyday perspective and expectations of the field.

Houston Visual Art

Texas Studio: Matt Messinger

Emily Hynds·February 13, 2020

Houston artist Matt Messinger is a collector—of art yes, but also of ephemera, which leaks and injects itself into his work.

Features Houston Texas Studio Visual Art

Bizarre and commanding: A look inside Danielle Georgiou’s boundary-crossing theater of dance

Lindsey Wilson·February 12, 2020

If you’ve had any brush with dance, theater, or art in Dallas, you’ve probably seen Danielle Georgiou’s work in one form or another.

Dallas/Ft Worth Dance Theater Visual Art

Double Vision: Francis Bacon at the MFAH

Tarra Gaines·February 12, 2020

In 1971 when figurative painting master Francis Bacon was in his early 60s, the Grand Palais in Paris mounted a major retrospective.

Houston Visual Art

Texas Studio: Ana Fernandez

casey gregory·January 27, 2020

San Antonio artist Ana Fernandez, a regionalist for the 21st century, finds that it’s really the people that make a place.

Features San Antonio Texas Studio Visual Art

Show Up: Jo Ann Fleischhauer at the Old Jail Art Center

casey gregory·January 17, 2020

But now she is the recipient of a grant through the Houston Arts Alliance, and her impending exhibition will debut at the Old Jail Art Center on Feb. 22, before making its way to the Institute for Art and Olfaction in Los Angeles in May, finally landing at Rudolph Blume Fine Art/ Artscan Gallery in Houston in October.

Albany Houston Show Up Visual Art

Texas Studio: Delita Martin

Jessica Davenport·January 17, 2020

When I visited artist Delita Martin at her Black Box Press Studio this past December, it became clear over the course of our conversation that her bold, multi-layered prints of “everyday” working-class black women emerge through a strikingly similar kind of spiritual traversal.

Features Houston Texas Studio Visual Art

Seeing Language: Ed Ruscha at Blanton Museum of Art

Nancy Zastudil·January 17, 2020

Hollywood. Angel. Zoo. Just a few of the word-image artworks created by American artist Ed Ruscha, a master of using language as form, symbol, and material—and bringing words to the forefront.

Austin Visual Art

A Ruckus Rodeo Returns to the Modern

James Russell·January 10, 2020

When the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth commissioned Red Grooms and ten other artists to contribute to the rodeo-themed 1976 exhibition The Great American Rodeo, Grooms spent a year observing rodeos, including the city’s annual Stock Show and Rodeo held at the neighboring Will Rogers Memorial Center.

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

Mark Dion’s “perilous Texas adventure” debuts at Amon Carter

State of the Art 2020: San Antonio Artists at Crystal Bridges and The Momentary

Rock reset: With her Tito’s Prize exhibition, Betelhem Makonnen suggests an alternative to our current climate of temporal anxiety

A Rear-View Mirror on Humanity: FotoFest Explores African Cosmologies

Texas Studio: Matt Messinger

Bizarre and commanding: A look inside Danielle Georgiou’s boundary-crossing theater of dance

Double Vision: Francis Bacon at the MFAH

Texas Studio: Ana Fernandez

Show Up: Jo Ann Fleischhauer at the Old Jail Art Center

Texas Studio: Delita Martin

Seeing Language: Ed Ruscha at Blanton Museum of Art

A Ruckus Rodeo Returns to the Modern