Arts and Culture Texas magazine

Expanding Histories at Austin’s Fusebox 2020

Tarra Gaines·March 11, 2020

Artists grappling with the political has been the norm for thousands of years, but when art and social-political questioning merge at an interdisciplinary performance festival like Austin’s Fusebox Festival 2020 (April 15-19), the results can sometimes expand artistic boundaries.

Austin Dance Music Theater Visual Art

Texas Studio: Lina Dib

Joseph Wozny·March 11, 2020

Lina Dib is a collector. Objects, affects, memories, and sounds; one may be stored in a cabinet, another on a hard drive.

Houston Texas Studio Visual Art

Texas Studio: Matt Clark

casey gregory·March 10, 2020

Artist Matt Clark, painter, professor, collaborator, and entrepreneur thinks art makers “sharpen that trait over time…

Dallas/Ft Worth Texas Studio Visual Art

Texas Studio: Katy Heinlein

Emily Hynds·March 5, 2020

Sculptor Katy Heinlein’s studio is quiet, cozy, exploding with texture and color, and perhaps most important of all, stable.

Features Houston Texas Studio Visual Art

It Happened in Texas: San Antonio Collector/Visionary Robert L. B. Tobin at the McNay

Steven Brown·March 5, 2020

Standing six-foot-six, sporting a luxuriant silver mane and beard, decked out on formal occasions in flamboyant capes, he turned heads from Texas to New York.

It Happened in Texas Music San Antonio Visual Art

The Not-So-Secret Life of Objects: Hillerbrand+Magsamen’s Devices Spread Throughout Texas

Nancy Zastudil·February 22, 2020

Houston-based artists Stephan Hillerbrand and Mary Magsamen, known collectively as Hillerbrand+Magsamen, address topics of family, communication, and consumerism, most recently through their ongoing body of artworks called The Devices Project.

Austin Houston Theater Visual Art

Reunited Lovers & Maritime Allies: Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin on Louisiana’s Queer History

MICHAEL MCFADDEN·February 18, 2020

For artists Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin, putting up plaques and statues or writing books are still absolutely necessary, but still they see many opportunities to let queer folk “be super queer in how they honor and preserve these histories.”

Houston Theater Visual Art

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

Visual Art

Style & Luminosity: Tamara de Lempicka at the MFAH

Vision & Experience: Bart Keijsers Koning Takes the Helm of Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas

Imagination and Experience: Nathaniel Donnett Teases Out the Threads

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

Dance Here: Agora Artists is Planting the Seeds to Make Dallas a Dance Town

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

Stories From The Room: The Case for Live Performance

Music

Triumph in Tragedy: Ars Lyrica Houston’s Luminous Theodora

Dallas Opera Brings the Audience Back

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

Theater

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

Stories From The Room: The Case for Live Performance

Next Chapter: The New Stewards of Fort Worth’s Amphibian Stage to Continue Commitment to New and Underrepresented Works

Visual Art

Expanding Histories at Austin’s Fusebox 2020

Texas Studio: Lina Dib

Texas Studio: Matt Clark

Texas Studio: Katy Heinlein

It Happened in Texas: San Antonio Collector/Visionary Robert L. B. Tobin at the McNay

The Not-So-Secret Life of Objects: Hillerbrand+Magsamen’s Devices Spread Throughout Texas

Reunited Lovers & Maritime Allies: Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin on Louisiana’s Queer History

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