Arts and Culture Texas magazine

Nancy and Tarra Dish on the Decade, 2019 and Chekhov’s Gun

Tarra Gaines·January 10, 2020

Nancy Wozny: Pack a lunch, Lady T, we have a year and a decade to discuss. Let’s not be so top ten-ish, but think categorically. I always find what we are still talking about is the most revealing.

Austin Dallas/Ft Worth Dance Features Houston Music Theater Visual Art

Texas Studio: Alicia Eggert

casey gregory·December 30, 2019

The Dallas-based artist Alicia Eggert, along with collaborator James Akers, recently opened a captivating new work at Houston’s Color Factory, a pop-up space that focuses on “instagrammable,” site-specific installations.

Dallas/Ft Worth Features Texas Studio Visual Art

Listen, Touch and Wander: DMA’s speechless: different by design

Amy Bishop·December 12, 2019

Think back to your first visit to an art museum as a child. Before entering, it’s likely that the first words out of the mouth of your chaperone were, “Don’t touch anything.”

Dallas/Ft Worth Visual Art

Graphic Nature: Prints from Self Help Graphics at The Blanton

Nancy Zastudil·November 14, 2019

Two years ago, the Blanton Museum of Art received a gift of more than 350 prints from collector Dr. Gilberto Cárdenas, who holds one of the largest private collections of Latinx art.

Austin Visual Art

See for Yourself: Martine Gutierrez at The Modern

Nancy Zastudil·November 14, 2019

For better or worse, beauty occupies a contested space. Brooklyn-based performance artist Martine Gutierrez inhabits that space— well, beautifully.

Dallas/Ft Worth Visual Art

Show Up: Amber Eagle at Galveston Arts Center

MICHAEL MCFADDEN·November 14, 2019

Monja Coronada (“crowned nun”) paintings are portraits of nuns completed either at the profession of their vows or upon their deaths.

Houston Show Up Visual Art

A Lesson in Looking: McNay Art Museum Focuses on Minimalism

Steven Brown·November 12, 2019

San Antonio’s McNay Art Museum operated for decades with a major gap in its holdings. “When you think of all 20th-century art, the U.S. made two huge contributions to the canon,” says Lyle W. Williams, the McNay’s curator of prints and drawings.

San Antonio Visual Art

Magpies & Peacocks: Art, High Fashion, and Saving the Planet

Sherry Cheng·November 4, 2019

A visit to the cavernous EaDO warehouse at 908 Live Oak Street in Houston, the physical home of the groundbreaking non-profit design house Magpies & Peacocks (M&P), leaves a mélange of aesthetic impressions that reflects the environmental sustainability mission of the organization, yet defies definition.

Austin Houston Visual Art

Unsettled Images: Beatriz González at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Nancy Zastudil·October 23, 2019

Every once in a while, an artist steals our attention and shakes, shocks, or stuns us into awareness. Colombian artist Beatriz González also graciously opens our minds in the process, exposing the world to us in ways we may not have considered.

Houston Visual Art

Fall for Impressionism: Morisot and Monet to Picasso at MFAH

Nancy Zastudil·October 17, 2019

To see an Impressionist painting is to peer back in time as only art allows us to do.

Houston Visual Art

Tour de Force: Year 18 of the East Austin Studio Tour

Nancy Zastudil·October 17, 2019

The phrase “art studio tour” doesn’t typically bring to mind mass crowds of visitors, city-wide organizational partnerships, or heated discussions about escalating real estate prices.

Austin Visual Art

Data Mapping: Nathalie Miebach at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft

Joseph Wozny·October 17, 2019

From across the room, Nathalie Miebach’s wall pieces trigger a vague sense of recognition.

Houston 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

Nancy and Tarra Dish on the Decade, 2019 and Chekhov’s Gun

Texas Studio: Alicia Eggert

Listen, Touch and Wander: DMA’s speechless: different by design

Graphic Nature: Prints from Self Help Graphics at The Blanton

See for Yourself: Martine Gutierrez at The Modern

Show Up: Amber Eagle at Galveston Arts Center

A Lesson in Looking: McNay Art Museum Focuses on Minimalism

Magpies & Peacocks: Art, High Fashion, and Saving the Planet

Unsettled Images: Beatriz González at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Fall for Impressionism: Morisot and Monet to Picasso at MFAH

Tour de Force: Year 18 of the East Austin Studio Tour

Data Mapping: Nathalie Miebach at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft