Arts and Culture Texas magazine

Show Up: Marcelyn McNeil at Conduit Gallery

Laura August·October 16, 2019

“I’ve tried to make an intentional shift in the work in the past few years,” Marcelyn McNeil tells me, recently. When we talk, her exhibition of new paintings, Slow Eddy, is about to open at Conduit Gallery (Oct. 19-Nov. 23).

Dallas/Ft Worth Show Up Visual Art

McNay’s Tobin Collection of Theatre Arts Gets a New Show and Curator

Steven Brown·October 15, 2019

An orchestral score for a ballet wouldn’t ordinarily pop up in an art museum’s storage room. But the one in San Antonio’s McNay Art Museum, a score of Erik Satie’s surrealist Parade, was no ordinary example.

San Antonio Theater Visual Art

Cowboys, Astronauts and Art: Jessica Green leads HCAF into the Future

Tarra Gaines·October 14, 2019

When New York native Jessica Green took the position of artistic director of Houston Cinema Arts Festival this year, she decided the best way to program the sprawling arts-based film festival for Houston was to let this enigma of a city become her muse.

Film Houston Visual Art

Hypnotized by the Highway with Will Boone at the CAMH

MICHAEL MCFADDEN·October 14, 2019

Boone, gearing up for his solo exhibition at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, The Highway Hex (Nov. 9-Feb. 17), has concocted a body of work inspired in its way by both Leatherface and Stanley Kubrick.

Houston Visual Art

Defying the art Establishment: The Pre-Raphaelites at San Antonio Museum of Art

Tarra Gaines·October 8, 2019

Now a new exhibition, Victorian Radicals: From the Pre-Raphaelites to the Arts & Crafts Movement, brings their masterworks and stories to the San Antonio Museum of Art (Oct. 11, 2019-Jan. 5, 2020).

San Antonio Visual Art

Texas Studio: Maja Ruznic

Ashley Jones·October 8, 2019

Rooted in trauma, identity and the refugee experience, the artistic practice of Bosnia-born painter Maja Ruznic draws on collective memory.

Dallas/Ft Worth Features Texas Studio Visual Art

Texas Studio: Deborah Roberts

Illa Gaunt·September 30, 2019

With ten sold-out shows in a span of two and a half years, including the Stephen Friedman Gallery in London and Vielmetter Los Angeles, Deborah Roberts is experiencing a deluge of success.

Austin Features Texas Studio Visual Art

Listening to the Individual: Soundings New Music at the Nasher

Steven Brown·September 16, 2019

When Seth Knopp plans out the Soundings new-music series for Dallas’ Nasher Sculpture Center, he likes to leave audiences free to spot resonances and parallels among each season’s concerts.

Dallas/Ft Worth Music Visual Art