Arts and Culture Texas magazine

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

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

Visual Art

A Sprawling History: Tavares Strachan at the Blanton

Storytime: Meow Wolf Leans into the Narrative in their immersive adventures

Beauty and Repulsion, Decay and Renewal: Jessica Kreutter at Galveston Arts Center

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

The Hills are Alive with a Pair of Mickle Mahers, Noises Off, Die Hard, Tharp, Cinderella’s Rats and so much more: The 2024 Season Wrap up

Revealing Repertoire: Houston Ballet’s Triple Bill Tells a Company’s Story

Texas Studio: Jordan Fuchs Starts with Choreography

Music

The Hills are Alive with a Pair of Mickle Mahers, Noises Off, Die Hard, Tharp, Cinderella’s Rats and so much more: The 2024 Season Wrap up

TX Studio: Héctor Guzmán Conducts a Life

Spreading the Classical Music Word: San Antonio’s Agarita Thinks Beyond the Concert Hall

Theater

The Hills are Alive with a Pair of Mickle Mahers, Noises Off, Die Hard, Tharp, Cinderella’s Rats and so much more: The 2024 Season Wrap up

Building a Community: D. Wambui Richardson Invites Audiences to Become Part of Jubilee Theatre’s Family

Born to Lead: Circle Theatre’s New Artistic Director Ashley H. White Isn’t Afraid to Shake Things Up

Visual Art

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

Show Up: Marcelyn McNeil at Conduit Gallery

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

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

Hypnotized by the Highway with Will Boone at the CAMH

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

Texas Studio: Maja Ruznic