Arts and Culture Texas magazine

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

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

Visual Art

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Material Culture: Betsabée Romero at Blanton Museum of Art

Cartoon King: The Brilliant Accessibility of KAWS at Crystal Bridges

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

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

Reimagining a Classic: Houston Ballet’s Stanton Welch Breathes New Life into Raymonda

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

Music

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

Celebrating 125 Years, the Dallas Symphony Looks Back to its History

Triumph in Tragedy: Ars Lyrica Houston’s Luminous Theodora

Theater

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

Fade To Black: Week-Long Arts Festival Amplifies Black Voices in Houston

Leaping into the Unknown: The Risks and Rewards of World Premieres

Visual Art

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

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