A Love Letter to the Audience: Tarra Gaines on her Digital Diet and Missing Live Performance
Tarra Gaines on her Digital Diet and Missing Live Performance
Visual Art
Movement & Mobility: American Impressionism at Art Museum of South Texas
The new traveling exhibition alighting at the Art Museum of South Texas, Across the Atlantic: American Impressionism Through the French Lens ( through Jan. 3, 2021) offers a new and new world perspective on Impressionism.
Cabinet Cards and Everett Spruce: Two Must-See Shows at the Amon Carter
Nineteenth-century cabinet cards and a forgotten Texas artist are the two new exhibitions at the re-opened Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth.
Bridging Science and Art: Jennifer Steinkamp’s Eon
Jennifer Steinkamp’s new digital work Eon, recently unveiled as part of the University of Texas Landmarks Collection and commissioned for Welch Hall, the university’s recently renovated science building, invokes these complex ideas not in the form of ephemeral petals, but in massive LED screens.
THE VISUAL MANIFESTO OF MARK BRADFORD AT THE MODERN
ark Bradford enrolled in California Institute of the Arts in 1991 as an adult student. He was a...
Explosions + Reverberations: CounterCurrent 2020
Since 2014, Houston has been host to a citywide takeover. For one week in April, the city itself is activated as a site for art, creativity, social consciousness, and dialogue as the CounterCurrent festival and its artists spread throughout the inner loop to hold a series of provocative performances.
Room to Move: Nicole Eisenman at The Contemporary Austin
Emotion, individualism, unfettered expression, fruitful rebellion, and spontaneous movement are not often the makings of everyday life. But sometimes the storm and stress of life bring such things into being.
From Faraway Lands to the Apocalypse, Soluna Festival Is All About Adventure
The Dallas Symphony’s 2020 Soluna festival will encompass all that and more. The annual music and arts showcase, opening April 3, will feature Dallas artists plus globe-trotting guests; traditional concerts and multimedia immersions; a live incarnation of an acclaimed rock ’n’ roll album as well as a documentary film whose subjects perform in person in front of it.
Expanding Histories at Austin’s Fusebox 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.
Texas Studio: Lina Dib
Lina Dib is a collector. Objects, affects, memories, and sounds; one may be stored in a cabinet, another on a hard drive.
Texas Studio: Matt Clark
Artist Matt Clark, painter, professor, collaborator, and entrepreneur thinks art makers “sharpen that trait over time…
Texas Studio: Katy Heinlein
Sculptor Katy Heinlein’s studio is quiet, cozy, exploding with texture and color, and perhaps most important of all, stable.