Arts and Culture Texas magazine

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

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

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

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

Texas Studio: Deborah Roberts

Listening to the Individual: Soundings New Music at the Nasher