Visible Changes: The Amon Carter Museum of American Art’s Renovation
After almost a year of construction, The Amon Carter Museum of American Art is starting a new chapter.
Visual Art
Dark Territory: Robyn O’Neil at The Modern
Artist Robyn O’Neil is funny. Not ironically funny; honestly funny.
Expanded Missions: Dallas and Houston Holocaust Museums Open Spacious New Homes
Holocaust museums aren’t just about the Nazis’ slaughter of 6 million Jews. How could they be?
Legacies of a Friendship: UT Celebrates Major Charles White Donation
In the fall of 2017 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, artist David Hammons curated an exhibition called Charles White—Leonardo da Vinci.
Wait & See: Elmgreen & Dragset at Nasher Sculpture Center
Whether it’s creating a faux art fair or turning a giant swimming pool on its Vincent-Van-Gogh’s-ear, two international artists are bringing their conceptual sculptural sensibilities to Dallas.
Texas Studio: Olaniyi Rasheed Akindiya
Full of color, depth, and texture, the work of Olaniyi Rasheed Akindiya — brush name Akirash — seeks to dance, pull viewers in, and let them connect with the work and the world around it.
Show Up: Vincent Falsetta
At first glance, Vincent Falsetta’s studio doesn’t seem different than that of any other established painter, with its high ceilings and ample light.
Texas Studio: Chesley Antoinette
Chesley Antoinette is a Dallas-based multidisciplinary artist whose soft sculptures elevate humble materials to regal new heights.
Every Body: Transamerica/n at the McNay
In James Gobel’s 2007 work Robert, we see a bearded and tattooed person—presumably named Robert—wearing a black Morrissey tee-shirt.
‘The hearts I have touched will be the proof’ Jeffrey Gibson at the Blanton
There are many songs that thread through This is the Day (on view at Austin’s Blanton Museum of Art, July 14-Sept. 29).
Movement in Time and Space: Summer at the MFAH
In 2013 with James Turrell: The Light Inside, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston began a unique summer precedent, presenting an immersive contemporary art exhibition and inviting the public to beat the heat, not merely to view but to journey inside the art.
Nudged Out of the Cloud: Michelle Ellsworth’s The Rehearsal Artist and Post-Verbal Social Network
In one more step towards the antiseptic future envisioned largely by sci-fi movies- a future without dust, disease, age or decay-the very language we invent for our technological revolution has become disembodied and etherealized.