Texas Lens: Artwork is Work
One recent Friday evening, my kitchen was filled with artists. Drinking, commiserating, and laughing, we all compared gigs.
Visual Art
REVIEW: The Nature of Arp at Nasher Sculpture Center
At Dallas’s Nasher Sculpture Center through Jan. 6, The Nature of Arp considers Jean (Hans) Arp’s diverse production through his processes, linking them to the processes of the natural world.
Under a Sister’s Shadow: Ida O’Keeffe at DMA
Being a sister is complicated.
In 1961, the year Ida O’Keeffe died, her sister wrote, “In some odd way, it is a wasted life.”
That sister, Georgia, would be the one the world remembered.
REVIEW: Jessica Stockholder, Relational Aesthetics and Robert Davidson, U and Eye at The Contemporary Austin
Stockholder titled the Davidson exhibition U and Eye (through March 3, 2019), taking the title from one of his prints, but with a nod to both artists' interests in relationships.
Boundless Quantum and Galactic Space: ‘The Demon in the Diagram’ at the Moody Center
Millennia before mapping the universe became the purview of the scientist, the first artists scratched marks, lines and shapes onto cave walls, perhaps to make some sense of the world around them through pictorial representation.
REVIEW: New Cartographies at Asia Society Texas Center
Cartography is a fascinating practice.
REVIEW: Margaret Meehan, Hope is the Thing with Feathers and Eric Zimmerman, A Few Things for the World’s End at Conduit Gallery
As you come around the entrance to Margaret Meehan's Conduit Gallery exhibition, Hope is the Thing with Feathers (through Nov. 24), a concrete cast of a tree stump sits facing the pink parachute installation in the center of the room.
EAST Shifts
The East Austin Studio Tour is arguably the city’s largest art event when you add up the number of participating artists, the audience and the footprint of the two-weekend self-guided free tour.
Sculpture Month Houston Spreads Out Beyond the Silos
In 46 venues, sculpture at its most expansive will be on view through Dec. 1.
Steve Parker’s Surround Sounds
For his Tito’s Prize-winning exhibition, the Austin artist creates cacophonous new sculpture
Join The Chanclas Squad: Dallas Artist Giovanni Valderas Runs For City Council
How much can art do? In a way, this question animates the work of many artists whose work is socially and politically engaged.
Art for the Crowd: Luminaria Layers History in San Antonio
“My biggest take away from last year was that I didn’t get to experience everything,” says Kathy Armstrong, executive director of Luminaria.