Visual Art
Show Up: Buster Graybill
“The gateway drug to art is drawing,” Buster Graybill laughs.
The Space Between the Extremes: Goya at the Kimbell
The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth will give Texas art lovers a new and unique perspective on the complex genius with the exhibition Goya in Black and White, Oct. 7-Jan. 6, 2019.
No Small Feat: Salvador Dalí at the Meadows Museum
Sometimes artists dream of success and fame. And, sometimes, it’s the dreams themselves that make the artist famous.
Surrealistic Americana: Devon Nowlin Colorfully Riffs on Nostalgia at Artspace 111
For her new solo exhibition, Familiar Strangers, Devon Nowlin returns to the vintage photographs she has been using as source material since 2008.
Full Circle: A New Vision for Iconic Austin Mural
In 1992, two young local artists, Robert Herrera and Oscar Cortez, began transforming a 700-square foot wall section around the Holly Street Power Plant in East Austin into a spray-painted story of identity, pride, and community.
You Didn’t Have to Be There, But It Helps: Stage Environment at CAMH
“It is not an acropolis we want there. It is not Culture on a corner. I think of the new museum building as a stage environment to house the multimedia in which artists of today are working.”
Show Up: Francesca Fuchs
Francesca Fuchs’s subtle alchemy takes place under the bright light of her studio, where shadows aren’t quite banished but rather lifted.
Texas Lens: Audience as Player/Experiments in Interactive Performance
You arrive at Texas State University’s Performing Arts Center in San Marcos and find the front doors to the lobby locked.
TX Studio: Ann Johnson
Ann Johnson’s studio is a manifestation of the love that de Chardin believed comprises the universe.
TX Studio: Julia Barbosa Landois
Julia Barbosa Landois and I sit under the marginally-less sweltering awning of a Houston coffee shop on one of the first truly furnace-like days of the year, discussing her fears.
Border Crossings and the Transborder Biennial at the El Paso Museum of Art and Museo de Arte de Ciudad Juárez
Extending nearly 2,000 miles from the state of Texas, though Southwestern New Mexico, along the southern edge of Arizona to California, and all the way to the Pacific Ocean, the border of the United States and Mexico is a massive, expansive region.