Artists in 3 Parts at the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts
People who aren’t from Texas often hold misconceptions about the state.
Visual Art
Oil, Bats, and Bulletproof Vests: Minerva Cuevas’s Pop Mural at the DMA
An armadillo and a pair of prairie dogs wearing bulletproof vests.
Awarded Anticipation: DMA 2018 Awards To Artists
Ten Texas artists, all of whom have set themselves apart through their work in sculpture, photography, time-based media, painting, and artist books, have been awarded the Clare Hart DeGolyer Memorial Fund Award, the Otis and Velma Davis Dozier Travel Grant, and the Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Fund Award, collectively known as the Dallas Museum of Art Awards to Artists, which has funded over 300 artists since its original inception in 1980.
TX Studio: Margo Sawyer
It was a typical hot and muggy Texas day when I made the 45-minute drive from Austin to Elgin. I was on my way to visit artist Margo Sawyer for the second time,
It Happened in Texas: Antoni Miralda, the Kilgore Rangerettes and Flying Bread at the CAMH
Jim Harithas was the maverick director of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston from 1974 to 1978.
Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin: The Scene at Devin Borden Gallery
Stepping into The Scene (Houston: 1969 -1981) at Devin Borden Gallery, the space seemed small, tight.
Ambiente Amore: Felipe Lopez at Clarke & Associates
Through the expansive storefront windows of Clarke & Associates in Houston comes a flood of light.
Breaking Bread and Breaking Through: The CADD FUNd and Emergent Talent in Dallas
In February 2007, a group of 13 Dallas galleries came together to form Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas, or CADD, with the goal of promoting the advancement of contemporary art in the Dallas cultural community.
Sonifying Sculpture: Luke Fowler’s Atmospheric Commission for the Nasher Sculpture Center
Glasgow-based artist and filmmaker Luke Fowler aims to convey information through atmospheric means, layering affect and meaning in a highly evocative manner.
Cultural icons and digital landscapes: A conversation with Vernon Fisher
Vernon Fisher is an American artist living and working in Fort Worth, Texas.
What remains to be seen: Houston’s Aurora Picture Show at 20
Once identified as the oldest microcinema in the Southwest, founded by then-MFAH Core Fellow Andrea Grover and situated in a church-turned-screening venue on Aurora Street in Houston’s Heights neighborhood, Aurora Picture Show has since grown into a full-fledged media arts center.
Superflat Superstar: Takashi Murakami at the Modern
When we think of the images created by acclaimed Japanese contemporary artist Takashi Murakami, we perhaps can’t help but see visions in our heads of smiling daisies, sleepy-eyed mushrooms, menacing mouse-like creatures with very sharp teeth and cartoon bears vaguely reminiscent of Kanye West.