Arts and Culture Texas magazine

Beauty in Slaughtered Bodies: Lionel Maunz at Austin Contemporary

Jeremy Hallock·April 14, 2017

Exploring the aesthetics of self-destruction, Lionel Maunz uses cast iron, concrete, and steel to create dystopian figurative sculptures—surprisingly organic forms that appear distorted by dismemberment and decay.

Austin Visual Art

Show Up: HJ Bott

Donna Tennant·April 13, 2017

“Math originates all,” HJ Bott says, while sporting a T-Shirt with the Pi symbol.

Show Up Visual Art

Political and Promising: The 39th MFA Exhibition at Blaffer Museum

Robert Boyd·April 13, 2017

There are 15 artists in this year’s 39th MFA Exhibition at Blaffer Museum, which runs through April 22.

Houston Visual Art

Empathy as an Ultimatum at Project Row Houses

casey gregory·April 11, 2017

My recent visit to Project Row Houses’s 46th round of exhibitions, Black Women Artists for Black Lives Matter at Project Row Houses, on view March 25 through June 4, introduced me to a new way to consider empathy: As an ultimatum.

Visual Art

Olafur Eliasson’s Green light Welcomes Conversation About Refugee Crisis

Paul Middendorf·April 10, 2017

Olafur Eliasson is a Danish-born artist who has presented his installations and socially-riveting interventions around the world including The Weather Project at the Tate Modern, Blind Pavilion at the 50th Venice Biennale, and New York City Waterfalls in New York City.

Visual Art

Dallas Art Fair: Student Sunday on April 9th

admin·April 7, 2017

The Dallas Art Fair in collaboration with Arts+Culture Texas magazine announces Student Sunday on April 9th, a day of free admission for students.

Dallas/Ft Worth Visual Art

Galerie Frank Elbaz and Meandering Abstractly in Dallas

john zotos·April 4, 2017

As a timely acknowledgment of how lively things are in the Dallas art scene, Parisian gallerist Frank Elbaz opened a location in the design district across the street from the sizzling Dallas Contemporary.

Dallas/Ft Worth Visual Art

Color into Sound: Loop38 at Turrell Skyspace

Sherry Cheng·March 27, 2017

When soft twilight yields to clear night, the Turrell Skyspace at Rice University is illuminated with a continuous diffusion of colors that ebb and flow around the central opening to the darkening sky.

Houston Music Visual Art

Painting the Town: The Dallas Art Fair Grows in Its Ninth Year

India Pougher·March 24, 2017

Chris Byrne and his co-founder, John Sughrue didn’t expect the Dallas Art Fair to grow like it has when they began the annual event nine years ago with 35 participants.

Dallas/Ft Worth Visual Art

On Her Own Terms: Melissa Cody at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft

Devon Britt-Darby·March 22, 2017

One of the funniest episodes of the HBO series Curb Your Enthusiasm involves Larry David, aiming to score points with his love interest’s flamboyantly effeminate son Greg, buying the seven-year-old a sewing machine to the dismay of Greg’s mother, who hasn’t yet come to terms with her son’s likely sexuality.

Houston Visual Art