The Sound of Things: Alyce Santoro and Bohyun Yoon at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft
The world around us produces sound endlessly, incessantly.
Visual Art
Kimbell Hopes Casanova Arouses Art Lovers’ Ardor
Audiences rarely flock to exhibitions about 18th century European art with the enthusiasm shown for Impressionism and ancient Egypt, but the Kimbell Art Museum is hoping Casanova: The Seduction of Europe, on view Aug. 27 through Dec. 31, will change that.
The Magnificent Faith Ringgold: A Legendary Artist’s Survey Exhibition at Houston Museum of African American Culture
On October 8, Faith Ringgold will be 87. Alive, well, and still making art in her Englewood, New Jersey, studio, she has earned the moniker “living legend.”
Muscle Memory: CAMH Surveys Annabeth Rosen’s Process-Pushing Ceramics
Even as an undergrad, ceramic sculptor Annabeth Rosen was known as a “rabble rouser” for constantly testing the limits of clay.
Show Up: Trenton Doyle Hancock
I have a theory that artists have the most interesting art collections.
Make Austin Weirder: John Bock’s “Uncanny Musical” Does Its Part
“Keep Austin weird,” the bumper-sticker admonition goes, but German filmmaker John Bock—the latest of many European artists to take a cinematic crack at Texas, has envisioned a weirder Austin in Dead + Juicy, an exhibition combining an “uncanny musical” with an installation of transformed versions of the film’s props and sets.
Rebel, Jester, Mystic Poet: Contemporary Persians at MFAH
One shouldn’t read too much into serendipitous timing, but I can’t help noting that Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet: Contemporary Persians —The Mohammed Afkhami Collection, on view through Sept. 24 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is the fourth exhibition of post-revolutionary art the MFAH has mounted in 2017.
Visions of America: Three Centuries of Prints at the Dallas Museum of Art
A captivating exhibition of over 150 prints drawn from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. has quietly opened at the Dallas Museum of Art as if it flew in under the radar.
The Polaroid Project: At the Intersection of Art and Technology
An exhibition surrounding Polaroid photography has landed at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, and for many of us the subject is something from the not-so-distant past that comes with a heady dose of nostalgia.
Texas Studio: Dan Lam
Viewers have many different reactions to Dan Lam’s sublime and potentially grotesque art.
Pixel Forest and Worry Will Vanish: Pipilotti Rist at MFAH
Last summer, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presented two installations and a few somewhat overlooked paintings by Yayoi Kusama.
Texas Studio: Jennifer Ling Datchuk
Eyebrow-plucking as critique of conventional gender roles; wigs that mimic authenticity but question identity; porcelain mugs in service of social awareness: These are just a few of the recent artworks by Jennifer Ling Datchuk that provoke important, if not awkward, conversations.