Monsters & Mayhem at the McNay
San Antonio’s McNay Art Museum has been transformed into a haunted house for the Halloween season, as if a witch had cast her spell on the venerable San Antonio institution.
Visual Art
Designing Women: Dallas Gallerists Shape the Design District’s Contemporary Art Scene
The art scene in Dallas has long been influenced by avant-garde women: From the The Betty McLean Gallery, which opened in 1951 as one of the first modern art galleries in Texas, to Valley House Gallery, founded by Peggy and Donald Vogel, to the visionaries of today who show no signs of slowing down.
Glimpsed Through Liquid: Graham Caldwell at Circuit12 Contemporary
Brooklyn-based artist Graham Caldwell’s exhibition Glimpsed Through Liquid, his first at Circuit12 Contemporary in Dallas’ design district, fills the space with serial glass sculptures, spanning nearly two decades.
Texas Studio: Diana Antohe
It would be facile to attach the “immigrant artist” label to Romanian-born, Texas-raised artist Diana Antohe.
Sounds Modern Celebrates 10 Years of Connecting Art and Music
It would be beating a long-dead horse to proffer any remark on the dearth of new music being performed in classical circles, a fact of which Elizabeth McNutt is well aware.
The Sound of Things: Alyce Santoro and Bohyun Yoon at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft
The world around us produces sound endlessly, incessantly.
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.