Arts and Culture Texas magazine

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

Hiding in Plain Sites: CounterCurrent Artists Reveal Stories throughout Houston

Nancy Zastudil·March 20, 2017

In 2014, the University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts blazed a trail into the world of festival programming.

Dance Houston Music Theater Visual Art

SHOW UP: Robert Hodge

MICHAEL MCFADDEN·March 20, 2017

“The music has always been there, lingering in my presence,” said Robert Hodge, a Houston-based artist.

Show Up Visual Art

Monet to Matisse: A Century of French Moderns at the McNay

Devon Britt-Darby·March 19, 2017

Artists—Americans, in some cases, expatriates in others—played key behind-the-scenes roles in helping to decide which European paintings and sculpture would comprise what became some of the great public collections in the United States.

San Antonio Visual Art

The Blanton’s Vertical Leap: What a Difference a Rehang Makes

Devon Britt-Darby·March 19, 2017

I’ve had a soft spot for the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin since it was the Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery.

Austin Visual Art

Lam Gift Makes SAMA a Center for Indigenous Australian Works

Devon Britt-Darby·March 19, 2017

The captivating exhibition Of Country and Culture: The Lam Collection of Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art, on view through May 14 at the San Antonio Museum of Art, kicks off with a notice to visitors that’s as startling as it is salutary.

San Antonio Visual Art

Borders, Ritual and Awesomeness: Five Days of Fusebox

Tarra Gaines·March 19, 2017

Fusebox, Austin’s contemporary, cross-disciplinary visual and performing arts festival, and all round benevolent force in the struggle to keep Austin weird, consolidated its offerings in 2016, going from a 10 or 12 day schedule to a five-day festival lineup.

Austin Dance Music Theater Visual Art

Visual Art

A Transformative Century: Black Queer Ecstasy at Art Galleries at Black Studies at UT Austin

Style & Luminosity: Tamara de Lempicka at the MFAH

Vision & Experience: Bart Keijsers Koning Takes the Helm of Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas

Gallery Row

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Dance

Dance Here: Agora Artists is Planting the Seeds to Make Dallas a Dance Town

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

Stories From The Room: The Case for Live Performance

Music

Triumph in Tragedy: Ars Lyrica Houston’s Luminous Theodora

Dallas Opera Brings the Audience Back

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

Theater

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

Stories From The Room: The Case for Live Performance

Next Chapter: The New Stewards of Fort Worth’s Amphibian Stage to Continue Commitment to New and Underrepresented Works

Visual Art

Olafur Eliasson’s Green light Welcomes Conversation About Refugee Crisis

Dallas Art Fair: Student Sunday on April 9th

Galerie Frank Elbaz and Meandering Abstractly in Dallas

Color into Sound: Loop38 at Turrell Skyspace

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

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

Hiding in Plain Sites: CounterCurrent Artists Reveal Stories throughout Houston

SHOW UP: Robert Hodge

Monet to Matisse: A Century of French Moderns at the McNay

The Blanton’s Vertical Leap: What a Difference a Rehang Makes

Lam Gift Makes SAMA a Center for Indigenous Australian Works

Borders, Ritual and Awesomeness: Five Days of Fusebox