Modern Spanish Art From The Asociación Colección Arte Contemporáneo at The Meadows Museum
An exhibition on the development of modern art in Spain from 1915-1957 recently landed at the Meadows Museum on the campus of Southern Methodist University.
Visual Art
A Remarkable Career: The Single-Minded Clarity of Floyd Newsum
“It’s always been my dream to be a full-time artist.” I spoke to Floyd Newsum in his studio in the basement of the UHD campus, a short train-ride from Planter and Stems, as he prepared for a show of new paintings at the Nicole Longnecker Gallery, Jan. 14-Feb. 18, 2017.
Pushing Painting: Blake Rayne at Blaffer
Blake Rayne’s Cabin of the Accused, on view at Blaffer Art Museum through March 18, 2017, is a survey of works that “rearticulate specific elements, organizational attitudes, and pictorial procedures” in the artist’s oeuvre.
Nothing Is What it Seems: Monika Sosnowska at the Austin Contemporary
In Warsaw, Monika Sosnowska lives across the street from a forest that was once a Jewish cemetery. During the Second World War, Germans destroyed it to use headstones as material for construction work. Polish people quickly responded by planting trees. They eventually started a project to restore the cemetery, which continues to this day
Let the River Run: The Trinity River Project at Liliana Bloch Gallery
Dallas has a complicated relationship with its river. At various points in a century and a half of more or less official existence we’ve tried to transform the Trinity into an inland port, we’ve pretended it didn’t exist, and we’ve literally moved it, and now people and organizations, both public and private, are attempting to reclaim it.
SHOW UP: Lily Cox-Richard
“I'm trying to shake up my practice,” Lily Cox-Richard says, as we stand in her installation-in-progress at Artpace.
Art Outdoors: A Guide to Texas Sculpture Gardens
This fall, art loving Texans have the perfect opportunity to venture outside of museum walls and into the great outdoors by visiting the state’s sculpture gardens.
Midcentury Sampler: Abstract Texas at the Amon Carter
Six paintings by as many artists comprise Abstract Texas: Midcentury Modern Painting, which remains on view through Oct. 7, 2017 at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art.
Lifelong Linearity: Picasso at the Menil
The ghost of 19th-century French Neoclassical artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres casts a long shadow over the Museum District these days, with both his greatest heirs basking in surveys curated by world-renowned experts.
The Becomer: Early Monet at the Kimbell
Monet: The Early Years at the Kimbell Art Museum kicks off with a startling contrast between Claude Monet’s earliest exhibited work—View Near Rouelles, a crisp, placid, highly finished 1858 landscape—and Farmyard in Normandy (1863), which is striking for what exhibition curator George T. M. Shackelford notes is “a surface that, in its final form, appears to be still in progress.”
Breaking the Hierarchy: KAWS at the Modern
Brian Donnelly—better known as KAWS—has created art that is lowbrow, highbrow, commercial, and fine.
Lines, Lots of Lines: Degas at the MFAH
Degas: A New Vision will end its only U.S. presentation at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston on Jan. 16, meaning its departure will roughly coincide with the fifth anniversary of director Gary Tinterow’s arrival from New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he spent the bulk of an impressive curatorial career.