Political and Promising: The 39th MFA Exhibition at Blaffer Museum
There are 15 artists in this year’s 39th MFA Exhibition at Blaffer Museum, which runs through April 22.
Visual Art
Empathy as an Ultimatum at Project Row Houses
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.
Olafur Eliasson’s Green light Welcomes Conversation About Refugee Crisis
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.
Dallas Art Fair: Student Sunday on April 9th
The Dallas Art Fair in collaboration with Arts+Culture Texas magazine announces Student Sunday on April 9th, a day of free admission for students.
Galerie Frank Elbaz and Meandering Abstractly in Dallas
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.
Color into Sound: Loop38 at Turrell Skyspace
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.
Painting the Town: The Dallas Art Fair Grows in Its Ninth Year
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.
On Her Own Terms: Melissa Cody at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft
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.
Hiding in Plain Sites: CounterCurrent Artists Reveal Stories throughout Houston
In 2014, the University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts blazed a trail into the world of festival programming.
SHOW UP: Robert Hodge
“The music has always been there, lingering in my presence,” said Robert Hodge, a Houston-based artist.
Monet to Matisse: A Century of French Moderns at the McNay
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.
The Blanton’s Vertical Leap: What a Difference a Rehang Makes
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.