Honoring Texas Artists: The Texas Medal of Arts Awards come to Austin
You may be hard-pressed to explain what ZZ Top, Eva Longoria, Willie Nelson and Walter Cronkite have in common, but for the Texas Cultural Trust, the answer is simple: Texas.
Visual Art
Balance in the Fog of Memory: Angel Otero at CAMH
Angel Otero: Everything and Nothing, on view at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston through March 19, 2017, is the artist’s first survey exhibition, covering just under a decade of his work.
Fantastic Spaces: Where Will a Former Architect Take the DMA?
Given the centrality of immigration to the 2016 election and Texas’s status as a red state with an ascendant Latino population, this summer’s announcement that the Dallas Museum of Art had hired Agustín Arteaga, a museum director in Mexico City, and that he would be moving, with his husband, to the Lone Star State to run the Dallas Museum of Art, was bound to turn heads.
Houston Voices: Local Impact at PRH
Round 45: Local Impact at Project Row Houses through Feb. 12, includes artists Regina Agu, JooYoung Choi, Sally Glass, Jesse Lott + Ann Harithas, Tierney Malone, Harold Mendez, and Patrick Renner.
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.
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.