TX Studio: Faith Scott Jessup and the Real Magic of Close Looking
“The devil is in the details,” or so the saying goes. But for Faith Scott Jessup, details are one way to hold onto hope.
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Texas Studio: Virginia L. Montgomery Gets Surreal
MOON MOTH BED (2023), is not your typical nature documentary. Austin-based artist Virginia L. Montgomery created this video for EYE MOON COCOON, her fall 2023 exhibition at Austin’s Women & Their Work, who invited her to create a large immersive installation that referenced Texas and the Texas ecosystem.
Texas Studio: Robert Jessup Envelops the Viewer
“You find yourself alone in an empty room,” the artist begins.
Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries
Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries
Texas Studio: Audrya Flores Needs Some Space
From Francis Bacon’s chaotically smeary Dublin hovel to Georgia O’Keefe’s airy New Mexico retreat, the way that artists use, arrange, divide, and negotiate their studios is as individual as the work that emerges from these spaces.
Land, memory, language, and ancestry: ‘Native America: In Translation’ at the Blanton
“I was thinking about young Native artists and what would be inspirational and important for them as a road map,” said Wendy Red Star, curator of Native America: In Translation.
Chance and Fate: Tacita Dean’s long overdue exhibit at the Menil
Tacita Dean is possibly the most significant artist not widely known in the U.S.
Art Around Every Corner: Discovering Cuba’s Cultural Treasures and Urban landscapes
I was traveling as a guest of long-time Arts and Culture Texas friends, the Austin-based Camiba Cultural Tours.
Volcanic Revisioning: New Discoveries of Vesuvius at the Meadows
Professor and University of Texas at Dallas’s Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History director Michael Thomas showcases his and others’ decades-long research into the excavation and findings following Mount Vesuvius’s eruption in 79 CE.
Making Waves: Discovering Contemporary Cuban Photography at the MFAH
Thanks to a gift from Chicago collector Madeleine Plonsker and her husband Harvey, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, now has the most complete collection of post-revolutionary Cuban photography anywhere—nearly 400 works by some 80 artists.
Drawing the Line: Amalia Mesa-Bains at San Antonio Museum of Art
When did you first learn that art had power? For groundbreaking Chicana artist, activist, scholar, and educator Amalia Mesa-Bains, the revelation came to her as a child.
The Long Game: Erin Cluley Gallery Celebrates Ten Years of Insightful Programming
In an industry so reliant on global trends and collectors’ whims, the fact that Erin Cluley’s eponymous space is celebrating a full decade is worth popping the champagne.