Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries
A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries in San Antonio, Houton, Dallas and Autin
Visual Art
Mysticism, spirituality, and revolution: Black and Caribbean Surrealists at The Modern
The exhibition title, Surrealism and Us, references the essay “1943: Surrealism and Us” by Suzanne Césaire (1915-1966), a Martinique writer, feminist, and anti-colonialist. Césaire believed that the concepts, aesthetics, and power of Surrealism could encourage self-determination and independence.
Visible Labor: Inside the world of art handlers at Houston’s Center for Contemporary Craft
If you’ve ever visited an exhibition and wondered how an artist pulled something off, chances are good a preparator had something to do with it.
Eyes toward the future: Houston’s Hobby Center Builds a New Vision
As Houston’s Hobby Center for the Performing Arts celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2022, its board, staff and its new president and CEO Mark Folkes decided to get contemplative about their identity, especially when it comes to the “Center” in the name.
Women Making Art History: He Said/She Said at the Dallas Museum of Art
The DMA has been earnest and intentional in its efforts to acquire works by women and people of color over the past seven years and the current exhibition reflects that.
Power Structures: FotoFest Focuses on Critical Geography
Critical geography focuses in on oppressive, inequitable power relations in different areas.
Diversity, Connections and Community: Black Collage Comes to MFAH
Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage, on view Feb. 18 through May 12 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is the first museum survey of Black collage artists.
Pioneering Paintings by Janet Sobel Reunited at the Menil
Inspired by a gift from her grandson of one painting and four drawings, Janet Sobel’s early but short-lived career is now the subject of a compelling exhibition at the Menil Collection from Feb. 23 through Aug. 11.
Pleasures of the Floating World: Ukiyo-e at the Blanton
During the relatively peaceful, prosperous, but isolationist Edo period (1603-1868) in Japan, ukiyo-e flourished as a popular art form.
Poetic Radiance: ‘An Archeology of Silence’ by Kehinde Wiley at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Kehinde Wiley and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Director Gary Tinterow first met in New York when Tinterow, then a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, proposed the acquisition of Wiley’s The Veiled Christ, a large 2008 watercolor.
Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Five Texas Galleries
A Seasonal Spotlight on Five Texas Galleries in Houston, Dallas and San Antonio
Points of View: Radcliffe Bailey, Kara Walker and Derrick Adams at the McNay
The McNay Art Museum in San Antonio is using the recent acquisition of two important print suites as impetus to explore the diverse visions of three contemporary Black artists: Radcliffe Bailey, Kara Walker and Derrick Adams.