Arts and Culture Texas magazine

Texas Studio: Virginia L. Montgomery Gets Surreal

Nancy Zastudil·September 13, 2024

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 Visual Art

Texas Studio: Robert Jessup Envelops the Viewer

MICHAEL MCFADDEN·September 10, 2024

“You find yourself alone in an empty room,” the artist begins.

Dallas/Ft Worth Texas Studio Visual Art

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Nancy Zastudil·August 22, 2024

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Gallery Row Visual Art

Texas Studio: Audrya Flores Needs Some Space

casey gregory·August 17, 2024

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.

San Antonio Texas Studio Visual Art

Land, memory, language, and ancestry: ‘Native America: In Translation’ at the Blanton

Sherry Cheng·August 17, 2024

“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.

Austin Visual Art

Chance and Fate: Tacita Dean’s long overdue exhibit at the Menil

Donna Tennant·August 17, 2024

Tacita Dean is possibly the most significant artist not widely known in the U.S.

Houston Visual Art

Art Around Every Corner: Discovering Cuba’s Cultural Treasures and Urban landscapes

Tarra Gaines·August 14, 2024

I was traveling as a guest of long-time Arts and Culture Texas friends, the Austin-based Camiba Cultural Tours.

Dance Travel Visual Art

Volcanic Revisioning: New Discoveries of Vesuvius at the Meadows

James Russell·August 14, 2024

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.

Dallas/Ft Worth Visual Art

Making Waves: Discovering Contemporary Cuban Photography at the MFAH

Donna Tennant·August 14, 2024

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.

Houston Visual Art

Drawing the Line: Amalia Mesa-Bains at San Antonio Museum of Art

Nancy Zastudil·August 5, 2024

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.

San Antonio Visual Art

The Long Game: Erin Cluley Gallery Celebrates Ten Years of Insightful Programming

Kendall Morgan·August 5, 2024

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.

Dallas/Ft Worth Visual Art

Connecting Art to Hearts: Dallas’ contemporary Conduit Gallery celebrates 40 years

Lindsey Wilson·July 29, 2024

They say to do what you love, and Nancy Whitenack loves art.

Dallas/Ft Worth Visual Art

Visual Art

Performative and All-encompassing: David-Jeremiah: The Fire This Time

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Accumulating Histories: Francesca Fuchs Redefines a Breathing Archive at the Menil

Gallery Row

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Dance

Performa/Dance Marks Their 10th Anniversary with ‘ANTHROPOCENE’

Concert Trucks and Onstage Dinners: Performing Arts Houston offers its most varied schedule yet

Unbind Your Imagination: TITAS/Dance Unbound invites global dance into Dallas for 2025-26 season

Music

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

Concert Trucks and Onstage Dinners: Performing Arts Houston offers its most varied schedule yet

Twists of Fate: Myths, Drama, and Phenomenal Voices in Ars Lyrica Houston’s New Season

Theater

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

Concert Trucks and Onstage Dinners: Performing Arts Houston offers its most varied schedule yet

Outcast Heroes and Storybook Musicals: Broadway Across Texas

Visual Art

Texas Studio: Virginia L. Montgomery Gets Surreal

Texas Studio: Robert Jessup Envelops the Viewer

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Texas Studio: Audrya Flores Needs Some Space

Land, memory, language, and ancestry: ‘Native America: In Translation’ at the Blanton

Chance and Fate: Tacita Dean’s long overdue exhibit at the Menil

Art Around Every Corner: Discovering Cuba’s Cultural Treasures and Urban landscapes

Volcanic Revisioning: New Discoveries of Vesuvius at the Meadows

Making Waves: Discovering Contemporary Cuban Photography at the MFAH

Drawing the Line: Amalia Mesa-Bains at San Antonio Museum of Art

The Long Game: Erin Cluley Gallery Celebrates Ten Years of Insightful Programming

Connecting Art to Hearts: Dallas’ contemporary Conduit Gallery celebrates 40 years