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.
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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.
Connecting Art to Hearts: Dallas’ contemporary Conduit Gallery celebrates 40 years
They say to do what you love, and Nancy Whitenack loves art.
Material Girl: Jean Shin clothes the Amon Carter’s ‘Museum Body’
In our current era of fast fashion and 15-second TikTok videos, Jean Shin is looking for permanence, or at least a way to honor the people whose work and energy is directed at one common goal, at one specific place, during one particular point in time.
Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries
Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries
Power and Glory: The Battle of Pavia Tapestries at the Kimbell
Imagine installing seven massive Flemish tapestries, each measuring 14 feet tall and 28 feet wide.
Sculpture + Sanctuary: ‘Theaster Gates: The Gift and The Renege’
Change always comes at a cost, and more often than people realize, it is a human cost.
Making Memories: Thomas Demand’s The Stutter of History at the MFAH
Do you remember Princess Diana’s fatal car crash in 1997? How about the Fukushima nuclear accident of 2011? Florida’s 2000 presidential election recount, with its hanging chads?