Return to Earth at Nasher Sculpture Center
Return to Earth: Ceramic Sculpture of Fontana, pharm Melotti, prescription Miró, view Noguchi, and Picasso, 1943-1963 An...
Visual Art
Eight, Eighteen
Marking the 10th anniversary of the Linda Pace Foundation, Eight, Eighteen presents something old and something new.
Melissa Thorne: A Wall Around a Window
Artist Melissa Thorne must see the world in pattern.
The Nearest Air: A Survey of Works by Waltercio Caldas
Entering Waltercio Caldas’s exhibition The Nearest Air immediately produces a sense of lightness in the viewer.
Nuyorican with a Global Reach
What do you get when you fuse a profoundly personal Puerto Rican heritage, a love for indigenous cultures and an eclectic mix of global histories, all combined with draftsmanship worthy of Albrecht Dürer?
The Phone That Won’t Stop Ringing
Dallas-based painter Arthur Peña seems to be everywhere these days.
Every Which Way
Resistance can and does take many forms. For artist Raychael Stine, it often takes the shape of a dachshund—an unconventional surrogate of sorts that helps her defend the value of sentimentality in the context of contemporary art
Public Spaces, Private Dollars
What’s the most memorable encounter you’ve had with an artwork in an airport? For the purposes of this discussion, if you know the artist who made it well enough to be happy that she got the commission, it doesn’t count.
Renzo Piano: Better in Texas
I’ve had mixed feelings about the upcoming Nov. 27 opening of the Kimbell Art Museum’s Renzo Piano Pavilion.
Ed Ruscha’s Archives Get “The Home to End All Homes”
The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin has announced a major coup: It’s acquired the archive of renowned artist Edward Ruscha ...
Marina Adams at The Modern – Alt
Adams, who splits her time between New York and Parma, Italy, has spent her career instilling passion in viewers with her colorful, abstract paintings, prints and gouaches, linking contemporary life and universal patterns.
Koloman Moser: Designing Modern Vienna, 1897–1907
One of the highlights of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s fall season is a small but highly pleasurable traveling exhibition devoted to the work of Viennese design-guru, Koloman Moser (1868-1918), who was trained as a painter but worked extensively in graphics, ceramics, textiles, furniture, glassware, jewelry, and metal.