It's February, the love month. As much as I would like to regale you with tales of how love has affected the cultural landscape of Texas, that will have to wait until I leave the State.
Dallas-based artist David Bates is the subject of a two-venue retrospective at the Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth and the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas.
One of my most powerful art memories of 2013 is visiting the traveling exhibition 30 Americans, which presented important works by contemporary African American artists, on July 4, a free day at the Milwaukee Art Museum.