Texas Studio: Outspoken Bean
Outspoken Bean is the shortened version of his full stage name, Outspoken Rogers Lee Bean, Jr., after his older brother who was murdered one day before the largest Slam Poetry competition Bean had ever been in.
Mystery Sonatas and a Celebratory 50th Anniversary Season Ahead for Houston Early Music
What makes Heinrich's Biber's Mystery Sonatas so strikingly unique?
TX Studio: Anthony Suber
A graduate of Houston’s High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, Houston artist Anthony Suber actively participates in this global dialogue.
Texas Studio: Maryam Obaidullah Baig
How Maryam Obaidullah Baig came to be an interdisciplinary performance artist in North Texas can be traced back to one action: she stood in a line.
Texas Lens: Art Pilgrims
Sometimes, I forget about how Texas learns about itself from these pages.
The ACTX Top Ten: April 2018
Our top picks for arts + culture events happening across the Lone Star State in April 2018.
Architecture of Creation: Michelangelo and the Vatican at MFAH
The artistic process rarely garners as much attention and appreciation as the finished masterpiece, but shaded charcoal figures, sculpted wax half-forms and rough wooden models–the staggered steps along the way to final creation–have their own magnificent beauty.
Acting in Texas: Ian Mead Moore
Ian Mead Moore is an actor, singer, and voiceover artist who has been working in Dallas since 2010.
TX Studio: Gael Stack
“They’re either very big or very small,” Gael Stack says as we stand before her latest set of canvases.
Drawing on influences: Benito Huerta at William Campbell Contemporary Art
The latest one-man show from Arlington painter/professor/curator Benito Huerta is dominated by self-portraits.
From the Lands of Asia: Art through the eyes of collectors at the Kimbell Art Museum
While it is an integral component of the art ecosystem, the role of the collector tends to be overlooked in the context of the museum, at least as far as the audience is concerned; the objects in a museum can seem like they’ve always been there, their presence unquestioned.
A-Typical Painting: Laura Owens at the Dallas Museum of Art
Serendipity often plays a large role in life; it can in the art world, too. Laura Owens’s mid-career survey Laura Owens, is on view at the Dallas Museum of Art through July 29, after a run at the Whitney Museum.