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Michael Ennis

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He Was A Camera

Russell Lee’s rarely seen Texas photographs reveal an artist at the peak of his powers of observation. April 2007

Art • Joseph Havel

Breaking the mold. September 2000

Northern Exposure

With Fort Worth’s Michael Auping as a curator and nine of the state’s artists participating, this year’s Whitney Biennial puts a New York spotlight on the art of Texas. February 2000

ART • Luis Jimenez

Sculpting a legacy. September 1998

The Return of the Native

With a major retrospective of his work at three Houston museums, Robert Rauschenberg is once again the talk of Texas. What’s he been up to? A portrait of the artist as an old man. March 1998

Folks

The boom in “outsider” art that began in New York, Chicago, and Atlanta has finally come to Texas, driven by true visionaries whose images conjure worlds that may have never existed but are invariably inhabitedby penetrating psychological truths. August 1997

Shock Therapy

By employing stereotypes like Sambo and Aunt Jemima, Austin painter Michael Ray Charles hopes to master the art of racial healing. June 1997

Columns | Miscellany

End of The Road

During all but two of the past twenty years, someone named Bush had led our nation or led our state. Now we’re moving on. June 2008

Bear Market

The historic showdown between Texas and California has been a cold war, a simmering ideological feud between two great powers. And the winner (for now) is . . . March 2008

Modern Problems

What Dallas has in common with Beijing—and why their shared vision of the twenty-first-century world must carry the day. November 2007

Centered

Where the great silent majority is taking politics, here and elsewhere. August 2007

How We Blew It

Remember all that talk of tipping the balance of history on a fulcrum of those “Texas values” everyone was crowing about? April 2007

The Mighty Metroplex

Just a few years after nearly being written off the map, the region has become a roaring engine of growth and social transformation. January 2007

All Shook Up

Independent candidates for governor won’t win this year, but they’ve certainly upended the established order. Democrats and Republicans, you have only yourselves to blame. October 2006

My Father’s War

What I learned about Iraq from World War II—and what all the president’s men could learn. August 2006

T.R. Fehrenbach Is History

He’s still the gold standard by which all chroniclers of our shared experience are judged, but it’s time to look to the new generation. How do his wannabe heirs stack up? July 2006

North Toward Home

As surprising as our immigrant-friendliness may be to many, it speaks to who we are. To be a Texan is to inhabit a vast bicultural frontera, one that extends far beyond the Rio Grande. April 2006

The Bidness Myth

Rethinking the way we do business—and government—down here. January 2006

Culture of Strife

Frozen embryos are destroyed every day in the name of in vitro fertilization. Tell me again what’s so wrong with stem cell research? October 2005

What’s the Matter With Dallas?

For starters, even though its self- image is big and brash, it’s the most politically wimpy city in Texas. July 2005

Dissing Darwin

Why Texas could lose the biotech revolution—and end up, once again, an economic also-ran. April 2005

No Hat, No Cattle

We Texans have long considered ourselves, in mythical terms, old cowhands. But we’re waking up to discover that weÕre really city slickers. January 2005

The Cowboy Myth

The idea that U.S. policy bears an indelible made-in- Texas stamp is a rare point of bipartisan consensus. But there's nothing inherently Texan about the president's leadership style. October 2004

Apocalypse Now

What sets Dallas apart from other sophisticated American cities? Its unique end-of-the-world industry. July 2004

The Accidental City

A new anthology of articles about Houston from the journal of the Rice Design Alliance is a sweeping historical overview, a civic memoir, and a municipal self-help guide. December 2003

Everybody Loves Ray

As in Nasher, and everybody should. His $70 million sculpture center is the most eagerly anticipated arts opening in Dallas' history. September 2003

Prints of a Fellow

The addition of Leo Steinberg's magnificent collection makes it official: UT-Austin's Blanton is one of the best university art museums in the country. June 2003

The Minimalist

The real revelation of Donald Judd's early work is how far ahead of its time it looks—not simply its own time, but our time as well. April 2003

A Fine Modness

Modernism may yet be proved dead, but if so, it has left an exquisite corpse in Fort Worth's stunning new Modern Art Museum. December 2002

Peter's Principles

Some people look at Houston and see only rough edges. Peter Marzio, the director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, sees a brash upstart that should be proud of its cultural riches. September 2002

Moving Pictures

At Houston's FotoFest 2002, digital art took center stage as never before-and proved that the Next Big Thing might really be the next big thing. May 2002

Small Stuff

The Hyde Park Miniature Museum in Houston is an outsized testament to one man's love of his life's little treasures. April 2002

Amon High

With a massive addition to its gallery space and a host of new exhibitions in the works, Fort Worth's Amon Carter Museum is back in the saddle. January 2002

Best Western

Frank Reaugh was one of the state's greatest artists. So why does his name draw so many blanks? October 2001

Thoroughly Modern

Denton's Toni LaSelle has a perspective on the modernist movement like no other artist. That's because she witnessed it first-hand. August 2001

Image Conscious

Meet two prominent Houston artists who are at the forefront of digital art—and the debate over what virtual reality means for reality itself. July 2001

The Reign of Spain

If you're searching for the splendor of Spain's golden age, look no further than the Meadows Museum in Dallas and the Alamo in San Antonio. May 2001

Master Builder

From Fort Worth's Amon Carter Museum to Houston's Pennzoil Place to Dallas' forthcoming Cathedral of Hope, architect Philip Johnson's grand vision for Texas is set in stone. August 2000

Time of Nic

Sixteen years after rocketing into the Whitney Biennial, Dallas photographer Nic Nicosia is still on the cutting edge. November 1999

Master Class

How a collection of paintings and drawings coveted by Sotheby’s and other art world Goliaths ended up at the University of Texas at Austin. April 1999

Joan of Art

Less than a decade ago, she was a homemaker and an arts volunteer, but today the Arlington Museum of Art’s Joan Davidow is the most imaginative and adventurous museum director working in Texas. January 1998

On With the Shows

Now that both its building and its mission have been renovated, Houston’s Contemporary Arts Museum is ready to win back the public and reestablish its eminence. May 1997

The Mod Squad

Long mocked for making unrecognizable pieces of junk, Texas Modernists strike back in a superb exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. March 1996

Raw Visions

A Houston show introduces new black Texas artists in works that range from personal vision to political agitprop. November 1992

Southern Exposure

At Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts, Mexican photographers portray their culture with rare empathy and a sense of wonder. July 1992

Long Shot

Bert Long comes to Houston’s Contemporary Arts Museum by way of the Fifth Ward, the Marines, haute cuisine—and the Prix de Rome. February 1992

Then and Now

Two San Antonio shows examine how Texas artists interpret the state’s past and present. December 1991

Buried Treasures

Sifting through stored collections, the Dallas Museum of Art discovers a tradition of spiritual subtlety among Texas artists. October 1991

Reporter

In the Red

Texas artists versus Texas galleries. June 1996