From Fort Worth’s Kimbell to Houston’s Menil, Texas’s museums are home to some of the world's most important paintings and sculptures. To devise a list of our ten greatest works on view, we asked more than sixty curators, gallery owners, critics, and other insiders for their favorites.
A century after the cowboys and ranchers moved in on the local Apaches, Comanches, and Tejanos, the West Texas town is adjusting to a new breed of excitable invaders: Hollywood fashion arbiters, New York art- world youngsters, Houston superlawyers, and the like. Cappuccino, anyone?
Smithsonian magazine names the West Texas cultural oasis one of the "20 Best Small Towns in America."
April 25, 2012 | by Jason Cohen
Alpine, Marfa, and Fort Davis seemed like a different worlduntil I got there. I felt right at home in these West Texas cultural hot spots.
The grumpy Texas literary legend rips the Texas art and music mecca in his review of a new book about Elizabeth Taylor, calling Marfa "as bleak a place as you'll find in America."
April 18, 2012 | by Jason Cohen
Space, time, and Donald Judd reconsidered.