Art
January 23, 2024
A Giant Troll Is Coming to Austin’s Pease Park (and the News Brought Out a Few, Uh, Trolls)
“Texas has no cultural tradition of trolls,” wrote one.
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Art
July 14, 2023
Meow Wolf Opens Its Maximalist, Multicolored Doors in Grapevine
For the latest iteration of the art empire’s otherworldly brand, Meow Wolf has chosen an exotic locale: a suburban Texas mall.
Texas Country Reporter
February 28, 2023
On the Wide Plains West of Lubbock, a Chainsaw Carver Works From an Old Cotton Gin
From small woodland creatures to life-size figures, Cam Dockery has used chainsaws to carve more than 10,000 sculptures in his hometown of Whitharral.
Texas Country Reporter
January 20, 2023
A Nacogdoches Artist Creates Giant Metalworks for the Kids Inside Us All
Jeffie Brewer’s sculptures transform rusty metal into whimsical figures that look like drawings from a coloring book.
Texas Country Reporter
January 19, 2023
A Forester Turned Artist Creates Wire Sculptures of Trees
Retired forester Mike Woody lives in a log cabin in the Piney Woods creating intricate tree sculptures. You just can’t make this stuff up.
Art
October 19, 2022
The Heavy Metal Genius of Melvin Edwards
A new exhibition at the University of Texas at Austin spotlights the life and work of the Houston native, one of the country’s foremost abstract sculptors.
Texas Country Reporter
August 18, 2022
The Blind Sculptor From Beaumont Who Broke the Mold
Michael Gregory faced many hardships, and his unlikely path as a sculpture artist and teacher is a powerful story of resilience.
Art
April 8, 2022
Texas’s Newest Master Sculptor Is a Parrot Named Hannah
Houston sculptor John Havel discovered he was living with a genius. “I thought, ‘Oh my God, my parrot can make Giacomettis.’ ”
Texas Country Reporter
March 24, 2022
Nature Is Metal for This Welding Couple in Houston
From inside their shop, the wife-and-husband duo explain how they capture the universe in spiraling steel structures as tall as four-story buildings.
Art
February 8, 2022
Build a Life-size Bison or Die Trying
When artist Cindee Klement designed an eight-hundred-pound sculpture to connect us with the soil under our feet, she got more than she bargained for.
Art
June 17, 2021
One Person’s Street Junk Is Jesse Lott’s Fine Art
A 2022 Texas state artist makes his life work from Houston's urban frontier.
Art
February 21, 2020
David Cargill’s Long Way
The nonagenarian sculptor, whose pieces are flecked throughout southeast Texas, unveils a career-spanning retrospective in Beaumont.
Art
August 13, 2019
On Texas Time: Dan Lam, Drip Sculpture Artist
The Dallas-based sculptor talks about what fuels her creativity, her favorite Texas hikes, and more.
Art
February 1, 2012
Galveston Makes Lemonade
After the island lost more than 35,000 trees to Hurricane Ike, a group of artists carved 35 stumps into beautiful and intricate sculptures.
Art
February 1, 2010
The Illusionist
For more than thirty years, artist Damian Priour has crafted beautiful sculptures made of limestone, metal, wood, bronze, and glass.
The Culture
April 30, 2004
Statues of Limitations
A bronze likeness of a Texas heroine will soon appear in downtown Austin—and with it, no doubt, an unnecessary controversy.
Art
September 30, 2003
Artistic Musings
Author Gregory Curtis talks about Paris, impressions, and the Venus de Milo.
Art
December 1, 1997
Raymond Nasher
His artful gift to the city of Dallas ensures his legacy.
Art
November 1, 1996
Dual in the Sun
What do the sculptures of Jim Magee and the paintings of Annabel Livermore have in common? Nothing—except that they were created by the same person.
Art
October 1, 1995
Hi-Ho Daddy-O!
From dancing frogs to towering cowboy boots, a look at how Bob Wade’s outlandish sculptures became Texas landmarks.
Art
June 30, 1989
Texans Versus Shapes
Heroes in the shade.
Art
January 1, 1985
“Take Nothing and Make Something”
Working alone at his home in East Texas, Fox Harris is divinely inspired to create towering, fanciful sculptures out of junk.
Art
September 30, 1984
Coppini the Great
Pompeo Coppini’s heroic sculptures and European air were just what Texas’ fledgling gentry was hungry for in 1901. Since then his name has faded from memory, but his works endure.
Art
August 1, 1984
The Marfa Art War
Sculptor Donald Judd had the vision. The Dia Art Foundation had the money. Now they’ve had it with each other.
Art
September 30, 1975
Is Texas A New Mecca For Artists?
The word is out among young artists that our state is a good place to work.
Art
June 30, 1973
Letitia Goes to Town
Another Texan stuns the New York art and theater world.