Art
January 11, 2022
Bye-bye, Mr. American Pie
Texans have five days to celebrate Wayne Thiebaud, the late painter famous for his delectable still lifes, at an eye-popping retrospective in San Antonio.
Art
January 4, 2022
Most Legendary Musicians Write Memoirs. Terry Allen Created an Entire Exhibition.
The singer-songwriter-artist reveals the inspirations behind his music in a multimedia museum show in Austin.
Art
December 21, 2021
2021 Was . . . ? These Works of Art Help Make Sense of It.
‘Texas Monthly’ contributors share which works best captured a year that seems to defy categorization—and which shows they’re looking forward to in 2022.
Art
December 13, 2021
You’ve Never Seen the Rio Grande Valley This Way
The Valley’s landscapes and people are subjects of a transporting art exhibit in San Antonio's Presa House gallery.
Art
November 19, 2021
EAST Austin Is Over. What’s Next for an Art Scene That’s Losing Its Nucleus?
An annual tour of artist studios opts for a wider map as cost of living blows up the east side of the city.
Art
November 9, 2021
Portrait of the Artist as a Borderland Working-class Hero
A Luis Jiménez exhibition in Austin focuses on Southwestern themes in the art of the late, great El Pasoan.
Art
November 3, 2021
The Must-see Art Show of the Fall Is in . . . Waco?
Reclusive mailman and genius autodidact Kermit Oliver shows himself to be a hidden gem of Texas painting.
Art
October 7, 2021
From California Artists, a Stinging Critique of Texas’s Relationship to Its Land
An ambitious traveling exhibition asks how we became a state of endless fences, dams, and gas flares.
Film & TV
September 20, 2021
David Lowery Has a New Film About the Pandemic Already
The Dallas-based director's short is inscrutable, arty, and part of the excellent anthology ‘The Year of the Everlasting Storm.’
Books
September 15, 2021
Brutally Suppressed in Her Lifetime, Gertrude Beasley Is Finally on Our Bookshelves
A searingly feminist 1925 memoir of life in small-town Texas rises from the dustbin of patriarchy.
Art
September 8, 2021
Can a Big, Texas-Wide Survey of Contemporary Art Tell Us Where We Go From Here?
The 2021 Texas Biennial abounds with new monuments for a state and art community in transition.
Film & TV
July 30, 2021
Dev Patel’s Sexy New Christmas Movie Is a Gorgeously Knotty Myth About Going to Meet Death
Dallas-based director David Lowery’s ‘The Green Knight’ goes medieval on a hoary romance of King Arthur and Camelot.
Art
June 29, 2021
No Gogh: ‘Beyond Van Gogh’ Exhibit Is a Very Expensive Screen Saver
The Van Gogh projection-room craze comes to Austin, with Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio on deck.
Art
June 2, 2021
Painter Sedrick Huckaby Looks His Subjects in the Eye, From Dreamers to an Ex-President
The empathic gaze of the Fort Worth artist is on view at Austin’s Blanton Museum this summer and fall.
Business
April 8, 2021
How Austin’s Start-up Sector Won the Pandemic
The city’s tech industry enjoyed big-time growth despite—or because of?—the nation’s difficult past year.
Art
March 23, 2021
A New, (Literally) Underground Art Installation in a Houston Cistern Reflects Our Lost-in-Space Pandemic Moment
Anri Sala’s immersive work is an eerily out-of-time experience.
Art
February 16, 2021
Flying Nuns, Wild Hogs, and Bible Camp Apocalypse: Jennifer May Reiland Paints a Texas Revelation
The Houston-born painter explores questions of faith alongside the myths and legends of Texas history.
Art
February 10, 2021
A Dallas Art Car Brings Migrant Farm Workers’ Experiences Out of the Shadows and Onto Main Street
Carlos Ramirez’s ‘Altar to a Dream’ honors his parents, who traveled across Texas and the U.S. to pick crops.
Business
January 3, 2021
No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0
Attracting so many tech companies and workers from California isn’t going to transform the city into another San Francisco—for both the better and worse.
Business
December 17, 2020
Welcome to Texas, Elon Musk. You Don’t Have to Move to Austin.
The founder of Tesla and SpaceX says he’s relocating to the Lone Star State. But which of our tech hubs is the best fit for the eccentric billionaire?
Art
November 23, 2020
At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself
Once one of Texas’s most prominent artists, Winter was known for depicting idyllic rural scenes and the good life in Dallas. But his later, more experimental work is just as interesting.
Art
October 20, 2020
A Museum Show in Houston Is Shelved, and the Texas Art Community Cries Foul
After the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and three other museums delayed a retrospective of the painter Philip Guston, who used KKK imagery in his work, Texas art voices weigh in on the controversy.
Art
May 22, 2020
How Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts Planned Its Reopening
On Saturday, it'll become the first major art museum in the nation to welcome back the public.
Arts & Entertainment
April 28, 2020
Boxed in by Social Distancing, an Endlessly Inventive Theater Festival Powers on Online
Some of Fusebox Festival’s most poignant moments came when performers stopped trying to put on a show, and instead simply bared their souls about the present predicament.
Music
April 1, 2020
For Performing Arts in the Age of Social Distancing, the Show Must Go Online
From theater to opera, Texas culture has moved toward virtual events.
Books
March 24, 2020
The Seminal Novel About the 1918 Flu Pandemic Was Written by a Texan
Katherine Anne Porter’s ‘Pale Horse, Pale Rider’ tells the tale of a pandemic she barely survived.
Art
February 10, 2020
What Would a Frontier-Era Explorer Take Home From Modern-Day Texas?
Installation artist Mark Dion displays his findings in a tongue-in-cheek Fort Worth museum exhibition.
Arts & Entertainment
January 17, 2020
A New Quixote Adaptation Reimagines the Borderlands
El Paso-born playwright Octavio Solis’s 'Quixote Nuevo' rides into Houston’s Alley Theatre this month.
Art
November 20, 2019
How a Brazilian Artist Found Inspiration in West Texas Prehistory and Deep Ecology
Solange Pessoa’s new exhibition at Ballroom Marfa, ‘Longilonge,’ is rooted in archaeology and human psychology.
Art
November 13, 2019
How a Public Art Project in El Paso and Ciudad Juárez is Spurring Cross-Border Conversations
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s interactive ‘Border Tuner’ is visible this month from both cities along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Art
September 18, 2019
San Antonio’s Ruby City Is a Literal Dream Come True
Years after the late Linda Pace first shared her vision with rockstar architect Sir David Adjaye, the art museum is set to open in October.
Arts & Entertainment
August 20, 2019
At Houston’s Embattled Alley Theatre, a Breath of Fresh Air
Artistic director Rob Melrose ushers in a new era for the storied institution with the upcoming fall season, from Shakespeare to Octavio Solis.
Books
April 24, 2019
The Psychedelic State of South Texas
Fernando A. Flores’s debut novel, ‘Tears of the Trufflepig,’ is an exhilarating borderland dystopia.
Art
March 22, 2019
Margarita Cabrera’s Monumental ‘Arbol de la Vida’ Grows in San Antonio
The artist's collaborative creation, like her other work, is deeply rooted in the communities she works with.
Art
February 22, 2019
How ‘Checkpoint Carlos,’ a Work of Art Along the Texas Border, Was Inspired by Memories of the Berlin Wall
As government land seizures roil the Valley, a German-born artist points to stark historical parallels.
Style & Design
February 7, 2019
World-Renowned Architect Sir David Adjaye on Building a “Little Temple of Art” for San Antonio
Ruby City, Adjaye’s first building in Texas, is the vision of the late Linda Pace, and will house her personal collection.
Politics & Policy
October 10, 2018
Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?
Our lack of a voter-verified paper trail and contingency planning make us vulnerable, says Rice University’s Dan Wallach.
Art
September 26, 2018
Dallas Artist lauren woods is Locked in a Remarkable Museum Stand-off
An exhibition on police brutality prompts allegations, shutdown after curator is dismissed.
Art
August 24, 2018
Vincent Valdez, the People’s Champion
The first two installments of Vincent Valdez’s The Beginning Is Near trilogy—on view now in Austin and Houston, respectively—paint a picture of a fight for America’s soul.
Books
April 18, 2018
A New Book Takes a Look at the Legacy of ‘Giant’
How Hollywood came to 1950s Texas with a message of change and emerged with an enigmatic legend.
Art
April 12, 2018
Timothy Morton Is Houston’s Own Catastrophe Guru
Morton, renowned eco-philosopher and co-curator of a new art exhibit at Ballroom Marfa, sees global warming as a new beginning, not an end.
Arts & Entertainment
February 15, 2018
Unveiling Ellsworth Kelly’s ‘Austin’
The debut of a destination showpiece on the University of Texas campus marks a turning point for the Capital City.
Art
January 23, 2018
Jimmie Durham, Unmasked
The 77-year-old Houston painter Jimmie Durham has made a career working with Indian themes that he says are drawn from his heritage. But what if he’s not who he says he is?
Art
December 21, 2017
Revisiting Mexico’s Microcuentos
A Houston exhibition delves into the history of an obscure corner of Mexican popular culture.
Politics & Policy
November 19, 2017
Remembering Houston’s National Women’s Conference Forty Years Later
Looking back at a crucial weekend seen as the high-water mark of the 1970s women’s movement
Art
October 18, 2017
The Rascuache Work of Alejandro Diaz
David Shelton Gallery presents new works by Alejandro Diaz in November.
Art
September 29, 2017
Art in the Shadow of Trump at the Texas Biennial
The 2017 Texas Biennial offers work from Texans around the state and across the border.
Film & TV
August 23, 2017
Bonnie and Clyde at 50
How the more or less true story of two Texas outlaws revolutionized Hollywood.
Film & TV
July 24, 2017
The Wonderful World of Bluth
Animator Don Bluth returns to his birthplace of El Paso.
Film & TV
July 7, 2017
Dallas’s David Lowery Won’t Leave His Old Haunts
The auteur behind summer art-house favorite ‘A Ghost Story’ on his abiding connection to his home city.