Art

In the Red

Texas artists versus Texas galleries.

The Art World

LEAVING THE COUNTRY THIS SUMMER? You can still get your fill of Houston artists. Sculptor Joseph Havel will be taking his solo exhibition of shirts and shirt fragments to Kiev’s Soros Center for Contemporary Art, and possibly to the Herzliyya Museum of Art in Israel. This month Havel’s shirt fragments

The Inside Story: Sure Shot

Dallas photographer Laura Wilson has made up for lost time. The 55-year-old Massachusetts native is a regular contributor to Texas Monthly, for whom she has shot portraits of Laredo debutantes and Mullin footballers, and she has also worked for The New Yorker, the New York Times, and the London Sunday

Dial M for Molly.

Molly Ivins and Bob Wade on TV.

Signs of the Seers

The world-famous rock art of the Lower Pecos has long left scholars in awe—and in the dark. Now a group of Texas archaeologists has unlocked the sacred secrets of the ancient shamans.

Her Three Sons

For the Wilsons of Dallas, taking pictures was a family affair. Today the mother is a successful photographer and her boys are hot Hollywood commodities. Here’s a look at Laura Wilson’s personal album.

Not a Pretty Picture

Dallas and Houston have done it; Beaumont and Corpus Christi have too. So why hasn’t Austin built a respectable art museum? It comes down to three things: money, management, and mission.

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.

We Are the World

An ambitious new exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston suggests Texas is becoming less like itself and more like everyplace else.

Hi-Ho Daddy-O!

From dancing frogs to towering cowboy boots, a look at how Bob Wade’s outlandish sculptures became Texas landmarks.

Texas Twenty: Linda Pace Roberts

From hot sauce to hot art.

The Removal Men, 1995

The Texas Kid, 1988

The late folk artist Willard Watson was a funky fixture of Dallas’ art scene. Better known as the Texas Kid, he was famous or his courly manners, cockammy yard art in his Love Field-area home, and eye-popping, Longhourn-crowned luxury cars. Watson often collaborated with other artists; in 1976, for example,

Former Burlesque Queen Dixie Evans, 1994

Spanish Class

In the market for high-quality handmade Hispanic crafts? You’ll find them—and more—at Santa Fe’s famous fair.

Mammatocumulus Clouds, Hays County, 1993

Barton Springs Celebrants, Austin, 1990

Clowning Around

They crack wise while bulls charge them, and fans eat it up. A look at rodeo’s real ring leaders.

Entrance of the Zapatista Army into San Cristobal, 1994

A Fan’s Notes

For sixty years, Austinite Raymond Daum befriended Hollywood’s biggest stars. Now he’s selling off his memories.

Cattle Auction, San Angelo, 1940

In no other state were the turbulent thirties documented as exhaustively as in Texas, where Farm Secirity Administration photographers such as Dorothea Lange and Russell Lee took more than five thousand pictures of Depression and pre-war life . When the agency became the Office of War Information, some of its

Moving Pictures

A Bloody Game

Nanci Griffifth and Guitar, 1994

Santa Clara Corn Dancer, 1994

Brush With Fame

As a curator and in his own work as a painter, Jerry Bywaters left a lasting legacy of Texas art.

Bernardo Zuchil and Pontiac, Lajitas Trading Post, 1994

Black and White World

Life as it really was in Texas’ African American community, as seen through the eyes of almost forgotten photographers.

Texas Blind Salamander, 1992

Rick Brettell

The arts impresario of Dallas.

Turtle in Church, Alice, Texas, 1993

War Paint

Fifty years after the bloody battle of Peleliu, Tom Lea’s paintings still prove war is hell.

Beverly Raub and Duke, Galveston, 1993

His Own Private Marfa

In the wide-open spaces of Marfa, late sculptor Donald Judd’s immense legacy beckons West Texas travelers.

Three Cab Drivers, Juarez, 1990

Earache Treatment, 1989

Dominoes, Walls Unit, Huntsville

Margie Rubio, El Paso, 1993

Gussie Nell Davis, Cotton Bowl Parade, 1990

A Man and His Dog, 1993

Southern Methodist University Legend Doak Walker, Circa 1948

When Worlds Collide

A Houston art exhibit juxtaposes spirit and science with family photos, Tylenol caplets, and gigantic blood cells.

Porky and Friends, Fort Worth, 1981

Frozen Apples, Tesuque, New Mexico, November 21, 1966

All American

The Dallas Museum of Art spent $55 million on a splendid new wing—and redefined itself in the process.

State of the Art

Hoof in Mouth

The biggest brouhaha in Dallas isn’t about taxes, potholes, or garbage collection. It’s about seventy bronze steers.

Robert Townsend with Texas Flag, 1993

Anemone Fish, Red Sea, 1990

Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1953