Art

Texas Desperado

Still The Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

Photograph by William Coupon

Native Nativities

All is clam, all is bright in folk-art manger scenes.

Golden Oldies

San Antonio’s new ancient-art gallery takes you back a few millennia.

On the Set of Texasville

The Quickest Draw In the West

Not since Remington and Russell has a cowboy artist sold so many works—for so much—as Fredericksburg’s G. Harvey.

To the Brilliant Victor

Southwest Conference trophies, commemorating long-forgotten triumphs, are still winners.

State of the Art

Rich Clarkson brings a new perspective to Texas A&M honor guards “humping it”—Aggies claim the peculiar crouch helps project yells—in game day usa, a survey of college football culture by 22 photographers, just issued by Kodak/Thomasson-Grant.

Flights of Fantasy

There’s primeval magic in ordinary fashions.

Art Patron and Investor Stanley Marsh 3

Photography by Wyatt McSpadden

The Ties That Bind

An exhibition by a trio of contemporary women artists looks at what matters most to them.

Industrious Arts

For a handful of Texas artists, crafting a living comes naturally.

A Soldier’s Secret

In the farming town of Whitewright, stolen tenth-century illuminated manuscripts and ivory reliquaries weren’t all that Joe Meador had to hide.

Kilgore College Rangerettes

Photograph by O. Rufus Lovett

State of the Art

Nine-Year-Old Brent Cunningham just after his Red Brangus heifer placed second at the 1989 Austin Livestock Show and Rodeo. Photograph by Michael O’Brien

Sacred Meets Profane

Benito Huerta reconciles the religious and the worldly in powerfuul new works at Houston’s Contemporary Arts Museum.

Faces of the Border

To those who live on Mexico’s side of the Rio Grande, posing for portraits is not an occasion for smiles.

Bold Strokes

Drawing from its extensive Texas art collection, Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts has assembled a concise survey of a vast subject.

Get Along, Little Doggies

Well-shod supermodel Fay Ray steps out in true Texas style.

Images at War

A Fort Worth exhibit of scenes from the Mexican War shows that fanciful lithographs outgunned the realism of nascent photography.

Home Is Where the Art Is

Two museum shows culled from private collections illustrate that Texans know what they like—and it's not just Monets and Renoirs.

New World to Conquer

For years, the Dallas Museum of Art sought prestige by following the mainstream. The new director thinks it’s time to change course.

The Temple of Destiny

In downtown Mexico City are the ruins of the great Aztec pyramid, the site where one empire ended and a new world began.

Texans Versus Shapes

Heroes in the shade.

Soviet Idealism

In a Fort Worth exhibit of Russian and American paintings, two groups of artists use the same vocabulary to express profoundly different views of life and art.

A Developing Art

The current show at Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts brings 150 years of photography into sharp focus.

Unplanned Obsolescence

In a Houston retrospective, the art of Julian Schnabel appears to be aging prematurely.

Growing Up With George and Martha

By turning two tiny dots into two huge hippos, James Marshall made an indelible mark on children’s literature, and little people laughed happily ever after.

Lost Horizons

An exhibit at Fort Worth’s Amon Carter Museum contends that before the cowboy became America’s hero, Indians and mountain men were the icons of a vanishing frontier.

From the Wyeth House to the White House

The Dallas Museum of Art hosts an eighty-year retrospective of Wyeth family art that carries Nancy Reagan’s seal of approval.

Subjects of the Realm

Hans Holbein’s life drawings are a tantalizing glumpse into the lusty court of Henry VIII. And courtesy of HRH Queen Elizabeth II, they’re on view at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts.

New Kid on the Block

The Menil Collection has received so much attention that its opening this month may seem anticlimactic. The only unknown is what the director plans to do with it all.

Romancing the Stone

Using a circular saw and a shrewd commercial sense, Plano housewife Sandy Stein chiseled a new life for herself as a sculptor.

The Empress of Fort Worth

Anne Bass married one of the richest men in America. With his money and her ambition she became an important cultural force in Fort Worth and New York. Life was perfect. Then her husband left her.

Art of the People

An innovative folk art exhibition at the San Antonio Museum of Art affirms the irrepressible spirit of the Mexican people.

Animal Magnetism

Melissa Miller’s lions and tiger confront demons, dance under the moon, and reflect the ambiguity of the modern world.

The Eye of the Beholder

A museum in Texas is the last place Jacques-Louis David would expect to find his late masterpiece, but we’re glad it’s here.

The Blood-red Maya

At the heart of this ancient culture were cruelty, self-mutilation, and ghostly visions.

Little Masterpieces on the Lawn

“Art Among Us/Arte Entre Nosotros” reveals the delightful madness of San Antonio’s barrio art.

The Anxious Witness

Photographer Robert Frank held up a mirror to America. Now Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts turns the mirror on him.

Solace in the Desert

With dogged independence, amazing endurance, and a rugged romantic vision, photographer Laura Gilpin helped create the way we see the West today.

Rauschenberg Relics

In the current Rauschenberg exhibit at Houston’s Contemporary Arts Museum the artist finds his first thirty years a tough act to follow.

The Art-by-the-Truckload School

They’re cheesy, they’re tasteless. But each black velvet painting is a one-of-a-kind work of art.

Have I Got a Collection for You

With one bold acquisition the Dallas Museum of Art could double the value of its holdings. But there were a few strings attached.

A Concrete Romance

One man’s whim-turned-obsession is changing Houston’s McKee Street Bridge and its faded environs into one of the few really original artistic images of the city.

105°

A photographic study on beating the heat.

The Golden Age of Apples and Oranges

The Kimbell’s exhibit of seventeenth-century Spanish still lifes is dazzling enough to cause a modern photo-realist to look again.

Crack Pots

One man’s Mexican pot is another man’s collectible.

Public Gestures

Dallas' Fifth Texas Sculpture Symposium proves it's time for us to look to our sculptors for public artworks.

Life, Art, and the Wackiest Politician in Texas

San Antonio city councilman Bernardo Eureste took a paltry arts budget and built it into a $3 million power base. Then he got mad and tore it all apart.