Art

The Retrograde Sophisticate

Danny Williams of Dallas has a clear grasp of the modern masters and unequaled ambition and skill.

Larger Than Life

Tom Lea, the grand old man of Texas painting, grew up among giants. No wonder he always used a big canvas.

The Cutting Edge

Texas' glass artists are leading a revolution in an ancient craft.

The Gittings People

Shoot enough portraits of Texans, and you'll have made a portrait of Texas.

The Quixotic Theotokopoulos

A spectacular show at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts reexamines the genius of El Greco.

Tintypes And Stormscapes

A new book on the Amon Carter Museum’s photography collection chronicles one and a half colorful centuries of America in haunting black and white.

The Shrine Of The Bleached Skull

Roy Fridge’s curious assemblages reflect the cryptic world he created to replace the one he left behind.

The Elegiac Image

Photographer George Krause draws the viewer into a twilight world where jocks, saints, and nudes seem almost mystical.

Immigrants

From all over the world, people are coming to Houston to find a better life. For a few of them—immigrants from Poland, Nigeria, and El Salvador—this is what it’s like.

His Name Was Forrest Bess

He was wildly eccentric, he lived in a shanty on the Gulf, he subsisted as a bait fisherman, he had bizarre notions of eternal life. He may have been the best artist Texas has ever produced.

Miss Van Buren Comes To Texas

An evocative American portrait is one of 75 masterpieces from the Phillips Collection now on display in Dallas. A photographic exhibit in Austin on family life covered just about everything but the family.

Blue-collar Sculptor

Dallasite Mac Whitney is his own one-man construction crew - producing towering steel-plate sculptures.

Unentitled

Artists and art organizations are getting cut off from the federal dole - and maybe that’s not such a bad thing.

Little Big Museum

While other U.S. museums sought Rembrandts and Cészannes, Fort Worth’s maverick Amon Carter Museum collected an astound assortment of paintings and photographs of the American West.

Total Fabrications

When machine-printed polyester or rayon won’t do, consider the work of Texas’ top textile artists.

Art From the Underground

Dissident Russian artists paint a grim picture of life behind the Iron Curtain.

Love’s Labors Found

Sculptor Jim Love makes art look easy—and fun.

Man-child

Leon Box is a retarded artist whose work underscores the beauty and absurdity of a world he has seen very little of.

Got My Jomo Workin’

Dallas’s David McManaway is an artist of many charms.

Animal Magnetism

Horses of different colors leapt from the bright, bold palette of German abstractionist Franz Marc.

Would You Pay $2.5 Million for That Painting?

‘The Icebergs’ is the most expensive American painting in history, but it is also the center of an art-world mystery with a trail leading from an English boys’ school to a Dallas millionaire.

Russian Orthodox

The USSR today wouldn’t tolerate the radical art that was nurtured during the Russian Revolution.

Ramblin’ Rose

Eminent art critic Barbara Rose has assembled an exhibit of paintings of the eighties. Oh, yeah? Where did she get them?

The Thin Man

Albert Giacometti’s sculptured figures, now at the Dallas Museum of Fine Art, are tall, emaciated, uncomprehending—and breathtaking.

Mission Possible

Another Roadside Attraction

Houston National Bank’s ìLarger Canvas Twoî takes it to the streets.

The Resurrection of Patrick Henry Bruce

Houston Museum of Fine Arts exhibits the works of an unsung American artist. UT-Austin gathers the best contemporary art for “Made in Texas.”

The Collector

Did Helmut Gernsheim make a mistake when he sold his priceless photography collection to UT?

Clowning Around

Our photographer runs away to the circus.

The Camera Knows

Photographer Harry Callahan gets the picture. Painter Robert Levers gets his message across loud and clear.

Making It

Six Texas artisans are busy putting the craft back in craftsmanship.

The Vienna Goods

Austrian artists entered the twentieth century a few years early.

The Dark at the End of the Tunnel

Houston’s Museum of Fine Art resurrects the genius of Mark Rothko. James Surls tries to answer the tricky question: what is Texas art? Amarillo hosts five pioneers of American photography.

Golden Oldies

Look, but don’t touch-three museums with glittering antiques from Pompeii, India, and Peru.

The Emperor’s Old Clothes

Old embroidery doesn’t die, it just becomes art.

The World on an Easel

The modern realist’s motto is what you see is what you paint.

Rainbow County

From China, with kid gloves.

Of Mice and Mini

The large art of the very small.

Rhythm ‘N’ Hues

Riding a color merry-go-round with America’s first modern painters.

Living in Glass Houses

The world is full of monuments to art—but how many can you live in?

Flash!

Who won the Texas Monthly Photo Contest, and why.

The House That Art Built

What do you do when you have more paintings than walls to hang them on?

From Here to Infinity

Smile, you're a candid camera.

Hello, Walls

When is a wall not a wall? When it's a work of art.

Making the Best of It

A great photographer looks at plain people caught in the hard times of another Texas.

The Taxman Cometh

The IRS is waging a secret war against big art donors.

Is Texas A New Mecca For Artists?

The word is out among young artists that our state is a good place to work.

Three for the Show

Fort Worth’s art museums are a bigger attraction than the stockyards and, what’s more, most art doesn’t smell.

Steel Walls Do Not an Art Museum Make

The Houston Contemporary Arts Museum has an acute case of schizophrenia.

Touts

DEGAS IN DALLASBetter known for his paintings, the French Impressionist artist Edgar Degas saw only one of his seventy-three sculptures exhibited in his own lifetime. Admirers of his work today are more fortunate. Seventy pieces, on loan for the first time from New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, are currently