Art
Storytelling, news, and reviews about works of art and the artists behind them
Golden Oldies
San Antonio’s new ancient-art gallery takes you back a few millennia.
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.
The Ties That Bind
An exhibition by a trio of contemporary women artists looks at what matters most to them.
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.
Bold Strokes
Drawing from its extensive Texas art collection, Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts has assembled a concise survey of a vast subject.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Public Gestures
Dallas' Fifth Texas Sculpture Symposium proves it's time for us to look to our sculptors for public artworks.
Persistent Vigor
The impressive canvases that make up “Fresh Paint” at the Museum of Fine Arts prove that Houston has finally arrived as a significant art-making center.
Sterling Surls
With his rough-hewn sculptures that speak to mankind’s most basic needs, James Surls is fast becoming the dean of Texas art.
Tiptoeing On the Ocean of Storms
What astronaut Alan Bean saw on the moon changed his life. Now, with paint and canvas, he’s trying to let the rest of us see it too.
Trevino’s Mother
Whistler had nothing on the 22 artists represented in a survey of Hispanic art.
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.
Light in the Hills
German landscape artist Hermann Lungkwitz saw romantic vistas in the Hill Country at a time when most Texans saw only hardscrabble farmland.
Venetian Finds
Five Texas artists are among those selected for “Paradise Lost/Paradise Regained”, this year’s American entry into the Venice Biennale.
The Roadside Eye
Robert Frank took casual but expressive snapshots that captured dramas of American life and altered the course of modern photography.
Personal Space
Houston’s brash “alternative spaces” are doing more than the city’s mainstream galleries to keep Texas art fresh, rich and diverse.
Lady on the Edge
Photographer Carlotta Corpron moved to Denton in 1935, and the burst of avant-garde work she produced is, so far, unsurpassed in Texas.
The Retrograde Sophisticate
Danny Williams of Dallas has a clear grasp of the modern masters and unequaled ambition and skill.
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.