Art
May 31, 1987
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.
203 Articles
Art
April 30, 1987
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
January 1, 1987
Art of the People
An innovative folk art exhibition at the San Antonio Museum of Art affirms the irrepressible spirit of the Mexican people.
Art
November 1, 1986
Animal Magnetism
Melissa Miller’s lions and tiger confront demons, dance under the moon, and reflect the ambiguity of the modern world.
Post-Modern Times
August 31, 1986
Post-Modern Times
Two gleaming office towers are going up face to face in downtown Austin. Now their marketing managers have to rent the town asunder.
Post-Modern Times
July 31, 1986
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UT is testing this device that works like a BB gun, only it’s a little more powerful—it’ll be able to shatter a Soviet warhead speeding through space.
Art
July 31, 1986
The Blood-red Maya
At the heart of this ancient culture were cruelty, self-mutilation, and ghostly visions.
Post-Modern Times
June 30, 1986
Post-Modern Times
A Texas lab that look s like the set for a Buck Rogers movie is actually the frontier of the Star Wars weapons research effort.
Art
June 30, 1986
Little Masterpieces on the Lawn
“Art Among Us/Arte Entre Nosotros” reveals the delightful madness of San Antonio’s barrio art.
Post-Modern Times
May 31, 1986
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Houston’s upper crust and underclass mingle at Jo Abercrombie’s Wednesday night fights.
Post-Modern Times
April 30, 1986
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At the Crescent’s opening, old, excessive Texas came face to face with new, designer Texas.
Art
April 30, 1986
The Anxious Witness
Photographer Robert Frank held up a mirror to America. Now Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts turns the mirror on him.
Art
April 1, 1986
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.
Post-Modern Times
April 1, 1986
Post-Modern Times
Want to unload your business? With Stan Hazelwood, it’s not much harder than getting a date.
Post-Modern Times
March 1, 1986
Post-Modern Times
At the singles bar of the eighties, is it’s not love, it could still be a good investment opportunity.
Post-Modern Times
February 1, 1986
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In a Twilight Zone-like pocket near UT there are some kids who aren’t ready to grow up.
Art
February 1, 1986
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.
Post-Modern Times
December 1, 1985
Post-Modern Times
Christian recording mogul Chris Christian knows what the Rock of Ages really means.
Post-Modern Times
November 1, 1985
Post-Modern Times
NorthPark Mall inaugurated an epoch twenty years ago. It’s still the standard for upscale shopping.
Post-Modern Times
September 30, 1985
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Today’s with-it seniors are settling in American’s newest retirement boomtown—Kerrville.
Post-Modern Times
August 31, 1985
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July 31, 1985
Post-Modern Times
Triathletes converge upon Lake Lavon to compete in the sport of the eighties.
Art
July 31, 1985
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.
Post-Modern Times
June 30, 1985
Post-Modern Times
Sitcom City on Channel 27
Art
June 30, 1985
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.
Art
April 30, 1985
Public Gestures
Dallas' Fifth Texas Sculpture Symposium proves it's time for us to look to our sculptors for public artworks.
Art
March 1, 1985
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.
Art
February 1, 1985
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.
Art
November 1, 1984
Trevino’s Mother
Whistler had nothing on the 22 artists represented in a survey of Hispanic art.
Being Texan
October 1, 1984
Texas Primer: The Rich Girl
From lacquered debutante to fossilized ol’ gal, her greatest virtue is endurance.
Art
August 1, 1984
The Marfa Art War
Sculptor Donald Judd had the vision. The Dia Art Foundation had the money. Now they’ve had it with each other.
Politics & Policy
July 1, 1984
Texas Primer: The Blue Law
On Sunday it is legal to buy beer but not baby bottles, screws but not screwdrivers, disposable diapers but not cloth ones. No place but Texas.
Art
April 1, 1984
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.
Art
February 1, 1984
Venetian Finds
Five Texas artists are among those selected for “Paradise Lost/Paradise Regained”, this year’s American entry into the Venice Biennale.
Art
November 1, 1983
The Roadside Eye
Robert Frank took casual but expressive snapshots that captured dramas of American life and altered the course of modern photography.
Art
July 31, 1983
Personal Space
Houston’s brash “alternative spaces” are doing more than the city’s mainstream galleries to keep Texas art fresh, rich and diverse.
Art
June 30, 1983
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.
Art
May 31, 1983
The Retrograde Sophisticate
Danny Williams of Dallas has a clear grasp of the modern masters and unequaled ambition and skill.
Business
April 30, 1983
A Monument to Making It
It’s a Xanadu of condos, restaurants, gardens, and gyms, a high-tech haven that can outritz nearby Dallas. It’s Las Colinas, a home for corporations that appreciate the finer things in life.
Art
March 1, 1983
The Cutting Edge
Texas' glass artists are leading a revolution in an ancient craft.
Art
January 1, 1983
The Quixotic Theotokopoulos
A spectacular show at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts reexamines the genius of El Greco.
Art
December 1, 1982
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.
Art
November 1, 1982
The Shrine Of The Bleached Skull
Roy Fridge’s curious assemblages reflect the cryptic world he created to replace the one he left behind.
Style & Design
September 1, 1982
The Inside Skinny on Dallas Designers
Who’s who, and who’s doing what to whom: a brief guide.
Style & Design
September 1, 1982
The Empress’s New Clothes
What you won’t see from Dallas designers is lots of froufrou. What you will see is a look tailored for the working woman.
Art
July 31, 1982
The Elegiac Image
Photographer George Krause draws the viewer into a twilight world where jocks, saints, and nudes seem almost mystical.
Art
June 1, 1982
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.
Business
February 1, 1982
The Beer That Made Armadillos Famous
For years no one would drink Lone Star beer because rednecks did; then one enterprising man figured out that if it was marketed right, everyone would want to drink Lone Star precisely because rednecks did.
Art
January 1, 1982
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.
Health
November 1, 1981
So You Don’t Like The Way You Look?
To a plastic surgeon, your face is just the beginning.