Michael Ennis

Blue-collar Sculptor

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

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

The Plane the Pentagon Couldn’t Stop

West of Fort Worth, General Dynamics builds the F-16, a good little fighter plane that could have been great if the Air Force brass had kept their hands off it.

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.

Schmaltz Across Texas

On a soap opera sound stage in Brooklyn the state of Texas lives and loves.

Texas Monthly Reporter

Cultural triumph in San Antonio; mayoral high jinks in Matamoros; electoral tableau in Austin; political protest in Dallas.

Rags to Riches

When buyers and sellers converge on Dallas’s Apparel Mart for a week-long orgy of fashionable commerce, high style and discriminating taste confront the cold reality of the bottom line.

See How She runs

Diane von Furstenberg is a one-woman event, from her DVF glasses to her purple lizard pumps.

Medicine Men

From pig pancreas pills to pyramid power ice trays, the cure-alls of these unorthodox healers are aimed at getting you back on the right wavelength.

Art From the Underground

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

Dust on the Golden Spur

When ranchers gathered in Lubbock to celebrate their way of life, they found they didn’t have much cause for celebration.

Love’s Labors Found

Sculptor Jim Love makes art look easy—and fun.

The Sweet Smell of Success

Man-child

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

The $38,000 a Year, Wife and Two Kids, House and a Pool Blues

Is inflation deflating your standard of living? You are not alone.

The Conqueror Worm

All the beautiful kickers gathered in Houston for the premiere of Urban Cowboy. It began at a shopping center and ended in a honk-tonk, and John Travolta had to say he liked it.

And Now, On Your Left…

Have you ever wondered what Houston and Dallas look like to tourists? A Gray Line Bus is the perfect way to find out.

Got My Jomo Workin’

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

Three’s Company

Not even a freak April snow could keep the glittering multitude from the Y.O. Ranch’s one-hundredth birthday party.

The Women Who Came to Dinner

Bringing the world’s most controversial feminist sculpture to Texas turned out to be no picnic - but a rare feast for connoisseurs of the outrageous.

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.

I Want to be a Star

You do? There are some people right off Dallas’s Central Expressway waiting to help.

Alias Miss Moonlight

For Maxine, Texas’ leading gossip, life is all work and no playcation.

Russian Orthodox

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

Flipping Out

When big-time gymnastics came to Fort Worth, half the contestants were steely-eyed little girls with the bodies of children and the wills of fanatics.

Ramblin’ Rose

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

Doing the Greenville Avenue Boogie

By reputation Dallas is a staid city. But there is one strip where Dallas is fevered, excessive, and lascivious, and where every night is party night.

Zandra and the Laughing Elk

Al Neiman’s Fortnight the attractions varied between eccentric Americans and somnambulant British.

The Thin Man

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

East Meets Wet

The Dalai Lama encounters Houston. He finds it good.

The Little Red Warehouse

Institutional green walls and stuffy classrooms are not a part of Houston architect Eugene Aubry’s Awty School design.

The Man Who Built River Oaks

Architect John Staub, the forgotten genius of River Oaks, transformed a few nondescript Houston streets into Millionaires’ Row.

Mission Possible

Titles Texans

Beneath certain Stetsons lies a crown.

The Beautiful and the Damned

Town and Country magazine came to Texas to record our sophistication, wealth, and savoir faire—and all hell broke loose.

Another Roadside Attraction

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

Next on Dallas: J. R. at the Ball

Dallas is both a television show and a city, but at the Cattle Baron’s Ball you couldn’t tell which was which.

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.”

Haute as a Pistol

Houston welcomes a classy Paris fashion designer with a rootin', tootin', ripsnortin' wild West show.

Haute as a Pistol

A Paris fashion show and the cotton-eyed Joe, nowhere but Texas.

The Collector

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

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.