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April 3, 2024
Calling All Art Lovers: Cottonwood Art Festival is Happening May 4th and 5th
Immerse yourself in a creative world of artwork and exhibitions May 4-5 in Richardson.
Art & Artists
Music
March 13, 2024
Terry Allen Doesn’t Care What the Smithsonian Wants
At eighty, the musician-artist-playwright is still doing things his way. (He is worried about the year 4024, though.)
Art
February 9, 2024
A North Texas Painter Gets a First Look at the Newest State Park
Before Palo Pinto Mountains State Park opens its doors the public, Billy Hassell, whose career is intertwined with wildlife conservation, got a sneak peek—sketchbook and watercolors in hand.
Art
February 7, 2024
The Houston Artist Helping Her Neighbors Send Nudes
An initiative by Art League Houston and artist Nyssa Juneau aims to make the historic art form of naked portraiture safe for the digital age.
Art
January 24, 2024
A Marfa Art Fair Has Landed in a Financial Hole. Will a New Sculpture Be Enough of a Distraction?
Marfa Invitational has suffered IRS troubles and board member shuffling, but founder Michael Phelan is counting ‘Sleeping Figure’ a victory.
Art
October 23, 2023
An Ann Harithas Exhibition Puts the Famous Patron’s Art Front and Center
The Art Car Museum’s reopened retrospective spotlights the deeply personal collages made by one half of Texas’s legendary art power couple.
Texas Country Reporter
September 28, 2023
In Fredericksburg, Vintage Objects Meet a Modern Message
Watercolorist Sara Drescher starts her creative process at thrift shops and animates her still lifes with feminist themes.
Texas History
September 18, 2023
The Donkey Lady Has Haunted Generations of San Antonians. She Has Her Own Talk Show.
The legendary Donkey Lady is alive (sort of) and has a lot to say about San Antonio.
Country Notes
August 10, 2023
This 78-Year-Old Artist and Rancher Has Spent His Life Chasing a Pure and Wide-open Space
Mike Capron never felt comfortable until he settled west of the Pecos River.
Art
August 8, 2023
Meet Artist Nestor Topchy, the Mad Genius Hidden in Houston Heights
Behind a rim of freeze-dried giant bamboo and scraggly trees, in a Houston Heights neighborhood caught between old apartments and new townhomes, lies the compound that has been artist Nestor Topchy’s laboratory for twenty-odd years. His place is a natural habitat for wildlife and his own wildest dreams; if there could
Art
July 31, 2023
Urban Frontier Artist Jesse Lott Found a New Kind of Beauty in Houston
Jesse Lott, the influential cofounder of Project Row Houses who died last week at age eighty, was a genius in his own right.
Art
July 13, 2023
The Texas Artist You Hope to Never Meet
Self-trained muralist Roberto Marquez creates public art after mass shootings and other tragedies. Unfortunately for everyone, he’s been very busy.
Art
June 27, 2023
West Texas’s Baby Buc-ee’s Is Back, Baby
A Buc-ee’s representative tells Texas Monthly cleaning crews were promptly dispatched to the remote location.
Texas Country Reporter
April 6, 2023
Renowned Houston Photographer Earlie Hudnall Jr. Always Has His Camera In Hand
Famous for portraits of Houston’s Black community, Hudnall's work is recognized around the world while his subject matter remains distinctly local.
Texas Country Reporter
March 31, 2023
A Fine-Art Photographer in Beaumont Focuses on the Beauty of Bugs
Lyne Raff gets up close and personal with moths, cicadas, and other intricate insects.
Texas Country Reporter
March 27, 2023
An Austin Artist With That Corky Charm
Beki Morris creates mosaic images from wine corks. By playing with textures, colors, and shapes, she creates impressive depth and detail.
Texas Country Reporter
February 28, 2023
On the Wide Plains West of Lubbock, a Chainsaw Carver Works From an Old Cotton Gin
From small woodland creatures to life-size figures, Cam Dockery has used chainsaws to carve more than 10,000 sculptures in his hometown of Whitharral.
Texas Country Reporter
February 27, 2023
Life Lessons From a Hometown Art Teacher
Mark Nesmith is an art teacher and Beaumont native with a simple message: you don't need to travel far to foster a creative life.
Art
February 24, 2023
A Digital-Age Exhibit in Fort Worth Will Spike Your Blood Pressure
An anxiety-inducing new show at the Modern Art Museum reminds us just how thoroughly screens have co-opted our daily lives.
Texas Country Reporter
January 31, 2023
A San Antonio Glass Artist Takes Inspiration From the Ancients
Glen Andrews describes a glassblowing process as equally informed by philosophy and meditation as it is by craftsmanship.
Texas Country Reporter
January 23, 2023
A Texas Artist Creates Detailed Images With Nothing but Her Lips
Natalie Irish describes her lipstick-art process as “making out with a canvas.” Her stamplike technique showcases her unique brand of creativity and playful irreverence.
Texas Country Reporter
January 19, 2023
A Forester Turned Artist Creates Wire Sculptures of Trees
Retired forester Mike Woody lives in a log cabin in the Piney Woods creating intricate tree sculptures. You just can’t make this stuff up.
Art
November 10, 2022
One of Texas’s Greatest Artists Lives Quietly in East Texas—and Was a Beloved Professor to Famous Art Stars
Lee Baxter Davis is an unrecognized master because he’s never played to popular or critical tastes.
Art
October 19, 2022
The Heavy Metal Genius of Melvin Edwards
A new exhibition at the University of Texas at Austin spotlights the life and work of the Houston native, one of the country’s foremost abstract sculptors.
Texas Country Reporter
September 30, 2022
A La Grange Artist Creates Hyperrealistic Wildlife Art With the Flick of a Pen
Sally Maxwell’s images, made from thousands upon thousands of hairline scratches, are impressively detailed.
Art
July 13, 2022
JooYoung Choi and the Multiverse of Gladness
As her latest works vividly demonstrate, the Houston visual artist is the perfect balm for our era of polarization and bullying.
Art
May 10, 2022
“Nature Cult” Is a Thicket of Remarkable Art on Ecological Themes
In the captivating show, on view at the McNay, San Antonio native Donald Moffett remixes the museum’s collection alongside his own work.
Texas Country Reporter
April 28, 2022
Calder Kamin’s Art Redefines What is Trash
The Austin-based artist recycles discarded plastic into beautiful animal sculptures and hopes to inspire others to eliminate waste.
Texas Country Reporter
April 19, 2022
For Enedina Vasquez, Life and Art Were Inseparable
Texas Country Reporter remembers the late artist, whose San Antonio house was covered from corner to corner in art, memories, and poetry.
Art
April 8, 2022
Texas’s Newest Master Sculptor Is a Parrot Named Hannah
Houston sculptor John Havel discovered he was living with a genius. “I thought, ‘Oh my God, my parrot can make Giacomettis.’ ”
Film & TV
March 4, 2022
TM Recommends: A Transportive TikTok Travel Agent
Plan your next road trip, work out, and binge-watch with our staff’s help.
Made in Texas
February 15, 2022
Colorful Threads Come to Life in Wall Hangings by a Richardson Artist
Nosheen Iqbal incorporates her Pakistani heritage into the embroidery and wood pieces that she crafts in her home studio near Dallas.
Art
November 19, 2021
EAST Austin Is Over. What’s Next for an Art Scene That’s Losing Its Nucleus?
An annual tour of artist studios opts for a wider map as cost of living blows up the east side of the city.
Art
November 9, 2021
Portrait of the Artist as a Borderland Working-class Hero
A Luis Jiménez exhibition in Austin focuses on Southwestern themes in the art of the late, great El Pasoan.
Art
August 13, 2019
On Texas Time: Dan Lam, Drip Sculpture Artist
The Dallas-based sculptor talks about what fuels her creativity, her favorite Texas hikes, and more.
Art
March 29, 2019
Let Us Now Celebrate the Croatian Artist Who Finds the Fantastical in James Harden’s Beard
The most iconic facial hair in Texas sports has proven to be a creative muse for Filip Peraić.
Art
March 22, 2019
Margarita Cabrera’s Monumental ‘Arbol de la Vida’ Grows in San Antonio
The artist's collaborative creation, like her other work, is deeply rooted in the communities she works with.
Art
February 22, 2019
How ‘Checkpoint Carlos,’ a Work of Art Along the Texas Border, Was Inspired by Memories of the Berlin Wall
As government land seizures roil the Valley, a German-born artist points to stark historical parallels.
Style & Design
February 20, 2019
San Antonio Artists Create a His-and-Hers Studio
Painter Caroline Korbell Carrington and sculptor William Carrington work together in a modern structure in their backyard.
Art
September 14, 2016
Fame in the Abstract
Dorothy Hood was one of Texas’s greatest artists, yet her work remains largely unknown. Now, sixteen years after her death, can her fans bring her the acclaim she never received in life?
Art
January 20, 2013
Blue Period
Thanks to his wildly popular bluebonnet paintings, Dallas artist W.A. Slaughter is living on easel street.
Music
January 20, 2013
Drawing Conclusions
Before chronicling the South by Southwest Music and Media Conference for Texas Monthly, New York illustrator Steve Brodner had never been to Austin—but that actually worked to his advantage. “The idea was to capture the scene as someone who just happened upon it,” he says. “I wasn’t trying to get
Art
September 30, 2012
Portrait of the Artist as a Postman
The only American ever to design scarves for the exclusive French fashion house Hermès is Kermit Oliver, a 69-year-old postal worker from Waco who lives in a strange and beautiful world all his own.
Art
February 1, 2003
An Unmarried Woman
My divorce made me what I am today.
Art
March 1, 1998
The Return of the Native
With a major retrospective of his work at three Houston museums, Robert Rauschenberg is once again the talk of Texas. What’s he been up to? A portrait of the artist as an old man.
Art
July 31, 1997
Folks
The boom in “outsider” art that began in New York, Chicago, and Atlanta has finally come to Texas, driven by true visionaries whose images conjure worlds that may have never existed but are invariably inhabitedby penetrating psychological truths.
Texas History
June 30, 1997
Georgia O’Keeffe
In which Texas towns did Georgia O’Keeffe teach art, and for which photographer did she pose nude?
Art
April 30, 1997
Artbeat
Charting the state’s museum-building boom.
Art
November 1, 1996
Dual in the Sun
What do the sculptures of Jim Magee and the paintings of Annabel Livermore have in common? Nothing—except that they were created by the same person.
Art
November 1, 1996
Stella Houston
The University of Houston thinks Frank Stella is frankly stellar.