Art
August 3, 2022
In Fort Worth, a Tale of Two Beheadings
In one shared gallery, contemporary portraitist Kehinde Wiley and Baroque-era painter Artemisia Gentileschi both depict the violent biblical story of Judith.
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July 18, 2022
A Houston Artist Packs Justice, Humor, and Insight Into This “Neocolonial” Tarot Deck
Patrick McGrath Muñiz has crafted a beautiful deck that provokes questions about social justice, climate change, and your own way forward.
Sponsored
July 1, 2022
See San Antonio, the Real and True City
Art infuses every corner of San Antonio—from stunning sculptures and contemporary immersive exhibits, to fine art installations at museums with carefully curated collections and murals from some of the city and country’s most gifted artists. Art and culture are celebrated throughout the city in ways that are surprising and
Style & Design
May 31, 2022
Art or Blasphemy? Whatever Your Take, Book Wheels Get Bibliophiles Talking
Lubbock-based artist Jon Whitfill is on a mission to transform discarded texts into eye-popping works of art.
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.
Art
April 8, 2022
‘The Plastic Bag Store’ Is a Shrine to Weird, Anti-Consumerist Austin
A dystopian puppet show and aisles of groceries made out of plastic bags kick off Fusebox Festival 2022.
Art
April 6, 2022
The World’s Tiniest Buc-ee’s Has Appeared in West Texas
The anonymous artist calls the piece “a light-hearted jab . . . at America’s propensity for ever-expanding excess.”
Art
January 11, 2022
Bye-bye, Mr. American Pie
Texans have five days to celebrate Wayne Thiebaud, the late painter famous for his delectable still lifes, at an eye-popping retrospective in San Antonio.
Art
January 5, 2022
Fred Baldwin’s Life Was Worth 1,000 Pictures
Baldwin, who died in December, fought in Korea, met Picasso, traveled the world, and, with his wife, Wendy Watriss, made Houston a photography capital.
Art
December 21, 2021
2021 Was . . . ? These Works of Art Help Make Sense of It.
‘Texas Monthly’ contributors share which works best captured a year that seems to defy categorization—and which shows they’re looking forward to in 2022.
Art
December 13, 2021
You’ve Never Seen the Rio Grande Valley This Way
The Valley’s landscapes and people are subjects of a transporting art exhibit in San Antonio's Presa House gallery.
Art
November 20, 2021
Remembering Dave Hickey, Brilliant Art Critic and Renegade Texan
The celebrated Fort Worth writer and entrepreneur spent most of his life in exile from his home state. But it never lost its grip on his imagination.
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 3, 2021
The Must-see Art Show of the Fall Is in . . . Waco?
Reclusive mailman and genius autodidact Kermit Oliver shows himself to be a hidden gem of Texas painting.
Art
September 15, 2021
One of the Country’s First Racially Integrated Fine Art Shows Gets an Overdue Update
A new exhibit in Houston's Fifth Ward is an homage to—and a critique of—one of the country's first racially integrated art shows.
Art
September 8, 2021
Can a Big, Texas-Wide Survey of Contemporary Art Tell Us Where We Go From Here?
The 2021 Texas Biennial abounds with new monuments for a state and art community in transition.
Art
March 16, 2021
Delita Martin Paints an Invitation Into the Spiritual Realm
The Huffman-based artist’s larger-than-life portraits of Black women are on view at the Art Museum of Southeast Texas.
Art
February 16, 2021
Flying Nuns, Wild Hogs, and Bible Camp Apocalypse: Jennifer May Reiland Paints a Texas Revelation
The Houston-born painter explores questions of faith alongside the myths and legends of Texas history.
Art
October 16, 2020
Diedrick Brackens’s New Exhibition Mythologizes Blackness and Queerness
The Mexia-born artist’s new Blanton Museum show, “darling divined,’’ features striking woven textiles that reimagine stories central to his upbringing.
Art
October 6, 2020
An Oral History of notsuoH, Houston’s Most Idiosyncratic “Work of Living Art”
For nearly a quarter century, this bohemian venue and ”social sculpture” has been a gathering place for poets, performance artists, and even a rooster or two.
Art
April 20, 2020
A San Antonio Artist Is Attempting to Lift People’s Spirits With “Pandemic Lotería”
Rafael Gonzales Jr. has developed a version of the classic game for the age of the coronavirus.
Art
October 16, 2019
On Texas Time: Carter Watkins, Bead Sculpture Artist
The Austin native talks making a beaded guitar for Shakey Graves—and how a skull on the side of the road helped him find his medium.
The National Podcast of Texas
September 23, 2019
Austin Kleon: “Scumbags and Lowlifes Can Create Beautiful Art”
On this week’s National Podcast of Texas, a conversation with the writer/illustrator about sustaining a creative life, the state of self-help, and the perils of cancel culture.
Art
August 27, 2019
‘We Exist, We Have Voices, We Have Stories’: A New Festival Confronts the Borderland’s Complexity
Art and activism intersected at the Rio Grande Valley’s first Encuentro en la Frontera.
Music
March 21, 2019
Premiere: The Final Chapter of Terry Allen’s ‘Pedal Steal’
The Lubbock native talks about his trippy, blood-flecked radio plays, the border wall, and working with Jo Harvey Allen.
Art
November 19, 2018
In Dallas, Ida O’Keeffe Could Finally Escape Georgia’s Shadow
Georgia O'Keeffe's talented younger sister was forgotten by art historians. A new exhibit in Dallas aims to shed light on her work.
Arts & Entertainment
February 15, 2018
Unveiling Ellsworth Kelly’s ‘Austin’
The debut of a destination showpiece on the University of Texas campus marks a turning point for the Capital City.
Art
December 16, 2017
Chelsea Manning and Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova Talk Trump, Putin, and Resistance
A summit on art and activism at Houston’s Day for Night festival pulled no punches.
Art
September 29, 2017
Art in the Shadow of Trump at the Texas Biennial
The 2017 Texas Biennial offers work from Texans around the state and across the border.
Art
September 29, 2017
Meet the Vegan Sculptor Responsible for the State Fair of Texas’s Butter Sculpture
Ken Robison has been an artist for decades, but when he was asked to make the State Fair's butter sculpture, he got to use a new medium.
Travel & Outdoors
October 20, 2016
Texas Museum Guide
The state's best repositories of art, historical objects, and natural wonders.
Music
December 5, 2014
Flyers on the Wall
Austin concert posters.
June 17, 2014
Stanley Marsh 3, the Infamous West Texas Eccentric, Has Died
The 76-year-old Amarilloan gained international fame for funding the Cadillac Ranch art installation, which turns forty this weekend. But his legacy was tainted by sordid allegations of sexual abuse.
Art
June 10, 2014
The Saga of UT and Ryan O’Neal’s Battle For Andy Warhol’s Farrah Fawcett Portrait Has Finally Ended
We'll never know who Farrah truly loved, but everybody has agreed that the painting belongs to Ryan O'Neal.
Art
April 7, 2014
Here Are Some Things We’d Like to See George W. Bush Paint
His "World Leaders" series of portraits opened last week at the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum, albeit to mixed reviews. What should the former President paint next?
Art
February 13, 2014
How Prison Art From Texas Captured the Art World’s Attention
Paños, small cloth swatches decorated with detailed illustrations by inmates, now hang in New York museums and are snapped up by worldly collectors.
The Culture
December 11, 2013
The Checklist
What to see, hear, read, and watch this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
The Daily Post
October 30, 2013
Sulphur Springs’s Glass-Walled Public Toilet Vies to Succeed Buc-ees as “America’s Best Restroom”
What's so special about the Northeast Texas town's facility? It's a room with a view.
Travel & Outdoors
October 28, 2013
Texas’s Love Affair with James Turrell
Turrell, now one of the most famous artists alive, has long captivated the attention of Texas's art patrons, bringing world-class art to the state's museums and universities.
The Culture
September 13, 2013
Did Playboy Screw Prada?
The dustup around Playboy's controversial art installation outside of Marfa revealed regulations that might require the removal of the famous Prada Marfa sculpture.
Style & Design
January 21, 2013
Dallas’s “Elegant” and “Graceful” Museum Tower Would Like to Apologize For Being So Shiny
The owners of Museum Tower took out a full-page ad in the Dallas Morning News Friday to (sort of) apologize that the new building is so shiny.
The Wanderer
August 29, 2012
Houston: James Turrell’s Skyspace
During a recent trip to Houston, I decided to make an early-bird dinner reservation so I could get over to the Rice University campus in time for the evening viewing of James Turrell’s Light Epiphany. Open since June, the site-specific “skyspace” was commissioned to mark the
Web Exclusive
April 30, 2012
Finding Peace and Joy in Austin
How a rare statue in an unassuming temple made the capital city a place to seriously study Buddhism.
Art
February 1, 2008
Dario Robleto
He did not grow up planning to become an artist: Robleto was captain of the football team at San Antonio’s Robert E. Lee High School and initially chose biology as his major at UT-San Antonio. But in 1993 he quite literally had an epiphany and turned to making art.
Art
January 1, 2007
Face Value
A brush with greatness.
Art
July 31, 1999
Speed, Queen
Austin painter Julie Speed is the latest ascendant to the ranks of art royalty. Talk about a brush with greatness.
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
August 31, 1997
Art • Peter Marzio
On the money.
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.
Style & Design
May 1, 1985
Crack Pots
One man’s Mexican pot is another man’s collectible.