
Meet the “Sad Little Houses” of Dallas, and the Artists on the Front Lines of the Housing Crisis
Three artists confront the Texas housing crisis with street-level projects using piñatas, murals, gentrification walking tours, and more.
May 06, 2025
Three artists confront the Texas housing crisis with street-level projects using piñatas, murals, gentrification walking tours, and more.
Michael Hubbard • May 06, 2025
Hallie Ayres follows the barbed wire strand to contrast the hypervisibility of Cadillac Ranch, the secrecy of Pantex, and the site-specificity of Combine City.
Hallie Ayres • April 29, 2025
Artist Jack Craft operates a cattle ranch in the Texas Panhandle while producing minimalist sculptures and experimental prints.
Natalie Hegert • April 17, 2025
FeatureTexasVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
Three San Antonio arts organizations leverage a land trust and other strategies to literally hold space on the rapidly growing city's Westside.
Jessica Fuentes • March 07, 2025
ArtistsTexasVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
Houston-based artist Cindee Klement depicts otherwise invisible systems and their interconnections to encourage local ecological recovery in the Energy Capital of the World.
Natalie Hegert • March 07, 2025
ArtistsTexasVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
Antonio Lechuga shrouds spaces in vibrant fleece blankets called cobijas, offering care, comfort, and commentary on gun violence.
Jessica Fuentes • March 07, 2025
ArtistsTexasVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
Laredo-based artist Gil Rocha uses found objects from his Texas neighborhood and items purchased across the U.S.-Mexico border to capture the duality of the region.
Jessica Fuentes • March 07, 2025
ReviewTexasVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
In Fort Worth—known as “Cowtown”—the exhibition Cowboy at the Amon Carter made waves by reimagining the mythology surrounding the American cowboy.
Emma S. Ahmad • March 07, 2025
Over 200 arts leaders descend on Austin's Capitol to dispense Texas charm—and return-on-investment pitches—for state funding at Texas Arts Advocacy Day.
Natalie Hegert • February 20, 2025
Amid a triumphant New York triennial, Fort Worth–based curator María Elena Ortiz looks back at her diasporic storytelling efforts—and calls for a bigger Latinx curatorial web.
Emma S. Ahmad • January 16, 2025
Capturing scenes of quotidian life and military infrastructure, Zoe Leonard's photo book and Chinati show underscore a borderlands reality: an unstoppable river runs through it.
Gene Fowler • November 21, 2024
Guadalupe Maravilla migrated from El Salvador to the U.S. as an unaccompanied eight-year-old. Now he's on a more metaphysical journey in his winged bus, Mariposa Relámpago.
Xan Murphy • November 01, 2024
Dario Robleto’s wide-ranging reach—in which the deepest interiors and most distant exteriors mix with popular culture and early analog media—is getting more articulate with each pass.
Hills Snyder • September 27, 2024
When the Lubbock City Council defunded a popular art event for promoting the “LGBT Agenda,” confirming fears of repressive drag bans in Texas, the art community got fired up.
Natalie Hegert • September 20, 2024
EssayTexasVol. 10 Radical Futures
Jon Revett compares and contrasts two monumental works of art, Amarillo Ramp and Cadillac Ranch, and discusses their possible futures.
Jon Revett • September 06, 2024
ArtistsTexasVol. 10 Radical Futures
Texas-based artist Bonny Leibowitz creates hybridized installations of natural and manufactured materials that reflect the impacts of isolation, environmental degradation, and human conflict.
Lynn Trimble • September 06, 2024
ArtistsTexasVol. 10 Radical Futures
Wills Brewer’s practice is rooted in research and documentation, emphasizing history at its most expansive, geologic scale.
Maggie Grimason • September 06, 2024
ArtistsTexasVol. 10 Radical Futures
El Paso-based artist Angel Cabrales's series The Uncolonized: Axihuical revolves around a futuristic parallel universe in which Europeans never colonized the Western Hemisphere.
Emma S. Ahmad • September 06, 2024
ReviewTexasVol. 10 Radical Futures
The de la Torre Brothers deliver a feast for the eyes—and warnings for the future—in their witty and maximalist exhibition at McNay Art Museum.
Emma S. Ahmad • September 06, 2024
Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler's colossal new video installation, Past Deposits from a Future Yet to Come, dramatically explores the archeological record of Austin's Waller Creek.
Gene Fowler • August 20, 2024
In this chosen family history from Texas, Xan Murphy asks, “If you’re the only queer person in your family, who will teach you to survive?”
Xan Murphy • July 12, 2024
On a recent residency, New York-based artist Melissa Joseph fell in love with the "intertwined" community of San Antonio. The feeling is mutual.
Gabriella Angeleti • July 01, 2024
Xicanx: Dreamers + Changemakers explores themes of community, borderlands, activism, home, identity, and the importance of public murals. On view at Contemporary at Blue Star in San Antonio through October6, 2024.
Contemporary at Blue Star • June 27, 2024
Explore the vibrant world of art and photography this summer with three new exhibitions now on view in Amarillo, Texas.
Amarillo Museum of Art • June 18, 2024
Inspired by a remarkable 1940s essay, Surrealism and Us in Fort Worth examines Afrosurrealist tools for battling fascism, colonialism, and cultural assimilation.
Leslie Thompson • June 17, 2024
Ángel Faz’s studio practice centers around observation and research, unearthing the shrouded history of the land and those who inhabit it.
Emma S. Ahmad • April 26, 2024
In this psychogeographic account, Emma S. Ahmad wanders the West End Historic District in downtown Dallas and considers how the various memorials reflect the shifting political landscape of the city.
Emma S. Ahmad • April 05, 2024
Sarah Sze at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas is proof the affair between an artist and museum doesn’t always result in marriage.
James Russell • March 28, 2024
NewsCollectivity + CollaborationTexas
The Fort Worth Circle, a progressive mid-century artist group, introduced modernism to the conservative North Texas town and laid the groundwork for the city’s vibrant art community of today.
Leslie Thompson • March 26, 2024
Belonging: Contemporary Native Ceramics from the Southern Plains brings together works by seven artists that range from ceramic vessels to monumental sculptures to installations that radiate outward in space.
Natalie Hegert • March 19, 2024
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