
Of Venom, Virility, and Vulnerability: José Villalobos at Big Medium in Austin
José Villalobos’s exhibition Fuertes y Firmas at Big Medium in Austin defiantly extracts beauty from brutality.
November 27, 2023
José Villalobos’s exhibition Fuertes y Firmas at Big Medium in Austin defiantly extracts beauty from brutality.
Barbara Purcell • November 27, 2023
The first Cey Adams retrospective displays more than four decades of the artist’s commercial collaborations with global brands and hip-hop visuals that include Public Enemy and Beastie Boys album covers.
James Russell • November 20, 2023
Donna Zarbin-Byrne’s solo exhibition at Arts Fort Worth immerses viewers in fantastical representations of ecosystems from Texas and Hawai’i in the wake of climate crisis.
Emma S. Ahmad • November 14, 2023
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith provokes conversations about Indigenous peoples and transforms the contemporary art canon with her long-overdue career retrospective.
Leslie Thompson • November 03, 2023
If the Sky Were Orange: Art in the Time of Climate Change looks at global warming with a right brain/left brain lineup of scientists, journalists, and artists.
Barbara Purcell • October 24, 2023
The World Outside: Louise Nevelson at Midcentury at the Amon Carter takes a fresh look at the influential artist through a historical lens, and argues that the world shaped her.
James Russell • October 03, 2023
Amy Cutler: Past, Present, Progress at Ruby City in San Antonio follows a community of women performing ambiguous domestic tasks as a means of feminist critique.
Emma S. Ahmad • September 19, 2023
Groundswell: Women of Land Art features twelve artists—some names familiar, some fresh—all working concurrently yet in the shadow of their male Land Art counterparts.
Natalie Hegert • September 18, 2023
Jammie Holmes’s first solo museum exhibition celebrates the lives of everyday Black folk while continuing the rich tradition of Black figurative painting.
Leslie Thompson • September 05, 2023
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Ariel Wood leverages plumbing into an aesthetic and artistic endeavor that interrogates the social and material realities of our lives.
Joshua Ware • September 01, 2023
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JD Pluecker explores the artworks of five artists in the exhibition Soy de Tejas, looking at issues of home and belonging in Texas.
JD Pluecker • September 01, 2023
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Ja’Tovia Gary’s I KNOW IT WAS THE BLOOD at the Dallas Museum of Art positions daily life, ritual, and cultural traditions on the center stage.
Laura Neal • September 01, 2023
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Fernando Andrade, an artist based in San Antonio, paints vibrant scenes of Latinx fiestas on styrofoam plates, reclaiming the material as a transmitter of joyful origins rather than disposable mementos.
Gina Pugliese • September 01, 2023
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Dallas-based artist Narong Tintamusik explores themes of personal and cultural heritage while acknowledging the corporeal relationship between humanity and waste.
Joshua Ware • September 01, 2023
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Bella Varela’s colorfully irreverent interdisciplinary practice disfigures the facade of the American Dream to betray the weaknesses in the foundation of Western visual culture.
Justin Duyao • September 01, 2023
Hayley Labrum Morrison’s eerily provocative work invites viewers to contemplate the formation of identity, gender, and body politics within über-religious patriarchal systems.
Scotti Hill • August 28, 2023
I Am Not Your Mexican at Ruiz-Healy Art in San Antonio explores how Mexican and Mexican American artists have expanded the limitations of Post-Minimalism.
Emma S. Ahmad • August 25, 2023
Tamara Johnson’s exhibition House Salad at Lora Reynolds Gallery in Austin examines the absurdity of daily domesticity with mass-produced kitchen items turned into one-of-a-kind sculptures.
Barbara Purcell • August 04, 2023
Pencil on Paper Gallery extends the line of Black-owned galleries that trace the foundational practices of accessibility, inclusivity, and representation among art spaces in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
Laura Neal • July 05, 2023
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La Trampa Gráfica Contemporánea in Mexico City and Familia Printshop in Dallas engage in a long tradition of Mexican printmaking. The two print shops also illustrate the power of collaboration.
Ania Hull • July 04, 2023
This Blanton Museum of Art exhibition highlights how day jobs feed art practices by providing artists with materials, production methods, and ideas.
Thao Votang • May 19, 2023
Betelhem Makonnen of Austin expands the silences of history and develops work and language to describe nonlinear time.
Thao Votang • May 03, 2023
Luis Jiménez’s monumental sculptures are found all over the country. Why is the artist not more well known?
Natalie Hegert • March 28, 2023
Ecstatic Land at Ballroom Marfa proposes an expanded definition of the landscape genre by assembling a transgenerational group of artists for this exhibition and film series.
Alana Wolf-Johnson • March 15, 2023
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Janette Terrazas utilizes her artistic practice to protest against water contamination in the El Paso-Juárez binational region.
Edgar Picazo Merino • March 10, 2023
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Houston-based artist Gabriel Martinez's artworks explore social, political, economic, and historical issues through charged found objects, such as radioactive trinitite.
Joshua Ware • March 03, 2023
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The stories of Marie Lorenz’s Charøn CrosSing and the power plant cooling pond, located on the same street in Austin, Texas.
Emily E. Lee • March 03, 2023
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Artist Trey Burns on the Fair Park Lagoon, an iconic, yet overlooked, land art work by Patricia Johanson in Dallas, Texas.
Trey Burns • March 03, 2023
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Immersive Abstractions showcases Laura Turón's visual and social practices at the Rubin Center for the Visual Arts in El Paso.
Edgar Picazo Merino • March 03, 2023
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Jack Bowers of Waco, Texas considers water’s long-term, permanent relationship with humanity and how Earth’s natural elements are inseparable from consciousness.
Steve Jansen • March 03, 2023
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