Day Jobs Busts Myths, Raises Questions at the Blanton Museum of Art
This Blanton Museum of Art exhibition highlights how day jobs feed art practices by providing artists with materials, production methods, and ideas.
May 19, 2023
Texas
Work in Progress with Betelhem Makonnen
Betelhem Makonnen of Austin expands the silences of history and develops work and language to describe nonlinear time.
May 03, 2023
The Outsized Presence of Luis Jiménez in the Southwest
Luis Jiménez’s monumental sculptures are found all over the country. Why is the artist not more well known?
March 28, 2023
A Generous Proposal at Ballroom Marfa’s Ecstatic Land
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.
March 15, 2023
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Janette Terrazas: An Artist’s Fight to Preserve Water at the Border
Janette Terrazas utilizes her artistic practice to protest against water contamination in the El Paso-Juárez binational region.
March 10, 2023
ArtistsTexasVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
Gabriel Martinez
Houston-based artist Gabriel Martinez's artworks explore social, political, economic, and historical issues through charged found objects, such as radioactive trinitite.
March 03, 2023
FeatureTexasVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
On Holly Street
The stories of Marie Lorenz’s Charøn CrosSing and the power plant cooling pond, located on the same street in Austin, Texas.
March 03, 2023
EssayTexasVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
Postcard from the Fair Park Lagoon
Artist Trey Burns on the Fair Park Lagoon, an iconic, yet overlooked, land art work by Patricia Johanson in Dallas, Texas.
March 03, 2023
ReviewTexasVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
Immersive Abstractions
Immersive Abstractions showcases Laura Turón's visual and social practices at the Rubin Center for the Visual Arts in El Paso.
March 03, 2023
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Jack Bowers
Jack Bowers of Waco, Texas considers water’s long-term, permanent relationship with humanity and how Earth’s natural elements are inseparable from consciousness.
March 03, 2023
FeatureMexicoTexasVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
Accidental Beauty in Unexpected Shapes: María José Crespo, the River, and Artistic Research
Writer and artist JD Pluecker writes about the Artpace exhibition of María José Crespo and their joint trip to the border to do artistic research around Del Rio, Texas.
March 03, 2023
Studio VisitTexasVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
The Mesquite Mile: Erin Charpentier, Kim Karlsrud, Travis Neel, and Daniel Phillips
For this social practice collective in Lubbock, Texas, the mesquite tree has become a charismatic icon for water conservation and urban afforestation.
March 03, 2023
Stranger(s) in the Village brings Gary Burnley to the Amarillo Museum of Art
Gary Burnley's collages explore representation, memory, and an image’s meaning through contrast in the exhibition Stranger(s) in the Village at the Amarillo Museum of Art.
March 02, 2023
Michael Anthony García: “Grounded in a Utopian Projection of Positivity”
Michael Anthony García, an Austin-based artist and curator, creates installation, video, and sculptural work that explores personal questions of identity and cultivates community.
February 20, 2023
Work in Progress with Bryan and Jeff Wheeler
The Wheeler Brothers—Bryan of Lubbock and Jeff of San Antonio—employ maximal methods influenced by humility, music, hidden hot springs, and breakdancing in the Texas Panhandle.
February 09, 2023
Alternative Worlds of What Ifs, Brought to You by Angel Cabrales
Angel Cabrales, a devotee of science, sci-fi, and his own cultural heritage based in El Paso, creates alternate worlds that are more playful than the serious and broken one we live in.
January 11, 2023
Local Texas Gift Guide 2022
From handcrafted boots to an indispensable indigenous cookbook, here are giftable gems for that special Texan in your life.
December 12, 2022
Cannupa Hanska Luger: Reunion Reckons With Annihilation While Dreaming of the Future
Cannupa Hanska Luger melds past and future in an Amarillo Museum of Art exhibition that pays tribute to millions of massacred Plains bison.
November 28, 2022
Artists Turn to Text for Concise Social Messages at the Rubin Center in El Paso
In (RE)CONTEXT at the Rubin Center in El Paso, ten contemporary artists integrate text into their practices, recontextualizing and reappropriating words to create tools of social change.
November 23, 2022
Ho Baron’s 50-Year Retrospective of Outsider Art in El Paso
Ho Baron: Gods for Future Religions at the El Paso Museum of Art is an uncanny blend of maximalism, surrealism, the ascetic, and the interstellar.
October 10, 2022
FeatureTexasVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
What Waterfall? Finding Landscape in the Metroplex
Trey Burns of Sweet Pass Sculpture Park explores the manufactured landscape of North Texas and its echo natures.
August 26, 2022
Work in Progress with Austin Uzor
Dallas-based artist Austin Uzor blends the figure and the Southwest landscape in oil paintings that blur the boundaries of figurative painting.
August 23, 2022
Review: Borna Sammak: america, nice place Tackles U.S. Cultural Touchstones
Borna Sammak’s exhibition america, nice place at Dallas Contemporary conceptually and materially questions popular American archetypes and the redundancies of cultural consumerism.
July 26, 2022
Review: Bottomland Artist Brook-Lynne Clark at Sweet Pass Sculpture Park
At Sweet Pass Sculpture Park, Brook-Lynne Clark finds signs of her life on the Blackland Prairie in Big Tex is Burning, which tracks her relationship with embedded histories of Dallas.
June 22, 2022
Curator Profile: Laura August of the Rubin Center in El Paso
Laura August joins the Rubin Center and builds on a program that nurtures connections between art and artists in Ciudad Juárez and El Paso.
June 20, 2022
Yvonne Force Villareal Launches Brite Force in Marfa
Curator Yvonne Force Villareal inaugurates Brite Force, a new arts initiative in Marfa, Texas, with an exhibition of surreal Western paintings by Will Cotton.
June 15, 2022
Fort Worth’s Kinfolk House Draws Artists and Neighbors Together
Kinfolk House’s entry to social practice art is meant to investigate community, culture, and isolation in the venue’s neighborhood of Polytechnic Heights and beyond in Fort Worth.
June 13, 2022
Miraflores: San Antonio’s Mexican Garden of Memory by Anne Elise Urrutia
Drawing on public and private archives and fifty years of personal documentation, Anne Elise Urrutia’s book Miraflores brings to life her great-grandfather’s San Antonio garden in unmatched detail.
May 19, 2022
Impractical Spaces: 5 Alternative Art Venues in Houston
A book series diving into historical and current alternative art establishments in major stateside cities visits Texas in Impractical Spaces: Houston. Here are five current H-Town favorites from the book.
April 20, 2022
Work in Progress with Nick Barbee
Galveston, Texas artist Nick Barbee uses the process of abstraction in recounting American history and personal experiences in his paintings, sculpture, and installation.
April 05, 2022
