McKay Otto’s Fascinating Journey to Now
Texas artist McKay Otto creates ethereal, geometric paintings on translucent canvases that evoke lightboxes.
January 27, 2022
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San Antonio’s Presa House Celebrates Five Years of Supporting Artists
Presa House Gallery in San Antonio, Texas focuses on Latinx artists across south Texas, the Rio Grande region, and Mexico—and skirts that whole "artists-must-make-sales" model.
January 21, 2022
Review: Carlomagno Pedro Martínez at Art Museum of Southeast Texas
Internationally renowned Oaxacan artist Carlomagno Pedro Martínez uses folk iconography to restage moments of Mexican history in barro negro (black clay) at the Art Museum of Southeast Texas in Beaumont.
January 17, 2022
Review: The Dirty South at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
Artists in The Dirty South at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston work with materials and subject matter that reflect a century-long tradition of regional dialogue between Black visual art and music.
January 05, 2022
Work in Progress with Jay Chung
In our latest studio visit, Dallas-based painter Jay Chung addresses climate change and challenges perceptions of the human figure.
December 21, 2021
Review: Ciara Elle Bryant’s Server: Love Ta, Love Ta Love Ya at the MAC
Ciara Elle Bryant’s installation Server: Love Ta, Love Ta Love Ya at McKinney Avenue Contemporary collages photographs to create a visual bibliography while building a physical space for Black representation.
December 15, 2021
Rees Bowen’s Evolving Art Practice
Artist Rees Bowen works across multiple media and is an adept collaborator, creating custom commissions for designers and corporate collections and large-scale, site-specific installations for architects and contractors.
December 14, 2021
Local West Texas Gift Guide
A gift guide with local picks and online options from retailers throughout West Texas—from San Angelo over to El Paso.
December 10, 2021
Review: Gaku Tsutaja: Enola’s Head at Rubin Center
Gaku Tsutaja: Enola’s Head at UTEP’s Rubin Center recreates the aircraft that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima—and tells a different history of the victims and survivors of nuclear warfare.
December 06, 2021
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung Talks Comic Relief at the Blaffer Art Museum
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung discusses her work and process on the occasion of her survey exhibition Comic Relief at the Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston.
November 22, 2021
Review: 2021 Texas Biennial at SAMA and the McNay Art Museum
The 2021 Texas Biennial explores cross-sections of identity and project optimism in A New Landscape, A Possible Horizon across five venues in San Antonio and Houston.
November 15, 2021
Review: Dawolu Jabari at Galveston Artist Residency
Dawolu Jabari's large-scale drawings in Lessons from Above: Constellation Quilts at Galveston Artist Residency embed Black history, mythology, and folklore into the fabric of the cosmos.
November 10, 2021
Review: 40 Years, 40 Stories at San Antonio Museum of Art
The San Antonio Museum of Art celebrates its fortieth anniversary with an exhibition showcasing the global and chronological breadth of its permanent collection.
November 04, 2021
FeatureTexasVol. 4 Winter 2021
With Climate Emergency a Certainty, Gulf Coast Creatives Reflect on Art’s Value in Crisis
Houston creatives and artists discuss the influence of climate change on their individual practices and possibilities for creative responses to climate crisis.
October 29, 2021
FeatureTexasVol. 4 Winter 2021
The Artist in Exile: Emerging Choreographer Alexandra Honchell
Emerging choreographer Alexandra Honchell’s journey from company dancer to independent artist is reuniting her mind with her body.
October 29, 2021
Review: Michael Menchaca: The 1836 Project at Artpace, San Antonio
San Antonio artist Michael Menchaca’s Artpace exhibition, The 1836 Project, is an immersive video installation employing poppy animation to take aim at “the colonial fantasies of the Texas creation myth.”
October 29, 2021
Review: Matthew Bourbon: Hive at the Fort Worth Community Art Center
Matthew Bourbon: Hive at the Fort Worth Community Art Center challenges us to settle our buzzing brains through bold color, composition, and paint-manipulation strategies.
October 12, 2021
Review: The Art of SA Eats/Sabor a San Antonio at the McNay Art Museum
The McNay Art Museum celebrates San Antonio food culture with The Art of SA Eats, an exhibition combining poppy depictions of sweets and recreations of old-school restaurants and signage.
September 23, 2021
Dallas’s Ash Studios: An Interview with Fred Villanueva and Darryl Ratcliff
Ash Studios is a Dallas community art space inspiring art entrepreneurship and collaborations with the end goal of raising awareness for social justice issues and underrepresented artists.
September 21, 2021
Review: Gulf Coast Anthropocene at Project Row Houses
Gulf Coast Anthropocene, the latest exhibition at Project Row Houses in Houston, features works that stray from traditional narratives of the climate crisis to center the Black and brown communities most at risk.
September 13, 2021
Houston’s Project Freeway Calls Attention to Something Other Than Neighborhood Cuisine
The Project Freeway program by DiverseWorks in Houston amplifies the arts in the fast-growing city’s overlooked neighborhoods. It also provides artist fellowships to social-change and community-based practitioners.
August 20, 2021
Vol. 3 Inhale ExhaleArtistsTexas
Kayla Collymore and Donna Crump
Kayla Collymore and Donna Crump's dance and video collaboration Hypoxia is an acknowledgment and delayering of all the tension from the last year.
July 30, 2021
Vol. 3 Inhale ExhaleArtistsTexas
Alexandra Lechin
Artist Alexandra Lechin's practice explores her own anxiety and acts as a form of soothing during times of emotional unrest.
July 30, 2021
TexasReviewVol. 3 Inhale Exhale
Review: Imminent Archive: George Bolster & Dong Kyu Kim
In Imminent Archive, George Bolster and Dong Kyu Kim exhibit exquisite textile works that examine time, displacement, and the human search for home.
July 30, 2021
ReviewTexasVol. 3 Inhale Exhale
Review: Bradley Kerl: Balm
Bradley Kerl: Balm evokes a sense of calm and reminds us that life sometimes contains something of the sublime, as long as we keep looking for it.
July 30, 2021
Suzanne Bocanegra Casts Spotlight on Judy Garland’s Final Years
Suzanne Bocanegra’s video installation Valley at the Blanton Museum in Austin casts eight famous women artists in a reenactment of Judy Garland’s wardrobe test for Valley of the Dolls.
June 29, 2021
Allison Glenn Becomes CAMH’s New Senior Curator, Public Art Director
Allison Glenn, curator of a Breonna Taylor exhibition, starts at the CAMH in Texas on August 1, stepping into a post previously held by the beloved curator Valerie Cassel Oliver.
June 25, 2021
Review: New Hong Hong Exhibition at Asia Society Texas Center
At Asia Society Texas Center in Houston, Hong Hong’s massive, experimental paper works fuse nature, craft, painting, and the sublime.
June 22, 2021
FeatureTexasVol. 2 Flights of Fancy
Christian Cruz: The Fantasy of Rest in the Pandemic Era
Dallas artist Christian Cruz depicts the value of human interaction in a society taking inventory after so much loss and social reckoning.
April 30, 2021
ReviewTexasVol. 2 Flights of Fancy
Xxavier Edward Carter: Circulate: 7 Works on Paper
Texas artist Xxavier Edward Carter uses the anonymized debris of financial transactions and sales pitches as his canvases for the debut exhibition at Cluley Projects.
April 30, 2021
