Did Texas Bill Invent the Selfie?
"After you’ve seen enough of my selfies, I become redundant and blurry, like telephone poles by the highway."
The Endless Indian Summer of Edward Sheriff Curtis
Curtis may have achieved the impossible, but the project broke him physically, mentally, and romantically.
Robert Johnson In Texas
This current show in Austin gathers wisps and glimmers of the songster’s fugitive saga and summarizes recent discoveries, and loving gestures of homage.
Overwhelmed by Wonder: Carolyn Boyd and Lower Pecos Rock Art
"Far from being the idle doodling of ancient peoples, the rock art of the Lower Pecos was part of a living landscape that provided food, shelter, and a connection with the spirit world.”
Bearing Witness: ‘Border Cantos’ at the Amon Carter
The Amon Carter's exhibition of the ongoing collaboration between Richard Misrach and Guillermo Galindo is designed to represent a journey.
Territory of the Imagination at UTEP
The show is actually a sprawling four-parter, and it expands our own outer-space references with its DIY explorations of stepping away from terra firma and venturing into the atmosphere and beyond.
As Above So Below: Art of the American Fraternal Society, 1850-1930
What makes these fellows odd? And why are they proclaiming it so publicly? Why are they organizing like this? Exactly how odd are they?
The Art of Frank Reaugh at the Harry Ransom Center
At some point in his long, productive life the artist Frank Reaugh (1860-1945) appraised his youthful self as “the most awkward fellow you ever saw.”...Read More
Sound Speed Marker: An Archeology of Cinema
When I left the Blaffer, I felt I could have watched each piece another 17 times, especially the last two, and still felt enlivened and refreshed.
Functionating on Time Station Earth with Esther Pearl Watson
Despite the instability caused by her father's obsession with space travel, most of the narratives in Watson's paintings are imbued with a sweetness of memory
The origins of Houston performance art: Oofty Goofty and Jim Pirtle
In 1897, Oofty wolfed down an entire quail in one sitting each night for 30 days, finishing off each bird by downing eight glasses of beer using a spoon and smoking a cigar in less than six minutes.
The Strange Mannequins of Phil Evett
Evett had his first solo exhibition at Laguna Gloria in Austin in 1956. His current show, at Hunt Gallery in San Antonio, runs through April 30.
