Gene Fowler

Gene Fowler and William Williams' book, 'Metro Music – Celebrating a Century of the Trinity River Groove,' explores the visual record of the musical history of Dallas, Fort Worth, and the surrounding area.

The prototypes for our rangy, tougher-than-leather symbols of American independence were Mexican. Without vaqueros crossing the Rio Grande, there would have been no "Lonesome Dove."

Clemons’ photographs have a hardscrabble grace about them, with a rawboned edge that is sweetened with Main Street exoticism.

If you’re into art it’s probably a safe assumption that you’re not the wimpy sort who can’t wait a few more days to behold a book.

Decades ago, I accidentally began collecting stories and images of Texans who carried out unusual activities in the past. I came to see the individuals as outsider artists who engaged in performance and conceptual art. Here are some of their stories.

Episodes have addressed artists’ day jobs, gentrification and neighborhood displacement, the Alamo in cinema, long gone music venues of San Antonio, Hemisfair 1968, Fiesta Noche del Rio, and UFOs in South Texas.

The curator dates the beginnings of a focus on the “complex relationship” between contemporary art and anthropology to the early 1990s.

  Editor’s note: This article was published in English on Glasstire on July 3. Find that here.  Traducción del inglés de Yolanda Fauvet. Un caballo azul gigante de mirada abrasadora…

Magee has been discriminatingly ubiquitous for decades

Texas-based visual artists have fallen under the songsters’ spells, making works that channel their power and allure.

The show is a stunning collection of greatest hits from Texas art history, supplemented with wild cards that surprise, challenge, and delight.

How new is this 'New West?' Museumgoers will realize that Western art is not uniformly relegated to relic status, and that vast horizons of the genre continue to evolve.

As an Independence Day special, we bring you a profile of one of the true greats.

There remains compelling early Texas art still undiscovered. The greater art world needs research programs like CASETA.

At Texas State University’s Wittliff Collections in San Marcos, a variety of historical research materials illumine writers’ methods and explore the mysterious places where stories originate.

A half-century of anyone’s artistic activity is a lot of ground to cover, and Hester describes the upcoming show as a collage of his work, with all the variation one might expect in art produced for commerce and culture over such a span of time.

As a panorama moving through the decades, the images present a rolling chronology of style and pastime that brings our collective memory into the glimmering yet gawky end of the previous century.

Leissner shot some 3,500 rolls of film of '80s Austin, artfully documenting the city’s tribal beat, performing arts, and body politic.

Webb has come to 100W to conjure and divine the history and lingering presence of Navarro County African-American psychic Annie Buchanan.

There is great value, Hudnall stresses, in creating artistic documentation of the everyday people and activities in one’s own community.