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This article — in celebration of Valentine’s Day — is a chronological sampling of Apollo and Daphne images from different times and places, ranging from antiquity to 20th-century fantasies.

"Artists include Ed Blackburn, Alexander Calder, Lillian Garcia-Roig, L.O. Griffith, Sedrick Huckaby, Luis Jiménez, Coreen Spellman, James Surls, and Sarah Williams, among others."

Here are eight artist couples from across the state who've made work for each other, with each other, or about love.

"Emerging from the chaos of the pandemic and the fight for social justice, the show explores a shift in consciousness to a softer and more playful way of being."

Tady's fierce lines and rabid colors cooly embrace the rectangle, and fire visual ideas at the brain like a cyclone blasting cherry tree buds in spring.

Christopher Blay and Christina Rees on a Salvadoran artist’s debut in Dallas, an art scavenger hunt in Austin, and a Houston artist in San Antonio whose images and words may be just what we need right now.

A giant polymer concrete cabbage cannot tell you what it means; it can only be what it is.

"Inside the window of ICOSA, Csillagi and Gassiot create scapes using video, mixed media, and shadow play."

Our list ranges from artists whose works are represented in multiple national and international museums and collections, to mid-career artists, to emerging artists — some with their first couple of exhibitions in the past year.

Featuring works by Laura Drey, Ahra Cho, Royal Sumikat, and Brandon Tho Harris.

Don’t mess with Cupid.

Welcome to "In Residence," a new interview series that introduces readers to artists who come to Texas from other parts of the country — and other parts of the world — to participate in artist residency programs. 

I was looking for the motivation I used to find in watching Frank Serpico move into his place, and over a handful of years, fill it with the things he loves.

“A lot of the artists [here],  you grow up with them in the neighborhood, you just go from playing video games together to writing grants together. That's the path: playing outside, playing video games, grants. ” 

I don't take consistency for granted these days.

"Using stillness as a framework for abstraction, the exhibition illustrates how ritualizing everyday moments is transformed. Installations are activated by Amy Zapien, Colton James White, Brooke Chaney, and Paloma Salas."

Her classes made art feel like a world full of possibilities — a new language through which one can discover herself.

Brandon Zech and William Sarradet on some tricky architectural paintings, a Dallas cohort in the Panhandle, and fantastic use of an unexpected space in Houston.

Today: Stripes

This past weekend in Houston marked the third installment of Black Buddha Creative Agency and artist and curator Robert Hodge's exhibition "Collect It For the Culture III."