Review

Ruben Cordova reviews the "Calder-Picasso" and "Incredible Impressionism" exhibitions at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Lauren Moya Ford reviews the exhibition "A Commitment to What is Before You," on view at Northern-Southern in Austin.

This scholarly approach to Picasso emphasizes process and iteration – it helps audiences consider how paintings evolve in active, dynamic ways as they are being painted.

The quality of the work from the last two years of van Gogh’s life is astonishing, as is the speed with which he painted these pictures. I enthusiastically recommend this exhibition to anyone who appreciates art.

Liz Kim on artist César A. Martínez's recent exhibition at the Laredo Center for the Arts.

Through detailed, carefully crosshatched renderings, Charles White illustrates the strength and perseverance of Black women. Juxtaposing the figures with symbols of fragility and femininity, he reminds the viewer of the humanity of his subjects — something that is too often set aside when upholding our heroes.

Christian Cruz collapses Brancusi’s "Endless Column" and the myth of Sisyphus into a story of unrecognized labor.

“Many people think photography is realistic. I think it lies. I am often astonished to see something after I have seen a photograph of it. Often it isn’t accurate. It can be quite a bit different from the real thing.”

While much has been written about Milton Avery’s work, I was unfamiliar with that of his wife and daughter. In researching their work, I became aware of what has been termed the “Avery style”.

William Sarradet writes about recent San Antonio art exhibitions, performances, art walks, and more.

South Texas’ artists and artist-run spaces are projecting familia into an uncertain future.

Often art either asks the audience to ignore their surroundings or references the site as an afterthought — it really thrills me when a site-specific work utilizes the nature of a site to successfully drive a concept home.

Fashion is psychology. It deserves respect as the most personal of design fields, and the most operative visual expression of an individual’s identity.

Carol Bove is a magician. She cleverly reinvigorates the tradition of gigantic, supposedly heroic, and weighty commercial steel sculpture, subverting the usually orotund voice present in this type of artwork.

Jennifer Ling Datchuk’s exhibition of sculptures, many of which are from this year, follows the artist’s credo: to explain invisible things.

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Bold is taking a risk in asking her audience to welcome work that looks traditional when it is always marching forward, like the nomadic culture it honors and grieves.

Wayne Thiebaud may very well be the best painter of the 20th century.

Prospect.5 proposes ways of transcending past traumas through art and spiritual mediation to envision an equitable future where all peoples thrive.

In "Espejo Quemeda" Donna Huanca evokes geologic time and metaphoric place through a series of paintings, sculptures, and soundscapes inspired by the West Texas region.