Review

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.

The experience of the performers on screen and viewers in the museum seems to dovetail.

Ledvina's works, described by the artist as his closest friends and worst kind of therapist, are enthralling. 

Speeding Motorcycle is a testament to Johnston’s singular, off-kilter genius, and also to the Catastrophic Theatre’s ability to refract a story of unrequited love into a radiant, immersive spectrum of sights and sounds. 

Maybe it’s a coincidence, and surely there is lots of environmentally minded work out there at the moment, but this trend could also represent an emergent point of view for the Lubbock art space.

Horn’s works argue an essential point: the pursuit of truth through knowledge is a quixotic endeavor.

What is a Whitney Biennial without a little controversy? Perhaps it’s a modest curatorial achievement that deserves great praise.

The exhibition asks us to consider queerness not so much as a static definition, but instead through the lens of a dynamic, ever-evolving narrative.

Given the almost aggressive blandness of so much of the artist’s subject matter coupled with the relatively generic facture of the paintings, we might find ourselves a bit hard-pressed to know exactly what to make of this show or why the museum has chosen to anoint Wood with its institutional imprimatur.

Two shows on the southern edge of the greater-Dallas area are on view, in varying states of air conditioning, through much of the summer.

What was so familiar fades, if only for a moment, back into mystery.

Youngblood’s underlying theme is the complexity of human lives and our conflicting desires for stability and change.

This could be a real breakthrough for Lina Dib. The potential for this work is expansive.

Artspace111 in Fort Worth currently hosts a varied group show featuring lush water-themed imagery by Carol Ivey, Madeline Irvine, and Deborah Mersky, paired with the contrasting arid landscape photography of Kristin Kirkley.

One of the joys of living in Texas is that the state’s mythology and presence looms so large that it often inspires visiting artists to make works specifically in response to the Lone Star State.

It does what all great sculpture does: it constellates a space and causes a new orbit to begin with it as its center.

La precisión con que acomodan cada chaquira es increíble. Una curadora me dijo que los artesanos huicholes trabajan sin plantillas. Empiezan así nada más, a mano alzada, igual que los grandes músicos de jazz improvisan sobre la escala dórica.

Minor quibbles aside, this series is remarkable for its ambition, rigor and depth.

Personal history, heritage, and cultural practice — combined with an ethical concern for the bio-material — contribute to expanding definitions of bio-art.

Lester uses blind contour — the act of drawing an object without looking at the paper — to physicalize the inherent impossibility of a perfect copy in the propagation of life.