Review

If we agree that artistic inspiration, in the formal art world context, springs from mysterious sources in the mind, emotions, and senses, then creative impulses that find an outlet outside that context are mystery ad infinitum.

The plot twist is that the critique is less about humans exercising control of their environment, and more about the repercussions of chemical resistance that follows monoculture.

Artists throughout Latin America engaged in revolutionary DIY art as their own particular expressions of the conceptual art-think that zoomed around the continents in the 1960s.

STEEL SHARPENS STEEL epitomizes soulless art-fair schlock. And there’s already plenty of schlocking that goes on in Houston.

In what may be an unsubtle overcorrection, the Dallas Museum of Art is currently sporting all-woman contemporary shows in three of its four quadrant galleries.

It’s clear that Schenck has soaked up more of the big-sky psyche than the fella called Drella. But there wouldn’t have been a Billy Schenck if there hadn’t been an Andy Warhol.

To be able to research an artist, genre, or process in depth, without having to deal with a lot of administrative red tape, is pretty special.

This terrific show feels like a private walk-through of the artist’s own sketchbook.

Altering her appearance to draw from a deep well of informed imagination and fierce and graceful determination, the artist floats in space as a character emerges from her mortal force.

This is a quietly furious show with just a lick of humor, a charming presentation, and a bitter finish.

Rahbar creates an ironic commentary on security being as much a human construct as any national border.

Smolleck has an incisive and warm eye. He sees both the splendor and the silliness of regalia, religion, ritual — and the reality of death and the illusion of time.

With the seats intended to be filled by the viewers, Martin is creating an opportunity for us to engage with a community of black women that have impacted her life.

Owens employs a large arsenal of techniques and media, but painting always comes out on top. 

One could be forgiven for having skepticism about this show due to its popularity.

McMillian’s elegiac works remind us that America’s current situation stems directly from unresolved original sins that go back generations, even to the country’s founding.

Of all of 'Immersed' installations, Sauter’s is the highlight — dazzling and unsettling, truly immersive and dislocating.

Nat Bradford and Tsz Kam team up to form a collective set of work, linking humans and animals through their primal desires. 

Some 200 vintage photographs, artifacts, and recordings from the Center’s expansive theater history collections bring into focus the amorphous, sprawling mega-genre of American entertainment called vaudeville.

While nothing is happening — a group of people are waiting for something — time is passing. A narrative is therefore implied.