Art
June 28, 2024
A Rare Bluebonnet Painting Sold for $112,500 at an Auction in Dallas
The hundred-year-old artwork by Texas impressionist Julian Onderdonk had almost ended up in Goodwill.
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Art
June 25, 2024
Paddling Caddo Lake with Texas Photographer Keith Carter
Texas Country Reporter tags along with the photographer whose latest book highlights the gothic beauty of southern swamps.
Music
June 13, 2024
How Johnny Canales Created an Enduring Culture Around Tejano Music
The host, whose death was announced Thursday, and his show provided millions with a sense of belonging—and introduced Selena to the world.
Film & TV
June 13, 2024
A Houston Artist’s Career Took Off While She Was Imprisoned. Now Free, She’s Learning to Paint Again.
Jamie Diaz’s work depicts her experience as a Christian trans woman behind bars in a men’s prison.
Art
June 7, 2024
Georgia O’Keeffe’s Texas Years Have Been Transformed Into Dance—With Audience Participation
A foray into one of O’Keeffe’s meditative pastel flowers this is not.
Sponsored
June 5, 2024
Vacation Artfully in Pensacola
When most Texans think of Pensacola, Florida, they envision sugar-white sand and sunny weather—but just minutes from the beach the city’s creative community is thriving and ready to entertain visitors.
Art
May 30, 2024
50,000 Reasons to Go See ‘Barbecue,’ a New Artwork at Fort Worth’s Modern
Artist Rebecca Manson pays homage to her family’s summer traditions in the compelling installation.
Travel
May 20, 2024
A Monthly Block Party Marks a Proud New Era for Corpus Christi
The coastal city's First Friday ArtWalk is so much more than a street festival.
Art
April 23, 2024
The Artist Who Wonders What Creatures on Other Planets Will Think of Chuck Berry
A new show in Fort Worth features the unclassifiable San Antonio–born artist, who connects deep space and the ancient fossil record.
Books
April 23, 2024
The Checklist: Three Reasons This Is a Great Month in Texas Culture
Another dark comedy from Richard Linklater, a report on the ideological battles plaguing public schools, and an exhibition of modern collages by Black artists.
Texas History
April 3, 2024
His Art Was Real. His Native American Heritage Wasn’t.
Texas writer and artist Roxy Gordon loved Native culture so much that—at least in his own mind—he “became” an Indian.
Art
March 28, 2024
Photographer Rahim Fortune’s Lens on Texas’s Black Communities
Fortune’s new collection, ‘Hardtack,’ showcases a stripped-down approach that brings audiences closer to his subjects’ emotions.
Music
March 13, 2024
Terry Allen Doesn’t Care What the Smithsonian Wants
At eighty, the musician-artist-playwright is still doing things his way. (He is worried about the year 4024, though.)
Critters
March 6, 2024
This Texas Photographer Turns Dead Animals Into Poignant Portraits
Amanda Stronza pulls over to document coyotes, deer, and squirrels killed along highways.
Art
February 9, 2024
A North Texas Painter Gets a First Look at the Newest State Park
Before Palo Pinto Mountains State Park opens its doors the public, Billy Hassell, whose career is intertwined with wildlife conservation, got a sneak peek—sketchbook and watercolors in hand.
Best Thing in Texas
February 7, 2024
A Texas Photojournalist Is Honored for His Heart-wrenching Portraits of Grief
Tamir Kalifa has received the 2024 American Mosaic Journalism Prize for his work documenting the aftermath of the Uvalde shooting.
Art
February 7, 2024
The Houston Artist Helping Her Neighbors Send Nudes
An initiative by Art League Houston and artist Nyssa Juneau aims to make the historic art form of naked portraiture safe for the digital age.
Art
January 31, 2024
An El Paso Art Exhibit Attempts, Somehow, to Make Sense of the Border
The Border Biennial/Bienal Fronteriza, a group show of artists from the border, has gotten even more relevant since its debut in 2008.
Art
January 24, 2024
A Marfa Art Fair Has Landed in a Financial Hole. Will a New Sculpture Be Enough of a Distraction?
Marfa Invitational has suffered IRS troubles and board member shuffling, but founder Michael Phelan is counting ‘Sleeping Figure’ a victory.
Working Life
January 23, 2024
A Texas Dinosaur Sculptor Talks About Her Jurassic Dream Job
'Everyone wants a T. Rex,’ says Casandra Sowards, lead sculptor at Allen's Billings Productions, a leading maker of animatronic dinosaurs.
Art
January 23, 2024
A Giant Troll Is Coming to Austin’s Pease Park (and the News Brought Out a Few, Uh, Trolls)
“Texas has no cultural tradition of trolls,” wrote one.
Art
January 22, 2024
What a Texan Looks Like, According to AI
Think lots and lots of cowboy hats.
Art
December 21, 2023
Our Favorite Photos of 2023
This year our photographers traveled underground, embedded with feral hogs, and spent a day on Tanya Tucker’s ranch.
Film & TV
November 16, 2023
Four Reasons December Will Be a Great Month in Texas Culture
The Von Erichs get the Hollywood treatment, Tomball raises its stein, Beyoncé resurrects the Renaissance tour, and a Houston artist is golden.
Art
October 23, 2023
An Ann Harithas Exhibition Puts the Famous Patron’s Art Front and Center
The Art Car Museum’s reopened retrospective spotlights the deeply personal collages made by one half of Texas’s legendary art power couple.
Texas Country Reporter
September 28, 2023
In Fredericksburg, Vintage Objects Meet a Modern Message
Watercolorist Sara Drescher starts her creative process at thrift shops and animates her still lifes with feminist themes.
Art
September 6, 2023
A New Photo Exhibit Celebrates the “Cultura” of South Texas, From Sandra Cisneros to Selena
San Antonio photographer Al Rendón brings fifty years of rock and street photography to the Witte Museum.
Country Notes
August 10, 2023
This 78-Year-Old Artist and Rancher Has Spent His Life Chasing a Pure and Wide-open Space
Mike Capron never felt comfortable until he settled west of the Pecos River.
Art
August 8, 2023
Meet Artist Nestor Topchy, the Mad Genius Hidden in Houston Heights
Behind a rim of freeze-dried giant bamboo and scraggly trees, in a Houston Heights neighborhood caught between old apartments and new townhomes, lies the compound that has been artist Nestor Topchy’s laboratory for twenty-odd years. His place is a natural habitat for wildlife and his own wildest dreams; if there could
Art
July 31, 2023
Urban Frontier Artist Jesse Lott Found a New Kind of Beauty in Houston
Jesse Lott, the influential cofounder of Project Row Houses who died last week at age eighty, was a genius in his own right.
Art
July 14, 2023
Meow Wolf Opens Its Maximalist, Multicolored Doors in Grapevine
For the latest iteration of the art empire’s otherworldly brand, Meow Wolf has chosen an exotic locale: a suburban Texas mall.
Best Thing in Texas
July 13, 2023
The McNay Art Museum’s “Unhinged” Threads Account Is Our New Favorite Thing
The San Antonio museum is delighting Texans (and finding new fans nationwide) on the new social media platform.
Art
July 13, 2023
The Texas Artist You Hope to Never Meet
Self-trained muralist Roberto Marquez creates public art after mass shootings and other tragedies. Unfortunately for everyone, he’s been very busy.
Art
July 13, 2023
How Gray Malin Built a Photography Empire on the Dream of a Basic Getaway
Malin’s ubiquitous aerial images of beaches, versions of which you can purchase on puzzles, rugs, towels, and more, are a hallmark of our era.
Art
June 27, 2023
West Texas’s Baby Buc-ee’s Is Back, Baby
A Buc-ee’s representative tells Texas Monthly cleaning crews were promptly dispatched to the remote location.
Art
June 27, 2023
The Museum of the Big Bend Gets a Gorgeous $11 Million Expansion
Long an under-the-radar destination, the Alpine museum is transformed by its graceful new addition and the West Texas artworks inside.
Art
June 21, 2023
The Best Books, Film, TV, Art, and More Coming to Texas This Summer
Meow Wolf finally opens! Jamie Foxx returns to Netflix! Erykah Badu is on tour! Vampires are at war?
Art
June 14, 2023
A True Swiftie Visits the Arlington Museum of Art’s Taylor Swift Exhibit
The superstar has a collection of memorabilia on display in North Texas. But for die-hard Taylor Swift fans, is it worth the trip?
Texas Country Reporter
May 27, 2023
Colección Mexicana Is a Fort Worth Shop Teeming With Color
Co-owner Miguel Martin is the creative talent behind the one-of-a-kind papier-mâché sculptures featured at the downtown store.
Art
May 17, 2023
Texas Monthly’s Art Department Is Recognized by Two Esteemed National Organizations
Among the honors Texas Monthly received was a nomination in the Society of Publication Designers’ prestigious Brand of the Year category.
Art
May 16, 2023
The Blanton Debuted a Flowery Renovation. Will the Austin Museum Scene Bloom With It?
A major exterior improvement project for the UT art museum builds excitement, but old cracks show.
Art
May 12, 2023
In Houston, a Basquiat and Warhol–Style Collab With a Texas Twist
It took a music producer to bring together the powerful pairing of grungy Austinite Tim Kerr and Houston sophisticate Robert Hodge, who worked together to create 40 paintings.
Art
May 11, 2023
Frank Kozik Perfected the Rock Poster Into a Fine and Filthy Art
Frank Kozik, the Austin-based designer, who died this week, captured a generation with his posters for groups like Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and the Beastie Boys.
Style & Design
May 10, 2023
Texas’s Newest, Punkest Surf Shop Lives 300 Miles from the Ocean
As Picnic Surf Shapes, Dallas artist Gregory Ruppe hand-builds wooden boards with an ecological and political message.
Art
April 25, 2023
In a New Exhibit, Artists Find the Sublime at Whataburger and the Supreme Court
"Day Jobs," on view at the Blanton Museum of Art, argues that beauty and inspiration can be found even during a nine-to-five.
Art
April 14, 2023
Meet the Social Justice–Fueled Muralist Painting Across Fort Worth
Juan Velazquez decided to pursue art in 2020. Since then, he’s painted dozens of murals fighting racism and gentrification.
Texas Country Reporter
April 6, 2023
Renowned Houston Photographer Earlie Hudnall Jr. Always Has His Camera In Hand
Famous for portraits of Houston’s Black community, Hudnall's work is recognized around the world while his subject matter remains distinctly local.
Art
April 6, 2023
A San Antonio Artwork Is a Sauna Modeled on a Box Truck Where 53 Migrants Died
How should we feel about Reynier Leyva Novo’s shockingly on-the-nose new sauna installation?
Texas Country Reporter
March 31, 2023
A Fine-Art Photographer in Beaumont Focuses on the Beauty of Bugs
Lyne Raff gets up close and personal with moths, cicadas, and other intricate insects.
Texas Country Reporter
March 27, 2023
An Austin Artist With That Corky Charm
Beki Morris creates mosaic images from wine corks. By playing with textures, colors, and shapes, she creates impressive depth and detail.