Art

Rauschenberg Relics

In the current Rauschenberg exhibit at Houston’s Contemporary Arts Museum the artist finds his first thirty years a tough act to follow.

The Art-by-the-Truckload School

They’re cheesy, they’re tasteless. But each black velvet painting is a one-of-a-kind work of art.

Have I Got a Collection for You

With one bold acquisition the Dallas Museum of Art could double the value of its holdings. But there were a few strings attached.

A Concrete Romance

One man’s whim-turned-obsession is changing Houston’s McKee Street Bridge and its faded environs into one of the few really original artistic images of the city.

105°

A photographic study on beating the heat.

The Golden Age of Apples and Oranges

The Kimbell’s exhibit of seventeenth-century Spanish still lifes is dazzling enough to cause a modern photo-realist to look again.

Crack Pots

One man’s Mexican pot is another man’s collectible.

Public Gestures

Dallas' Fifth Texas Sculpture Symposium proves it's time for us to look to our sculptors for public artworks.

Life, Art, and the Wackiest Politician in Texas

San Antonio city councilman Bernardo Eureste took a paltry arts budget and built it into a $3 million power base. Then he got mad and tore it all apart.

Ambient Color

As these photographs show, in Mexico the strange is commonplace, and the commonplace, strange.

Persistent Vigor

The impressive canvases that make up “Fresh Paint” at the Museum of Fine Arts prove that Houston has finally arrived as a significant art-making center.

Sterling Surls

With his rough-hewn sculptures that speak to mankind’s most basic needs, James Surls is fast becoming the dean of Texas art.

“Take Nothing and Make Something”

Working alone at his home in East Texas, Fox Harris is divinely inspired to create towering, fanciful sculptures out of junk.

Tiptoeing On the Ocean of Storms

What astronaut Alan Bean saw on the moon changed his life. Now, with paint and canvas, he’s trying to let the rest of us see it too.

Trevino’s Mother

Whistler had nothing on the 22 artists represented in a survey of Hispanic art.

Coppini the Great

Pompeo Coppini’s heroic sculptures and European air were just what Texas’ fledgling gentry was hungry for in 1901. Since then his name has faded from memory, but his works endure.

The Marfa Art War

Sculptor Donald Judd had the vision. The Dia Art Foundation had the money. Now they’ve had it with each other.

Light in the Hills

German landscape artist Hermann Lungkwitz saw romantic vistas in the Hill Country at a time when most Texans saw only hardscrabble farmland.

Venetian Finds

Five Texas artists are among those selected for “Paradise Lost/Paradise Regained”, this year’s American entry into the Venice Biennale.

The Roadside Eye

Robert Frank took casual but expressive snapshots that captured dramas of American life and altered the course of modern photography.

Personal Space

Houston’s brash “alternative spaces” are doing more than the city’s mainstream galleries to keep Texas art fresh, rich and diverse.

Lady on the Edge

Photographer Carlotta Corpron moved to Denton in 1935, and the burst of avant-garde work she produced is, so far, unsurpassed in Texas.

The Retrograde Sophisticate

Danny Williams of Dallas has a clear grasp of the modern masters and unequaled ambition and skill.

Larger Than Life

Tom Lea, the grand old man of Texas painting, grew up among giants. No wonder he always used a big canvas.

The Cutting Edge

Texas' glass artists are leading a revolution in an ancient craft.

The Gittings People

Shoot enough portraits of Texans, and you'll have made a portrait of Texas.

The Quixotic Theotokopoulos

A spectacular show at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts reexamines the genius of El Greco.

Tintypes And Stormscapes

A new book on the Amon Carter Museum’s photography collection chronicles one and a half colorful centuries of America in haunting black and white.

The Shrine Of The Bleached Skull

Roy Fridge’s curious assemblages reflect the cryptic world he created to replace the one he left behind.

The Elegiac Image

Photographer George Krause draws the viewer into a twilight world where jocks, saints, and nudes seem almost mystical.

Immigrants

From all over the world, people are coming to Houston to find a better life. For a few of them—immigrants from Poland, Nigeria, and El Salvador—this is what it’s like.

His Name Was Forrest Bess

He was wildly eccentric, he lived in a shanty on the Gulf, he subsisted as a bait fisherman, he had bizarre notions of eternal life. He may have been the best artist Texas has ever produced.

Miss Van Buren Comes To Texas

An evocative American portrait is one of 75 masterpieces from the Phillips Collection now on display in Dallas. A photographic exhibit in Austin on family life covered just about everything but the family.

Blue-collar Sculptor

Dallasite Mac Whitney is his own one-man construction crew - producing towering steel-plate sculptures.

Unentitled

Artists and art organizations are getting cut off from the federal dole - and maybe that’s not such a bad thing.

Little Big Museum

While other U.S. museums sought Rembrandts and Cészannes, Fort Worth’s maverick Amon Carter Museum collected an astound assortment of paintings and photographs of the American West.

Total Fabrications

When machine-printed polyester or rayon won’t do, consider the work of Texas’ top textile artists.

Art From the Underground

Dissident Russian artists paint a grim picture of life behind the Iron Curtain.

Love’s Labors Found

Sculptor Jim Love makes art look easy—and fun.

Man-child

Leon Box is a retarded artist whose work underscores the beauty and absurdity of a world he has seen very little of.

Got My Jomo Workin’

Dallas’s David McManaway is an artist of many charms.

Animal Magnetism

Horses of different colors leapt from the bright, bold palette of German abstractionist Franz Marc.

Would You Pay $2.5 Million for That Painting?

‘The Icebergs’ is the most expensive American painting in history, but it is also the center of an art-world mystery with a trail leading from an English boys’ school to a Dallas millionaire.

Russian Orthodox

The USSR today wouldn’t tolerate the radical art that was nurtured during the Russian Revolution.

Ramblin’ Rose

Eminent art critic Barbara Rose has assembled an exhibit of paintings of the eighties. Oh, yeah? Where did she get them?

The Thin Man

Albert Giacometti’s sculptured figures, now at the Dallas Museum of Fine Art, are tall, emaciated, uncomprehending—and breathtaking.

Mission Possible

Another Roadside Attraction

Houston National Bank’s ìLarger Canvas Twoî takes it to the streets.

The Resurrection of Patrick Henry Bruce

Houston Museum of Fine Arts exhibits the works of an unsung American artist. UT-Austin gathers the best contemporary art for “Made in Texas.”

The Collector

Did Helmut Gernsheim make a mistake when he sold his priceless photography collection to UT?