Looking Closely: Lance Myers
At Wally Workman Gallery, painter Lance Myers talks about family, insects, scale, technique, and the mysteries that can hide inside a painting. Walking through the last day of Lance Myers’…
Concerning Levels of Horniness: Burlesque in Austin
Burlesque has a long history, and it is very much alive in Austin. As a comedic and exaggerated stage performance originating in Europe four centuries ago, it became popular in…
BUDDHA and THE VESSEL OF TIME
Hao Sheng, the consulting curator of Asian art, gave the curatorial lecture for the fascinating Buddha | Nature: Five Dialogues on Our Shared World exhibition at the Museum of Fine…
SISTINE CHAPEL EXPERIENCE in Austin
Spanning a huge space in the old Sears store at Barton Creek Square is something extraordinary: a close-up look at the painted images in the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel. The ceiling…
SURREALISM EXHIBIT in DALLAS
Thanks to a loan of more than 100 works from the Tate Gallery (London), Texans can now revel in some of the greatest works of Surrealism. They are on view…
EXHIBIT OF ANCIENT MARBLES in Ft. Worth
The Torlonia Collection is the most important private collection of Roman marble sculptures in the world. Comprising more 622 works and a wide range of sculptural types and subjects. A…
Intel Lastierre’s Infernal Rebirth into Hell
The Underdog Within Even as a child, I noticed the way people were treated differently — how some were dismissed as less than human because they didn’t “measure up” to…
“A Safe Place to Be Seen”: The Portraits—and Path—of Jorge Sanhueza-Lyon
On an afternoon inside a small East Austin space—half studio, half neighborhood hangout—photographer and filmmaker Jorge Sanhueza-Lyon waved a passerby in from the sidewalk. Ten minutes later, the man—Rick, a…
Quantum Color Memory Projections: The Art of Charles Heppner
In his Austin home studio, amidst canvases alive with sweeping ovals, kidney shapes, and Rorschach-like kaleidoscopic nature designs, Charles Heppner moves between paintings, photography, and sculptural boxes. The room hums…
Hidden Art Gem in Dallas
My headline should actually say “Gems” as there are two here in east Dallas. The first is historic building itself; the second is the art it displays on a rotating…