The Amon Carter added a mature content warning soon after opening “Cowboy,” a show originally aimed at “disrupting” the portrayal of the Western ideal as cisgender, straight, and white.

Texas Monthly

12.02.2025

The Year in Texas, in Photos

In 2024, Texas Monthly photographers took to the skies over West Texas, the mountains of El Paso, the waters of the Gulf, and pretty much everywhere in between.

Texas Monthly

12.02.2025

‘The Bear’ Fans Should Rush to the Alley Theatre for ‘Seared’

To capture the authenticity of working in a kitchen, the cast of the Alley Theatre’s production—mentored by Theodore Rex chef Justin Yu—cooks live onstage.

Texas Monthly

12.02.2025

Will David Adickes Find a Home for His Huge Concrete Presidents?

David Adickes hopes to literally cement his artistic legacy by installing 43 massive busts somewhere in Texas. But he’s running out of time.

Texas Monthly

09.11.2024

An Austin Artist Collected 100,000 Cicada Shells

Diego Miró-Rivera climbed hundreds of trees to gather exoskeletons during the “cicada apocalypse," later collaging them for a new exhibit at the Line hotel.

Texas Monthly

01.11.2024

Meow Wolf Houston Is Unmistakably Texan but Still Otherworldly – Texas Monthly

The art company’s fifth exhibition breaks tradition, paying tribute to and soaking up the culture of its location.

Texas Monthly

23.10.2024

Our Family Painting Turned Out to Be a Fernando Amorsolo Masterwork

What happens when a pleasant-enough painting in your grandparents’ house is revealed as a valuable work of art?

Texas Monthly

04.09.2024

RF. Alvarez Paints Texas in a New Light

The gay son of an immigrant and part of a multigenerational ranching family, RF. Alvarez blends traditional iconography with queer identity.

Texas Monthly

22.08.2024

Houston's Orange Show Gets New Funding and an “Art Guy” Executive Director

Jack Massing, one half of the Art Guys, will take the reins of one of the state's few remaining wild-hearted art institutions.

Texas Monthly

26.07.2024

In an Austin Exhibit, Four Artists Bend Light to Their Will – Texas Monthly

The pieces in Women & Their Work's group show refract obstacles and shine a path forward.

Texas Monthly

29.06.2024

This Rare Painting Up for Auction in Dallas Was Almost Sent to Goodwill

Art collectors have paid six figures for Texas impressionist Julian Onderdonk’s hundred-year-old bluebonnet paintings.

Texas Monthly

14.06.2024

Her Art Career Took Off While She Was in Prison. Now She’s Starting Over.

Jamie Diaz’s work depicts her experience as a Christian transgender woman behind bars in a men’s prison.

Texas Monthly

08.06.2024

Georgia O’Keeffe’s Texas Years Have Been Transformed Into Dance

A foray into one of O’Keeffe’s meditative pastel flowers this is not.

Texas Monthly

31.05.2024

50,000 Reasons to Go See the ‘Barbecue’ Installation

Artist Rebecca Manson pays homage to her family’s summer traditions in her new ‘Barbecue’ artwork at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.

Texas Monthly

24.04.2024

The Artist Who Wonders What Creatures on Other Planets Will Think of Chuck Berry – Texas Monthly

A new show in Fort Worth features the unclassifiable San Antonio–born artist, who connects deep space and the ancient fossil record.

Texas Monthly

04.04.2024

His Art Was Real. His Native American Heritage Wasn’t.

The outlaw poet and artist loved Native culture so much that, at least in his own mind, he “became” an Indian.

Texas Monthly

29.03.2024

Photographer Rahim Fortune’s Lens on Texas’s Black Communities – Texas Monthly

Fortune’s new collection, ‘Hardtack,’ showcases a stripped-down approach that brings audiences closer to his subjects’ emotions.

Texas Monthly

07.03.2024

This Texas Photographer Turns Dead Animals Into Poignant Portraits

Amanda Stronza pulls over to document coyotes, deer, and squirrels killed along highways.

Texas Monthly

27.02.2024

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.

Texas Monthly

10.02.2024

A North Texas Painter Gets a First Look at the Newest State Park

Arist Billy Hassell got a sneak peek of Palo Pinto Mountains State Park—sketchbook and watercolors in hand.

Texas Monthly

08.02.2024

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.

Texas Monthly

08.02.2024

The Houston Artist Helping Her Neighbors Send Nudes – Texas Monthly

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.

Texas Monthly

01.02.2024

An El Paso Art Exhibit Attempts 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.

Texas Monthly

25.01.2024

A Marfa Art Fair Faces Issues. 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.

Texas Monthly

24.01.2024

A Giant Troll Is Coming to Austin’s Pease Park

Artist Thomas Dambo will begin on-site construction next month.

Texas Monthly

23.01.2024

What a Texan Looks Like, According to A.I.

Think lots and lots of cowboy hats.

Texas Monthly

15.01.2024

We Love the McNay Art Museum’s “Unhinged” Threads Account

The San Antonio museum is delighting Texans (and finding new fans nationwide) on the new social media platform.

Texas Monthly

22.12.2023

Our Favorite Photos of 2023 – Texas Monthly

This year our photographers traveled underground, embedded with feral hogs, and spent a day on Tanya Tucker’s ranch.

Texas Monthly

17.11.2023

Four Reasons December Will Be a Great Month in Texas Culture – Texas Monthly

The Von Erichs get the Hollywood treatment, Tomball raises its stein, Beyoncé resurrects the Renaissance tour, and a Houston artist is golden.

Texas Monthly

24.10.2023

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 Monthly

13.10.2023

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.

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Remembering David Adickes, Creator of Some of Texas's Most Iconic Monuments

Unraveling a New Mystery Around an Ancient Work of Art

James Surls Previews Surls + Locke Museum of Texas Art's First Show

H-E-B Boss Charles Butt Reveals His Art Collection—and a Bit About Himself

When the Art World Turned on Robert Rauschenberg, Texas Never Did

Burning Man Had Its First Honky-Tonk—And It Came From Texas

How Dozens of Ancient Roman Statues Ended Up in Cowtown

Keeping Pflugerville Weird, One 3D-Printed Insect at a Time

Solange Has Built a Creative Empire. Now She’s Bringing Her Work Home.

An Amon Carter Exhibit Disrupts the Cowboy Myth. It Opens With a Warning.

The Year in Texas, in Photos

‘The Bear’ Fans Should Rush to the Alley Theatre for ‘Seared’

Will David Adickes Find a Home for His Huge Concrete Presidents?

An Austin Artist Collected 100,000 Cicada Shells

Meow Wolf Houston Is Unmistakably Texan but Still Otherworldly – Texas Monthly

Our Family Painting Turned Out to Be a Fernando Amorsolo Masterwork

RF. Alvarez Paints Texas in a New Light

Houston's Orange Show Gets New Funding and an “Art Guy” Executive Director

In an Austin Exhibit, Four Artists Bend Light to Their Will – Texas Monthly

This Rare Painting Up for Auction in Dallas Was Almost Sent to Goodwill

Her Art Career Took Off While She Was in Prison. Now She’s Starting Over.

Georgia O’Keeffe’s Texas Years Have Been Transformed Into Dance

50,000 Reasons to Go See the ‘Barbecue’ Installation

The Artist Who Wonders What Creatures on Other Planets Will Think of Chuck Berry – Texas Monthly

His Art Was Real. His Native American Heritage Wasn’t.

Photographer Rahim Fortune’s Lens on Texas’s Black Communities – Texas Monthly

This Texas Photographer Turns Dead Animals Into Poignant Portraits

A Texas Dinosaur Sculptor Talks About Her Jurassic Dream Job

A North Texas Painter Gets a First Look at the Newest State Park

A Texas Photojournalist Is Honored for His Heart-wrenching Portraits of Grief

The Houston Artist Helping Her Neighbors Send Nudes – Texas Monthly

An El Paso Art Exhibit Attempts to Make Sense of the Border

A Marfa Art Fair Faces Issues. Will a New Sculpture Be Enough of a Distraction?

A Giant Troll Is Coming to Austin’s Pease Park

What a Texan Looks Like, According to A.I.

We Love the McNay Art Museum’s “Unhinged” Threads Account

Our Favorite Photos of 2023 – Texas Monthly

Four Reasons December Will Be a Great Month in Texas Culture – Texas Monthly

An Ann Harithas Exhibition Puts the Famous Patron’s Art Front and Center

In Fredericksburg, Vintage Objects Meet a Modern Message

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