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WoCA: Evolving Art
It’s been one year since Lauren Cross said goodbye to her socially conscious art gallery space on Race Street.
She knew that real estate development...
Billy Hassell: Eco-Painter
There is no substitute for being in nature. And there is no equivalent expression that translates nature into a satisfying two-dimensional experience either.
For as...
From Bow to Baton
Famed conductor Anshel Brusilow first conceived of his memoir, Shoot the Conductor, in 1967. He didn’t start writing immediately. Life afforded the former conductor...
Arts-Centered Learning
As long as there’s been public school, there have been fights about where art and music fit into it. “They’re valuable but not crucial,”...
The Umbrella Man
Gustave Caillebotte is the forgotten man of the Impressionist movement. This artist counted Monet, Degas, Renoir, and Pissarro among his friends and supported them...
Intimacy and Impact
Next year is the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Chamber Music Society of Fort Worth, and it’s a classical music organization whose...
Jesse’s Girls
Jesse Sierra Hernandez has finally arrived.
The fortysomething painter started out nearly two decades ago as a sort of scenester-slash-bon vivant-slash-autodidact who was arguably more...
Ugly, Beautiful, Pretty, Kitsch
In 2009’s Untitled, the curator of a contemporary gallery sells abstract paintings from her back room because if her clients knew she sanctioned that...
Lusty Dracula
In his 27 years leading the Houston Ballet, Ben Stevenson choreographed many full-length ballets, from Swan Lake to Don Quixote and beyond, including four...
Autodidacts
The last time I wrote up a show at the Amon Carter Museum, I wasn’t overly impressed and speculated that the lack of access...
