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News, guides, reviews, and features from the Texas art scene.
The Complete Guide to Marfa: Art, Food, Stars, and the Desert That Changed American Art
Chinati, Ballroom, Judd Foundation, Prada Marfa, the mystery lights, where to eat, where to stay, and why a town of 1,700 people is one of the most important art destinations in the world.
Christian Morales
The Complete Guide to San Antonio's Art Scene: From the Westside Murals to Ruby City
Artpace's world-class residency, 53 Chicano murals on the Westside, Ruby City's crimson glow, Blue Star's 30-year First Friday, and a River Walk lined with sculpture. San Antonio's art scene runs deeper than any other city in Texas.
Megan Olivia Ebel Is Quietly Reshaping Houston's Art Scene — One Residency, One Exhibition at a Time
Through Revolver Galeria and RUBY Projects' La Ruche HTX residency, the Canadian-born curator is building bridges between Houston and the world.
Untitled Art Fair Returns to Houston This October with an Expanded International Roster
The second edition of the fair promises live podcast recordings, panel discussions, culinary activations, and artist-led projects — embedding the fair within Houston's civic and cultural fabric.
The Dallas Art Scene Is Having a Moment. Here's Where to Start.
From the DMA's blockbuster Lichtenstein acquisition to the gallery row in the Design District, Dallas is building a scene that rewards exploration.
How Texas Collectors Are Reshaping the American Art Market — From Dallas's Relationship-Driven Scene to Houston's Latin American Gateway
The Dallas Art Fair's intimate scale, Untitled Art Houston's international ambitions, and the collector communities binding it all together.
Two Museums, Fifty Works, One Pop Art Giant: The Lichtenstein Gift That's Rewriting Dallas's Art Story
The Roy Lichtenstein Foundation gifted more than 50 works — prints, drawings, maquettes, and sculpture — split between the Dallas Museum of Art and the Nasher Sculpture Center. It is the most significant joint acquisition in either institution's history.
Inside the Dallas Art Fair: How a Four-Day Fair in Texas Is Rewriting the Rules of American Art Collecting
$177,000 in Rachel Mica Weiss sales, six DMA acquisitions, and a quilt mapping Texas identity from Beyoncé to David Koresh. The 18th Dallas Art Fair was the most interesting art market story in America this spring.
Austin's Art Scene Beyond the Music: Where to See Contemporary Art This Summer
The Blanton's Hopper-to-Alma-Thomas blockbuster, data-driven art with Refik Anadol and teamLab, and the East Austin galleries you should know.
Untitled Art Houston Returns in October with 95 Galleries, a New Venue, and the Ambition to Make Houston America's Next Art Fair City
Anton Kern, Richard Saltoun, Nara Roesler join the roster. The Nest sector expands. And the fair moves to the George R. Brown Convention Center. This is what a second-year fair with first-year energy looks like.
Three Texas Women, Three Scales of Attention: 'The Weight of Place' at Anya Tish Gallery
Megan Harrison, Marisol Valencia, and Lillian Warren bring painting, mixed media, and porcelain to Montrose in a show about what it means to be rooted in a landscape.
San Antonio's Art Scene Is Deeper Than You Think. Start With These Five Spaces.
Ruby City, SAMA, the McNay, Blue Star, and the Briscoe — five distinct institutions, each with a personality the others can't replicate.
Chinati Weekend 2026: What to Expect at Marfa's Annual Art Pilgrimage
The 39th annual Chinati Weekend runs October 9-11. Here's why thousands of art-world insiders make the drive to a town of 1,700 people every fall — and how to do it right.
Ruby City: The San Antonio Art Gem That Came to Linda Pace in a Dream
David Adjaye's crimson masterpiece houses one of the most extraordinary private collections in the Southwest — and it's completely free.
A First-Timer's Guide to Marfa: What to See, How to See It, and Why It Still Matters
Donald Judd's desert utopia is still the most radical art experience in Texas. Here's how to do Marfa right.
Deborah Roberts Lives in Austin and Makes Art That Changed How America Sees Black Childhood
The mixed-media collage artist — Whitney Museum, Brooklyn Museum, 2023 Texas Medal of Arts — still lives and works in Austin. Here's why that matters.
How 'Town Meeting 1978–2028' at Art League Houston Excavates a Buried Chapter of Queer Houston History
Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin's exhibition revisits the 1978 gathering of 4,000 LGBTQIA+ Houstonians at the Astro Arena — and asks what's changed since.
Opera Gallery Opens First Texas Location at River Oaks District
350 A-listers, a Monet and a Picasso on the walls, and Houstonia calling it 'a museum nestled inside a high-end shopping center.' Opera Gallery's Houston debut was anything but quiet.
Georgia O'Keeffe, Maria Martinez, and the Quiet Power of 'Canvas to Clay' at SAMA
The San Antonio Museum of Art pairs O'Keeffe paintings with Maria Martinez pottery and extends the conversation south to Mexican ceramics from Chihuahua and Jalisco — a deceptively quiet show that rewards slow looking.
Montrose Art Scene: Where to Go and What to See This Summer
A neighborhood guide to Houston's bohemian art district — from the Menil Collection to the galleries on Colquitt Street.
Nancy Whitenack Has Run Conduit Gallery for 40 Years. She Still Hasn't Stopped Discovering Artists.
The former Dallas schoolteacher who opened a gallery in her warehouse home in 1984 and became one of the city's most important gallerists — on education, the Design District, and what keeps her going after four decades.
Every Free Art Experience in Texas This Summer — From the DMA to Ruby City to East Austin's Gallery Walks
A city-by-city guide to the best free exhibitions, gallery walks, open studios, and art events across Texas.
10 Must-Visit Houston Art Galleries in 2026
From the Menil to a newly opened gallery on the former Texas Gallery's storied Peden Street address — the essential Houston gallery guide for 2026.
Deep Ellum Beyond the Murals: A Walking Guide to Dallas's Grittiest Art District
130+ murals, a pop-up gallery initiative, Deep Ellum Art Co, and a neighborhood that's more than Instagram backdrops — here's how to see the art district that Dallas's blues history built.
Cauleen Smith's 'We Already Have What We Need' Opens at CAMH to Critical Acclaim
Cauleen Smith's sprawling, generous exhibition reminds you what a mid-career survey looks like when an artist has complete command of her materials — and when a museum trusts her enough to let that show.
The Springdale Road Art Corridor: A Guide to East Austin's Gallery Scene
The Canopy complex, Third Thursday gallery walks, and the artist-run spaces where Austin's creative identity actually lives — a guide to the East Austin art scene beyond South Congress.
Revolver Galeria Opens 'Nomos' in the Former Texas Gallery Space — and Houston's Art Map Just Shifted
The Latin American-focused gallery takes over one of Houston's most storied addresses with an exhibition about territory, belonging, and the ground beneath our feet.
First Friday in Southtown: San Antonio's Art Walk Has Been Running Since 1994 and It's Still the Best Free Night Out in Texas
The Blue Star Arts Complex, the 30-year First Friday tradition, and the Southtown gallery scene that connects a converted warehouse to Ruby City in a 10-minute walk — a guide to San Antonio's art district.
The Complete Guide to Houston's Art Neighborhoods
Houston's art scene spans 670 square miles — but the action concentrates in eight distinct neighborhoods, each with its own character, institutions, and reason to visit.
The $120,000 Prada Store in the Desert That Was Never Meant to Last
Elmgreen & Dragset's Prada Marfa was supposed to decay into the landscape. Then it got vandalized. Then it got famous. Now it's the most photographed artwork in Texas.
Inside Sawyer Yards: How a Cluster of Old Warehouses Became the Largest Artist Studio Complex in the Country
Over 300 artists, six warehouse buildings, and a quarterly open studios event that draws thousands. Here's how to navigate Houston's creative campus.
Artpace at 30: How Linda Pace's 'Laboratory of Dreams' Produced 4 Turner Prize Winners and Changed How Texas Makes Art
Founded in a 1920s Hudson dealership, Artpace's International Artist-in-Residence program has hosted 250+ artists, 9 MacArthur Fellows, and 84 Venice Biennale participants. It may be the most important art residency in the American South.
Free Art Events in Houston This Summer
Houston has one of the strongest free-art cultures of any major American city. You don't have to spend a dime to see world-class work this summer — but knowing where to look helps.
Houston's Quiet Claim as the Capital of Latin American Art in the United States
The MFAH's 400-piece collection, a corridor to Mexico City galleries, and spaces like Revolver Galeria are making the case that Houston — not Miami, not New York — is where Latin American art lives in the U.S.
Marfa Art: The Complete Visitor's Guide
Donald Judd left New York for the high desert in 1971 and changed everything. Here is how to see what he built — and everything that grew up around it.
How Rick Lowe Turned 22 Shotgun Houses Into One of the Most Important Art Projects in America
Project Row Houses in Houston's Third Ward isn't a gallery, isn't a museum, and isn't a social program. It's all three, and it changed what American art could be.
Inside the Block: How Donald Judd Designed a Life in Marfa
Judd's Marfa residence occupies a full city block — adobe walls, cactus gardens, a 13,000-volume library, and furniture he designed because he couldn't find any worth buying.
The Rothko Chapel: Where Fourteen Dark Paintings Changed What a Sacred Space Could Be
Mark Rothko's paintings. Barnett Newman's sculpture. A $30 million restoration. And a city's refusal to honor Martin Luther King Jr. that made it all happen.
53 Murals, 60 Years of Chicano Art: A Walking Guide to San Antonio's Westside
The Westside's murals are San Antonio's most honest art — born from the Chicano movement, painted on shop facades and community centers, telling stories that galleries wouldn't show.
87,500 Square Feet Underground: Inside Houston's Cistern and Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's 'Undercurrents'
A 1926 drinking water reservoir, 221 concrete columns, a 17-second echo, and a Mexican-Canadian artist who turned the whole thing into a mile of light. This is the most unusual art space in Texas.
Meow Wolf's Radio Tave Is Houston's Strangest, Loudest, Most Divisive Art Experience. Here's Why You Should Go Anyway.
A surreal radio station, an interdimensional portal, and the question every serious art city has to answer: what counts as art?
Beyond the Gallery Walls: Houston's Street Art Scene from EaDo to the East End
Donkeeboy, Gonzo247, Aerosol Warfare, and the muralists turning Houston's warehouses into the largest outdoor gallery in Texas.
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