Art + Music

A Midland Museum’s Unexpected Ties to the Kentucky Derby

For 17 minutes in 1959, no one at Churchill Downs knew who had won the Kentucky Derby. Tomy Lee took it by a nose in ... Read More »

Had you been listening to tactical radio traffic during the devastating 2024 Smokehouse Creek fire, you would have ... Read More »

Last October, Kaytie Nielsen and Iris Beaumier hit the road in a Chrysler Pacifica minivan. The best friends met in ... Read More »

When the New York rock band The Strokes announced they would play at El Paso’s Abraham Chavez Theatre in the fall of ... Read More »

In the heart of the Permian Basin, 5,000 miles from where William Shakespeare originally penned his plays, an Odessa ... Read More »

Filmmaker Ben Masters has traveled all over Texas documenting the natural wonders of his home state. His films have ... Read More »

Say what you will about Dolly Parton and Burt Reynolds’ The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, but consider this: I am ... Read More »

Art has always been a part of Delita Martin’s life. Growing up in Conroe, she learned the art of storytelling while ... Read More »

Nearly four decades ago, John Mellencamp was asked to produce James McMurtry’s debut album, 1989’s Too Long in the ... Read More »

Pop quiz: How many characters wear cowboy hats in the Larry McMurtry adaptation that has won the most Academy ... Read More »

About 70 miles east of El Paso, the Chihuahuan Desert runs flat and pale before giving way to the magmatic peaks of the ... Read More »

Andy Warhol’s 1968 silkscreens of a dark-haired woman with a cigarette have hung, on and off, in Houston’s Menil ... Read More »

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