November 17, 2023 | By Pam LeBlanc
Step onto the patio that juts from the recently opened expansion of the Museum of the Big Bend in Alpine, and the spiny ridgeline of the Davis Mountains rises in the distance.
October 27, 2023 | By Joe Nick Patoski
Forty years ago, a most unusual performance and arts space opened its doors in downtown Fort Worth.
October 24, 2023 | By Emily Roberts Stone
The stories in this Panhandle special issue invalidate the stereotype of the region as a place you drive through on your way to somewhere else.
September 19, 2023 | By ire’ne lara silva
May 30, 2023 | By Clayton Maxwell
January 24, 2023 | By Dina Gachman
It started with a picture in The Dallas Morning News: an empty patch of unruly grass covered by a sign that read YOUR DESIGN HERE.
January 24, 2023 | By Fowzia Karimi
November 23, 2022 | By Dina Gachman
The tagline for the American Windmill Museum in Lubbock is “Walk Among the Giants,” which is ironic considering some of the most impressive structures on display inside the 66,000-square-foot space are itty-bitty.
October 27, 2022 | By Michael Hoinski
Best French contribution to American culture? That’s a toughie: french fries or the Statue of Liberty?
August 25, 2022 | By ire’ne lara silva
Even a short drive through El Paso reveals a city that’s unmistakably …
August 25, 2022 | By Emily Roberts Stone
This month’s cover image marks the seventh taken by photographer and artist E. Dan Klepper, who’s been trekking across the state shooting and writing for us since 2010.
August 25, 2022 | By Julia Jones
August 25, 2022 | By Michael J. Mooney
Jesse Lott’s art studio, on the west side of Houston’s Fifth Ward, …
April 8, 2022 | By Alex Temblador
As you enter the room and sit down on a chair or cube, you feel Frida Kahlo’s iconic portraits gazing down on you.
February 24, 2022 | By Clayton Maxwell
From bougainvillea in the Rio Grande Valley to false foxglove in Central Texas, these colorful blooms are the muse for paintings and mixed media art
February 24, 2022 | By Traces of Texas
Everett Gee Jackson didn’t plan to become an artist. Born in Mexia in 1900, Jackson enrolled at Texas A&M University in 1918 to study architecture.
January 27, 2022 | By Jonny Auping
Artist Sedrick Huckaby has been hard at work transforming the 120-year-old Fort Worth house of his late grandmother—known affectionately as “Big Momma”—into a collaborative, multipurpose art space.
December 23, 2021 | By Jonny Auping
November 26, 2020 | By Clayton Maxwell
Behold the town of Lonesome Dove in its idea phase, before it became the set for the eponymous 1989 miniseries based on the book by Larry McMurtry.
May 27, 2020 | By June Naylor
When the COVID-19 pandemic temporarily closed the doors of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, it also prematurely shuttered the museum’s new exhibit, The Perilous Texas Adventures of Mark Dion. Luckily, a documentary of the same name about the creation of the exhibit is now available to stream on Amazon Prime.
January 24, 2020 | By Gene Fowler
Raul Gutierrez’s Western art reflects his experience in the borderlands.
November 27, 2019 | By Roberto José Andrade Franco
July 15, 2019 | By Meara Isenberg
Giant LEGO dinosaurs, superhero-themed paintings, and photographs of famous musicians are currently on exhibit at museums in Texas—but they won’t be for much longer.
June 14, 2019 | By Jacqueline Aguirre
Taking over 18,000-square-feet and two stories of Travis Park Plaza in the downtown area, Hopscotch features rooms that will house anything from light installations and adult playscapes to experimental architecture and gamified environments. It’s set to open late 2019/early 2020.
May 13, 2019 | By Jesse Sublett III
Size matters—not only in the jungle but in the civilized world and the medium of wildlife sculpture—a truth amply manifested by sculptor Kent Ullberg’s new exhibition at the Art Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christi.
March 1, 2019 | By Cynthia J. Drake
When Lindy Chambers drives along the backroads of her hometown of Bellville, she often pulls over to take photos of dilapidated trailer homes or to collect the detritus that many people would pass off as junk—later to be resurrected in her artwork. A self-taught oil painter and sculptor known for colorful depictions of country life, Chambers moved from Hockley to this historic seat of Austin County about 20 years ago.
February 21, 2019 | By Wes Ferguson
Terry Allen wears many hats, not that you’ll catch him in a Stetson. Twangy as all get out, the pioneering Texas country singer still enjoys a cult following for his first two albums.
September 4, 2018 | By Julia Jones
The Texas Arts and Crafts Fair, which the legislature deemed the official arts and crafts fair of the Lone Star State in 1995, is returning this fall after five years of absence. The Hill Country Arts Foundation will debut its newly updated Ingram campus to an estimated 5,000 guests in support of more than 150 Texas artists Sept. 28-30.
September 1, 2018 | By Joe Nick Patoski
In broad daylight, the Silver Slipper is hardly a looker. The compact building 4 miles northeast of downtown Houston is about as long and wide as an eight-lane bowling alley—“indistinct Minimal Traditional,” according to The Handbook of Texas. Three days a week, it’s a bar, short-order eatery, and neighborhood hangout.
Saturday nights, however, the Silver Slipper transforms into something else.
August 29, 2018 | By June Naylor
When chef Denise Shavandy walks into the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, she often wonders if she’s dreaming. Before she found her way to cooking, Shavandy considered other career paths that might have landed her in a place like this. Fortuitously, her job as executive chef of Café Modern, the museum’s restaurant, involves crafting beautiful food next to some of the most important art anywhere, inside a building created by one of the world’s foremost design talents.
August 27, 2018 | By Gene Fowler
The art aficionados at the opening of Frank X. Tolbert 2’s Texas Bird Project exhibition in Austin were clearly enamored with the artist’s prints, paintings, and drawings of the state’s winged and feathered beings. But the birdwatchers who came to meet the Houston artist were absolutely rapt.
August 27, 2018 | By Paula Disbrowe
Sometimes it’s all in the packaging: Telling my 8- and 10-year-old children we’re going to spend an entire day looking at art isn’t likely to make their hearts leap—that would require a water slide or afternoon at their favorite arcade.
August 22, 2018 | By
We’ve rounded up eight hotels across Texas where cultural enlightenment is a bonus amenity, and the hospitality extends beyond spas and room service. Best of all, most of these works are on display for everyone, whether staying the night or popping in for a look around.
June 26, 2018 | By Rose L. thayer
“The river was just beautiful,” he says of that first visit. “After driving in through the cypress trees for just a few seconds, I was hooked.” In 2002, Smith began building a house. Now retired, he lives in Wimberley full-time and has turned his hobby of photography into a business. His beloved river is a frequent muse, and his photos teem with intricate lines and captivating use of light and color.
May 23, 2018 | By Heather Brand
Harvey struck when Houston’s world-class arts scene was gearing up for a new season, devastating venues and upending plans. But creativity and courage go hand in hand: “This city came together in a way I’ve never seen,” says Eileen J. Morris, artistic director of the Ensemble Theatre.
April 25, 2018 | By Michael Corcoran
That’s what attracted renowned Manhattan artist Donald Judd to Marfa in the ’70s. His large-scale installations, which meld sculpture and nature on an old Army base renamed The Chinati Foundation, made this far West Texas town a destination for the international art crowd. But in recent years, “The Capital of Quirkiness” (as CBS’ 60 Minutes dubbed it in 2013) has broadened its appeal to “bucket list” millennials and tourists who might think Donald Judd was Wynonna’s pop. A fascination for Hollywood in recent years, Marfa also enjoys frequent coverage in The New York Times—which ran at least eight stories with a Marfa dateline in the past two years (including four in the paper’s fashion supplement). All this attention has helped convert this tiny town with its own NPR station into the San Francisco of the Texas desert.
March 19, 2018 | By
Riverside town. Campus community. Historic springs. Mermaids and music.
If you thought San Marcos, you thought correctly.
January 20, 2017 | By Martha Deeringer
You could easily get a crick in your neck from looking up at Tom Friedman’s stainless-steel sculpture Looking Up.
October 20, 2015 | By
Abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) achieved fame in the late 1940s with his distinctive “drip paintings.” At the Dallas Museum of Art, Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots explores what came next: Pollock’s “black paintings,” a series of black enamel and oil paintings on untreated canvas created from 1951 to 1953.
May 6, 2015 | By
On five trips to the American frontier in the 1830s, artist and writer George Catlin chronicled American Indians of the Great Plains in hundreds of colorful, detailed paintings.
January 14, 2015 | By
The naturalist John James Audubon (1785-1851) is best known for his effort to illustrate and catalog the breadth of America’s bird species. Later in life, he embarked on a similar project for mammals with his book Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, featuring hand-colored prints of creatures like bison, raccoons, and wolves.
December 12, 2014 | By Clayton Maxwell
Clearly I am not the only one who yearns to bring a bit of Spain back to Texas.
September 11, 2014 | By Gene Fowler
The eyes of five-year-old Luis Jiménez filled with wonder the day in 1945 he stood before the dramatic works of los tres grandes muralistas—Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros—at Mexico City’s Museo de Bellas Artes.
August 22, 2014 | By June Naylor
Instead of pigeon-holing Bastrop as a place to stop for a piece of pie and a poke around the shops, my husband and I arrive for a weekend visit to take a fresh look at Bastrop as a place for enjoying art and other handcrafted beauty.
July 11, 2014 | By Gene Fowler
The artist, inventor, architect, and teacher Buck Winn first beheld the hills of Wimberley in the late 1930s.
July 10, 2014 | By Gene Fowler
Most Texans with deep roots in the state treasure the contributions their ancestors made to its unique history.
January 4, 2012 | By Anthony Head
Driving northbound on I-35 through downtown San Antonio affords a clear view of the city’s Christus Santa Rosa Children’s Hospital, where a nine-story, tiled mural called Spirit of Healing features an image of a young boy holding a dove while an angel watches over him.
December 1, 2010 | By John Davidson
The best treasures are often hidden, and sometimes the best place to hide them is in plain sight.
October 23, 2010 | By Charles Lohrmann
Fort Worth’s Kimbell Museum stands ready to present significant advances in the collective understanding of and appreciation for Maya art.
Published 10 times per year by the Texas Department of Transportation, Texas Highways, the official travel magazine of Texas, encourages travel to and within the Lone Star State and tells the Texas story to readers around the world.
