So much happened in 2018, we committed the cardinal sin of letting our blog go dormant. Returning with a vengeance in 2019 — we have lots to share!
It doesn’t appear we made it outside of Texas all year, which is uncharacteristic, but we certainly made our way around the huge state and saw a lot of amazing art museums, galleries, and installations in 2018:
Amon Carter Museum (Gabriel Dawe’s Plexus no. 34 & permanent collection) — Fort Worth, TX
Blanton Museum of Art (Ellsworth Kelly’s Austin & permanent collection) — Austin, TX
Dallas Museum of Art (Laura Owens exhibit & permanent collection) — Dallas, TX
Downtown Murals — Brenham, TX
The Flower Vault — San Antonio, TX
From the HeART Gallery — Galveston, TX
The Museum of Fine Arts — Houston, TX
The Modern (Takashi Murakami exhibit & permanent collection) — Fort Worth, TX
Sweet Tooth Hotel — Dallas, TX
Webb Gallery (Camp Bosworth exhibit & Bruce Lee Webb) — Waxahachie, TX
Wells Studio & Gallery — Salado, TX
Art highlights from Austin/SXSW 2018:
Top row, center
Ellsworth Kelly’s Austin, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin
Top row, right
Vivir: A los saltos [To Live: By Leaps and Bounds], 1964, Romulo Maccio, Argentina, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin
2nd row, center
Ai Weiwei's Forever Bicycles, Austin, TX
2nd row, right
FEAST, Caitlin Pickall, on exhibit at SXSW 2018
Additional images (top row, left & 2nd row, left) are common areas at the Blanton Museum of Art.
From everywhere else:
Laura Owens exhibit, DMA; Downtown mural in Brenham; selfies from Flower Vault San Antonio; James Turrell’s "The Light Inside,” MFA Houston; Gabriel Dawe’s “Plexus No. 34,” Amon Carter, Fort Worth; Takashi Murakami exhibit, The Modern Fort Worth; Sweet Tooth Hotel (Various Artists), Dallas; Camp Bosworth exhibit “Thank You, Please Drive-Thru,” & Various Artists, Webb Gallery, Waxahachie
