Since we’re all about FRESH design, we need plenty of time away from the screen and lots of art in our lives to keep the inspiration flowing. This year, I did more hiking than art-gawking (which I’m totally fine with too), but here are some standout museums, exhibits, and installations I enjoyed immensely in 2019:

• Kimbell Museum (Fort Worth, TX) “Balenciaga in Black” exhibit

• Behind the scenes with Lindsay’s Art Cart at the Arlington Museum of Art (Arlington, TX) during the “Hiroshige: Along the Eastern Road” exhibit

• Museum of Fine Arts Houston (Houston, TX) “Transparent Migrations” by Amalia Mesa-Bains; “La sordidez/Sordidness” by Antonio Berni; “Vivir sin seguro/To Live without Assurance” by Rómulo Macció.

• Contemporary Arts Museum (Houston, TX) “If I can’t dance, it’s not my revolution!” by Steven Evans

• The Jung Center (Houston, TX) “A Man in a Suit holding a Succulent” by Alex Hysinger

• The Neon Museum (Las Vegas, NV)

• Dallas Museum of Art (Dallas, TX) “Dior: From Paris to the World” exhibit

• The Chinati Foundation (Marfa, TX) “15 untitled works in concrete” by Donald Judd; “100 untitled works in mill aluminum” by Donald Judd
  (not pictured/no photography allowed)

• Branigan Cultural Center (Las Cruces, NM) “Originales” exhibit by Lidia Avina; “It holds the remedies of my grandma” by Nanibah Chacon

• Las Cruces Museum of Art (Las Cruces, NM) pottery exhibit
  (not pictured/no photography allowed)

• El Paso Museum of Art (El Paso, TX) “Acta de Nacimiento” by Ivan Calderon; “Krag” by Guillermo Gutierrez; “Families Belong Together” by Andrea Bowers

• Prada Marfa (Marfa, TX)

• Tiny Target (Marathon, TX)

• Art inside Amy’s Ice Cream 6th & Lamar (Austin, TX)

• Public art in the Postoffice District (Galveston, TX)