Stephen L. Starkman’s moving book about his encounter with mortality leaves a place for perseverance and hope.

A group show of women artists at The Contemporary Austin addresses the weight and urgency of the current political moment.

The pathbreaking artist recounts milestones in her life through letters she wrote to her mother.

A new book presents nearly 100 previously unseen photos from the artist’s influential, once-controversial body of work.

The Dallas Museum of Art’s retrospective of the artist is an opportunity to reframe the conversation about Wong and his work.

An exhibition at the University of Texas at Austin offers an alternative view of the nation through the lens of contemporary artists.

Extensively illustrated, Norman Rockwell: Drawings, 1911–1976 is the first book dedicated to the artist’s prolific but largely private drawing practice.

An exhibition at Blanton Museum of Art encapsulates the complicated ways in which Indigenous and European traditions cross-pollinated through textiles and accessories.

Can photographers capture the vitality of flowers compellingly, innovatively, and beautifully? A new book gives a resounding yes.

Larry Towell’s images reveal a little-seen, isolated world and raise questions about the unforgiving impact of tradition on families.

Three Women Artists: Expanding Abstract Expressionism in the American West uncovers the little-known stories of professional and creative gains in the region, and especially in the Texas Panhandle.

With deep-set eyes and sealed lips, an ovular, narrow face is pervasive in James Gilbert’s work.

Stephanie Syjuco’s exhibition Double Vision points to the role that museums play in perpetuating narratives about the people, places, and events of the American West.

The camera became the center of Chauncey Hare's life, and a tool for awakening his political consciousness.

In no small feat, Why I Make Art condenses artists’ multifaceted, meandering spoken stories into lively, relatable narratives that draw the reader in.

Thirty-seven years after the artist’s death, a new exhibition proves that Oppenheim’s furry teacup was just one of her many daring artistic statements.

Listening to Clay sheds light on how Japanese clay workers went from skilled production craftspeople to fine artists, transforming the country’s culture in the process.

Author Malcolm Russell's novel approach to history — finding it as it washes up on the riverbanks — makes the past seem very much alive.

The Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo has helped validate and redefine the largely untold story of Black cowboys and cowgirls in the American West.

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo's deftly painted canvases are filled with earthy, convincing characters that even the most secular viewer will appreciate, if not relate to.

The Colombian artist’s first US retrospective is a meditation on memory and seeing.

A new exhibition at the Mexic-Arte Museum reveals the crucial but under-recognized role that the Chicano art movement played in Austin’s history and culture.

The Second Half: Forty Women Reveal Life After Fifty is a celebration of the strength and insight of women from across the world.

One of Red Star’s many strengths is her ability to examine both the past and what’s still to come.

Printmaking, especially screen printing, has been a key tool for Chicanos to communicate who they are and what they care about since the 1960s.

Hutson's textured work honors and challenges his city across mediums in a long overdue exhibition.

By the time of his death in 1992, at age 49, Luigi Ghirri had taken some 2,000 pictures in Puglia, most of which have never been seen publicly.

A new biography looks at the largely forgotten architect who executed more than 700 building projects in California, including the Hearst Castle.

Medellín’s first museum retrospective is a thoughtful tribute to his lifelong pursuit of craft and sincere search for connection.

New York hasn’t just housed generations of artists; it’s also been their muse.

A new book on the artist features selections from Saint Phalle’s prints, doodles, letters, and diaries, arranged in roughly chronological order.

The newly unveiled 60-foot-wide, 140-foot-long steel and glass building is an exemplar of Mies’s signature understated but innovative style.

Did you know Maurizio Cattelan has worked as a morgue assistant, or that Annie Leibovitz created an album cover for Cyndi Lauper?

Early on, Kamoda’s exhibitions were met with crowds who lined up around the block to see his elegant, elusive works.

Fuchs’s quiet paintings and ceramics pay tribute to the small, private objects that accompany us through life and ultimately anchor us in time.

Architectural drawings were limited to mostly monochrome in Europe until color appeared in the 17th century.

Though masonic fraternal groups have existed for centuries, their rites and methods have long been shrouded in secrecy.

A new book reconstructs a unique teen bedroom from 1929 and resurrects Joseph Urban’s far-reaching but now-forgotten influence on modern American design.

Though little-known outside of his native country, Smrekar left a strong imprint on his nation’s art world and political thought.

Barbara Bloemink’s thorough, engaging book is the first comprehensive biography and full reading of Stettheimer’s paintings, and gives the artist the attention she has long deserved.

Lasansky’s series drew massive crowds when it toured major museums between 1967 and 1970.

The banana's dominance and ubiquity has had serious and far-reaching implications for the region, engendering exploitative labor systems, climate change, and migration.

A lavishly illustrated, fascinating book explores the resurgence of Venetian glass and the ways it influenced American ideas about taste and beauty.

A new digital atlas, imagineRio, reveals how the city’s urban evolution has unfolded from its 16th century roots to the present day.

Erick Medel’s labor-intensive pieces pay tribute to the labor being done around him.

Though the area has been at the center of recent border wall debates, its complexity and diversity have been politicized and oversimplified for centuries.

In the mid-1900s, nudists in Britain believed they could improve national health and remedy buttoned-up social norms and rigid class divisions.

Bursztyn created vibrating, noisy kinetic sculptures out of scrap metal and cloth with a mix of sensual and disturbing energy.

From North to South America, artists used the bold colors, figuration, and appropriated imagery of Pop Art, but with a biting political message.

A young, Black, gay man from the American South, Kelly was a determined, self-taught innovator who worked his way into the highest levels of international fashion.