Glasstire counts down the top five art events in Texas.
For last week’s picks, please go here.
Still image of digital rendering of Notre-Dame Cathedral, Ars Electronica
1. Notre-Dame Cathedral Immersive Experience
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
November 23, 2024 – January 5, 2025
From the MFAH:
“Following the devastating fire on April 15, 2019 that destroyed the roof, spire, and much of the interior of Notre-Dame de Paris, the iconic Gothic cathedral will reopen to the public on Saturday, December 7, 2024. To commemorate this historic moment, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston will present an unprecedented immersive experience that brings visitors into a virtual, three-dimensional model of Notre-Dame.
The monumental virtual installation recreates the experience of being in the medieval cathedral’s majestic space, while revealing the extraordinary achievement of those engaged in Notre Dame’s five-year restoration: a team of nearly 2,000, both on site and in workshops across France, including conservators, carpenters, glassmakers, locksmiths, engineers, and scaffolding experts. The presentation showcases the legendary architectural features of the cathedral, including its famed stained-glass windows, as well as the role of new technologies in preserving and communicating humanity’s cultural heritage.”
Citlali Delgado, “Ni Una Mas,” 2024, oil, acrylic and spray paint on canvas, 5 x 7 feet
2. Ecos del Sol: Portraits of Mexican American Heritage and Culture
Museum of the Big Bend (Alpine)
November 15, 2024 – February 15, 2025
From the Museum of the Big Bend:
“The artist in this exhibition celebrate the heritage and culture of Mexican Americans, and more specifically, peoples who identify themselves as Chicano, Bordeña and Fronterizo. The portraits not only document their proud heritage and that of their ancestors, but also address the challenges these generations are faced with today in maintaining and celebrating their culture, ancestry, and traditions.”
Herbert Dunton, “My Children,” 1920.
3. Storytellers: Narrative Art and the West
Briscoe Western Art Museum (San Antonio)
October 4, 2024 – January 19, 2025
From Briscoe Western Art Museum:
“Opening a window into the rich history, culture, and landscapes of the Southwest, the Briscoe Western Art Museum is proud to host Storytellers: Narrative Art and the West, an exhibition that reveals the breadth of narrative art produced in the Southwest from the early twentieth century to today. The exhibition features more than 70 remarkable works curated from the prestigious collections of the New Mexico Museum of Art, the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, the Briscoe, and private lenders.
A narrative work of art is one that tells a story of a particular moment, or moments, in time. Narratives are often used to illustrate historical events, legends, traditions, myths, fables and religious ceremonies. The exhibition explores the many ways artists have told stories about the Southwest in their art including religious, migratory, historical and rural subjects.”
Chivas Clem, “Cole with Dead Hawk,” 2021.
4. Chivas Clem: Shirttail Kin
Dallas Contemporary
October 17, 2024 – January 12, 2025
From Dallas Contemporary:
“Curated by Alison M. Gingeras, Shirttail Kin presents an archive of 61 photographs spanning over a decade. In a shift from the artist’s usual appropriation-based explorations of pop culture, Shirttail Kin documents a local community of transient men whom Clem frequented upon his return to his hometown after an illustrious career in New York. Turning his attention to his native landscape, Clem captures some of the region’s most pressing issues. His intimate images disclose complex and surprising constructions of masculinity while also capturing an empathetic picture of a misunderstood and largely forgotten population.
After almost two decades in New York… Chivas Clem returned to his hometown of Paris, Texas… The move prompted Clem to encounter a community of transient men, ‘drifters, addicts, and former felons,’ whom he hired to help in the studio. Growing close, the men became Clem’s ‘shirttail kin,’ a colloquial term used in the South to mean one’s chosen family. After establishing a cautious familiarity spanning many years, Clem was able to fully immerse himself among this itinerant subculture, taking pictures but also deepening his personal engagement with his subjects while living alongside them. The 1,600 ensuing photographs are a jarring coupling of vulnerability and feral charisma: models nude, sleeping, having a bath, but also wielding guns or taking drugs. The result is a fraught diary that reflects upon masculinity, class, visibility, desire, trauma, and beauty.”
Jon Langford, “The Cuckoo Is A Pretty Bird.”
5. Jon Langford: The Cuckoo Is A Pretty Bird: New Paintings & prints
Yard Dog (Austin)
November 14, 2024 – December 31, 2024
From Yard Dog:
“Welsh rabble-rouser, painter extraordinaire, punk rock pioneer: Jon Langford (born October 11, 1957) is a prolific and well-respected visual artist whose punk rock instincts and unparalleled draftsmanship come together in a painting style that is distinctive, engaging, and challenging. In addition to his paintings and prints, his artwork appears on CD’s (his own and other’s), book covers, and Dogfish Head Brewery beer bottle labels. His multimedia music/spoken-word/video performance, The Executioner’s Last Songs, premiered at Alverno College in 2005, and has been performed in several other cities, including Austin. He illustrated the comic strip Great Pop Things under the pseudonym Chuck Death. Since 2005 he has co-hosted a weekly radio program, The Eclectic Company, broadcast on WXRT 93.1 FM in Chicago. He has contributed to This American Life.”
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