To see our pics, click 'launch slideshow'  Museums and InstitutionsArt Car Museum, 140 Heights Blvd., 713.861.5526; artcarmuseum.com. Amazing cars. Through March 5: "Ron Hoover A Retrospective: 1972-2006." March 20 – June 18: "Fast, Faster, Fastest: A Historical Photoessay of Auto Racing in the U.S., Great Britai...

Alien Invasion, Gone Coastal: Head to the Nasher Sculpture Center's garden for an otherworldly installation that owes more to Star Trek than it does to modern art. Ceramist Adam Silverman and architect Nader Tehrani have collaborated on a strange, wild ride that interjects craft into nature via 400 cut clay objects ...

She was the daughter of a privileged Pennsylvania family, born in Pittsburgh two decades before the Civil War, and could have led a comfortable life of gilded-age conformity. Instead, Mary Cassatt (1844 – 1926) departed for Paris, arriving amidst one of the most radical upheavals in Western art. As the most impor...

To see our pics, click "Launch Slideshow"  Museums and InstitutionsAfrican American Museum, 3536 Grand Ave., 214.565.9026; aamdallas.org. Amon Carter Museum, 3501 Camp Bowie Blvd., Fort Worth, 817.738.1933; cartermuseum.org. Through May 16: "Edward S. Curtis: The North American Indian." Through May 17: "Freedom Now: Ta...

Bring on the Americans — and the Texans. That’s the rallying cry of  Houston's FotoFest 2010, “Contemporary U.S. Photography.” While it may not be the biggest International Biennial of Photography and Photo-Related Art, it’s perhaps the most clearly focused. It's also presciently ...