North to South: A beguiling, groundbreaking exhibition that expands our knowledge of one of the ripest areas of art history revisionism arrives at the Amon Carter Museum this summer with “Constructive Spirit: Abstract Art in South and North America, 1920s – 1950s” (through September 5). The traveling show,...

The art scene is abuzz with news of the Dallas Contemporary’s latest acquisition — and it has little to do with pieces by James Gilbert or Nathaniel Glaspie. Instead, it’s the announcement of the Contemporary’s new executive director Peter Doroshenko, who will no doubt amp up the city’s cultura...

Vietnamese-born, Seattle-based rising talent Diem Chau’s work bridges art and design, combining such unlikely materials as porcelain, organza, thread and toothpicks to create sculptural vignettes that suggest poignant domestic moments. Chau’s latest material can be traced back to childhood:  the good ole, p...

One of the masters of postwar photography, Ishimoto Yasuhiro (born 1921), gets a new look when the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s assistant curator of photography, Yasufumi Nakamori, mounts “Katsura: Picturing Modernism in Japanese Architecture, Photographs by Ishimoto Yasuhiro.” The exhibition will be a r...

Crafts have now infiltrated the mainstream museum world, sparked by the guerrilla tactics of performance. One of summer’s must-see exhibitions in this direction is “Hand+Made: The Performative Impulse in Art and Craft,” a topical view at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, curated by Valerie Cassel Oliver. T...