Museum Mile: At the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, an intriguing pair of exhibitions rewrites the art historical canon. “Dynasty and Divinity: Ife Art in Ancient Nigeria” brings ancient terra-cotta and copper portrait heads (circa 9th to 15th centuries AD) from the fabled kingdom of Ife in southwestern Nigeria, t...

Painter’s Progress/Oh So Demure: It’s all about the triumph of the Texans. Two exhibits in that direction are highly recommended: Seth Alverson returns to town for a solo at Art Palace — with a newly minted MFA and a very strange, albeit compelling group of paintings that pack a menacing narrative (through...

TO SEE PICTURES CLICK ON 'LAUNCH SLIDESHOW'  Get to the Angelika Film Center and Cafe and see I Am Love, a new feature film by Magnolia pictures that is simply too good to be true. Set in Italian fashion metropolis Milan, the movie depicts an Italian dynasty, the Recchis', and the transference of authority from o...

Terrific Tandem: From the searing portraits and hypnotic canvases of an international art star to a poignant look at the vanishing American tradition of the sideshow, this summer has it all. Catch the first-ever American retrospective for the masterful mid-career Belgian Luc Tuymans at the Dallas Museum of Art, the second l...

Way Out West: At the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the lure of the fabled West is celebrated with canvases and bronzes  by Charles Russell (1864 –1926), an image-maker who later inspired Huston and Ford’s cinematic interpretations (through August 29). This exhibition is the first-ever museum retrospective m...