Last year’s 'til Midnight at the Nasher series, the popular (and free) Friday evening concerts at the Nasher, looked different from years past. For the first time, it seemed as if the music, which even the Nasher bills as the primary focus of thes...

Through her chosen medium of painting — which wasn’t exactly a safe bet for a young artist in the 1990s, when Laura Owens' career began — the contemporary artist checks most boxes: Her art references art history; it’s highly personal; it's collabo...

When Dee Mitchell approached Ludwig Schwarz about doing a retrospective of Schwarz’s drawings, he told Mitchell he hadn’t drawn in years and wasn’t planning to return to it anytime soon. Not to be deterred, the two came up with something else...

Yayoi Kusama occupies an interesting position in the world of contemporary art; few artists have achieved the level of mainstream celebrity this Japanese artist commands. Of course, some in the art world wonder at that status, especially since Kus...

“I want my work to completely abandon the notion that I’m working for a specific audience,” Cambodian artist Sopheap Pich says, responding to a probing question concerning the globalized art world contemporary artists are forced to reckon with. Pi...