Events

FORT WORTH STOCK SHOW AND RODEO
Will Rogers Memorial Center
3401 W. Lancaster Ave., Fort Worth, fwssr.com

The legendary Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo is back. The nearly month-long event puts authentic Western lifestyle on display and showcases Cowtown’s roots. Everyone in the family can find something to enjoy from the livestock and horse shows, kid-friendly activities, live music, carnival, shopping opportunities, food and rodeos. Dickies Arena will host all the rodeo events, capped off by the FWSSR ProRodeo Tournament. Jan. 17-Feb. 8

Exhibits

LAURA WILSON: THE HEARTLAND
Fort Works Art Gallery
2100 Montgomery St., Fort Worth, 817-759-9475, fortworksart.com

Photographer Laura Wilson returns to Fort Works Art Gallery with an exhibition exploring life in Texas and the broader Heartland. Wilson’s photos focus on the cultures and values that have shaped the West, including cowboys, rodeo trick riders, homecoming celebrations and football traditions. “Laura Wilson: The Heartland” gives viewers an opportunity to reflect on the values and traditions of Texas and the Heartland as conversations about regional identity increase and the definition of American culture evolves. Wilson’s work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine and Vanity Fair, and she has been deemed one of the defining photographers of the American West. Through Feb. 22

RICHARD HUNT: FROM PAPER TO METAL
Amon Carter Museum of American Art
3501 Camp Bowie Blvd., Fort Worth, 817-738-1933, cartermuseum.org

Chicago-based artist Richard Hunt, the first Black sculptor to receive a retrospective at New York’s Museum of Modern Art in 1971, created more than 160 public monuments nationwide and is considered one of the most remarkable sculptors of the 20th and 21st centuries. The “Richard Hunt: From Paper to Metal” exhibit highlights the prints Hunt produced during a 1965 residency at the Tamarind Lithography Workshop, a newly acquired sculpture made from Hunt’s signature direct-welded metal technique and 25 lithographs that have never been on view. Hunt created flat, two-dimensional prints that allude to his sculptural process and interest in skeletal structures. The Carter organized this exhibit to highlight Hunt’s dialogue between two-dimensional graphic ideas and three-dimensional welded sculptures, visionary works, which helped propel American sculpture forward. Through March 2

DUTCH ART IN A GLOBAL AGE
Kimbell Art Museum
3200 Darnell St., Fort Worth, 817-738-9215, themodern.org

Rembrandt, Frans Hals, Gerrit Dou, Jacob van Ruisdael, Maria Schalcken and other celebrated artists from Museum of Fine Arts, Boston’s renowned collection, along with four Dutch paintings from the Kimbell’s permanent collection, will be showcased in this exhibit about Dutch life in the 17th Century. During that time, Dutch merchants joined trade networks across the world in a movement of goods, ideas and people that gave rise to the first age of globalization and sparked an artistic boom in the Netherlands. Prints, maps and decorative objects in silver, porcelain, glass and more help show how international commerce shaped Dutch life and brought cultural flourishing. Through Feb. 9

COWBOY
Amon Carter Museum of American Art
3501 Camp Bowie Blvd., Fort Worth, 817-738-1933, cartermuseum.org

More than 60 cutting-edge, contemporary artworks, including new commissions, from 27 artists will be on display in the “Cowboy” exhibit. The exhibit explores the popular mythologies surrounding the image and concept of the cowboy. Asian American, Latino and Indigenous artists will bring their perspectives regarding the cowboy’s role in shaping our perception of masculinity and gender and long-held assumptions about cowboys’ relationship to land and how those assumptions conflict with the lived experience of contemporary cowboys. The exhibit is organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. Through March 23