Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin are on a journey to chronicle the unsung LGBTQ histories in all fifty states. This exhibition concentrates on their work

in Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, and Wyoming. The Houston-based artists—and married couple—use hand-cut maps, installations, video, and other media

to reveal pre-Stonewall stories like the literary career of the Oklahoma-born Lynn Riggs, a 1895 Texas novel featuring a lesbian heroine, and a gay Scottish lord’s 1840s travels west to Wyoming. museum.okstate.edu

Among the American modernists of the early twentieth century, Agnes Pelton was one of the most enigmatic. Born in Germany and later studying art in New York, she distilled desert skies and atmospheric topographies into biomorphic shapes and abstract landscapes. She also wrote poems that accompanied her canvases, which reflected her interest in the esoteric, such as astrology and numerology. Despite her distinctive style, and the attention her work received in her lifetime, Pelton is now obscure in art history. This exhibition is the first in more than twenty-four years to survey and shed light on her often overlooked career. phxart.org

For the next five years, on the night of the full moon, the grasslands east of Marfa will come alive with sound and light. Stone circle by Haroon Mirza—recognized for his mystical experiments with technology—is Ballroom Marfa’s biggest public commission since Elmgreen & Dragset built their perpetually closed Prada store in 2005. The circle of black boulders is inspired by megalith contractions like Stonehenge, with embedded LEDs and speakers powered by solar patterns and the adjacent “mother stone” responding during the full moon. A series of events are planned at the installation, drawing visitors out to the futuristic experience with ancient ritual. ballroommarfa.org