Arts & Culture Texas

Sacred and Secular Merge at MFAH’s new Art of the Islamic Worlds Galleries

Tarra Gaines·March 22, 2023

A blue day dawns at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Such was my first thought stepping into the welcoming light and waves of blue in the Art of the Islamic Worlds Galleries.

Art Houston

Wild Time: Fusebox 2023 Brings the Fun Factor

Tarra Gaines·February 2, 2023

Now as spring blooms, we find Austin’s Fusebox, the state’s largest multidisciplinary arts festival, carrying the trend into 2023 with five days (April 12-16) filled with its usual innovative and experimental work, but also a particularly playful and fun lineup.

Austin Dance Music Theater

Fresh Beauty: Matthew Bourne spins a darkly beautiful world

Tarra Gaines·February 1, 2023

A longed-for royal baby, a series of blessings and curses from a good-to-evil spectrum of fairies, a bit of a prick, a bead of blood then a century of sleep until a spell-breaking kiss brings the great awakening, happily ever after.

Dance Theater

Lone Star Art Stars: The Texas Medal of Arts Return

Tarra Gaines·November 23, 2022

to celebrate that Texas art pride, every two years the Texas Cultural Trust puts on the ultimate star-gazing party, a.k.a. the Texas Medal of Arts Awards.

Austin Dallas/Ft Worth Houston Lone Star Stories San Antonio

Radical Visions Play Out at Houston Cinema Arts Festival 2022

Tarra Gaines·October 21, 2022

Radical visions—that’s what lead programmer, Jazmyne Moreno, says we should look for at this year’s Houston Cinema Arts Festival (Nov. 10-16).

Film Houston Music Theater

Tapping Texas Talent: Women Choreographers Make their Mark on Musical Theater

Tarra Gaines·October 16, 2022

Back in pre-pandemic 2020, B. Moore Dance company founder Bridget Moore signed on as choreographer for the Second Thought Theatre’s production of Lynn Nottage’s play Mlima's Tale.

Dallas/Ft Worth Dance Houston Theater

Gordon Parks at the MFAH: Behind-the-lens insights into the mind of one of America’s most visionary photographers

Tarra Gaines·October 2, 2022

In 1966, Gordon Parks, one of the most acclaimed photographers of the 20th century, set out to profile rising civil rights leader Stokely Carmichael for Life magazine.

Art Houston

The New Now Continues: Performing Arts Houston Commissioning Project Celebrates Local Artists

Tarra Gaines·October 2, 2022

Booth hopes that the program will continue to prove Houston’s cultural excellence to go along with the city’s reputation as a home to global business innovators.

Houston Music Theater

Still Rising: Deborah D.E.E.P Mouton brings Lauren Anderson’s story to the Stage

Tarra Gaines·August 10, 2022

When one of Houston’s most acclaimed poets, Deborah D.E.E.P Mouton, set out to interview the city’s most legendary dancer, Lauren Anderson, she didn’t have a fully-formed creative objective.

Dance Houston Music Theater

A Good Laugh: The Fun Factor on Texas Stages

Tarra Gaines·August 10, 2022

After a performance season filled with joyful starts, heart-breaking cancellations and casting understudies for the understudies when positive COVID tests rolled in, Texas theater companies have endured much real life drama to make the leap back to live performances.

Austin Dallas/Ft Worth Houston Lone Star Stories Music Theater

Ambiguous places of beauty and sadness: Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin’s Wayfinding at the Blaffer

Tarra Gaines·July 18, 2022

Ten years ago, multidisciplinary artists and life partners Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin set out to trace a little-known bit of queer U.S history, an 1843 pleasure excursion by100 men from St Louis to the Wind River Range of Wyoming, likely the first example of North American gay eco/party tourism.

Art Houston Theater

Go Big, Go Joyful: The Journey Back to the Theater

Tarra Gaines·May 6, 2022

During the height of the streamed performing arts portion of the pandemic, I thought a lot about the difference between being a viewer and an audience member.

Dallas/Ft Worth Dance Houston Music Theater

Art

Sacred and Secular Merge at MFAH’s new Art of the Islamic Worlds Galleries

A Kind of Dream: Mark di Suvero at the Nasher Sculpture Center

Strength, understanding and resiliency: Karin Broker at the Art Museum of South Texas

Music

Texas Studio: Alli Villines wants you to Feel Whatever You Feel

Cliburn contest helps aspiring pianists envision their future

100 Years of Magic at Miller Outdoor Theatre

Dance

100 Years of Magic at Miller Outdoor Theatre

Discovering the Dallas Arts District

A Narrative Signature: International Choreographer Cathy Marston Prioritizes Storytelling in her Interpretation of a Southern Classic

Theater

Texas Studio: Alli Villines wants you to Feel Whatever You Feel

100 Years of Magic at Miller Outdoor Theatre

Wild Time: Fusebox 2023 Brings the Fun Factor

Film

Radical Visions Play Out at Houston Cinema Arts Festival 2022

Moving Bodies, Moving Cameras: Frame x Frame Expands to Three Locations

Texas Studio: Sarah Fox’s Bad Bunny Gets Real

Books

A Meeting to Remember: Aaron Landsman and Mallory Catlett’s new book on ‘City Council Meeting’

Society for the Performing Arts Goes Digital

Novels, Poems, Memoirs!: Inprint’s Margarett Root Brown Reading Series Addresses Our Complicated World

Tarra Gaines

Sacred and Secular Merge at MFAH’s new Art of the Islamic Worlds Galleries

Wild Time: Fusebox 2023 Brings the Fun Factor

Fresh Beauty: Matthew Bourne spins a darkly beautiful world

Lone Star Art Stars: The Texas Medal of Arts Return

Radical Visions Play Out at Houston Cinema Arts Festival 2022

Tapping Texas Talent: Women Choreographers Make their Mark on Musical Theater

Gordon Parks at the MFAH: Behind-the-lens insights into the mind of one of America’s most visionary photographers

The New Now Continues: Performing Arts Houston Commissioning Project Celebrates Local Artists

Still Rising: Deborah D.E.E.P Mouton brings Lauren Anderson’s story to the Stage

A Good Laugh: The Fun Factor on Texas Stages

Ambiguous places of beauty and sadness: Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin’s Wayfinding at the Blaffer

Go Big, Go Joyful: The Journey Back to the Theater