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Dancing in Between the Spaces of Life: Karen Stokes Premieres ‘4 Corners’ at the Match

ADAM CASTAÑEDA·December 11, 2025

Time is a precious commodity, and as we move further away from the standstill of the pandemic years, many of us are finding that we have far less than we would like.

Dance Houston

Big and Bold: Waco’s {254}DANCEFEST Expands its Reach

ADAM CASTAÑEDA·December 11, 2025

Making dances can be an unrelenting cycle of creative ideation, talent management, and administrative multitasking; finding a platform to show the work once it is complete can be just as unforgiving.

Dance Waco

The Stories We Carry: Angelica Raquel: Mystic Threads at the McNay Art Museum

MICHAEL MCFADDEN·December 11, 2025

Stories first live in the body. They prickle across the skin as goosebumps, catch in the throat as a gasp, and move along a family line, changing slightly with each retelling. A good story lingers, reshaping memory and place so that a river, a vacant lot, or a patch of brush never feels quite the same again.

San Antonio Visual Art

Dreaming Frida: Brooklyn Rider premieres a new work by Gabriela Lena Frank at DACAMERA

Steven Brown·December 11, 2025

Frank—who earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music in the 1990s—will return to Houston for the world premiere of Frida’s Dreams, a multimedia spinoff of El último sueño.

Houston Music

All The World’s Their Stage: Teatro Dallas celebrates 40 years

Lindsey Wilson·December 11, 2025

In 1985, Jeff Hurst and Cora Cardona founded Teatro Dallas, the city’s first Latinx stage company.

Dallas/Ft Worth Theater

Head West: Contemporary artists reimagine the American West at the Amon Carter

Lindsey Wilson·December 11, 2025

When visitors step into New Horizons: The Western Landscape at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, they won’t find sagebrush clichés, cowboys in silhouette, or sweeping vistas painted to satisfy nostalgia.

Dallas/Ft Worth Visual Art

Stitched Across Time: Marilyn Henrion brings a lifetime of textile works to the Irving Arts Center

Brett Grega·December 10, 2025

The first stitch in Marilyn Henrion’s journey to becoming an acclaimed textile artist began in two rooms on New York’s Lower East Side where she lived alongside her parents and seven siblings.

Dallas/Ft Worth Visual Art

Image and Identity: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston explores the work and influence of Frida Kahlo

Tarra Gaines·December 10, 2025

From a self-portrait worth $55 million to hand-painted shoes on Etsy, from egg cups to a biographical ballet and lookalike festivals across the globe, very few artists have ever inspired and driven the world’s imagination like Frida Kahlo.

Houston Visual Art

Dream Worlds: The Dallas Museum of Art takes a deeper look at ‘International Surrealism’

Kendall Morgan·December 10, 2025

On a November night in Paris in 1925, a collective of outlier artists launched a movement intent on tapping into unconscious creativity. A century later, surrealism’s unsettling imagery and thought-provoking themes still seem as timely as the years it was introduced.

Dallas/Ft Worth Visual Art

From Pop to Pokémon: The House of Pikachu at Asia Society Texas Center

MICHAEL MCFADDEN·November 15, 2025

In the House of Pikachu, Memory Speaks in Color.

Houston Visual Art

Texas Studio: Alexa Capareda Keeps Moving

Tara Munjee·November 8, 2025

Indefatigable Alexa. That’s the only way to describe Austin’s Alexa Capareda, whose professional artistic engagements include dancing, choreography, teaching, film, drawing, arts administration/organization, and now additionally, acting.

Austin Dance Texas Studio Theater

Fresh Notes: Grassroots Opera Companies Take Off in Houston

Sherry Cheng·November 8, 2025

It should surprise no one that in Houston, the fourth largest city in the country, the art of opera is thriving on the Wortham Theater Center stage downtown as well as in urban breweries and suburban performing arts spaces.

Houston Music

Visual Art

The Stories We Carry: Angelica Raquel: Mystic Threads at the McNay Art Museum

Head West: Contemporary artists reimagine the American West at the Amon Carter

Stitched Across Time: Marilyn Henrion brings a lifetime of textile works to the Irving Arts Center

Gallery Row

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Dance

Dancing in Between the Spaces of Life: Karen Stokes Premieres ‘4 Corners’ at the Match

Big and Bold: Waco’s {254}DANCEFEST Expands its Reach

Texas Studio: Alexa Capareda Keeps Moving

Music

Dreaming Frida: Brooklyn Rider premieres a new work by Gabriela Lena Frank at DACAMERA

Fresh Notes: Grassroots Opera Companies Take Off in Houston

Music in Every Neighborhood: Monarch Chamber Players expands its Mission

Theater

All The World’s Their Stage: Teatro Dallas celebrates 40 years

Texas Studio: Alexa Capareda Keeps Moving

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

Dancing in Between the Spaces of Life: Karen Stokes Premieres ‘4 Corners’ at the Match

Big and Bold: Waco’s {254}DANCEFEST Expands its Reach

The Stories We Carry: Angelica Raquel: Mystic Threads at the McNay Art Museum

Dreaming Frida: Brooklyn Rider premieres a new work by Gabriela Lena Frank at DACAMERA

All The World’s Their Stage: Teatro Dallas celebrates 40 years

Head West: Contemporary artists reimagine the American West at the Amon Carter

Stitched Across Time: Marilyn Henrion brings a lifetime of textile works to the Irving Arts Center

Image and Identity: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston explores the work and influence of Frida Kahlo

Dream Worlds: The Dallas Museum of Art takes a deeper look at ‘International Surrealism’

From Pop to Pokémon: The House of Pikachu at Asia Society Texas Center

Texas Studio: Alexa Capareda Keeps Moving

Fresh Notes: Grassroots Opera Companies Take Off in Houston