Arts & Culture Texas

Forms of Inheritance: Anna Mayer Goes Meta at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft

Sherry Cheng·February 12, 2021

Thick black smoke clouds engulf the large canvas mural that dominates the entrance of artist Anna Mayer’s solo exhibition, Forms of Inheritance, on view through May 8 at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (HCCC).

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Bold Choices: Dallas Black Dance Makes Arts Available to New Audiences

Lindsay Alissa King·February 9, 2021

Together Young and Drew laid out three-month, six-month, and one-year plans, even before they knew how long the pandemic might keep the curtains down.

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The Language of Allegory: Shirin Neshat at The Modern

casey gregory·February 8, 2021

Nearly a year into the global pandemic, it’s likely we can all relate to the idea of the imagination as a passport.

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Bridging the Museum: The Carter Community Artists initiative at Amon Carter

James Russell·January 29, 2021

The Carter Community Artists initiative was established in 2018 by the Amon Carter Museum of American Art.

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One STEP at a Time: Second Thought Theatre lifts the curtain

Lindsey Wilson·January 18, 2021

The new artistic director of Dallas’s Second Thought Theatre is addressing the virtual audience of STEP: Second Thought Emerging Playwrights.

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The Music Plays On: Texas Orchestras Pivot in 2021

Steven Brown·January 8, 2021

The Fort Worth Symphony will spotlight Antonín Dvořák’s melodious but unfamiliar Serenade in E major on Jan. 8-10. The same weekend, Dallas Symphony performances of Dmitri Shostakovich’s Chamber Symphony in A-flat--a supersized version of the composer’s Quartet No. 10--will show how intense a string ensemble can be. The Houston Symphony will partner with onetime prodigy, now mature artist Midori in Beethoven’s Violin Concerto on Jan. 15-17.

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A Love Letter to the Audience: Tarra Gaines on her Digital Diet and Missing Live Performance

Tarra Gaines·October 1, 2020

Tarra Gaines on her Digital Diet and Missing Live Performance

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Dallas Opera Goes Digital with the TDO Network

Steven Brown·August 6, 2020

The Dallas Opera had just begun rehearsals for a landmark event: the company’s first production in more than 30 years of Giuseppe Verdi’s Don Carlo, a drama whose challenges tower nearly as high as its musical splendors.

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Texas Studio: Katy Heinlein

Emily Hynds·March 5, 2020

Sculptor Katy Heinlein’s studio is quiet, cozy, exploding with texture and color, and perhaps most important of all, stable.

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Texas Studio: Matt Messinger

Emily Hynds·February 13, 2020

Houston artist Matt Messinger is a collector—of art yes, but also of ephemera, which leaks and injects itself into his work.

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Staring into the Theater Infinity: ‘The Fantasticks’ at Stages

Tarra Gaines·February 3, 2020

Somewhere near the end of the first act of Stages’ sweet and nostalgic production of the classic musical The Fantasticks when a happy ending tableau had arrived but an entire second act still remained to follow, I couldn’t stop thinking of that likely-apocryphal story about the cosmologist confronting a turtle infinity.

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Texas Studio: Ana Fernandez

casey gregory·January 27, 2020

San Antonio artist Ana Fernandez, a regionalist for the 21st century, finds that it’s really the people that make a place.

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Art

Jenelle Esparza Weaves Ancestral History at Women & Their Work

Seriality, color, and time: Matthew Wong at DMA

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

Music

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

Kinetic Season 8: Distinct Voices, New Works, and Wild Soundscapes

Houston Chamber Choir Expands its Reach

Dance

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Avant Chamber Ballet’s 10th season celebrates women and whimsy

Theater

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

The difficult past and hopeful future of Latinx theater in Dallas

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

Film

Texas Studio: Sarah Fox’s Bad Bunny Gets Real

It all Happens in Houston: Houston Cinema Arts Festival Returns

TikTok Famous: Dallas’ Leos Ensemble Theatre is giving a 105-year-old Gertrude Stein play social-media relevance

Books

Society for the Performing Arts Goes Digital

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

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