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

Legendary Threads: Anni Albers at the Blanton

A Cosmos of Chaos and Order: Leonardo Drew at the Carter

Texas Studio: Michelle Cortez Gonzales in Full Bloom

Music

Excellence & Wisdom: Orpheus Chamber Singers offers a living museum of choral music

From Storms to Sunshine: Dallas Symphony Orchestra performs works by Saint-Saëns, Xi Wang and Sophia Jani

No Barriers: Performing Arts Houston’s New Now Series Nurtures Houston Artists

Dance

No Barriers: Performing Arts Houston’s New Now Series Nurtures Houston Artists

Labor in Motion: Laura Gutierrez at DiverseWorks

In the Space Between: AT&T Performing Arts Center’s Elevator Project continues to tell Dallas’ unique stories

Theater

Embracing the Theatrical in Non-Theatrical Spaces: Kitchen Dog Theater makes all of Dallas its stage

In the Space Between: AT&T Performing Arts Center’s Elevator Project continues to tell Dallas’ unique stories

Bucking the Trend: While other arts organizations are barely surviving, Fort Worth’s Stage West is thriving

Film

Houston Cinema Arts Festival Focuses on Texas, the Arts and Home

Radical Visions Play Out at Houston Cinema Arts Festival 2022

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

Books

Reading Together Again: Inprint Houston’s New Season Dazzles with Big Name Writers

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

Society for the Performing Arts Goes Digital

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