Persona Euphonia: A Messaging Makeover for Public Art of UHS
January 23, 2018
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Persona Euphonia: A Messaging Makeover for Public Art of UHS

So what’s a fitting shape for public art to take, especially in Texas, on the…

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Art Aglow: Light Charmer Electrifies Houston Center for Contemporary Craft
January 17, 2018
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Art Aglow: Light Charmer Electrifies Houston Center for Contemporary Craft

A shop owner flips a switch, sending a few thousand volts through glass tubes bent…

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Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen: A Countertenor to Encounter
January 17, 2018
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Houston

Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen: A Countertenor to Encounter

The Ivy Leaguer tore up his career plan. For his first two years at Princeton…

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Dream Fest: Stages Repertory Theater Launches Sin Muros: A Latina/o Theatre Festival
January 17, 2018
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Houston

Dream Fest: Stages Repertory Theater Launches Sin Muros: A Latina/o Theatre Festival

If good playwrights tend to have discerning ears for the language and voices around them,…

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Shaping the Future: ROCO Connects Through Commissioning
January 15, 2018
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Editor's Picks

Shaping the Future: ROCO Connects Through Commissioning

The numbers are in: 76 world premieres (33 for the full chamber orchestra and 43…

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Show Up: Michael Golden
January 13, 2018
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Art

Show Up: Michael Golden

“I was like a waiter at a wedding,” Michael Golden laughs, recounting the process of…

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Da Camera’s Beethoven For All: All for Beethoven
January 6, 2018
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Houston

Da Camera’s Beethoven For All: All for Beethoven

In 1988, for the first time in Houston, the entire cycle of Beethoven string quartets…

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Fun at the Laupera: <em>Traci and Tony’s Unusual New Year’s Eve</em> at Rec Room
December 30, 2017
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Houston

Fun at the Laupera: Traci and Tony’s Unusual New Year’s Eve at Rec Room

Shape & Scale: <em>Color</em> at Flatland Gallery
December 16, 2017
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Dance

Shape & Scale: Color at Flatland Gallery

Demi Dancers at Houston Ballet: The eye-opening world of Stanton Welch’s <em>The Nutcracker</em>
December 11, 2017
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Dance

Demi Dancers at Houston Ballet: The eye-opening world of Stanton Welch’s The Nutcracker

Stanton Welch framed his new Nutcracker as a coming-of-age story, with a young Clara at…

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Menace in Macrame: Hansel and Gretel at the Rec Room
December 11, 2017
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Houston

Menace in Macrame: Hansel and Gretel at the Rec Room

“This is the future of art, where would you see something like this in Houston?…

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<em>Between Love and Madness: Mexican Comic Art from the 1970s</em> Lawndale Art Center
December 8, 2017
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Between Love and Madness: Mexican Comic Art from the 1970s Lawndale Art Center

Lawndale Art Center’s exhibition Between Love and Madness: Mexican Comic Art from the 1970s, on…

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<em>Everything Turns Away Quite Leisurely: </em> Gabriel Martinez at Blaffer Art Museum
December 6, 2017
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Everything Turns Away Quite Leisurely: Gabriel Martinez at Blaffer Art Museum

In Everything Turns Away Quite Leisurely, on view upstairs at the Blaffer Art Museum through…

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HOME—So Different, So Appealing at MFAH
December 6, 2017
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HOME—So Different, So Appealing at MFAH

The breakthrough exhibition HOME—So Different, So Appealing, a seven-decade survey of works by Latin American…

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TX Studio: Beili Liu
November 29, 2017
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Art

TX Studio: Beili Liu

In her installation for the exhibition Tensile Strength at the Silos in Houston, Austin-based artist…

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Wonder & Adventure: Bach Society Houston Charts New Adventures
November 14, 2017
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Wonder & Adventure: Bach Society Houston Charts New Adventures

Rick Erickson, director of Bach Society Houston (BSH), has had a lifelong love affair with…

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In This Petri Dish: Day for Night Festival Immerses Houston In Art, Music, Activism
November 14, 2017
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Art

In This Petri Dish: Day for Night Festival Immerses Houston In Art, Music, Activism

Day for Night, the music and art festival now entering its third year, has caused…

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The Space in Between: Mona Hatoum at the Menil Collection
October 31, 2017
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Art

The Space in Between: Mona Hatoum at the Menil Collection

Terra firma is Latin for “solid land” but Mona Hatoum is not interested in stability.

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Mickalene Thomas: Waiting on a Prime-Time Star at Moody Center for the Arts
October 31, 2017
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Art

Mickalene Thomas: Waiting on a Prime-Time Star at Moody Center for the Arts

There’s a living room constructed in the Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University.

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The Show Must Go on…Somewhere Else: The Post-Harvey Scramble for Space
October 30, 2017
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Art

The Show Must Go on…Somewhere Else: The Post-Harvey Scramble for Space

Onward: HGOco Finds Its Groove with Carleen Graham
October 23, 2017
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Houston

Onward: HGOco Finds Its Groove with Carleen Graham

Carleen Graham has a big job. One year after taking the helm as director of…

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Jane Austen, Trailer Park Boys & a Rhinoceros: Holiday Stages in Texas
October 23, 2017
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Austin

Jane Austen, Trailer Park Boys & a Rhinoceros: Holiday Stages in Texas

As a curmudgeonly connoisseur of holiday performing arts, I’m always on the lookout for the…

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Celebrating Resilience: Houston Cinema Arts Festival 2017
October 18, 2017
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Film

Celebrating Resilience: Houston Cinema Arts Festival 2017

Houston Cinema Arts Festival, one of the few festivals in the US that focuses on…

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History, Poetics & A Party: Dance Films at HCAF
October 16, 2017
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Dance

History, Poetics & A Party: Dance Films at HCAF

Every year a cluster of dance films make the Houston Cinema Arts Festival line-up, Nov.…

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<em>Telepathic Improvisation</em> at the CAMH
October 2, 2017
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Art

Telepathic Improvisation at the CAMH

The animating conceit of Telepathic Improvisation, a film by Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz and…

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Genevieve Gaignard’s Passing Identities at HCP
September 28, 2017
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Genevieve Gaignard’s Passing Identities at HCP

Anyone who needs to be forced out of those “comfortable” preconceived notions of identity should…

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Moving Forward, Looking Back: David McGee at Texas Gallery and HMAAC
September 21, 2017
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Moving Forward, Looking Back: David McGee at Texas Gallery and HMAAC

The mucky brown waters had barely begun to recede when artist David McGee’s mother reminded…

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Art Scene Stalwarts Among Harvey’s First Responders
September 20, 2017
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Art

Art Scene Stalwarts Among Harvey’s First Responders

Van Cliburn Winner Yekwon Sunwoo Returns to Texas
September 13, 2017
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Dallas/Ft Worth

Van Cliburn Winner Yekwon Sunwoo Returns to Texas

The first time Yekwon Sunwoo vied in the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, the judges…

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Sir Kenneth MacMillan & Houston Ballet: <em>Mayerling</em> Continues a Storied Relationship
September 13, 2017
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Dance

Sir Kenneth MacMillan & Houston Ballet: Mayerling Continues a Storied Relationship

When Houston Ballet takes the stage next fall for the Houston premiere of Sir Kenneth…

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New Dancers & Epic Works: Houston Ballet’s Fall Season
September 13, 2017
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Dance

New Dancers & Epic Works: Houston Ballet’s Fall Season

Watching a rehearsal of Mayerling I witnessed a company in motion in more ways than…

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A Heroic Launch: Glass Opens Aperio’s Big Season
September 11, 2017
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Houston

A Heroic Launch: Glass Opens Aperio’s Big Season

Against significant odds--flood damage at the Hobby Center and other Theater District performing arts venues,…

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Dinner of Doom: 4th Wall opens its final season with Ayad Akhtar’s <em>Disgraced</em>
September 11, 2017
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Houston

Dinner of Doom: 4th Wall opens its final season with Ayad Akhtar’s Disgraced

Great drama is seldom blatantly didactic, but on occasion theater does gift us with certain…

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Theater After Harvey: Houston’s Small Companies Must Continue
September 5, 2017
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Houston

Theater After Harvey: Houston’s Small Companies Must Continue

As the Texas Gulf Coast begins the rebuilding process after the catastrophic damage of Hurricane…

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New Horizons: Apollo Chamber Players Celebrates its 10th Anniversary
September 4, 2017
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Houston

New Horizons: Apollo Chamber Players Celebrates its 10th Anniversary

Apollo Chamber Players plays a Harvey Relief Concert on Sept. 8 at the Match in…

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The Sound of Things: Alyce Santoro and Bohyun Yoon at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft
August 18, 2017
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Art

The Sound of Things: Alyce Santoro and Bohyun Yoon at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft

The Magnificent Faith Ringgold: A Legendary Artist’s Survey Exhibition at Houston Museum of African American Culture
August 17, 2017
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Art

The Magnificent Faith Ringgold: A Legendary Artist’s Survey Exhibition at Houston Museum of African American Culture

On October 8, Faith Ringgold will be 87. Alive, well, and still making art in…

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Muscle Memory: CAMH Surveys Annabeth Rosen’s Process-Pushing Ceramics
August 14, 2017
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Art

Muscle Memory: CAMH Surveys Annabeth Rosen’s Process-Pushing Ceramics

Even as an undergrad, ceramic sculptor Annabeth Rosen was known as a “rabble rouser” for…

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Celestial Music: Houston Symphony’s Composer in Residence Jimmy López Premieres New Work
August 14, 2017
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Celestial Music: Houston Symphony’s Composer in Residence Jimmy López Premieres New Work

Jimmy López got hooked on classical music when he was 12, thanks to J.S. Bach’s…

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Creating Literary Sparks: Inprint’s Authors Reflect Houston’s Diversity
August 11, 2017
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Books

Creating Literary Sparks: Inprint’s Authors Reflect Houston’s Diversity

Inprint, Houston’s literary arts organization, flies like a rare book bird among other Texas arts…

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