Arts and Culture Texas magazine

Quintessential DACAMERA: Programming Magic in the 2022-23 Season

Sherry Cheng·June 13, 2022

In Artistic Director Sarah Rothenberg’s mind, a quintessential DACAMERA season must have a balance of beloved masterpieces performed by great musicians from the classical world, and fantastic jazz of varying styles that reflect the ever-widening genre.

Houston Music

Colette Copeland: My Jesse James Adventure at the Old Jail Art Center and Jody Klotz Fine Art

Sherry Cheng·June 7, 2022

Driving alone through the middle of the country, spanning nine states and more than 4,000 miles, Dallas-based artist, cultural critic, and social activist Colette Copeland spent three summers visiting the numerous sites where Jesse James lived and outlawed, filming on location throughout her performative journey.

Abilene Albany Visual Art West Texas

Beauty Transcends Death: Dido and Aeneas at Ars Lyrica Houston

Sherry Cheng·May 26, 2022

English Baroque composer Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, his only true opera, is an indisputable masterpiece and one of the most beloved operas in the repertoire.

Dance Houston Music Theater

ROCO at 18: A Season to be Grateful

Sherry Cheng·April 29, 2022

ROCO is everywhere. In its 18th season, this industry-changing chamber orchestra from Houston has reached well beyond the walls of the traditional concert space, laying down a vibrant and diverse soundtrack for an entire city.

Houston Music

Texas Studio: Sarah Fox’s Bad Bunny Gets Real

Sherry Cheng·March 21, 2022

“My work starts with a character,” says San Antonio artist Sarah Fox.

Film San Antonio Texas Studio Visual Art

Fortune Favors the Bold: Powerhouse Women Lead Houston Grand Opera’s New Season

Sherry Cheng·March 21, 2022

Describing herself as “relentlessly optimistic,” Khori Dastoor officially took over the reins as Houston Grand Opera (HGO)’s General Director and CEO in January 2022, becoming the first woman to lead the prestigious company in its 67-year history.

Houston Music Theater

Topography: Billy Hassell at the Art Museum of Southeast Texas

Sherry Cheng·March 2, 2022

Egrets and pelicans, bobcat and wild turkey, dolphins and gar, migrating geese and monarch butterflies–creatures great and small from the East Texas and Gulf Coast regions will populate Hassell’s canvases and color lithographs at the Art Museum of Southeast Texas (AMSET) in Beaumont when the museum presents Billy Hassell: Topography (March 26-June 19).

Houston Visual Art

Crossing the Scratch on the Earth: Wendy Red Star at San Antonio Museum of Art

Sherry Cheng·January 3, 2022

This force, rooted in Red Star’s deep connection to Crow culture and identity, is foundational to all of Red Star’s works. When the San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA) presents Wendy Red Star: A Scratch on the Earth (Feb.11-May 8), it will be the first solo exhibition of a Native American artist for the museum.

San Antonio Visual Art

Texas Studio: Bennie Flores Ansell

Sherry Cheng·August 25, 2021

The idea of migration has been with Flores Ansell all her life. “I am evidence of a migration.”

Houston Texas Studio Visual Art

Traversing Geographies: Rethinking the Story of American Impressionism at San Antonio Museum of Art

Sherry Cheng·June 4, 2021

On view at San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA) from June 11-Sept. 5, the expansive exhibition America’s Impressionism: Echoes of a Revolution, co-organized by the Brandywine River Museum of Art in Pennsylvania, the Dixon Gallery and Gardens in Tennessee, and SAMA, brings together 62 works from a wide range of public and private collections.

San Antonio Visual Art

Small Ensembles, Expansive Vistas Part Three: Axiom, Houston Brass Quintet and Texas New Music Ensemble

Sherry Cheng·May 3, 2021

I caught up with musicians from nine distinctive ensembles in Houston to reflect on the past year and look to the future. In Part Three, I visited with the Axiom Quartet, Houston Brass Quintet and Texas New Music Ensemble.

Houston Music

Small Ensembles, Expansive Vistas Part Two: Loop38, Apollo Chamber Players, Carya String Quartet

Sherry Cheng·May 3, 2021

In Part Two, I visited with Loop38, Apollo Chamber Players, and Carya String Quartet.

Houston Music

Visual Art

Value in Hu(e)manity: Tomashi Jackson: Across the Universe

Performative and All-encompassing: David-Jeremiah: The Fire This Time

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

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

Performa/Dance Marks Their 10th Anniversary with ‘ANTHROPOCENE’

Concert Trucks and Onstage Dinners: Performing Arts Houston offers its most varied schedule yet

Unbind Your Imagination: TITAS/Dance Unbound invites global dance into Dallas for 2025-26 season

Music

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

Concert Trucks and Onstage Dinners: Performing Arts Houston offers its most varied schedule yet

Twists of Fate: Myths, Drama, and Phenomenal Voices in Ars Lyrica Houston’s New Season

Theater

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

Concert Trucks and Onstage Dinners: Performing Arts Houston offers its most varied schedule yet

Outcast Heroes and Storybook Musicals: Broadway Across Texas

Sherry Cheng

Quintessential DACAMERA: Programming Magic in the 2022-23 Season

Colette Copeland: My Jesse James Adventure at the Old Jail Art Center and Jody Klotz Fine Art

Beauty Transcends Death: Dido and Aeneas at Ars Lyrica Houston

ROCO at 18: A Season to be Grateful

Texas Studio: Sarah Fox’s Bad Bunny Gets Real

Fortune Favors the Bold: Powerhouse Women Lead Houston Grand Opera’s New Season

Topography: Billy Hassell at the Art Museum of Southeast Texas

Crossing the Scratch on the Earth: Wendy Red Star at San Antonio Museum of Art

Texas Studio: Bennie Flores Ansell

Traversing Geographies: Rethinking the Story of American Impressionism at San Antonio Museum of Art

Small Ensembles, Expansive Vistas Part Three: Axiom, Houston Brass Quintet and Texas New Music Ensemble

Small Ensembles, Expansive Vistas Part Two: Loop38, Apollo Chamber Players, Carya String Quartet