Arts and Culture Texas magazine

Women Reshape Contemporary Art: Limitless at the McNay

Tarra Gaines·April 7, 2021

For those hoping to experience art beyond sedate viewing, San Antonio’s McNay Art Museum brings Texas an exhibition that defies boundaries with Limitless! Five Women Reshape Contemporary Art, (on view through Sept. 19)

San Antonio Visual Art

Humor, Hope and Revelation—Dallas Theater Center Plans an Artful Return to the Theater

Tarra Gaines·March 29, 2021

Now as spring and vaccines bring optimism, the Dallas Theater Center will attempt to forge a new trail to bring artists and audiences back into the theater.

Dallas/Ft Worth Theater

Responding to the Natural World: Hockney and Van Gogh at the MFAH

Tarra Gaines·March 5, 2021

Perspective: In art, the term usually means the technique of depicting our three dimensional world on a two dimensional surface.

Houston Visual Art

Embracing Possibilities: Houston’s Stages Conquers Digital Realms at the Gordy

Tarra Gaines·February 8, 2021

Of all the best-laid plans of mice and women that went awry in 2020, one I regret missing was a conversation with Stages artistic director Kenn McLaughlin.

Houston Theater

Nefertari’s Egypt on View at Kimbell Art Museum

Tarra Gaines·December 17, 2020

For those Texans seeking art refuge this weary winter, the Kimbell Art Museum has a queen’s knees of an exhibition to transport us back 3000 years into the world of Queen Nefertari’s Egypt (now through March 14).

Dallas/Ft Worth Visual Art

MFAH Expands with New Building

Tarra Gaines·December 1, 2020

recently-unveiled Nancy and Rich Kinder Building at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and a way of contemplating the Kinder’s impact on the landscape of the museum campus, the city of Houston and even the international art world.

Houston Visual Art

Society for the Performing Arts Goes Digital

Tarra Gaines·November 16, 2020

Radical reinvention: That’s what Meg Booth, chief executive officer for Society for the Performing Arts, sees in this time when artists and audiences must stay separate to stay safe.

Books Dance Film Houston Music Theater

Open Air Performance in Texas

Tarra Gaines·November 16, 2020

As a pandemic spring spun into summer, it seemed all the performing arts world became a virtual stage and all the men and women remote players.

Dance Lone Star Stories Music Theater

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

Austin Dallas/Ft Worth Dance Features Houston Music Theater Visual Art

Movement & Mobility: American Impressionism at Art Museum of South Texas

Tarra Gaines·September 25, 2020

The new traveling exhibition alighting at the Art Museum of South Texas, Across the Atlantic: American Impressionism Through the French Lens ( through Jan. 3, 2021) offers a new and new world perspective on Impressionism.

Corpus Christi Visual Art

Expanding Histories at Austin’s Fusebox 2020

Tarra Gaines·March 11, 2020

Artists grappling with the political has been the norm for thousands of years, but when art and social-political questioning merge at an interdisciplinary performance festival like Austin’s Fusebox Festival 2020 (April 15-19), the results can sometimes expand artistic boundaries.

Austin Dance Music Theater Visual Art

Double Vision: Francis Bacon at the MFAH

Tarra Gaines·February 12, 2020

In 1971 when figurative painting master Francis Bacon was in his early 60s, the Grand Palais in Paris mounted a major retrospective.

Houston Visual Art

Visual Art

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

A Sprawling History: Tavares Strachan at the Blanton

Storytime: Meow Wolf Leans into the Narrative in their immersive adventures

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

Women First: Texas Ballet Theater Highlights Six Outstanding Female Choreographers

The Hills are Alive with a Pair of Mickle Mahers, Noises Off, Die Hard, Tharp, Cinderella’s Rats and so much more: The 2024 Season Wrap up

Revealing Repertoire: Houston Ballet’s Triple Bill Tells a Company’s Story

Music

The Hills are Alive with a Pair of Mickle Mahers, Noises Off, Die Hard, Tharp, Cinderella’s Rats and so much more: The 2024 Season Wrap up

TX Studio: Héctor Guzmán Conducts a Life

Spreading the Classical Music Word: San Antonio’s Agarita Thinks Beyond the Concert Hall

Theater

The Hills are Alive with a Pair of Mickle Mahers, Noises Off, Die Hard, Tharp, Cinderella’s Rats and so much more: The 2024 Season Wrap up

Building a Community: D. Wambui Richardson Invites Audiences to Become Part of Jubilee Theatre’s Family

Born to Lead: Circle Theatre’s New Artistic Director Ashley H. White Isn’t Afraid to Shake Things Up

Tarra Gaines

Women Reshape Contemporary Art: Limitless at the McNay

Humor, Hope and Revelation—Dallas Theater Center Plans an Artful Return to the Theater

Responding to the Natural World: Hockney and Van Gogh at the MFAH

Embracing Possibilities: Houston’s Stages Conquers Digital Realms at the Gordy

Nefertari’s Egypt on View at Kimbell Art Museum

MFAH Expands with New Building

Society for the Performing Arts Goes Digital

Open Air Performance in Texas

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

Movement & Mobility: American Impressionism at Art Museum of South Texas

Expanding Histories at Austin’s Fusebox 2020

Double Vision: Francis Bacon at the MFAH