Embracing Possibilities: Houston’s Stages Conquers Digital Realms at the Gordy
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.
Tarra Gaines
Nefertari’s Egypt on View at Kimbell Art Museum
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).
MFAH Expands with New Building
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.
Society for the Performing Arts Goes Digital
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.
Open Air Performance in Texas
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.
A Love Letter to the Audience: Tarra Gaines on her Digital Diet and Missing Live Performance
Tarra Gaines on her Digital Diet and Missing Live Performance
Movement & Mobility: American Impressionism at Art Museum of South Texas
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.
Expanding Histories at Austin’s Fusebox 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.
Double Vision: Francis Bacon at the MFAH
In 1971 when figurative painting master Francis Bacon was in his early 60s, the Grand Palais in Paris mounted a major retrospective.
Staring into the Theater Infinity: ‘The Fantasticks’ at Stages
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.
Neighborly Life and Death: ‘The Realistic Jones’ at 4th Wall
As that infamous theatrical adage goes: dying is easy; comedy is hard.
Ensemble Storytelling: Come From Away Comes to Texas
As the United States closed its skies on September 11, 2001, thousands of plane passengers found themselves in midair over the Atlantic with only one place to land—the airport near the small town of Gander, Newfoundland.