It used to rain in my TV: Lines of Resolution at the Menil Drawing Institute
Nam June Paik’s faint inscription, It rains in my TV as it rains in my heart, drifts between a drawing, a poem, and a weather report.
Texas Studio: Ballet Artist Silas Farley Makes the Joyful Leap to Dallas
Silas Farley likes to joke that he’s the “ultimate ballet nerd.”
Vision & Mission: Lauren Saba Creates A Dynamic Space at Fort Works Arts
As an artist, curator, and cultural leader, Lauren Saba looks back at ten years of her gallery and feels a certain sense of satisfaction, knowing that she always trusted her intuition.
Body Geometries: Contemporary Jewelry at the DMA
The Dallas Museum of Art marks the spot for a jeweled treasure trove most Texans and even Dallas art lovers likely never knew was there all along.
In the Flesh: Jenny Saville at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
It’s 1992 at Glasgow School of Art. A seven-foot-by-six-foot painting that portrays a thick, fleshy female nude, subtly snarling and sitting on a pedestal, towers above visitors to an undergraduate exhibition.
Tensions of Time and Remembrance: Zalika Azim at UT Visual Arts Center
In Zalika Azim: Blood Memories (or a going to ground), the ground is never just ground; it is a witness and a griot, a surface that keeps score of what passes over it and what takes root.
Honoring the Past, Forging into the Future: Derek Charles Livingston Settles in at Houston’s Stages Theater
Derek Charles Livingston took his place as Stages artistic director a little over a year ago, but he lost little time immersing himself in Houston life and its theater community.
Storied Objects: Gil Rocha at Galveston Arts Center
The objects in Gil Rocha’s work—beer cans, hand-painted signs, plastic bags, sun-faded photographs—arrive with their own stories.
‘Birdy’ Takes Flight in Texas: Hung Dance at TITAS and Performing Arts Houston
Choreographers, like artists of all mediums, find inspiration in both grand realizations and quiet moments.
Putting Houston on the Literary Map: Rich Levy’s Stellar Last Inprint Season
The clues lay in the lineup. Sitting down for a talk with Rich Levy and Krupa Parikh, executive and deputy directors of Inprint, about their 2025-2026 Margarett Root Brown Reading Series
Etched in Eternity: Mythical Torlonia Collection makes its historic debut at the Kimbell
In the Kimbell Art Museum’s Renzo Piano Pavilion, 58 ancient marble sculptures—some gods, others emperors, still others ordinary Romans—stand in commanding silence, carrying with them the weight of centuries.
