On Book: Readings Take Center Stage in Houston
Scene: a bare stage anywhere—in a theater, a rehearsal hall, even on an outdoor platform under a tree.
Musical Evangelists: Houston Symphony’s Embedded Musicians Engage the Community
David Connor lets his double bass rest on the floor. Cradling an iPad and speaker in his arms, he circulates through the classroom as jazz icon Ella Fitzgerald cuts loose onscreen in It Don’t Mean a Thing if It Ain’t Got That Swing.
SHOW UP: Lily Cox-Richard
“I'm trying to shake up my practice,” Lily Cox-Richard says, as we stand in her installation-in-progress at Artpace.
Art Outdoors: A Guide to Texas Sculpture Gardens
This fall, art loving Texans have the perfect opportunity to venture outside of museum walls and into the great outdoors by visiting the state’s sculpture gardens.
Midcentury Sampler: Abstract Texas at the Amon Carter
Six paintings by as many artists comprise Abstract Texas: Midcentury Modern Painting, which remains on view through Oct. 7, 2017 at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art.
Victory at Sea: Moby-Dick at The Dallas Opera
“Melville put the whole universe into Moby-Dick,” my companion said before the curtain rose on The Dallas Opera production of Moby-Dick.
Who the Dickens is Scrooge?: A Christmas Carol at Dallas Theater Center
Productions of the A Christmas Carol have decorated the stages of local theaters for decades. Dallas is no exception, with the Dallas Theater Center now presenting their 38th production of the tale through Dec. 28 at the Wyly Theatre.
Lifelong Linearity: Picasso at the Menil
The ghost of 19th-century French Neoclassical artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres casts a long shadow over the Museum District these days, with both his greatest heirs basking in surveys curated by world-renowned experts.
Acting in Texas: Joel F. Grothe
Joel F. Grothe holds court as Thomas Cromwell in Main Street Theater's production of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, through Dec. 18.
Dancing Bodies Wake Up Space: Third Coast Dance Film Festival at Aurora Picture Show
I'm convinced that most spaces can be improved by the presence of a few dancing bodies.
The Becomer: Early Monet at the Kimbell
Monet: The Early Years at the Kimbell Art Museum kicks off with a startling contrast between Claude Monet’s earliest exhibited work—View Near Rouelles, a crisp, placid, highly finished 1858 landscape—and Farmyard in Normandy (1863), which is striking for what exhibition curator George T. M. Shackelford notes is “a surface that, in its final form, appears to be still in progress.”
Angels in Houston: It’s A Wonderful Life at HGO
It's the holiday season, which means we get all crazy about making memories with our family and friends. Perhaps it's this insatiable urge that drives us to the same shows over and over.