Home and Away: The Miró Quartet’s Fall Texas Season
The Miró Quartet loves to expose an audience to the panorama of a single composer’s works.
The Ensemble Theatre Celebrates 40 with a Stellar Season
It all began in the trunk of a car. George Hawkins, lean and possessed of a mega-watt smile, spent the 1960s and the early 1970s captivated by the African-American Theater Movement.
Powerful Presence: CORE Presents Dance from Israel at Miller
If movement can reveal a national identity and specific cultural context, then the dance work of Israel is defined by a heightened sense of immediacy.
Daring Dance in Dallas: Charles Santos on the 2016/17 TITAS Season
Dallas is a strong dance city for many reasons, TITAS Presents at AT&T Performing Arts Center being one of them.
The Varieties of Experimental Experience: Soundings on Marfa Sounding
The thing about writing about “experimental music” is that the phrase “experimental music,” if it means anything anymore, means too many things.
Push, Pull, Play: Kirsten Reynolds’s Site Specific Constructions at Blue Star Contemporary
When we watch the walls of a house go up, we are aware of an implicit narrative in the skeletal studs, a uniformity that allows us to imagine a cozy life being lived inside their orderly framework.
Breath of History: Norman Lewis at Amon Carter Museum of American Art
Almost seventy paintings and works on paper by Norman Lewis are on view through Aug. 21 at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth as part of Procession: The Art of Norman Lewis.
Comfortable Heat Wave: Owen Drysdale at Barbara Davis Gallery
The floating mirages of Owen Drysdale’s Hot Summer Deadly Day are lovely, but bloodless.
Performania: Curious Connections
During an email exchange with Jessica Lang about her collaboration with architect Steven Holl for Tesseracts of Time, I realized that I could hear the sounds of construction of Holl’s new Glassell School, part of the new MFAH campus, from my desk as I was typing.
Design in Texas: Ryan McGettigan
Set designer Ryan McGettigan’s bold designs have graced the stages of many of the theater companies in Houston.
The ACTX Top Ten: July/August 2016
Our top ten picks for arts + culture events happening across Texas in July and August 2016.
Book From the Sky: Xu Bing’s Breakthrough Work Comes to Texas
In Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass (1872), the heroine Alice holds a mirror to the inverted words of “Jabberwocky” and realizes she has entered a mirror world. The quote also serves as an entry point to the Blanton Museum’s upcoming exhibition of Book from the Sky by artist Xu Bing, on view through Jan. 22.