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Moving Forward: Suzanne Weaver Takes the Reins at San Antonio Museum of Art

Laura August·August 15, 2016

Laura A. L. Wellen interviews Suzanne Weaver, newly appointed Brown Foundation Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at San Antonio Museum of Art, about the distinct offerings of the museum collection, her Texas roots, and raising the bar for collaboration and creativity.

Art Briefs Editor's Picks San Antonio Visual Art

Popular Politics: Kathryn Andrews at Nasher Sculpture Center

Alaena Hostetter·August 14, 2016

As you approach the President’s desk in the Oval Office, a reflective chrome cylinder sits in the middle of the room between two white couches.

Dallas/Ft Worth Visual Art

Self-Taught Art: Works from the Stephanie and John Smither Collection at The Menil

MICHAEL MCFADDEN·August 9, 2016

On view at the Menil Collection through Oct. 16, As Essential As Dreams: Self-Taught Art from the Collection of Stephanie and John Smither borrows its title from the idea that the desire to create and collect is a deeply rooted human instinct.

Houston Visual Art

Sixty Years Later…With Ballet Austin

ERIN FULTON·August 8, 2016

As Ballet Austin celebrates its sixth decade of performance, the company is a beehive of rehearsals and rumpus.

Austin Dance Editor's Picks

Home and Away: The Miró Quartet’s Fall Texas Season

Steven Brown·August 3, 2016

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

Holly Beretto·August 3, 2016

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

ADAM CASTAÑEDA·July 27, 2016

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.

Dance Houston

Daring Dance in Dallas: Charles Santos on the 2016/17 TITAS Season

Nancy Wozny·July 26, 2016

Dallas is a strong dance city for many reasons, TITAS Presents at AT&T Performing Arts Center being one of them.

Dallas/Ft Worth Dance

The Varieties of Experimental Experience: Soundings on Marfa Sounding

Joseph Wozny·July 24, 2016

The thing about writing about “experimental music” is that the phrase “experimental music,” if it means anything anymore, means too many things.

Features Music West Texas

Push, Pull, Play: Kirsten Reynolds’s Site Specific Constructions at Blue Star Contemporary

casey gregory·July 21, 2016

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.

San Antonio Visual Art

Breath of History: Norman Lewis at Amon Carter Museum of American Art

john zotos·July 21, 2016

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.

Visual Art

Comfortable Heat Wave: Owen Drysdale at Barbara Davis Gallery

casey gregory·July 19, 2016

The floating mirages of Owen Drysdale’s Hot Summer Deadly Day are lovely, but bloodless.

Houston Visual Art

Visual Art

The Stories that Hair Can Tell: Rosemary Meza-DesPlas at the Martin Museum of Art

Collecting as a Cultural Practice: Picasso–Klee–Matisse: Masterpieces from the Museum Berggruen at the MFAH

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

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

Aimed Dance Fest Ignites Contemporary Dance in Southeast Texas

A Wonderland Awaits: Houston Ballet’s new season offers something for every ballet lover

Awesome Analog: Performing Arts Houston brings its biggest season yet for 60th Anniversary

Music

Milestones & Superstar Soloists: Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s Bold New Season

A Summer Spoof: The Gilbert & Sullivan Society of Houston Serves up ‘The Gondoliers’

Awesome Analog: Performing Arts Houston brings its biggest season yet for 60th Anniversary

Theater

History and Community Come Together at Houston’s Stages Theater

New and Now: Jaime Castañeda’s inaugural Dallas Theater Center season is packed with premieres

Broadway Across Texas

Moving Forward: Suzanne Weaver Takes the Reins at San Antonio Museum of Art

Popular Politics: Kathryn Andrews at Nasher Sculpture Center

Self-Taught Art: Works from the Stephanie and John Smither Collection at The Menil

Sixty Years Later…With Ballet Austin

Home and Away: The Miró Quartet’s Fall Texas Season

The Ensemble Theatre Celebrates 40 with a Stellar Season

Powerful Presence: CORE Presents Dance from Israel at Miller

Daring Dance in Dallas: Charles Santos on the 2016/17 TITAS Season

The Varieties of Experimental Experience: Soundings on Marfa Sounding

Push, Pull, Play: Kirsten Reynolds’s Site Specific Constructions at Blue Star Contemporary

Breath of History: Norman Lewis at Amon Carter Museum of American Art

Comfortable Heat Wave: Owen Drysdale at Barbara Davis Gallery