The tagline for Justin Parr’s latest venture, a celebration of the artists he’s exhibited at Fl!ght Gallery over the past 23 years, is “San Antonio is the center of the world.”
Rebecca Manson transforms clay into charged flora in her immersive installation, Barbecue, at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth from May 25 through Aug. 25.
Think back to your first museum visit. For many of us, it was probably as a child during a school field trip or on a summer afternoon with a parent, and we probably received stern instructions to keep our voices down and to not touch anything while inside the gallery.
Raqib Shaw: Ballads of East and West, on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston June 9 through Sept. 2, features works like the one described above, each painting ornately blending Eastern and Western influences, depicting hope and despair.
“What is it about opera that keeps everybody thinking in a romantic frame of mind?” That’s a question Khori Dastoor, General Director and CEO of Houston Grand Opera (HGO), pondered while deciding the theme for HGO’s 2024-25 season.
Austin-based choreographer Brett Ishida boasts a whirlwind June with performances of her company ISHIDA Dance in “Mutability” on June 7-9 at Asia Society Texas Center in Houston and June 12-14, 2024 at The Long Center in Austin.
If you take it at face value, it’s an epic tale of gods and gnomes, fighting over a gold ring that confers supreme power over the world. But there’s a more compelling way to look at The Ring of the Nibelung, Richard Wagner’s four-opera cycle.
Life, love, and death. Each of these states of being is intrinsically tied to a process of transformation, molecular to ethereal, scientific to spiritual.