Houston Ballet Soars in John Neumeier’s Otherworldly Midsummer Night’s Dream
Two smooth bodies, outfitted in glittering unitards
The Artist as Lens
Catherine Lee, whose retrospective opens Sept. 4 at San Antonio’s Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum
In the Company of Cats and Dogs
In the Company of Cats and Dogs is an ambitious multimedia exhibition at the University of Texas.
Margaret Meehan: Decoration Day
Women on the front lines of combat is a contentious issue for the United States Marine Corps and Army, with more than 200,000 jobs for military occupational specialties still closed to women in those two sectors of the armed services.
A Synthetic Decade
Set to debut at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth Sept. 21, Urban Theater: New York Art in the 1980s promises to be a blockbuster exhibition with highlights from major artists who helped define a generation.
Two Sites, No Rules
The fall art season kicks off with great anticipation behind the upcoming Do Ho Suh exhibition at The Contemporary Austin.
Big D/Big Dance
DanceFest, which ran Aug. 29-31 at Dallas City Performance Hall, is a project of the Dance Council of North Texas, one of the oldest and most active dance service agencies in the State.
Shen Wei
Currently at the Crow Collection of Asian Art in Dallas, in partnership with Titas performing arts group, seven paintings by the multi-talented Shen Wei are on exhibition.
Charles Marville: Photographer of Paris
Beginning in 1852 and continuing for more than two decades, the French emperor Napoleon III, along with his apparatchik—Baron Haussmann, the Prefect of the Seine—embarked on a massive public works program to regularize and sanitize the medieval agglomeration that was Paris.
Wildcatting The Chamber Orchestra
Juilliard-trained oboist Alecia Lawyer still admits to feeling amazement whenever she sees a real estate website citing River Oaks Chamber Orchestra—a.k.a. ROCO—as another great reason to relocate to Houston.
The Miró Quartet Opens the Chamber Music Houston Season
Opening the Chamber Music Houston Season for the second year in a row, The Miró Quartet brings the world premiere season of Gunther Schuller’s Quartet No. 5, on Sept. 16 at the Stude Concert Hall, Shepherd School of Music at Rice University.