Let There Be ‘Nur’
In Islamic Art, the DMA Shows a Latecomer Can Lead the Way IMAGE: Part of a ceiling...
Blue Star Rising?
In late February, Houston native Mary Heathcott leaped from Artpace, San Antonio’s internationally-acclaimed artist residency program, to take over as director of Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum.
Art and Appetite: American Painting, Culture, & Cuisine
A society’s culture is shaped in part by the customs and traditions of food.
Wetiko: Cowboys and Indigenes
In 2012, the BBC covered the Houla Massacre in Syria but mistakenly used a photograph taken in Iraq nearly a decade earlier.
Monks, KungFu and Raining Rice
A shimmering stream of rice pours down on a monk during the entire 90 minutes of Songs of the Wanderers, which will be performed here in Houston when Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan makes a Society for Performing Arts stop on April 5 at Jones Hall.
Antena @ Blaffer
Writers, artists, literary translators, bookmakers and activist interpreters Jen Hofer and John Pluecker make up Antena, a language justice and language experimentation collaborative.
Converging Lines: Eva Hesse and Sol LeWitt
Sometimes, a simple gesture is all it takes. In the most striking works made by Eva Hesse in the Blanton Museum of Art’s Converging Lines: Eva Hesse and Sol LeWitt,
Masami Teraoka: Inversion of the Sacred
Masami Teraoka’s seven newest triptychs, executed in oil on panel with gold leaf frames between 2009 and 2014, transform the McKinney Avenue Contemporary’s large gallery into a modern day version of a Renaissance chapel.
Wu-Tang Clan, the Single-Copy Album and Museums
IMAGE: Dario Robleto, At War With the Entropy of Nature / Ghosts Don’t Always Want to Come Back...
Spring Forward
Women Choreographers On Texas Stages IMAGE ABOVE: MET Dance in their new Houston Studios. Photo by Ben Doyle....
Nixon and the Treachery of Images
IMAGE: René Magritte, La condition humaine (The Human Condition) (detail), 1933. Oil on canvas 100 x 81 x...
Seeing Klimt and “Timeless Modernity” in Islamic Art
If this early 13th-century Persian tile, which we're using as our April cover image, looks strikingly modern to you, you're not the only one.