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TX Studio: Megan Harrison Looks for the Defining Moments

Nancy Zastudil·April 8, 2024

San Antonio-based artist Megan Harrison knows about change. “I spend a lot of time outdoors, in nature. I’m drawn to the natural world because it’s more complicated than I can really understand,” she tells me during our recent conversation about her work. “It’s always unfolding and changing.”

San Antonio Texas Studio Visual Art

Texas Studio: Evita Tezeno on collaging Black joy

Lindsey Wilson·April 8, 2024

“I came out of the womb and knew I wanted to be an artist. It’s all I know.” Growing up in Port Arthur, Texas, Evita Tezeno was surrounded by female relatives who were quilters and seamstresses.

Dallas/Ft Worth Texas Studio Visual Art

Houston Symphony Expands for the Strauss Festival

Steven Brown·April 8, 2024

The Houston Symphony will end its season with a splash: a two-weekend festival devoted to Richard Strauss, whose name is practically synonymous with sonic spectacle.

Houston Music

Drawing as a daily process: Ruth Asawa at the Menil

Donna Tennant·April 8, 2024

Ruth Asawa Through Line is the first exhibition to focus on Ruth Asawa’s lifelong drawing practice.

Houston Visual Art

The Collaborative Spirit: Houston Ballet Offers a Lively Season Ahead

Steven Brown·March 30, 2024

Julie Kent and Stanton Welch haven’t reached the point of finishing one another’s sentences. Nevertheless, just a few months after Kent joined Welch at the helm of Houston Ballet, they show clear signs of being in sync.

Dance Houston

Fire Music: Loop38 makes an impact with new music for our times

Sherry Cheng·March 30, 2024

As the largest wildfire in Texas history raged across the Panhandle in March of this year, Loop38, the Houston-based new music ensemble, was set to begin a multi-day residency at Stephen F. Austin State University (SFA) centered on the premiere of composer Ben Morris’s multimedia work Longleaf.

Houston Music

In Good Company: Alley Theatre’s New Season offers plays for Houston Audiences and the resident actors

Tarra Gaines·March 21, 2024

In the United States, the Alley Theatre is the last theater standing with a year-round, full-time, salaried resident acting company and that makes all the difference when building a new season.

Houston Theater

Houston’s Rec Room Arts Wants to Bring Us Together

Emily Hynds·March 21, 2024

Rec Room Art’s Artistic Director Matt Hune says that building a theater season is like creating an album: each play makes up a story that flows through the year.

Houston Theater

Invited to Learn: Bishop Arts Theatre Center ends its 30th season with groundbreaking plays about history-making women

Lindsey Wilson·March 21, 2024

The Bishop Arts neighborhood of Dallas has enjoyed a surge in popularity these past few years, but many of its diners, drinkers, and shoppers probably aren’t aware that just a mile away sits the area’s namesake theater company.

Dallas/Ft Worth Theater

Taking Flight: Zeke Williams and his feathered friends nest at Galveston Arts Center

Lindsey Wilson·March 21, 2024

Dallas-based artist Zeke Williams is addicted to making work.

Dallas/Ft Worth Houston Visual Art

Classical Gems: Dallas Opera will stage landmark works for its first time

Steven Brown·March 9, 2024

The Dallas Opera will treat its audiences next season to two of opera’s all-time favorites, but the real news belongs to the season’s other two slots: They’ll hold a pair of landmark works the company has never staged.

Dallas/Ft Worth Music

Love, Time & Aging: Alan Cumming Tours Texas

Tarra Gaines·February 21, 2024

Along with some very fashionable real ones, multi-hyphenated artist Alan Cumming wears a lot of figurative hats.

Dallas/Ft Worth Houston San Antonio

Visual Art

An Artful Camaraderie: Member-owned and operated Archway Gallery celebrates its fiftieth anniversary

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

What the Eye Can’t Settle: Rubén Guerrero at the Meadows Museum

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

An Icon in Motion: Annabelle Lopez Ochoa explores Frida Kahlo’s legacy at Houston Ballet

Dancing with Bob, Breaking the Waves, a Set of Angels, a Breakout Hamlet, a Mountain and More!: The 2025 Season Wrap up

Dancing in Between the Spaces of Life: Karen Stokes Premieres ‘4 Corners’ at the Match

Music

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

Dancing with Bob, Breaking the Waves, a Set of Angels, a Breakout Hamlet, a Mountain and More!: The 2025 Season Wrap up

Dreaming Frida: Brooklyn Rider premieres a new work by Gabriela Lena Frank at DACAMERA

Theater

The Decade-Long Journey Home: Inside Kitchen Dog Theater’s 35th Season at Its New Dallas Home

Happening Here: Austin Inspires Artists for Fusebox Festival’s Return

Shaping the Future: When Texas Theater Kids Grow Up

TX Studio: Megan Harrison Looks for the Defining Moments

Texas Studio: Evita Tezeno on collaging Black joy

Houston Symphony Expands for the Strauss Festival

Drawing as a daily process: Ruth Asawa at the Menil

The Collaborative Spirit: Houston Ballet Offers a Lively Season Ahead

Fire Music: Loop38 makes an impact with new music for our times

In Good Company: Alley Theatre’s New Season offers plays for Houston Audiences and the resident actors

Houston’s Rec Room Arts Wants to Bring Us Together

Invited to Learn: Bishop Arts Theatre Center ends its 30th season with groundbreaking plays about history-making women

Taking Flight: Zeke Williams and his feathered friends nest at Galveston Arts Center

Classical Gems: Dallas Opera will stage landmark works for its first time

Love, Time & Aging: Alan Cumming Tours Texas