Alive & Well
It’s a new era for the Houston Symphony. When Maestro Andrés Orozoco-Estrada mounts the podium this month to conduct a program featuring music by Sergei Rachmaninov,
Prone to Roam
Artists are leaving Texas, and for good reason. Touring equals two important things for the state's performing artists: unprecedented exposure and a chance to get off the island. An invitation to perform on the road carries with it a certain cachet, elevating an artist’s hometown reputation and expectations.
Eerie Does It
Click. A key turns, unexpectedly. Locked in? Panic rises as the clock keeps time. Alone and defenseless, the mind runs wild with what horrific end one might meet;
“Every Art Lover’s Gateway Drug”
The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston is marking its 65th anniversary with Outside the Lines, a six-part exhibition presented in two rounds that will fill both of CAMH’s floors
Eyes on Texas: Performing Arts
IMAGE ABOVE: Diavolo dancers performing Trajectoire. Photo by Angela weiss. AUSTIN The Agony and the Ecstasy of...
27 Languages in Trans.lation
The Vickery Meadows neighborhood in North Dallas is known for its high-density housing, consisting almost exclusively of apartment complexes.
Performania
The season is off and running. At press time, Texans and Cowboys are off to an OK start, the Mack Brown drama continues, and Johnny Football had three seconds on the bench.
Eyes on Texas: Visual Arts
IMAGE ABOVE: Laurie Simmons (b. 1949). Woman/Red Couch/Newspaper, 1978. Silver dye-bleach print © Laurie Simmons. Los Angeles County...
Insider Notes
Texas and the open road go hand-in-hand for artists, who are as prone to roam as anybody. As...
Manuel Álvarez Bravo and México lindo
The Witliff Collections at Texas State University – a hidden gem located on the seventh floor of the Alkek Library – has been collecting the work of Manuel Álvarez Bravo, a leading Mexican modernist photographer, for more than 20 years.
Liam Gillick
Art lovers and artists have long wondered when, if ever, the visual arts in Austin would live up to the city’s creative reputation.