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Stepping Out: DACAMERA Launches SUMMERJAZZ

Steven Brown·July 13, 2021

DACAMERA will launch its season Aug. 20-22 with SUMMERJAZZ, a one-weekend festival at the Wortham Theater Center. Long focused mainly on individual concert programs scattered throughout the season, the group is taking its first stab at filling a weekend with music.

Houston Music

Recording the Landscape: Anna Elise Johnson at Cris Worley

casey gregory·July 6, 2021

Anna Elise Johnson’s Earthworks: West Texas, now on view at Cris Worley Fine Arts in Dallas through August 14, draws heavily from the mythology of the west, especially its deserts.

Dallas/Ft Worth Visual Art

Buddha, Shiva, Lotus, Dragon at Kimbell Art Museum

Amy Bishop·July 3, 2021

Think of the image that comes to your mind when “Buddha” is mentioned.

Dallas/Ft Worth Visual Art

Collisional Abstraction: Sean Scully at The Modern

James Russell·July 3, 2021

The story of abstraction can’t be fully told without Sean Scully, according to the Irish-American painter who also sees himself as a renegade in the abstract movement.

Dallas/Ft Worth Visual Art

ISHIDA Brings Literature to Dance for Texas Audiences

Lindsay Alissa King·July 2, 2021

Brett Ishida, a California transplant to Austin, is bringing her new Austin-based contemporary dance company ISHIDA to the stage for the company’s first evening-length production since the pandemic began.

Austin Dance Houston

Back to the Earth: A climate-focused new season at ROCO

Steven Brown·June 11, 2021

A historic ice storm. The four seasons. Industrial sites colliding with the natural world. A farmer’s life and its links to the land. A glacier that melted away.

Houston Music

SPA Welcomes Audiences Back with a New Season

Tarra Gaines·June 11, 2021

Over the years, I’ve realized something as an arts writer and audience member: There’s a fine art to programing performing arts.

Dance Houston Music Theater

TikTok Famous: Dallas’ Leos Ensemble Theatre is giving a 105-year-old Gertrude Stein play social-media relevance

Lindsey Wilson·June 11, 2021

Leos Ensemble Theatre decided to change that. The Dallas-based company, which was founded in 2019 by dancer and performer Nick Leos, is becoming the first theater group in the U.S. (and perhaps even the world) to create a piece expressly for TikTok.

Dallas/Ft Worth Film Theater

Traversing Geographies: Rethinking the Story of American Impressionism at San Antonio Museum of Art

Sherry Cheng·June 4, 2021

On view at San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA) from June 11-Sept. 5, the expansive exhibition America’s Impressionism: Echoes of a Revolution, co-organized by the Brandywine River Museum of Art in Pennsylvania, the Dixon Gallery and Gardens in Tennessee, and SAMA, brings together 62 works from a wide range of public and private collections.

San Antonio Visual Art

Art and Alchemy: Sedrick Huckaby at the Blanton

casey gregory·May 28, 2021

“Every person is like a novel. We all have a story.” Sedrick Huckaby says. “I’ve never met a boring person.”

Austin Visual Art

ZimSculpt returns to the Dallas Arboretum

James Russell·May 26, 2021

ZimSculpt, the exhibition of modern sculptures from the African nation, runs through Aug. 8 as part of the center’s annual Summer of Sculpture event.

Dallas/Ft Worth Visual Art

‘All the Devils are Here’: A Storm of Movement and Story from Open Dance Project

Tarra Gaines·May 26, 2021

“These pitiful souls being tossed to and fro in the waves among you, their stories are mine as well,” decrees the magician Prospera in the Open Dance Project’s All the Devils are Here: A Tempest in the Galapagos.

Dance Houston

Visual Art

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

The Stories We Carry: Angelica Raquel: Mystic Threads at the McNay Art Museum

Head West: Contemporary artists reimagine the American West at the Amon Carter

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

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

Big and Bold: Waco’s {254}DANCEFEST Expands its Reach

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

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

Homecoming: Jaime Castañeda returns to lead Dallas Theater Center

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

Stepping Out: DACAMERA Launches SUMMERJAZZ

Recording the Landscape: Anna Elise Johnson at Cris Worley

Buddha, Shiva, Lotus, Dragon at Kimbell Art Museum

Collisional Abstraction: Sean Scully at The Modern

ISHIDA Brings Literature to Dance for Texas Audiences

Back to the Earth: A climate-focused new season at ROCO

SPA Welcomes Audiences Back with a New Season

TikTok Famous: Dallas’ Leos Ensemble Theatre is giving a 105-year-old Gertrude Stein play social-media relevance

Traversing Geographies: Rethinking the Story of American Impressionism at San Antonio Museum of Art

Art and Alchemy: Sedrick Huckaby at the Blanton

ZimSculpt returns to the Dallas Arboretum

‘All the Devils are Here’: A Storm of Movement and Story from Open Dance Project