Collisional Abstraction: Sean Scully at The Modern
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.
ISHIDA Brings Literature to Dance for Texas Audiences
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.
Back to the Earth: A climate-focused new season at ROCO
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.
SPA Welcomes Audiences Back with a New Season
Over the years, I’ve realized something as an arts writer and audience member: There’s a fine art to programing performing arts.
TikTok Famous: Dallas’ Leos Ensemble Theatre is giving a 105-year-old Gertrude Stein play social-media relevance
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.
Traversing Geographies: Rethinking the Story of American Impressionism at San Antonio Museum of Art
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.
Art and Alchemy: Sedrick Huckaby at the Blanton
“Every person is like a novel. We all have a story.” Sedrick Huckaby says. “I’ve never met a boring person.”
ZimSculpt returns to the Dallas Arboretum
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.
‘All the Devils are Here’: A Storm of Movement and Story from Open Dance Project
“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.
TX Lens: Ron Berry on his pandemic year and the Fusebox Future
The pandemic may have forced the cancellation of this year’s Fusebox Festival, one of the nation’s largest annual interdisciplinary performing arts festivals, but the Austin organization continues to present and nurture artists.
Shaking Off the Dust: Houston Ballet Plans Their Fall Return
Houston Ballet will return to the Wortham Theater Center this September for their 2021-2022 season.
Garden Party: With Pilobolus in the Garden, TITAS/DANCE UNBOUND returns to live, in-person performance
The dance company Pilobolus has many missions: to tell stories with the human form, to test the limits of human physicality, to explore the beauty and power of connected bodies.