Connecting Across Disciplines: Vicki Meek Texas Artist of the Year
Getting in touch with one’s heritage is something of an American pastime.
Straight to the Top: AT&T Performing Arts Center’s Elevator Project returns
Now in its 7th season, AT&T Performing Arts Center’s Elevator Project is still an excellent launch-pad for the unique.
Reflecting the Community: Fort Worth Opera’s Diamond Anniversary Season
In time, a diamond is created. Incidentally, as Fort Worth Opera steps into its 75th season in the wake of a pandemic, the Diamond Anniversary designation is perhaps more appropriate than ever imagined.
Canvas & Silk at the Meadows
If fashion has a place in a museum, is it just brand promotion, or is it as vital as any other of the decorative arts and architecture?
Agarita Brings an Immersive Vibe to San Antonio
Bushman and three other San Antonio musicians—pianist Daniel Anastasio, cellist Ignacio Gallego and violinist Sarah Silver Manzke—joined forces in 2018. To symbolize their group’s roots in the city, they dubbed it Agarita, taking the name from a shrub that’s native to San Antonio and the Hill Country.
Texas Studio: Bennie Flores Ansell
The idea of migration has been with Flores Ansell all her life. “I am evidence of a migration.”
Stories of Humor, Hope and Resilience: Dallas Theater Center Returns to the Stage
Human connection and community: these ideas lie at the heart of Dallas Theatre Center’s recently-announced 2021-2022 season.
Sage Studio: Artists in Tandem
In the three years that Sage Studio has showcased artists with disabilities—helping its roster develop and sell their works, much as ordinary galleries do—Austin’s art scene has embraced it, co-founder Lucy Gross says.
New Season, Then New Director for Houston Symphony
The Houston Symphony had even more on its mind this past season than scrambling to adapt to covid-19.
A Cartography of Broadway Shows Across Texas
We’re still holding our breath, knocking on a forest full of wood and sacrificing chicken-shaped tofu to Dionysius, but it looks like in-person, inside-an-actual-theater, theater will finally take the stage this fall.
Lost Time: Nastassja Swift at Galveston Arts Center
Nastassja Swift’s primary mode of artmaking in recent years has been needle felting—a form of textile production that renders wool into saturated, light-absorbing forms. Her dolls, figures, and tapestries of tiny faces are equal parts comforting and unsettling.
On Utopia, Galvanization, and Interstellar Travel: Cauleen Smith: We Already Have What We Need at CAMH
“My pathology is your profit,” a banner reads. Hanging from the rafters of the Contemporary Art Museum Houston’s main gallery, the silvery background glimmers as the text picks up the purplish hue of the light.