From Pop to Pokémon: The House of Pikachu at Asia Society Texas Center
In the House of Pikachu, Memory Speaks in Color.
Texas Studio: Alexa Capareda Keeps Moving
Indefatigable Alexa. That’s the only way to describe Austin’s Alexa Capareda, whose professional artistic engagements include dancing, choreography, teaching, film, drawing, arts administration/organization, and now additionally, acting.
Fresh Notes: Grassroots Opera Companies Take Off in Houston
It should surprise no one that in Houston, the fourth largest city in the country, the art of opera is thriving on the Wortham Theater Center stage downtown as well as in urban breweries and suburban performing arts spaces.
Music in Every Neighborhood: Monarch Chamber Players expands its Mission
The sign outside the Northwest Houston church where the Monarch Chamber Players opened their sixth season read, “We bring the concert hall to your neighborhood.”
Making & Becoming: The Glassell’s Block Program Celebrates 10 years with Two Shows
In a city like Houston, one vast, improvisational, and definitely plural, artists often find their footing not through institutions, but through the communities that rise between them.
TX Studio: Candace Hicks’s Perfectly Practical Activism
“I'm sort of a frustrated writer, in a sense,” Candace Hicks tells me over Zoom. “And so, making artist books is a way of self-publishing. It’s also a way of making things permanent.”
Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages
Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages
Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries
Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries
It used to rain in my TV: Lines of Resolution at the Menil Drawing Institute
Nam June Paik’s faint inscription, It rains in my TV as it rains in my heart, drifts between a drawing, a poem, and a weather report.
Texas Studio: Ballet Artist Silas Farley Makes the Joyful Leap to Dallas
Silas Farley likes to joke that he’s the “ultimate ballet nerd.”
Vision & Mission: Lauren Saba Creates A Dynamic Space at Fort Works Arts
As an artist, curator, and cultural leader, Lauren Saba looks back at ten years of her gallery and feels a certain sense of satisfaction, knowing that she always trusted her intuition.
Body Geometries: Contemporary Jewelry at the DMA
The Dallas Museum of Art marks the spot for a jeweled treasure trove most Texans and even Dallas art lovers likely never knew was there all along.