Selecting the season: Stage West’s 2019-20 lineup
For the past 40 years, Fort Worth’s Stage West has been producing works that challenge, inspire, and entertain.
Fall for Impressionism: Morisot and Monet to Picasso at MFAH
To see an Impressionist painting is to peer back in time as only art allows us to do.
Tour de Force: Year 18 of the East Austin Studio Tour
The phrase “art studio tour” doesn’t typically bring to mind mass crowds of visitors, city-wide organizational partnerships, or heated discussions about escalating real estate prices.
Data Mapping: Nathalie Miebach at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft
From across the room, Nathalie Miebach’s wall pieces trigger a vague sense of recognition.
Show Up: Marcelyn McNeil at Conduit Gallery
“I’ve tried to make an intentional shift in the work in the past few years,” Marcelyn McNeil tells me, recently. When we talk, her exhibition of new paintings, Slow Eddy, is about to open at Conduit Gallery (Oct. 19-Nov. 23).
Bringing Your Heart to a Role: Dear Evan Hansen Tours Texas
Coming of Broadway age in the shadow of the Hamilton juggernaut, Dear Evan Hansen, the seemingly unassuming musical about an unpopular high school kid with social anxiety, managed to turn its misfit story into a multiple Tony® Award winner.
McNay’s Tobin Collection of Theatre Arts Gets a New Show and Curator
An orchestral score for a ballet wouldn’t ordinarily pop up in an art museum’s storage room. But the one in San Antonio’s McNay Art Museum, a score of Erik Satie’s surrealist Parade, was no ordinary example.
Cowboys, Astronauts and Art: Jessica Green leads HCAF into the Future
When New York native Jessica Green took the position of artistic director of Houston Cinema Arts Festival this year, she decided the best way to program the sprawling arts-based film festival for Houston was to let this enigma of a city become her muse.
Opening to Baroque Possibilities: Houston’s Bach Society for the Americas
The Bach Society Houston will perform a smattering of its namesake’s most popular music this season.
Hypnotized by the Highway with Will Boone at the CAMH
Boone, gearing up for his solo exhibition at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, The Highway Hex (Nov. 9-Feb. 17), has concocted a body of work inspired in its way by both Leatherface and Stanley Kubrick.
The Art of Programming Surprise: Aperio Unleashes Seductive New Season
Aperio opened its 2019-2020 season in September riding the Onda Nueva (New Wave), relishing the characteristic blurring of boundaries that makes music from Latin America so rich and vital.
Defying the art Establishment: The Pre-Raphaelites at San Antonio Museum of Art
Now a new exhibition, Victorian Radicals: From the Pre-Raphaelites to the Arts & Crafts Movement, brings their masterworks and stories to the San Antonio Museum of Art (Oct. 11, 2019-Jan. 5, 2020).