The ACTX Top Ten: Summer 2019
The top ten arts and culture events happening across the Lone Star State in the summer of 2019.
Reimagining Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes: ‘Immortal Longings’ at the ZACH
Impresario, the promoter, financier, artistic director and all round driving visionary of a performing arts company or enterprise, is not a title bestowed onto individuals much anymore.
Texas Studio: Chesley Antoinette
Chesley Antoinette is a Dallas-based multidisciplinary artist whose soft sculptures elevate humble materials to regal new heights.
Every Body: Transamerica/n at the McNay
In James Gobel’s 2007 work Robert, we see a bearded and tattooed person—presumably named Robert—wearing a black Morrissey tee-shirt.
‘The hearts I have touched will be the proof’ Jeffrey Gibson at the Blanton
There are many songs that thread through This is the Day (on view at Austin’s Blanton Museum of Art, July 14-Sept. 29).
Da Camera’s Big, Varied Season
Houston’s Da Camera bills itself as a presenter of chamber music and jazz, but that hardly gives you the whole picture.
Movement in Time and Space: Summer at the MFAH
In 2013 with James Turrell: The Light Inside, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston began a unique summer precedent, presenting an immersive contemporary art exhibition and inviting the public to beat the heat, not merely to view but to journey inside the art.
Nudged Out of the Cloud: Michelle Ellsworth’s The Rehearsal Artist and Post-Verbal Social Network
In one more step towards the antiseptic future envisioned largely by sci-fi movies- a future without dust, disease, age or decay-the very language we invent for our technological revolution has become disembodied and etherealized.
Wolves, Mountains and Big Brother: Tarra & Nancy Dish on Texas Stages
Enjoy our semi-annual Texas performance gab session, where we discuss all that we saw, what we missed and what we loved!
Texas Lens: Us and Us
“What would you do,” the performer asks, turning to the audience, “if you were in our shoes?”
Flying High Above the Texas Sky: Aerial Dance takes off in the Lone Star State
“I guess I could say it’s like partnering…partnering with a very tall, not-so-helpful dancer.”