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Novels, Poems, Memoirs!: Inprint’s Margarett Root Brown Reading Series Addresses Our Complicated World

Tarra Gaines·July 29, 2019

For the performing arts lover, one of the annual small joys in life can come from a favorite dance, theater or music organization revealing their next season.

Books Houston

All the World’s a Murder Train: Agatha Christie at the Alley

Tarra Gaines·July 29, 2019

Theater critic true confession: I love spoilers.

Features Houston Theater

The ACTX Top Ten: Summer 2019

Nancy Wozny·July 9, 2019

The top ten arts and culture events happening across the Lone Star State in the summer of 2019.

Top Ten

Reimagining Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes: ‘Immortal Longings’ at the ZACH

Tarra Gaines·June 22, 2019

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.

Austin Features Theater

Texas Studio: Chesley Antoinette

Darryl Ratcliff·June 18, 2019

Chesley Antoinette is a Dallas-based multidisciplinary artist whose soft sculptures elevate humble materials to regal new heights.

Dallas/Ft Worth Texas Studio Visual Art

Every Body: Transamerica/n at the McNay

Laura August·June 18, 2019

In James Gobel’s 2007 work Robert, we see a bearded and tattooed person—presumably named Robert—wearing a black Morrissey tee-shirt.

San Antonio Visual Art

‘The hearts I have touched will be the proof’ Jeffrey Gibson at the Blanton

Laura August·June 18, 2019

There are many songs that thread through This is the Day (on view at Austin’s Blanton Museum of Art, July 14-Sept. 29).

Austin Visual Art

Da Camera’s Big, Varied Season

Steven Brown·June 17, 2019

Houston’s Da Camera bills itself as a presenter of chamber music and jazz, but that hardly gives you the whole picture.

Houston Music

Movement in Time and Space: Summer at the MFAH

Tarra Gaines·June 17, 2019

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.

Houston Visual Art

Nudged Out of the Cloud: Michelle Ellsworth’s The Rehearsal Artist and Post-Verbal Social Network

casey gregory·June 13, 2019

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.

Austin Dance Features Theater Visual Art

Wolves, Mountains and Big Brother: Tarra & Nancy Dish on Texas Stages

Tarra Gaines·June 13, 2019

Enjoy our semi-annual Texas performance gab session, where we discuss all that we saw, what we missed and what we loved!

Austin Dallas/Ft Worth Dance Features Houston Texas Scope Theater

Texas Lens: Us and Us

Troy Scheid·June 13, 2019

“What would you do,” the performer asks, turning to the audience, “if you were in our shoes?”

Houston Texas Lens Theater

Visual Art

Motion & Memory: Dynamic Exhibit of New African Masquerades at San Antonio Museum of Art

Sci-fi Surrealist: Mexican-American artist Francisco Moreno levels up with an epic survey at Dallas Contemporary

An Artful Camaraderie: Member-owned and operated Archway Gallery celebrates its fiftieth anniversary

Gallery Row

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Dance

An Icon in Motion: Annabelle Lopez Ochoa explores Frida Kahlo’s legacy at Houston Ballet

Dancing with Bob, Breaking the Waves, a Set of Angels, a Breakout Hamlet, a Mountain and More!: The 2025 Season Wrap up

Dancing in Between the Spaces of Life: Karen Stokes Premieres ‘4 Corners’ at the Match

Music

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

Dancing with Bob, Breaking the Waves, a Set of Angels, a Breakout Hamlet, a Mountain and More!: The 2025 Season Wrap up

Theater

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

The Decade-Long Journey Home: Inside Kitchen Dog Theater’s 35th Season at Its New Dallas Home

Happening Here: Austin Inspires Artists for Fusebox Festival’s Return

Novels, Poems, Memoirs!: Inprint’s Margarett Root Brown Reading Series Addresses Our Complicated World

All the World’s a Murder Train: Agatha Christie at the Alley

The ACTX Top Ten: Summer 2019

Reimagining Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes: ‘Immortal Longings’ at the ZACH

Texas Studio: Chesley Antoinette

Every Body: Transamerica/n at the McNay

‘The hearts I have touched will be the proof’ Jeffrey Gibson at the Blanton

Da Camera’s Big, Varied Season

Movement in Time and Space: Summer at the MFAH

Nudged Out of the Cloud: Michelle Ellsworth’s The Rehearsal Artist and Post-Verbal Social Network

Wolves, Mountains and Big Brother: Tarra & Nancy Dish on Texas Stages

Texas Lens: Us and Us