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Magpies & Peacocks: Art, High Fashion, and Saving the Planet

Sherry Cheng·November 4, 2019

A visit to the cavernous EaDO warehouse at 908 Live Oak Street in Houston, the physical home of the groundbreaking non-profit design house Magpies & Peacocks (M&P), leaves a mélange of aesthetic impressions that reflects the environmental sustainability mission of the organization, yet defies definition.

Austin Houston Visual Art

The ACTX Top Ten: November 2019

Nancy Wozny·October 31, 2019

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

Top Ten

Unsettled Images: Beatriz González at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Nancy Zastudil·October 23, 2019

Every once in a while, an artist steals our attention and shakes, shocks, or stuns us into awareness. Colombian artist Beatriz González also graciously opens our minds in the process, exposing the world to us in ways we may not have considered.

Houston Visual Art

Selecting the season: Stage West’s 2019-20 lineup

Lindsey Wilson·October 17, 2019

For the past 40 years, Fort Worth’s Stage West has been producing works that challenge, inspire, and entertain.

Dallas/Ft Worth Theater

Fall for Impressionism: Morisot and Monet to Picasso at MFAH

Nancy Zastudil·October 17, 2019

To see an Impressionist painting is to peer back in time as only art allows us to do.

Houston Visual Art

Tour de Force: Year 18 of the East Austin Studio Tour

Nancy Zastudil·October 17, 2019

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.

Austin Visual Art

Data Mapping: Nathalie Miebach at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft

Joseph Wozny·October 17, 2019

From across the room, Nathalie Miebach’s wall pieces trigger a vague sense of recognition.

Houston Visual Art

Show Up: Marcelyn McNeil at Conduit Gallery

Laura August·October 16, 2019

“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).

Dallas/Ft Worth Show Up Visual Art

Bringing Your Heart to a Role: Dear Evan Hansen Tours Texas

Tarra Gaines·October 15, 2019

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.

Austin Houston Music San Antonio Theater

McNay’s Tobin Collection of Theatre Arts Gets a New Show and Curator

Steven Brown·October 15, 2019

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.

San Antonio Theater Visual Art

Cowboys, Astronauts and Art: Jessica Green leads HCAF into the Future

Tarra Gaines·October 14, 2019

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.

Film Houston Visual Art

Opening to Baroque Possibilities: Houston’s Bach Society for the Americas

Steven Brown·October 14, 2019

The Bach Society Houston will perform a smattering of its namesake’s most popular music this season.

Houston Music

Visual Art

Millennial Moms are the Newest Movers and Shakers in Dallas Art

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Vessels of Heritage: Centro De Artes explores the transformation of everyday objects, places and ideas in a new exhibition in San Antonio’s Historic Market Square

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

A tribute to the legacy: KDH Dance Company performs honestly original new work

Room to Dream Big: Melissa M. Young Leads Bruce Wood Dance Dallas into the Future

Bats, Swans & Bon Bons: Avant Chamber Ballet’s 15th season positions classical dance for modern audiences

Music

A FRESH TAKE: DACAMERA’S SEASON EXPLORES NEW WAYS OF LOOKING AT OLD THINGS

Time for Tranquility: Apollo Chambers Players Offer a Contemplative New Season

The Finale and Future: Austin Symphony Orchestra’s Peter Bay Passes the Baton

Theater

Building a Theatrical Village: Austin’s Rude Mechs at 30

Fearless & Fabulous at 25: Uptown Players Celebrates Community While Honoring Its Legacy

The Drama Map: Trends, Patterns and Premieres on Texas Stages

Magpies & Peacocks: Art, High Fashion, and Saving the Planet

The ACTX Top Ten: November 2019

Unsettled Images: Beatriz González at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Selecting the season: Stage West’s 2019-20 lineup

Fall for Impressionism: Morisot and Monet to Picasso at MFAH

Tour de Force: Year 18 of the East Austin Studio Tour

Data Mapping: Nathalie Miebach at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft

Show Up: Marcelyn McNeil at Conduit Gallery

Bringing Your Heart to a Role: Dear Evan Hansen Tours Texas

McNay’s Tobin Collection of Theatre Arts Gets a New Show and Curator

Cowboys, Astronauts and Art: Jessica Green leads HCAF into the Future

Opening to Baroque Possibilities: Houston’s Bach Society for the Americas