Painting Toward Intimacy: Jonas Wood at Dallas Museum of Art
There’s an intimacy that comes with looking at painting, Jonas Wood tells me.
The Company Model on Texas Stages
The plays change but the players remain the same: Such is the model of a resident acting company, a group of artists who create theater together as a team.
Musical Story Lines: Houston Symphony’s New Season
A festival celebrating arch-Romantic composer Robert Schumann. Spotlights on Richard Strauss, master of orchestral tone-painting, and today’s John Adams. A pairing of dramatic but little-known choral works by Felix Mendelssohn and Gustav Mahler.
Have a Seat: Tom Loeser’s Playful Furniture at the Craft Center
Simple ideas, reimagined. This is central to Tom Loeser’s practice.
Dream with Them: The Sin Fronteras Festival Brings Theater for Young Audiences to Austin
What power do young people have to transform the very fabric of our nation? How can theater do this type of social justice work?
GRLZ + VEILS: Cheryl Donegan at the CAMH
Up-cycled dresses on mannequins, paintings of deconstructed tracksuits, and massive lengths of cloth made with consumer technology fill the upstairs of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston.
Rescue Music: DSO Oboist Erin Hannigan’s Artists for Animals
The audience members at the Meyerson Symphony Center had no idea what an adventure the oboist onstage had on her way in to work that night.
Texas Lens: Finding My Voice
My name is Agostina Migoni and I am an opera singer. My grandfather, who lived with us during my childhood, was also an opera singer and my first music teacher, so I feel that my career path was determined pretty early on.
The ACTX Top Ten: February 2019
Our top ten picks for arts and culture events happening across the Lone Star State in Feb 2019.
REVIEW: HGO’s First Pearl Fishers Dazzles and Gleams
It was a night of many firsts at Houston Grand Opera’s production of French composer Georges Bizet’s The Pearl Fishers.
Rich Aste Reflects on His First Two Years at the McNay
“I arrived with very big ideas,” Rich Aste says, as he surveys his first two years as Director of the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio.
Texas Studio: Audrya Flores and Lisette Chavez
When I walk into Audrya Flores’s home studio in San Antonio, I find a wood-paneled room, with a carefully curated selection of objects—needlework, prints, collages, fabric pieces—paired with found things—a turtle shell, stones, a preserved bat, potted plants.