Stories From The Room: The Case for Live Performance
A few years have passed since live performance returned to stages across Texas after the pandemic, and we at Arts and Culture have been thinking about how easily its siren song called us back.
Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries
Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries
TX Studio: Emotions and Meaning Surface in Jessica Halonen’s Artworks
When Jessica Halonen answers my phone call from her studio in San Antonio, I’m dying to ask her about one thing: poison.
Farima Fooladi Paints as an Act of Preservation
Swimming pools, tennis courts, a bridge, an arch, her daughter’s toy blocks are all recurring images in Iranian-born artist Farima Faloodi’s paintings and installations.
Something’s Missing in Alex Da Corte’s The Whale at The Modern
Can absence have a presence? Artist Alex Da Corte and The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth’s curator Alison Hearst think so.
Immersive Worlds: Annie Arnoult’s Open Dance Project Celebrates 10 Years
When it comes to immersive performing arts no one in Houston, and perhaps all of Texas, is as bold as Houston’s Open Dance Project.
Dance Source Houston Honors C.C. Conner and Karen Stokes at the Annual SPARK Party
C.C. Conner helped transform Houston Ballet, serving as its managing director as the company boosted its financial endowment and built its downtown home. Karen Stokes led the University of Houston’s dance program for more than 20 years
Next Chapter: The New Stewards of Fort Worth’s Amphibian Stage to Continue Commitment to New and Underrepresented Works
Jay Duffer and Elizabeth Kensek have long traveled in similar circles.
Speaking of Beauty: Six Centuries of Painting from Museo de Arte de Ponce at the Meadows
The Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, whose extensive collection of Spanish art has earned it the nickname “Prado on the Prairie,” is the first stop for The Sense of Beauty: Six Centuries of Painting from Museo de Arte de Ponce, an exhibition of over sixty European, American, and Puerto Rican masterworks dating from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first.
Early Exposure: Growing the Next Arts Generation in San Antonio
The concerts, art shows and other cultural events in a city—say, San Antonio—don’t appeal just to the locals.
Finding His Niche: Actor/Playwright Parker Davis Gray Carves Out His Place
Parker Davis Gray is not afraid to be weird. The SMU theater grad has played silly, sinister, sympathetic, and sometimes just plain psychotic on basically every professional stage in Dallas-Fort Worth since 2016; if he’s not taking a risk, he’s not satisfied.
Diving Into Hidden Universes: Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within at the MFAH
When an artist allows it, their practice can become all-encompassing, blurring the lines between practice, spirit, and the world around them.