Texas Lens: Audience as Player/Experiments in Interactive Performance
You arrive at Texas State University’s Performing Arts Center in San Marcos and find the front doors to the lobby locked.
It Happened in Houston: Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party at UH Clear Lake
Judy Chicago’s monumental installation, The Dinner Party, debuted March 14, 1979, at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the first stop on a planned nine-year tour of the U.S. and abroad.
Funny stuff: Dallas’ first nonprofit comedy theater proves laughter is the best medicine
In a newly rehabbed, 75-seat black box theater, tucked behind Peticolas Brewing Company in the Dallas Design District, two men are pretending to tour a home.
Why We Sing: Houston Chamber Choir Celebrates the Art and Joy of Singing Together
Robert Simpson, founder and artistic director of the Houston Chamber Choir (HCC), has just brought home one of the most coveted awards in the field of choral music.
TX Studio: Ann Johnson
Ann Johnson’s studio is a manifestation of the love that de Chardin believed comprises the universe.
TX Studio: Julia Barbosa Landois
Julia Barbosa Landois and I sit under the marginally-less sweltering awning of a Houston coffee shop on one of the first truly furnace-like days of the year, discussing her fears.
The ACTX Top Ten: Summer 2018
Our top ten picks for arts + culture events happening across the Lone Star state this summer.
Into the Vortex: NobleMotion Dance Turns Ten
Andy and Dionne Sparkman Noble celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the company NobleMotion Dance with Vortex on Aug. 25-25 at The Hobby Center’s Zilkha Hall.
Border Crossings and the Transborder Biennial at the El Paso Museum of Art and Museo de Arte de Ciudad Juárez
Extending nearly 2,000 miles from the state of Texas, though Southwestern New Mexico, along the southern edge of Arizona to California, and all the way to the Pacific Ocean, the border of the United States and Mexico is a massive, expansive region.
Contemporary History: Vincent Valdez’s ‘The City’ at the Blanton Museum of Art
Artist Vincent Valdez visited Austin in 2015 to see the exhibition Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties at the Blanton Museum of Art.
The Standout: Hedda Sterne at Amon Carter Museum of American Art
“Hedda Sterne was a prolific and wildly adventurous artist...."
Artists in 3 Parts at the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts
People who aren’t from Texas often hold misconceptions about the state.