Coming Home: Felicia McBride
Felicia McBride, one of Texas’s most outstanding contemporary dancers, has recently moved back to her hometown of San Antonio to develop her work as a choreographer.
Progressive Texan: The LBJ Legacy Continues at the Alley and DTC
War. Healthcare. Race. A divisive president in a tumultuous time. Self-destructive and unrestrained ego.
Forward Motion: Houston Ballet Travels to Jacob’s Pillow and Dubai
It has been quite a year for Houston Ballet, rife with Harvey-related challenges and triumphs, such as taking its place in history as the first North American Company to perform Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s epic drama Mayerling.
The ACTX Top Ten: February 2018
The top ten arts + culture events happening across Texas in Feb. 2018.
Sleight of Hand: Francesca Fuchs at Lawndale Art Center
Francesca Fuchs has taken on the largest canvas thus far in her career, the north wall of the Lawndale Art Center with her mural, sensibly titled, North Exterior Wall, on view through October 2018.
Stories to Tell: Oral Fixation Expands in Texas
Oral Fixation calls Dallas home, but has started taking their storytelling show on the road in recent years.
Reclaiming Self: My week with Anna Halprin
My pelvis tipped forward, my shoulders were tight and closed, my knees ached from around-the-clock bouncing.
Commanding Space: Women Sculptors of Texas at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art
It’s been awhile since an exhibition prompted me to play the “Whither Texas art?” parlor game—to check in on what, if anything, we mean when we use the term and how, if any way, we feel about it.
Christopher Knowles: In a Word at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
While I was viewing this exhibition, a man approached me with an unsolicited opinion.
KINETIC: Painting an English Landscape
Thoughtful, incisive programming has been KINETIC's strong suit since its inception in 2015.
Persona Euphonia: A Messaging Makeover for Public Art of UHS
So what’s a fitting shape for public art to take, especially in Texas, on the urban campuses of a public institution?
Eclipsed No More: DMA Shines Light on Rare Edward Steichen Murals
In 1913, Agnes Ernst Meyer, the wife of financier Eugene Meyer, Jr., and pregnant with her second child, was out of sorts and unable to make her rounds to the art galleries, where, as a former New York Post reporter on the art beat, she had been dubbed “the Sun Girl” by photographer-gallerists Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen. Writing to Stieglitz, a brooding Meyer quipped, “I am now your Eclipsed Sun-girl.”