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Richard Stout’s Homecoming at AMSET

Devon Britt-Darby·October 1, 2017

“I’ve always liked to work from home,” says Richard Stout, the Beaumont-born painter, sculptor, and elder statesman of the Houston art world, as we sit in the Montrose-area studio he built 50 years ago behind his house.

Visual Art

Genevieve Gaignard’s Passing Identities at HCP

casey gregory·September 28, 2017

Anyone who needs to be forced out of those “comfortable” preconceived notions of identity should see Genevieve Gaignard’s exhibition In Passing at the Houston Center for Photography, on view through Oct. 22.

Houston Visual Art

Nowhere and Now: Tudor Mitroi at Rudolph Blume Gallery

Donna Tennant·September 28, 2017

Tudor Mitroi continues to explore time and space in his highly personal paintings on paper at Rudolph Blume Gallery, on view through Oct 7.

Visual Art

Show Up: Jake Margolin and Nick Vaughan

MICHAEL MCFADDEN·September 25, 2017

“We found Charles’s death certificate in the Trinidad municipal library, and the Catholic cemetery had a ledger with his death records,” added Nick Vaughan.

Show Up Visual Art

Age of Aquarius Dawns on Dallas: Hair at DTC

Manuel Mendoza·September 25, 2017

Kevin Moriarty was turned on to Hair by the nuns at his Catholic elementary school.

Dallas/Ft Worth Theater

Haunting the Haunted: Misty Keasler at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

Jennifer Smart·September 22, 2017

An interest in what isn’t shown in a photograph is a relatively recent preoccupation among art audiences.

Dallas/Ft Worth Editor's Picks Visual Art

Fairy Tales & Fairies: Dark Circles Contemporary Dance’s Elevator Project Debut

Manuel Mendoza·September 22, 2017

In Heinrich Hoffmann’s 1845 children’s book Struwwelpeter, a little boy is warned by his mother to stop sucking his thumbs, lest they be cut off by a scissor-wielding, red-legged tailor.

Dallas/Ft Worth Dance

Texas Studio: Joey Fauerso

Nancy Zastudil·September 22, 2017

“There’s a war today?” It’s a question that begs an answer. But it also suggests a casual if not ambivalent conversation.

San Antonio Texas Studio

Moving Forward, Looking Back: David McGee at Texas Gallery and HMAAC

casey gregory·September 21, 2017

The mucky brown waters had barely begun to recede when artist David McGee’s mother reminded him of the title of his upcoming exhibition at Houston’s Texas Gallery.

Houston Visual Art

Vocal Heroics: Clifton Forbis Returns To Dallas Opera

Steven Brown·September 21, 2017

The opera world never has enough heroic tenors.

Dallas/Ft Worth Music

Oz and Odessa Collide: Kelly O’Connor at the Old Jail Art Center

Illa Gaunt·September 20, 2017

Two hundred miles separate the West Texas towns of Albany and Odessa. Best known for oil derricks and high-school football, Odessa is home to artist Kelly O’Connor’s maternal family and serves as the thematic basis of her work on display at the Old Jail Art Center in Albany, on view through Feb. 3, 2018.

Visual Art West Texas

Art Scene Stalwarts Among Harvey’s First Responders

Devon Britt-Darby·September 20, 2017

“Today, when I came to meet you, was the first day I didn’t have a pistol on me,” Paul Middendorf said recently, as he sat at Black Hole Coffee in Houston’s Montrose neighborhood—his first such outing since Hurricane Harvey brought catastrophic flooding to Southeast Texas.

Houston Visual Art

Visual Art

A Line, Learning: Cy Twombly at Menil Drawing Institute

A Call to the Curious: Liliana Bloch Gallery and the Art We Need to See

Pop up Power: Showing Adventurous Art in North Texas Is Strictly DIY

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

The Art of Movement: TITAS/DANCE UNBOUND’s new season journeys through time and across continents

Your Move, Partner: Bombshell Dance Project whisks audiences to the Wild West and Flower Mound Arts Festival

A New Flock: Jennifer Mabus Launches Grackle Dance Collective in Dallas

Music

Dallas Opera’s New Season Aims to Enchant and Entertain

THE HUNT, THE HAUNTED, THE GODDESS, AND THE MAGNIFICAT: THE SPLENDID VISIONS OF ARS LYRICA HOUSTON

Living in the Sacred Moment: Austin Opera’s 2026-27 season honors heritage, innovation, and empathy

Theater

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

A Last Entrance: ‘Leopoldstadt’ at Main Street Theater

Diaspora Stories: Spring offers a bounty of Latinx Theater Festivals

Richard Stout’s Homecoming at AMSET

Genevieve Gaignard’s Passing Identities at HCP

Nowhere and Now: Tudor Mitroi at Rudolph Blume Gallery

Show Up: Jake Margolin and Nick Vaughan

Age of Aquarius Dawns on Dallas: Hair at DTC

Haunting the Haunted: Misty Keasler at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

Fairy Tales & Fairies: Dark Circles Contemporary Dance’s Elevator Project Debut

Texas Studio: Joey Fauerso

Moving Forward, Looking Back: David McGee at Texas Gallery and HMAAC

Vocal Heroics: Clifton Forbis Returns To Dallas Opera

Oz and Odessa Collide: Kelly O’Connor at the Old Jail Art Center

Art Scene Stalwarts Among Harvey’s First Responders