Arts and Culture Texas magazine

Happening Here: Austin Inspires Artists for Fusebox Festival’s Return

Tarra Gaines·February 17, 2026

Though one of Texas’ biggest multidisciplinary arts events, Austin’s Fusebox Festival, moved from an annual to biennial schedule in 2024, that doesn’t mean the Fusebox organization took a year off to relax.

Austin Houston Theater

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

Nancy Wozny·January 19, 2026

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

Austin Dallas/Ft Worth Houston Music Performania San Antonio Theater

Texas Studio: Alexa Capareda Keeps Moving

Tara Munjee·November 8, 2025

Indefatigable Alexa. That’s the only way to describe Austin’s Alexa Capareda, whose professional artistic engagements include dancing, choreography, teaching, film, drawing, arts administration/organization, and now additionally, acting.

Austin Dance Texas Studio Theater

TX Studio: Candace Hicks’s Perfectly Practical Activism

Nancy Zastudil·November 4, 2025

“I'm sort of a frustrated writer, in a sense,” Candace Hicks tells me over Zoom. “And so, making artist books is a way of self-publishing. It’s also a way of making things permanent.”

Austin Texas Studio Visual Art

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

Nancy Wozny·November 4, 2025

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

Austin Dallas/Ft Worth Houston Music Performania San Antonio Theater

Tensions of Time and Remembrance: Zalika Azim at UT Visual Arts Center

MICHAEL MCFADDEN·October 6, 2025

In Zalika Azim: Blood Memories (or a going to ground), the ground is never just ground; it is a witness and a griot, a surface that keeps score of what passes over it and what takes root.

Austin Visual Art

Boheme+Broadway: Austin Opera marks 40th anniversary

Steven Brown·September 30, 2025

Is it strange for an opera company to stage Fiddler on the Roof? Showcasing the Broadway landmark makes total sense to Annie Burridge, Austin Opera’s CEO.

Austin Music

Innovation, Ingenuity and Intimacy: Texas Theater Designers Create Big Worlds in Small Spaces

Tarra Gaines·July 27, 2025

“We can’t build sets in here. We have to build a real thing,” says Azizi of what he approximates is a 20 feet by 70 feet space, with half of that reserved for the audience.

Austin Dallas/Ft Worth Houston Theater

Vision and Variety: Texas Performing Arts Celebrates International and Local Artists

Steven Brown·July 21, 2025

The three witches in Shakespeare’s Macbeth, nursing their cauldron of toil and trouble, rank among the most chilling characters ever set loose onstage. Imagine what might happen if they found an apprentice to carry on their dark arts.

Austin Dance Music Theater

Performa/Dance Marks Their 10th Anniversary with ‘ANTHROPOCENE’

Tara Munjee·June 4, 2025

How does a dance-maker address an impending climate catastrophe while still energizing and delighting audiences?

Austin Dance

Outcast Heroes and Storybook Musicals: Broadway Across Texas

Tarra Gaines·June 2, 2025

As we celebrate season announcement season at Arts and Culture, it’s time once again for this resident theater cartographer to unroll her maps and season schedule to chart the ebb and flow of big Broadway musicals as they tour the Lone Star State.

Austin Dallas/Ft Worth Houston Music San Antonio Theater

Material Culture: Betsabée Romero at Blanton Museum of Art

Nancy Zastudil·April 18, 2025

When do materials matter? Some artists might say: always.

Austin Visual Art

Visual Art

An Artful Camaraderie: Member-owned and operated Archway Gallery celebrates its fiftieth anniversary

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

What the Eye Can’t Settle: Rubén Guerrero at the Meadows Museum

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

An Icon in Motion: Annabelle Lopez Ochoa explores Frida Kahlo’s legacy at Houston Ballet

Dancing with Bob, Breaking the Waves, a Set of Angels, a Breakout Hamlet, a Mountain and More!: The 2025 Season Wrap up

Dancing in Between the Spaces of Life: Karen Stokes Premieres ‘4 Corners’ at the Match

Music

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

Dancing with Bob, Breaking the Waves, a Set of Angels, a Breakout Hamlet, a Mountain and More!: The 2025 Season Wrap up

Dreaming Frida: Brooklyn Rider premieres a new work by Gabriela Lena Frank at DACAMERA

Theater

The Decade-Long Journey Home: Inside Kitchen Dog Theater’s 35th Season at Its New Dallas Home

Happening Here: Austin Inspires Artists for Fusebox Festival’s Return

Shaping the Future: When Texas Theater Kids Grow Up

Austin

Happening Here: Austin Inspires Artists for Fusebox Festival’s Return

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

Texas Studio: Alexa Capareda Keeps Moving

TX Studio: Candace Hicks’s Perfectly Practical Activism

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

Tensions of Time and Remembrance: Zalika Azim at UT Visual Arts Center

Boheme+Broadway: Austin Opera marks 40th anniversary

Innovation, Ingenuity and Intimacy: Texas Theater Designers Create Big Worlds in Small Spaces

Vision and Variety: Texas Performing Arts Celebrates International and Local Artists

Performa/Dance Marks Their 10th Anniversary with ‘ANTHROPOCENE’

Outcast Heroes and Storybook Musicals: Broadway Across Texas

Material Culture: Betsabée Romero at Blanton Museum of Art