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Forms of Inheritance: Anna Mayer Goes Meta at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft

Sherry Cheng·February 12, 2021

Thick black smoke clouds engulf the large canvas mural that dominates the entrance of artist Anna Mayer’s solo exhibition, Forms of Inheritance, on view through May 8 at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (HCCC).

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Bold Choices: Dallas Black Dance Makes Arts Available to New Audiences

Lindsay Alissa King·February 9, 2021

Together Young and Drew laid out three-month, six-month, and one-year plans, even before they knew how long the pandemic might keep the curtains down.

Dallas/Ft Worth Dance Features

The Language of Allegory: Shirin Neshat at The Modern

casey gregory·February 8, 2021

Nearly a year into the global pandemic, it’s likely we can all relate to the idea of the imagination as a passport.

Dallas/Ft Worth Features Visual Art

Bridging the Museum: The Carter Community Artists initiative at Amon Carter

James Russell·January 29, 2021

The Carter Community Artists initiative was established in 2018 by the Amon Carter Museum of American Art.

Dallas/Ft Worth Features Visual Art

One STEP at a Time: Second Thought Theatre lifts the curtain

Lindsey Wilson·January 18, 2021

The new artistic director of Dallas’s Second Thought Theatre is addressing the virtual audience of STEP: Second Thought Emerging Playwrights.

Dallas/Ft Worth Features Theater

The Music Plays On: Texas Orchestras Pivot in 2021

Steven Brown·January 8, 2021

The Fort Worth Symphony will spotlight Antonín Dvořák’s melodious but unfamiliar Serenade in E major on Jan. 8-10. The same weekend, Dallas Symphony performances of Dmitri Shostakovich’s Chamber Symphony in A-flat--a supersized version of the composer’s Quartet No. 10--will show how intense a string ensemble can be. The Houston Symphony will partner with onetime prodigy, now mature artist Midori in Beethoven’s Violin Concerto on Jan. 15-17.

Dallas/Ft Worth Features Houston Lone Star Stories Music

A Love Letter to the Audience: Tarra Gaines on her Digital Diet and Missing Live Performance

Tarra Gaines·October 1, 2020

Tarra Gaines on her Digital Diet and Missing Live Performance

Austin Dallas/Ft Worth Dance Features Houston Music Theater Visual Art

Dallas Opera Goes Digital with the TDO Network

Steven Brown·August 6, 2020

The Dallas Opera had just begun rehearsals for a landmark event: the company’s first production in more than 30 years of Giuseppe Verdi’s Don Carlo, a drama whose challenges tower nearly as high as its musical splendors.

Dallas/Ft Worth Features Music

Texas Studio: Katy Heinlein

Emily Hynds·March 5, 2020

Sculptor Katy Heinlein’s studio is quiet, cozy, exploding with texture and color, and perhaps most important of all, stable.

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Texas Studio: Matt Messinger

Emily Hynds·February 13, 2020

Houston artist Matt Messinger is a collector—of art yes, but also of ephemera, which leaks and injects itself into his work.

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Staring into the Theater Infinity: ‘The Fantasticks’ at Stages

Tarra Gaines·February 3, 2020

Somewhere near the end of the first act of Stages’ sweet and nostalgic production of the classic musical The Fantasticks when a happy ending tableau had arrived but an entire second act still remained to follow, I couldn’t stop thinking of that likely-apocryphal story about the cosmologist confronting a turtle infinity.

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Texas Studio: Ana Fernandez

casey gregory·January 27, 2020

San Antonio artist Ana Fernandez, a regionalist for the 21st century, finds that it’s really the people that make a place.

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Visual Art

A Sprawling History: Tavares Strachan at the Blanton

Storytime: Meow Wolf Leans into the Narrative in their immersive adventures

Beauty and Repulsion, Decay and Renewal: Jessica Kreutter at Galveston Arts Center

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

Revealing Repertoire: Houston Ballet’s Triple Bill Tells a Company’s Story

Texas Studio: Jordan Fuchs Starts with Choreography

Engaging Audiences: Frame Dance’s 2024 Frame x Frame Festival Focuses on Screendance’s Unique Space in the Dance Ecology

Music

TX Studio: Héctor Guzmán Conducts a Life

Spreading the Classical Music Word: San Antonio’s Agarita Thinks Beyond the Concert Hall

Kinetic at 10: Virtuosic Ensemble Grows Deep Roots in Houston

Theater

Building a Community: D. Wambui Richardson Invites Audiences to Become Part of Jubilee Theatre’s Family

Born to Lead: Circle Theatre’s New Artistic Director Ashley H. White Isn’t Afraid to Shake Things Up

A Succession Story: Houston’s 4th Wall Theatre Company Secures its Future

Features

Forms of Inheritance: Anna Mayer Goes Meta at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft

Bold Choices: Dallas Black Dance Makes Arts Available to New Audiences

The Language of Allegory: Shirin Neshat at The Modern

Bridging the Museum: The Carter Community Artists initiative at Amon Carter

One STEP at a Time: Second Thought Theatre lifts the curtain

The Music Plays On: Texas Orchestras Pivot in 2021

A Love Letter to the Audience: Tarra Gaines on her Digital Diet and Missing Live Performance

Dallas Opera Goes Digital with the TDO Network

Texas Studio: Katy Heinlein

Texas Studio: Matt Messinger

Staring into the Theater Infinity: ‘The Fantasticks’ at Stages

Texas Studio: Ana Fernandez