Arts and Culture Texas magazine

Still Rising: Deborah D.E.E.P Mouton brings Lauren Anderson’s story to the Stage

Tarra Gaines·August 10, 2022

When one of Houston’s most acclaimed poets, Deborah D.E.E.P Mouton, set out to interview the city’s most legendary dancer, Lauren Anderson, she didn’t have a fully-formed creative objective.

Dance Houston Music Theater

A Good Laugh: The Fun Factor on Texas Stages

Tarra Gaines·August 10, 2022

After a performance season filled with joyful starts, heart-breaking cancellations and casting understudies for the understudies when positive COVID tests rolled in, Texas theater companies have endured much real life drama to make the leap back to live performances.

Austin Dallas/Ft Worth Houston Lone Star Stories Music Theater

The Power of an Image: FotoFest Biennial 2022 confronts the issues of our time

Sherry Cheng·August 3, 2022

Just as the song was a response to the concerns of its time, the works that constitute the central exhibition of FotoFest Biennial 2022: If I Had a Hammer (Sept. 24-Nov. 6 at Silver Street and Winter Street Studios) confront the issues of our time.

Houston Visual Art

Afsaneh Aayani Manifests ‘Theater For All’

Emily Hynds·July 26, 2022

If you saw Innominate by Afsaneh Aayani at Catastrophic Theatre, you might think you know who Aayani is. You would be right and wrong at the same time.

Houston Texas Studio Theater Visual Art

Purcell, Vivaldi, Monteverdi, Handel and more: Ars Lyrica’s Bright New Season

Steven Brown·July 23, 2022

Ars Lyrica is picking up right where it left off. After closing last season with the poignant finish of Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, Houston’s baroque ensemble will launch its 2022-23 season with another helping of the melancholy, gently dissonant harmony that bears Purcell’s trademark.

Houston Music

Identities, Narratives, and Histories: CraftTexas 2022 at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft

Sherry Cheng·July 23, 2022

How does craft tell stories differently than other visual arts media? I posed this question to Texas-raised, Los Angeles-based artist and curator Andres Payan Estrada, juror for CraftTexas 2022, the biennial juried exhibition presented by Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (HCCC), now in its 11th edition.

Houston Visual Art

On Fascination, Form, and Future: David-Jeremiah at HMAAC

MICHAEL MCFADDEN·July 18, 2022

Reference to these machines is a common thread across the majority of David-Jeremiah: Early Career Survey, on view at HMAAC through Sept. 10, 2022.

Dallas/Ft Worth Houston Visual Art

Ambiguous places of beauty and sadness: Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin’s Wayfinding at the Blaffer

Tarra Gaines·July 18, 2022

Ten years ago, multidisciplinary artists and life partners Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin set out to trace a little-known bit of queer U.S history, an 1843 pleasure excursion by100 men from St Louis to the Wind River Range of Wyoming, likely the first example of North American gay eco/party tourism.

Houston Theater Visual Art

Quintessential DACAMERA: Programming Magic in the 2022-23 Season

Sherry Cheng·June 13, 2022

In Artistic Director Sarah Rothenberg’s mind, a quintessential DACAMERA season must have a balance of beloved masterpieces performed by great musicians from the classical world, and fantastic jazz of varying styles that reflect the ever-widening genre.

Houston Music

Beauty Transcends Death: Dido and Aeneas at Ars Lyrica Houston

Sherry Cheng·May 26, 2022

English Baroque composer Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, his only true opera, is an indisputable masterpiece and one of the most beloved operas in the repertoire.

Dance Houston Music Theater

Born a Yarn Spinner: Stanton Welch on Storytelling in Ballet

Nichelle Suzanne·May 20, 2022

Houston Ballet’s Artistic Director Stanton Welch grew up around ballet.

Dance Houston Theater

Show Up: Kelli Vance at Cris Worley

casey gregory·May 17, 2022

The best parts of horror movies are always the early scenes, when a director can revel in the shadows and tease us with glimpses of the monster, allowing our brains to fill in the blanks.

Dallas/Ft Worth Houston Show Up Visual Art

Visual Art

Style & Luminosity: Tamara de Lempicka at the MFAH

Vision & Experience: Bart Keijsers Koning Takes the Helm of Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas

Imagination and Experience: Nathaniel Donnett Teases Out the Threads

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

Dance Here: Agora Artists is Planting the Seeds to Make Dallas a Dance Town

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

Stories From The Room: The Case for Live Performance

Music

Triumph in Tragedy: Ars Lyrica Houston’s Luminous Theodora

Dallas Opera Brings the Audience Back

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

Theater

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

Stories From The Room: The Case for Live Performance

Next Chapter: The New Stewards of Fort Worth’s Amphibian Stage to Continue Commitment to New and Underrepresented Works

Houston

Still Rising: Deborah D.E.E.P Mouton brings Lauren Anderson’s story to the Stage

A Good Laugh: The Fun Factor on Texas Stages

The Power of an Image: FotoFest Biennial 2022 confronts the issues of our time

Afsaneh Aayani Manifests ‘Theater For All’

Purcell, Vivaldi, Monteverdi, Handel and more: Ars Lyrica’s Bright New Season

Identities, Narratives, and Histories: CraftTexas 2022 at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft

On Fascination, Form, and Future: David-Jeremiah at HMAAC

Ambiguous places of beauty and sadness: Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin’s Wayfinding at the Blaffer

Quintessential DACAMERA: Programming Magic in the 2022-23 Season

Beauty Transcends Death: Dido and Aeneas at Ars Lyrica Houston

Born a Yarn Spinner: Stanton Welch on Storytelling in Ballet

Show Up: Kelli Vance at Cris Worley