Arts and Culture Texas magazine

Kinetic Season 8: Distinct Voices, New Works, and Wild Soundscapes

Sherry Cheng·September 19, 2022

In Kinetic’s collaborative model, each of the 16 musicians in the conductorless string ensemble brings his or her creative voice to the table, to the rehearsal space, and to the concert stage.

Houston Music

Houston Chamber Choir Expands its Reach

Steven Brown·September 19, 2022

Nobody expected the Houston Chamber Choir’s season opener to tie in with the news of the world.

Houston Music

Houston Symphony Expands its Range with a New Director and Season

Steven Brown·September 9, 2022

The Houston Symphony’s new music director, Juraj Valčuha, acknowledged that opening the season with a requiem may strike some as “a strange idea.” But Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem is no ordinary setting of the mass for the dead.

Houston Music

Apollo Chamber Players Celebrates 15 Years with an Ambitious Season

Steven Brown·September 2, 2022

When the Apollo Chamber Players made its debut, grand visions of the future had nothing to do with it. The quartet, violinist Matthew Detrick recalls, had one simple goal: “to do that first concert.”

Houston Music

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

Visual Art

Nothing is Ordinary: Hillerbrand+Magsamen at FotoFest

Forging Admiration: Art Worth encourages Fort Worth fans to see artists in their element

Presence, Absence and a Certain Tension: Timothy Harding Redefines Space

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

Sharing the Same Rhythms: Cara Mía Theatre’s Latinidades Festival Returns to Dallas

Big Moves Ahead: Bruce Wood Dance Dallas Leans Into Legacy for 2025–26

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

Music

Sharing the Same Rhythms: Cara Mía Theatre’s Latinidades Festival Returns to Dallas

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

Forging Admiration: Art Worth encourages Fort Worth fans to see artists in their element

Theater

Sharing the Same Rhythms: Cara Mía Theatre’s Latinidades Festival Returns to Dallas

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

Stage Left of Center: Four Texas Theaters Redefining Regional Performance

Houston

Kinetic Season 8: Distinct Voices, New Works, and Wild Soundscapes

Houston Chamber Choir Expands its Reach

Houston Symphony Expands its Range with a New Director and Season

Apollo Chamber Players Celebrates 15 Years with an Ambitious Season

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