Houston
Fade to Black: Creating a Space for African-American Theater in Houston
While Houston is routinely lauded as the most diverse city in the United States, this isn’t always apparent at the local level.
What’s happening?: Right Here, Right Now: San Antonio at the Contemporary Art Museum Houston
Thank goodness, because one thing our arts communities do not need is another wannabe dictator (ditto the world for that matter). Give us a little room for curiosity, however, and we’ll happily run with it.
A brief survey of experimental music in Houston
This article is a patch, some spackling, experimental music duct tape on the rickety machinery of music web content.
SPA Welcomes Ballet Hispanico With Open Arms
“You are going to love this program,” Eduardo Vilaro told me as we shared a glass of wine last summer while his troupe, Ballet Hispanico was gracing the Jacob's Pillow Stage.
Conversations in Art, Science & Technology: Moody Center for the Arts
The artist, Josiah McElheny, working with cosmologist David Weinberg, creates a gallery-sized installation, consisting of five hanging chromed-metal, transparent hand-blown glass and light sculptures.
Peacock in the Desert: The Royal Arts of Jodhpur, India at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Peacocks are beautiful, magnificent even, but they have a grating squawk.
Mystery Sonatas and a Celebratory 50th Anniversary Season Ahead for Houston Early Music
What makes Heinrich's Biber's Mystery Sonatas so strikingly unique?
Architecture of Creation: Michelangelo and the Vatican at MFAH
The artistic process rarely garners as much attention and appreciation as the finished masterpiece, but shaded charcoal figures, sculpted wax half-forms and rough wooden models–the staggered steps along the way to final creation–have their own magnificent beauty.
FLATS: A New Way to View Photography
When you attend a FLATS show, you won’t be going to any art gallery you have been to before.
SHOW UP: Libbie Masterson
Entering Libbie Masterson’s studio is like a breath of fresh air. A small outbuilding is tucked away in a lush courtyard garden in Montrose, windows overlooking the urban greenery. Fitting for an artist who is fascinated by landscape.
Meta Story: ‘Bright Star’ at TUTS
Though it made its Broadway debut in 2016, the bluegrass music-filled Bright Star feels like an old fashioned musical born many decades ago.