Houston
Demi Dancers at Houston Ballet: The eye-opening world of Stanton Welch’s The Nutcracker
Stanton Welch framed his new Nutcracker as a coming-of-age story, with a young Clara at the center of his dazzling holiday ballet, now entering its second year.
Menace in Macrame: Hansel and Gretel at the Rec Room
“This is the future of art, where would you see something like this in Houston? Someone needs to write about this,” said Abby Koenig, looking straight at me, after a stunning and mesmerizing performance of Engelbert Humperdinck's 1893 opera Hansel and Gretel, presented by Rec Room Arts at the Rec Room.
Between Love and Madness: Mexican Comic Art from the 1970s Lawndale Art Center
Lawndale Art Center’s exhibition Between Love and Madness: Mexican Comic Art from the 1970s, on view Jan. 18-March 25, is comprised of approximately 380 works
Everything Turns Away Quite Leisurely: Gabriel Martinez at Blaffer Art Museum
In Everything Turns Away Quite Leisurely, on view upstairs at the Blaffer Art Museum through Jan. 27, Gabriel Martinez intervenes in or trespasses onto urban space and the rhetorical and material organizations, constructions, signs and strategies of significations which seek to make sense of and discipline the bodies and materials dispersed there.
HOME—So Different, So Appealing at MFAH
The breakthrough exhibition HOME—So Different, So Appealing, a seven-decade survey of works by Latin American and U.S. Latino artists who address the universal, elastic theme of home, draws part of its landmark status from its organizers, both encyclopedic museums, and the vast real estate they’ve given the show.
TX Studio: Beili Liu
In her installation for the exhibition Tensile Strength at the Silos in Houston, Austin-based artist Beili Liu wanted to think about the silo as both a physical space and a metaphor for division.
Wonder & Adventure: Bach Society Houston Charts New Adventures
Rick Erickson, director of Bach Society Houston (BSH), has had a lifelong love affair with Bach.
In This Petri Dish: Day for Night Festival Immerses Houston In Art, Music, Activism
Day for Night, the music and art festival now entering its third year, has caused waves in the festival scene for its ability to mesh together art and music into an immersive experience.
The Space in Between: Mona Hatoum at the Menil Collection
Terra firma is Latin for “solid land” but Mona Hatoum is not interested in stability.
Mickalene Thomas: Waiting on a Prime-Time Star at Moody Center for the Arts
There’s a living room constructed in the Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University.
The Show Must Go on…Somewhere Else: The Post-Harvey Scramble for Space
Harvey took the floor away from us, and for a large part of the arts sector, the floor was mighty shaky before the storm hit.