Tony Brandt, co-founder and artistic director of Houston's leading new music ensemble Musiqa, knows exactly what has driven its success for the last 15 years, and he is eager to double down on it.
One shouldn’t read too much into serendipitous timing, but I can’t help noting that Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet: Contemporary Persians —The Mohammed Afkhami Collection, on view through Sept. 24 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is the fourth exhibition of post-revolutionary art the MFAH has mounted in 2017.
Entering the lobby at Houston Ballet's Center for Dance for Project REACH on balmy Saturday night felt like going to a club where all of the city's A-lister dance folks had gathered for something big and important.
“What the heck is a Rec Room?” was the question I set out to answer almost a year ago when I interviewed the performance art space co-owners and founders, Matt Hune and Stephanie Wittels Wachs
I think of Houston as a creative Bento box, in the way that New York is a melting pot. Art people go to galleries and museums, music people go to the opera and symphony, and so on.