Defining Home: Da Camera’s 30th Season
Da Camera has flourished because of the entrepreneurial spirit and open-mindedness of its hometown of Houston, as general director Sarah Rothenberg will readily tell you.
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Year of the Woman: Ars Lyrica’s Upcoming Season Celebrates Artful Women
It's the first time Matthew Dirst, Founder and Artistic Director of Houston's leading early music ensemble Ars Lyrica, has programmed an entire season of music focusing on women.
Unwiring from War: Cry Havoc at Houston’s 4th Wall Theatre
Can performing Shakespeare become a form of therapy that allows actor and audience to find and help heal psychological injuries?
Jazz on/in/and Film at the MFAH
In a year, a very small number of “jazz films” can or will be released — there’s just (unfortunately) not that many to be made. So, during Jazz on Film, a yearly festival curated by Peter Lucas, now in its fifth year, there are some repetitions from previous years.
Old and Improved: Art as Wish Fulfillment in CAMH’s A Better Yesterday
The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston’s latest exhibition A Better Yesterday, on view May 20-Sept. 3, brings together work by Jack Early, JooYoung Choi, and Lily van der Stokker. Devon Britt-Darby caught up with director Bill Arning, who organized the show.
Anything’s Possible: PrintHouston 2017 Reflects a Medium’s Multiplicity
As printmaking shows fan out across Houston over the next few months, visitors to PrintHouston 2017—a multivenue array of exhibitions and events highlighting a range of traditional and experimental techniques—it’s worth remembering that fewer than eight years ago, the Bayou City’s printmaking scene left a lot to be desired.
Justin Peck: A Choreographer for Right Now
The ballet field is fond of pinning their hopes on the next great choreographer who will lead this astonishing art form into the future.
Dean’s Show: Is Paul Ramírez Jonas’s CAMH Survey Really His?
Mid-career retrospectives have a way of messing with their subjects’ heads. When you’re used to always thinking about the next project, looking back on decades’ worth of work can produce as much anxiety as nostalgia.
Ancient Roads: Shank’s Mare at Asia Society Texas Center
The metaphor that life is a journey, a road we trek, and the decisions we make, the diverging paths we must choose, is probably almost as old as roads themselves, and an analogy not confined to any one culture or era.
Fire & Water: HGO Triumphs with Götterdämmerung
Houston Grand Opera has done it! The realization of Richard Wagner's epic Ring Cycle, the single most challenging and monumental artistic undertaking in the opera company's history, culminated with full force in the cathartic fourth and final installment Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods).
Houston Welcomes New Music Ensemble Loop38
Traditional tunes, rhythms and harmonies played no role. Instead, the chamber ensemble offered up an ever-shifting soundscape of shimmers, glimmers, rustlings and wisps —Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho’s salute to the Northern Lights.
Political and Promising: The 39th MFA Exhibition at Blaffer Museum
There are 15 artists in this year’s 39th MFA Exhibition at Blaffer Museum, which runs through April 22.