Houston’s Spring of Latinx Art
With exhibitions and performances at more than 20 venues across the city, Houston’s spring of Latino art is in full-swing.
Visual Art
In a city filled with festivals, Fusebox forges its own path
This is how you might experience Fusebox Festival this year, running April 16-21.
Texas Studio: Adrian Esparza
“There are associations that come with the use of a sarape, especially now with recent political and economic border issues,” says Adrian Esparza, referring to the brightly colored, blanket-like shawls from Latin America that inform and compose much of his work as well as the constant issue of the Mexican-American border, in which Texas is often found at the center.
Starry Rise: Van Gogh at MFAH
To tell the true story of a life, we sometimes have to see anew the places we wandered and how those explorations changed us.
Impossible Art: CounterCurrent Festival Spreads Out over Houston
Since 2014, the University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts’ CounterCurrent Festival has always been almost impossible to define.
Dallas Symphony’s Soluna Festival Thinks Big
Why does the Dallas Symphony mount its annual Soluna music-and-arts festival? Not because it wants to escape the proverbial same old thing. For an orchestra, “the ‘same old’ is fantastic,” president Kim Noltemy says. With Soluna, the group is thinking bigger.
Houston Arts Alliance Helps Artists and Organizations Get Ready & Resilient
Hurricane Harvey dumped some 15 trillion gallons of water on the Bayou City, creating havoc for the Downtown theater district, along with many artists and arts organizations.
‘REVIEW: Roni Horn, When I Breathe I Draw Part I’ at Menil Drawing Institute
There is something about the gauzy lighting at the Menil Drawing Institute that makes me mistrust my eye.
Sideways to the Sun: Natasha Bowdoin at the Moody Center
I meet Natasha Bowdoin for breakfast tacos a few days after the opening of her installation Sideways to the Sun at the Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University (on view through May 18).
Painting Toward Intimacy: Jonas Wood at Dallas Museum of Art
There’s an intimacy that comes with looking at painting, Jonas Wood tells me.
Have a Seat: Tom Loeser’s Playful Furniture at the Craft Center
Simple ideas, reimagined. This is central to Tom Loeser’s practice.
GRLZ + VEILS: Cheryl Donegan at the CAMH
Up-cycled dresses on mannequins, paintings of deconstructed tracksuits, and massive lengths of cloth made with consumer technology fill the upstairs of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston.