Everything is ephemeral: The Precarious at the Menil
The Precarious is a small and quiet exhibition running at The Menil Collection through May 1, 2016.
Visual Art
Ode to a Plate: At Your Service at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft
Although we may take it for granted as a simple tool, the plate is also a small stage—an intimate setting on which universal routines of daily life take place.
Here and Now
Laptisophon, Geva, and Howe at Conduit
Return to Earth: FotoFest 2016 Focuses on Environmental Change
FotoFest is back this month for its 16th iteration, Changing Circumstances: The Future of the Planet, March 12 - April 24, with an epic calendar of exhibitions, programs, lectures, films, and performances. Featuring work by 34 artists from nine countries, this biennial is the first in ten years to consider a theme that is not tied to a specific geographic region.
Deconstructing Suburbia: New and Recent Works by Hillerbrand + Magsamen
Deconstruction is a common theme in the arts. Whether a concept or an object, many artists incorporate the idea of dismantling into their practice.
Show up: Adriana Corral
Adriana Corral grew up in El Paso reading newspaper reports about the murders of young, beautiful, vulnerable women who often worked in maquiladoras, or factories, across the border in Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico.
Free & Fabulous: Fusebox Festival Promotes Idea Exchange Across Disciplines and Borders
If you can dream it, you can do it: This seems to be the unofficial mantra behind Austin’s Fusebox Festival, which this year will boast more than 60 performances, workshops and talks put on by some 30 local, national and international artists, all for free for the general public.
Weaving Narratives of Music and Art: Jennie C. Jones at the CAMH
Music, much like visual art, has long been a tool used to comment and reflect on sociopolitical and socioeconomic issues.
Strong Statements at the MFAH: African American Art from the Museum’s Collection
Statements: African American Art from the Museum’s Collection is the overly general and therefore utterly uninformative title of an excellent exhibition now ongoing at the MFAH through April 24, 2016.
The ACTX Top Ten: February 2016
Our top ten picks for arts + culture events in Texas for February 2016.