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# Arts and Culture Texas magazine

The Art Magazine of the Lone Star State

## Posts

- [Blogs](https://artsandculturetx.com/blogs/)
- [From Beer to Art: ‘Still Brewing Art’ at the San Antonio Museum of Art](https://artsandculturetx.com/from-beer-to-art-still-brewing-art-at-the-san-antonio-museum-of-art/) - “Everything comes back to the water,” said San Antonio Museum of Art Curator Regina Palm.
- [20 Years of Magic at Ars Lyrica Houston](https://artsandculturetx.com/20-years-of-magic-at-ars-lyrica-houston/) - Reflecting on a milestone 20 years at Ars Lyrica Houston, Founder and Artistic Director Matthew Dirst took a moment to look back at the beginning. “It hardly seems possible,” says Dirst. “It was a kitchen table kind of organization. It essentially grew out of a nucleus of musicians that I had put together to play programs on some local church series.”
- [The Great Lone Star Way: Broadway Across Texas](https://artsandculturetx.com/the-great-lone-star-way-broadway-across-texas/) - One nice performing arts perk of Texas holding five of the top thirteen most populous cities in the U.S. is that we don’t have to go to New York or London to see the hottest Broadway or even a West End show.
- [World Building the Cosmic Womb: The Complex and Joyful Narratives of JooYoung Choi](https://artsandculturetx.com/world-building-the-cosmic-womb-the-complex-and-joyful-narratives-of-jooyoung-choi/) - Forget the latest superhero blockbuster, this summer we’re nabbing our (free) ticket to experience the ongoing adventures of Pound Cake Man, Sweet Slice, Prime Weaver, Pom Pom Thunder, Vorax and the newest powerful force for radical change in perception, Wondervision.
- [A Season of Awakenings at DACAMERA](https://artsandculturetx.com/a-season-of-awakenings-at-dacamera/) - Houston’s DACAMERA swings back into action this fall with a program dubbed “Awakenings.” It sets up the group’s new season in more ways than just chronologically.
- [Texas Studio: Lauren Moya Ford](https://artsandculturetx.com/texas-studio-lauren-moya-ford/) - “What does it mean to make an image of a woman now?” Lauren Moya Ford asked during our recent studio visit. For her, the question is not sensational or rhetorical; instead, it’s personal.
- [Art on the Run: Austin’s Artist Run Club](https://artsandculturetx.com/art-on-the-run-austins-artist-run-club/) - Every Wednesday, people run around Austin to get a good look at contemporary art.
- [Cor Mundi: Music of the Spirit in the Heart of the World](https://artsandculturetx.com/cor-mundi-music-of-the-spirit-in-the-heart-of-the-world/) - A truly unique performing arts organization has arrived on Houston’s vibrant classical music scene, a group dedicated to illuminating the sacred through music.
- [Collecting as a Cultural Practice: Picasso–Klee–Matisse: Masterpieces from the Museum Berggruen at the MFAH](https://artsandculturetx.com/collecting-as-a-cultural-practice-picasso-klee-matisse-masterpieces-from-the-museum-berggruen-at-the-mfah/) - Heinz Berggruen bought his first Klee in 1940 for reasons that had nothing to do with investment.
- [Dreaming in Data: Run the Code at the Blanton](https://artsandculturetx.com/dreaming-in-data-running-the-code-at-the-blanton/) - In Run the Code: Data-Driven Art Decoded by Thoma Foundation X Blanton Museum of Art, code does not sit invisibly in the background. It becomes the medium itself: elastic, unstable, and strangely luminous.
- [Milestones & Superstar Soloists: Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s Bold New Season](https://artsandculturetx.com/milestones-superstar-soloists-dallas-symphony-orchestras-bold-new-season/) - It will be Luisi’s first time to conduct—and the orchestra’s first time to play—J.S. Bach’s St. John Passion.
- [Broadway Across Texas](https://artsandculturetx.com/broadway-across-texas/) - Texas is alive with the sound of Broadway musicals headed our way.
- [Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages](https://artsandculturetx.com/performania-a-spotlight-on-texas-stages-9/) - Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages
- [The Stories that Hair Can Tell: Rosemary Meza-DesPlas at the Martin Museum of Art](https://artsandculturetx.com/the-stories-that-hair-can-tell-rosemary-meza-desplas-at-the-martin-museum-of-art/) - Rosemary Meza-DesPlas is among the godmothers of her craft. Since the early 2000s, the Garland, Texas native has set the standard for how to integrate human specimens in art. All she’s using is hair.
- [History and Community Come Together at Houston’s Stages Theater](https://artsandculturetx.com/history-and-community-come-together-at-houstons-stages-theater/) - Artistic directors of Texas theaters don’t usually program theme seasons, but talking to Stages Artistic Director Derek Livingston reveals certain patterns in the work he’s excited to bring to Houston audiences.
- [A Summer Spoof: The Gilbert & Sullivan Society of Houston Serves up ‘The Gondoliers’](https://artsandculturetx.com/a-summer-spoof-the-gilbert-sullivan-society-of-houston-serves-up-the-gondoliers/) - Surely this could only happen in opera—or, to be exact, in an opera by Gilbert and Sullivan, comic masters of far-fetched situations.
- [Multi-disciplinary Artist Nic Nicosia looks back at five decades of Everyday Surreal](https://artsandculturetx.com/multi-disciplinary-artist-nic-nicosia-looks-back-at-five-decades-of-everyday-surreal/) - Nic Nicosia’s new Nasher Sculpture Center exhibition is the artist’s first survey since 1999.
- [Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries](https://artsandculturetx.com/gallery-row-a-seasonal-spotlight-on-six-texas-galleries-14/) - Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries for July - August 2026
- [Awesome Analog: Performing Arts Houston brings its biggest season yet for 60th Anniversary](https://artsandculturetx.com/awesome-analog-performing-arts-houston-brings-its-biggest-season-yet-for-60th-anniversary/) - In a digital culture transforming into AI (artificial isolation), live performing arts still allows us an analog world of experiences.
- [Dallas Opera’s New Season Aims to Enchant and Entertain](https://artsandculturetx.com/dallas-operas-new-season-aims-to-enchant-and-entertain/) - The Dallas Opera’s outgoing CEO sums up the company’s plans for next season simply. “The season as a whole is really entertainment-forward,” Ian Derrer says.
- [ROCO’s Virtual Cycle of Access to Music](https://artsandculturetx.com/rocos-virtual-cycle-of-access-to-music/) - If you jotted down a list of snappy names, you probably wouldn’t include this: ROCO, Houston’s Chamber Orchestra.
- [A Wonderland Awaits: Houston Ballet’s new season offers something for every ballet lover](https://artsandculturetx.com/a-wonderland-awaits-houston-ballets-new-season-offers-something-for-every-ballet-lover/) - Balance, an ability vital for a dancer en pointe or leaping from earth to air, is equally necessary for an artistic director programming a new ballet season. And this is especially true for a company as large as the Houston Ballet with its rarity of two artistic directors, Stanton Welch and Julie Kent.
- [New and Now: Jaime Castañeda’s inaugural Dallas Theater Center season is packed with premieres](https://artsandculturetx.com/new-and-now-jaime-castanedas-inaugural-dallas-theater-center-season-is-packed-with-premieres/) - Jaime Castañeda is on the phone again.
- [Aimed Dance Fest Ignites Contemporary Dance in Southeast Texas](https://artsandculturetx.com/aimed-dance-fest-ignites-contemporary-dance-in-southeast-texas/) - Speaking with Amy Elizabeth, Associate Professor of Dance at Lamar University, it occurred to me that I’ve been writing about her work since 2012.
- [Data, Dirty Talk, & Dissent: Mary Ellen Carroll at CAMH](https://artsandculturetx.com/data-dirty-talk-dissent-mary-ellen-carroll-at-camh/) - The house turns before anything else does.
- [The Sea, the Crown, and the Mess of History: Hew Locke’s Passages at the MFAH](https://artsandculturetx.com/the-sea-the-crown-and-the-mess-of-history-hew-lockes-passages-at-the-mfah/) - Salt-crusted hulls drift through the galleries of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
- [Reading the Rhythm: Deep Vellum Music & Literature Festival](https://artsandculturetx.com/reading-the-rhythm-deep-vellum-music-literature-festival/) - This July, Deep Ellum, the historic Dallas neighborhood where blues once spilled from clubs into the street and where artists still gather in stubborn defiance of cultural amnesia, will become the setting for a new experiment in collective listening.
- [From Beethoven to Batman: Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra plans a season of innovation](https://artsandculturetx.com/from-beethoven-to-batman-fort-worth-symphony-orchestra-plans-a-season-of-innovation/) - The Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra has long been a cornerstone of North Texas’ cultural landscape, but under the leadership of music director Robert Spano and principal guest conductor Dame Jane Glover, the ensemble has transformed into one of the most innovative orchestras in the country.
- [The Art of Movement: TITAS/DANCE UNBOUND’s new season journeys through time and across continents](https://artsandculturetx.com/the-art-of-movement-titas-dance-unbounds-new-season-journeys-through-time-and-across-continents/) - With more than 615 performances, featuring artists from over 42 countries, and 180 debut events since its founding in the 1980s, TITAS/DANCE UNBOUND continues to redefine what it means to experience dance in North Texas.
- [THE HUNT, THE HAUNTED, THE GODDESS, AND THE MAGNIFICAT: THE SPLENDID VISIONS OF ARS LYRICA HOUSTON](https://artsandculturetx.com/the-hunt-the-haunted-the-goddess-and-the-magnificat-the-splendid-visions-of-ars-lyrica-houston/) - Matthew Dirst, Artistic Director of Ars Lyrica Houston, is a wizard at thematic programming.
- [Review: In Appropriation at HCP](https://artsandculturetx.com/review-in-appropriation-at-hcp/) - In Appropriation at the Houston Center for Photography is one of the strongest exhibitions currently showing in the city. Curated by SeeSaw Magazine founder and editor Aaron Schuman, it includes the work of seven artists who incorporate appropriation methodologies into their practices [...]
- [A Line, Learning: Cy Twombly at Menil Drawing Institute](https://artsandculturetx.com/a-line-learning-cy-twombly-at-menil-drawing-institute/) - There is a moment, standing before a work by Cy Twombly, when language begins to loosen.
- [An Icon in Motion: Annabelle Lopez Ochoa explores Frida Kahlo’s legacy at Houston Ballet](https://artsandculturetx.com/an-icon-in-motion-annabelle-lopez-ochoa-explores-frida-kahlos-legacy-with-broken-wings-at-houston-ballet/) - When the English National Ballet first commissioned international superstar choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa to create the ballet that would become Broken Wings, the original concept was to create a dance about “a woman from literature or history that was damned and doomed.”
- [Living in the Sacred Moment: Austin Opera’s 2026-27 season honors heritage, innovation, and empathy](https://artsandculturetx.com/living-in-the-sacred-moment-austin-operas-2026-27-season-honors-heritage-innovation-and-empathy/) - With the world premiere of a locally nurtured opera, the debut of a new performance center, and a season that weaves together tradition and contemporary storytelling, Austin Opera is redefining what it means to be a cultural force in Texas.
- [A Call to the Curious: Liliana Bloch Gallery and the Art We Need to See](https://artsandculturetx.com/a-call-to-the-curious-liliana-bloch-gallery-and-the-art-we-need-to-see/) - When gallerist Liliana Bloch said to me, "If you keep giving people what they want, then you're going to miss what they need to see," I considered ending the interview right then and there. What more was there to say about how to make a meaningful impact?
- [Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages](https://artsandculturetx.com/performania-a-spotlight-on-texas-stages-8/) - Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages
- [Pop up Power: Showing Adventurous Art in North Texas Is Strictly DIY](https://artsandculturetx.com/pop-up-power-showing-adventurous-art-in-north-texas-is-strictly-diy/) - Fresh art spaces are popping up like wildflowers all around the Metroplex.
- [Your Move, Partner: Bombshell Dance Project whisks audiences to the Wild West and Flower Mound Arts Festival](https://artsandculturetx.com/your-move-partner-bombshell-dance-project-whisks-audiences-to-the-wild-west-and-flower-mound-arts-festival/) - Step into Sons of Hermann Hall this April 24 and 25, and you won’t just watch a dance performance — you’ll dodge bullets, outrun outlaws, and untangle a Wild West mystery as Bombshell Dance Project turns Dallas’s oldest saloon into a living, breathing frontier town.
- [Creative Collisions: Pegasus Contemporary Ballet Brings Music and Dance in Concert](https://artsandculturetx.com/creative-collisions-pegasus-contemporary-ballet-brings-music-and-dance-in-concert/) - Live music and dance collaborations create Synergy, an annual music and contemporary ballet event produced by Pegasus Contemporary Ballet.
- [Diaspora Stories: Spring offers a bounty of Latinx Theater Festivals](https://artsandculturetx.com/diaspora-stories-spring-offers-a-bounty-of-latinx-theater-festivals/) - Texas has rich communities of immigrants.
- [A Last Entrance: ‘Leopoldstadt’ at Main Street Theater](https://artsandculturetx.com/a-last-entrance-leopoldstadt-at-main-street-theater/) - Early in Sir Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, the Player King attempts to explain the nature of theater to Rosencrantz.
- [A Layered Intimacy: Rashid Johnson at The Modern](https://artsandculturetx.com/a-layered-intimacy-rashid-johnson-at-the-modern/) - Experiencing Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers is such an emotional journey you need to go to therapy afterward.
- [A New Flock: Jennifer Mabus Launches Grackle Dance Collective in Dallas](https://artsandculturetx.com/a-new-flock-jennifer-mabus-launches-grackle-dance-collective-in-dallas/) - I would wager that anyone familiar with Texas dance would say that it was only a matter of time before Jennifer Mabus initiated her own creative platform.
- [A World of Pure Beauty and Magic: Janavi Mahimtura Folmsbee blends art and ecology at Rockport Center for the Arts](https://artsandculturetx.com/a-world-of-pure-beauty-and-magic-janavi-mahimtura-folmsbee-blends-art-and-ecology-at-rockport-center-for-the-arts/) - “There is only one ocean, and it connects us all,” said Janavi Mahimtura Folmsbee, who has dedicated her life to protecting the world’s oceans and ensuring the resilience of marine ecosystems.
- [Theatrical Magic: When One Actor Plays Many Roles](https://artsandculturetx.com/theatrical-magic-when-one-actor-plays-many-roles/) - But the one actor carrying multiple important roles is not often the standard, at least anymore.
- [Sonic Majesty With a Message: DSO Performs Mahler’s Symphony No. 8](https://artsandculturetx.com/sonic-majesty-with-a-message-dso-performs-mahlers-symphony-no-8/) - After completing his most ambitious work, Gustav Mahler exulted to a friend.
- [The Image Bears Witness: Black Photojournalism Explored at The Carter](https://artsandculturetx.com/the-image-bears-witness-black-photojournalism-explored-at-the-carter/) - A camera moves through a crowd and pauses.
- [Making Things Happen: Director Ben Wolfe at Austin Playhouse](https://artsandculturetx.com/making-things-happen-director-ben-wolfe-at-austin-playhouse/) - As a director, Ben Wolfe is game for anything.
- [The Hands Shaping Houston: Clutch City Captures the City’s Character at HCCC](https://artsandculturetx.com/the-hands-shaping-houston-clutch-city-captures-the-citys-character-at-hccc/) - Houston has always answered to more than one name. Bayou City, Space City, H-Town, Screwston: each nickname captures a real part of its character, but none can contain the whole of it.
- [Day, Night, Repetition, Impossibility: Hong Hong at DiverseWorks](https://artsandculturetx.com/day-night-repetition-impossibility-hong-hong-at-diverseworks/) - The black box theater at DiverseWorks' MATCHBOX 1 is dark except for four massive video projections—twelve feet tall, twenty feet wide—filling each wall.
- [Motion & Memory: Dynamic Exhibit of New African Masquerades at San Antonio Museum of Art](https://artsandculturetx.com/motion-memory-dynamic-exhibit-of-new-african-masquerades-at-san-antonio-museum-of-art/) - It’s been 11 years since painter Francisco Moreno took the local art world by storm with a hot-rod performance in an empty warehouse.
- [Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages](https://artsandculturetx.com/performania-a-spotlight-on-texas-stages-7/) - Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages
- [Sci-fi Surrealist: Mexican-American artist Francisco Moreno levels up with an epic survey at Dallas Contemporary](https://artsandculturetx.com/sci-fi-surrealist-mexican-american-artist-francisco-moreno-levels-up-with-an-epic-survey-at-dallas-contemporary/) - It’s been 11 years since painter Francisco Moreno took the local art world by storm with a hot-rod performance in an empty warehouse.
- [Happening Here: Austin Inspires Artists for Fusebox Festival’s Return](https://artsandculturetx.com/happening-here-austin-inspires-artists-for-fusebox-festivals-return/) - Though one of Texas’ biggest multidisciplinary arts events, Austin’s Fusebox Festival, moved from an annual to biennial schedule in 2024, that doesn’t mean the Fusebox organization took a year off to relax.
- [An Artful Camaraderie: Member-owned and operated Archway Gallery celebrates its fiftieth anniversary](https://artsandculturetx.com/an-artful-camaraderie-member-owned-and-operated-archway-gallery-celebrates-its-fiftieth-anniversary/) - Fifty years ago, on April 1, 1976, Dada artist Max Ernst passed away; Steve Jobs launched Apple Computer; and in Houston, 12 artists opened Archway Gallery in the Jung Center.
- [The Decade-Long Journey Home: Inside Kitchen Dog Theater’s 35th Season at Its New Dallas Home](https://artsandculturetx.com/the-decade-long-journey-home-inside-kitchen-dog-theaters-35th-season-at-its-new-dallas-home/) - On Tim Johnson’s very first day as managing director of Kitchen Dog Theater (KDT) in 2014, he found out the company would have to leave its home of two decades at the McKinney Avenue Contemporary (MAC).
- [Shaping the Future: When Texas Theater Kids Grow Up](https://artsandculturetx.com/shaping-the-future-when-texas-theater-kids-grow-up/) - Whether used as a compliment, insult, meme, or pseudo psychological term to explain a politician’s antics, the phrase “theater kid,” (or “theatre kid” for the British, Canadian, and pretentious) has become something of a catch-all description for anyone enthusiastic about the performing arts or who holds a “pick me” mentality of life.
- [Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries](https://artsandculturetx.com/gallery-row-a-seasonal-spotlight-on-six-texas-galleries-13/) - Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries
- [Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages](https://artsandculturetx.com/performania-a-spotlight-on-texas-stages-6/) - Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages
- [Global Visions, Local Ground: FotoFest at 40](https://artsandculturetx.com/global-visions-local-ground-fotofest-at-40/) - Houston has a way of turning scale into a language.
- [What the Eye Can’t Settle: Rubén Guerrero at the Meadows Museum](https://artsandculturetx.com/what-the-eye-cant-settle-ruben-guerrero-at-the-meadows-museum/) - The canvas can be a site where architecture tries to remember itself and fails on purpose.
- [Photography as a Question: Wendy Watriss Curates at The Menil Collection](https://artsandculturetx.com/photography-as-a-question-wendy-watriss-curates-at-the-menil-collection/) - A documentary photograph can make a promise and then break it.
- [A Prayer in Gold: Holy treasures make the pilgrimage to Fort Worth’s Kimbell Art Museum](https://artsandculturetx.com/a-prayer-in-gold-holy-treasures-make-the-pilgrimage-to-fort-worths-kimbell-art-museum/) - If there’s one thing Louis XIV was known for, it was opulence.
- [Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries](https://artsandculturetx.com/gallery-row-a-seasonal-spotlight-on-six-texas-galleries-12/) - Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries
- [Homecoming: Jaime Castañeda returns to lead Dallas Theater Center](https://artsandculturetx.com/homecoming-jaime-castaneda-returns-to-lead-dallas-theater-center/) - Since its founding in 1959, Dallas Theater Center has been led by only five artistic directors: Paul Baker, Adrian Hall, Ken Bryant, Richard Hamburger, and Kevin Moriarty. Now the Tony Award-winning regional theater can add one more name to the list: Jaime Castañeda, who officially assumes the position in July 2026.
- [Dancing with Bob, Breaking the Waves, a Set of Angels, a Breakout Hamlet, a Mountain and More!: The 2025 Season Wrap up](https://artsandculturetx.com/dancing-with-bob-breaking-the-waves-a-set-of-angels-a-breakout-hamlet-a-mountain-and-more-the-2025-season-wrap-up/) - It’s that time of year again, when we gather on the page to consider all the shows that we have seen, what stood out, who wowed us, and more in 2025.
- [The Stories We Carry: Angelica Raquel: Mystic Threads at the McNay Art Museum](https://artsandculturetx.com/the-stories-we-carry-angelica-raquel-mystic-threads-at-the-mcnay-art-museum/) - Stories first live in the body. They prickle across the skin as goosebumps, catch in the throat as a gasp, and move along a family line, changing slightly with each retelling. A good story lingers, reshaping memory and place so that a river, a vacant lot, or a patch of brush never feels quite the same again.
- [Dancing in Between the Spaces of Life: Karen Stokes Premieres ‘4 Corners’ at the Match](https://artsandculturetx.com/dancing-in-between-the-spaces-of-life-karen-stokes-premieres-4-corners-at-the-match/) - Time is a precious commodity, and as we move further away from the standstill of the pandemic years, many of us are finding that we have far less than we would like.
- [Big and Bold: Waco’s {254}DANCEFEST Expands its Reach](https://artsandculturetx.com/big-and-bold-wacos-254dancefest-expands-its-reach/) - Making dances can be an unrelenting cycle of creative ideation, talent management, and administrative multitasking; finding a platform to show the work once it is complete can be just as unforgiving.
- [Dreaming Frida: Brooklyn Rider premieres a new work by Gabriela Lena Frank at DACAMERA](https://artsandculturetx.com/dreaming-frida-brooklyn-rider-premieres-a-new-work-by-gabriela-lena-frank-at-dacamera/) - Frank—who earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music in the 1990s—will return to Houston for the world premiere of Frida’s Dreams, a multimedia spinoff of El último sueño.
- [All The World’s Their Stage: Teatro Dallas celebrates 40 years](https://artsandculturetx.com/all-the-worlds-their-stage-teatro-dallas-celebrates-40-years/) - In 1985, Jeff Hurst and Cora Cardona founded Teatro Dallas, the city’s first Latinx stage company.
- [Head West: Contemporary artists reimagine the American West at the Amon Carter](https://artsandculturetx.com/head-west-contemporary-artists-reimagine-the-american-west-at-the-amon-carter/) - When visitors step into New Horizons: The Western Landscape at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, they won’t find sagebrush clichés, cowboys in silhouette, or sweeping vistas painted to satisfy nostalgia.
- [Stitched Across Time: Marilyn Henrion brings a lifetime of textile works to the Irving Arts Center](https://artsandculturetx.com/stitched-across-time-marilyn-henrion-brings-a-lifetime-of-textile-works-to-the-irving-arts-center/) - The first stitch in Marilyn Henrion’s journey to becoming an acclaimed textile artist began in two rooms on New York’s Lower East Side where she lived alongside her parents and seven siblings.
- [Image and Identity: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston explores the work and influence of Frida Kahlo](https://artsandculturetx.com/image-and-identity-the-museum-of-fine-arts-houston-explores-the-work-and-influence-of-frida-kahlo/) - From a self-portrait worth $55 million to hand-painted shoes on Etsy, from egg cups to a biographical ballet and lookalike festivals across the globe, very few artists have ever inspired and driven the world’s imagination like Frida Kahlo.
- [Dream Worlds: The Dallas Museum of Art takes a deeper look at ‘International Surrealism’](https://artsandculturetx.com/dream-worlds-the-dallas-museum-of-art-takes-a-deeper-look-at-international-surrealism/) - On a November night in Paris in 1925, a collective of outlier artists launched a movement intent on tapping into unconscious creativity. A century later, surrealism’s unsettling imagery and thought-provoking themes still seem as timely as the years it was introduced.
- [Texas Studio: Alexa Capareda Keeps Moving](https://artsandculturetx.com/texas-studio-alexa-capareda-keeps-moving/) - Indefatigable Alexa. That’s the only way to describe Austin’s Alexa Capareda, whose professional artistic engagements include dancing, choreography, teaching, film, drawing, arts administration/organization, and now additionally, acting.
- [From Pop to Pokémon: The House of Pikachu at Asia Society Texas Center](https://artsandculturetx.com/from-pop-to-pokemon-the-house-of-pikachu-at-asia-society-texas-center/) - In the House of Pikachu, Memory Speaks in Color.
- [Making & Becoming: The Glassell’s Block Program Celebrates 10 years with Two Shows](https://artsandculturetx.com/making-becoming-the-glassells-block-program-celebrates-10-years-with-two-shows/) - In a city like Houston, one vast, improvisational, and definitely plural, artists often find their footing not through institutions, but through the communities that rise between them.
- [Fresh Notes: Grassroots Opera Companies Take Off in Houston](https://artsandculturetx.com/fresh-notes-grassroots-opera-companies-take-off-in-houston/) - It should surprise no one that in Houston, the fourth largest city in the country, the art of opera is thriving on the Wortham Theater Center stage downtown as well as in urban breweries and suburban performing arts spaces.
- [Music in Every Neighborhood: Monarch Chamber Players expands its Mission](https://artsandculturetx.com/music-in-every-neighborhood-monarch-chamber-players-expands-its-mission/) - The sign outside the Northwest Houston church where the Monarch Chamber Players opened their sixth season read, “We bring the concert hall to your neighborhood.”
- [TX Studio: Candace Hicks’s Perfectly Practical Activism](https://artsandculturetx.com/tx-studio-candace-hickss-perfectly-practical-activism/) - “I'm sort of a frustrated writer, in a sense,” Candace Hicks tells me over Zoom. “And so, making artist books is a way of self-publishing. It’s also a way of making things permanent.”
- [Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages](https://artsandculturetx.com/performania-a-spotlight-on-texas-stages-5/) - Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages
- [Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries](https://artsandculturetx.com/gallery-row-a-seasonal-spotlight-on-six-texas-galleries-11/) - Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries
- [It used to rain in my TV: Lines of Resolution at the Menil Drawing Institute](https://artsandculturetx.com/it-used-to-rain-in-my-tv-lines-of-resolution-at-the-menil-drawing-institute/) - Nam June Paik’s faint inscription, It rains in my TV as it rains in my heart, drifts between a drawing, a poem, and a weather report.
- [Vision & Mission: Lauren Saba Creates A Dynamic Space at Fort Works Arts](https://artsandculturetx.com/vision-mission-lauren-saba-creates-a-dynamic-space-at-fort-works-arts/) - As an artist, curator, and cultural leader, Lauren Saba looks back at ten years of her gallery and feels a certain sense of satisfaction, knowing that she always trusted her intuition.
- [Texas Studio: Ballet Artist Silas Farley Makes the Joyful Leap to Dallas](https://artsandculturetx.com/texas-studio-ballet-artist-silas-farley-makes-the-joyful-leap-to-dallas/) - Silas Farley likes to joke that he’s the “ultimate ballet nerd.”
- [Honoring the Past, Forging into the Future: Derek Charles Livingston Settles in at Houston’s Stages Theater](https://artsandculturetx.com/honoring-the-past-forging-into-the-future-derek-charles-livingston-settles-in-at-houstons-stages-theater/) - Derek Charles Livingston took his place as Stages artistic director a little over a year ago, but he lost little time immersing himself in Houston life and its theater community.
- [Body Geometries: Contemporary Jewelry at the DMA](https://artsandculturetx.com/body-geometries-contemporary-jewelry-at-the-dma/) - The Dallas Museum of Art marks the spot for a jeweled treasure trove most Texans and even Dallas art lovers likely never knew was there all along.
- [In the Flesh: Jenny Saville at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth](https://artsandculturetx.com/in-the-flesh-jenny-saville-at-the-modern-art-museum-of-fort-worth/) - It’s 1992 at Glasgow School of Art. A seven-foot-by-six-foot painting that portrays a thick, fleshy female nude, subtly snarling and sitting on a pedestal, towers above visitors to an undergraduate exhibition.
- [Tensions of Time and Remembrance: Zalika Azim at UT Visual Arts Center](https://artsandculturetx.com/tensions-of-time-and-remembrance-zalika-azim-at-ut-visual-arts-center/) - In Zalika Azim: Blood Memories (or a going to ground), the ground is never just ground; it is a witness and a griot, a surface that keeps score of what passes over it and what takes root.
- [Boheme+Broadway: Austin Opera marks 40th anniversary](https://artsandculturetx.com/bohemebroadway-austin-opera-marks-40th-anniversary/) - Is it strange for an opera company to stage Fiddler on the Roof? Showcasing the Broadway landmark makes total sense to Annie Burridge, Austin Opera’s CEO.
- [Putting Houston on the Literary Map: Rich Levy’s Stellar Last Inprint Season](https://artsandculturetx.com/putting-houston-on-the-literary-map-rich-levys-stellar-last-inprint-season/) - The clues lay in the lineup. Sitting down for a talk with Rich Levy and Krupa Parikh, executive and deputy directors of Inprint, about their 2025-2026 Margarett Root Brown Reading Series
- [‘Birdy’ Takes Flight in Texas: Hung Dance at TITAS and Performing Arts Houston](https://artsandculturetx.com/birdy-takes-flight-in-texas-hung-dance-at-titas-and-performing-arts-houston/) - Choreographers, like artists of all mediums, find inspiration in both grand realizations and quiet moments.
- [Etched in Eternity: Mythical Torlonia Collection makes its historic debut at the Kimbell](https://artsandculturetx.com/etched-in-eternity-mythical-torlonia-collection-makes-its-historic-debut-at-the-kimbell/) - In the Kimbell Art Museum’s Renzo Piano Pavilion, 58 ancient marble sculptures—some gods, others emperors, still others ordinary Romans—stand in commanding silence, carrying with them the weight of centuries.
- [Storied Objects: Gil Rocha at Galveston Arts Center](https://artsandculturetx.com/storied-objects-gil-rocha-at-galveston-arts-center/) - The objects in Gil Rocha’s work—beer cans, hand-painted signs, plastic bags, sun-faded photographs—arrive with their own stories.
- [Award-Winning Apollo Chamber Players Tell The American Story Through Music](https://artsandculturetx.com/award-winning-apollo-chamber-players-tell-the-american-story-through-music/) - Everybody appreciates a little recognition from their peers, right? It came to the Apollo Chamber Players from Chamber Music America, which promotes their field nationwide.
- [Dreams Walking in Broad Daylight: Sandy Skoglund at the McNay Art Museum](https://artsandculturetx.com/dreams-walking-in-broad-daylight-sandy-skoglund-at-the-mcnay-art-museum/) - Dreams often bend the ordinary into the uncanny: cats glow, fish take flight, trees grow restless and run.
- [City in the Sky: Gyula Kosice at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston](https://artsandculturetx.com/city-in-the-sky-gyula-kosice-at-the-museum-of-fine-arts-houston/) - A city floats a mile above the earth. Transparent modules glint with water vapor, neon pulses like a heartbeat, and the promise of a different kind of life hums in the air. This is The Hydrospatial City, the centerpiece of Gyula Kosice: Intergalactic, on view Oct. 26-Jan. 25, 2026 at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston.
- [Texas Studio: Amanda Reyes is Working through It Onstage](https://artsandculturetx.com/texas-studio-amanda-reyes-is-working-through-it-onstage/) - On a warm Texas night, the cicadas buzz in harmony with the actors at Hip Pocket Theatre in Fort Worth.
- [Sharing the Same Rhythms: Cara Mía Theatre’s Latinidades Festival Returns to Dallas](https://artsandculturetx.com/sharing-the-same-rhythms-cara-mia-theatres-latinidades-festival-returns-to-dallas/) - This fall, Dallas once again becomes a crossroads of Latinx voices as Cara Mía Theatre launches its 2025–26 season with the sixth-annual Latinidades Festival & Symposium.
- [Nothing is Ordinary: Hillerbrand+Magsamen at FotoFest](https://artsandculturetx.com/nothing-is-ordinary-hillerbrandmagsamen-at-fotofest/) - There is a certain charge that comes when artists insist that the stuff of daily life, its toys, its rituals, its messes, belongs on the same stage as monuments and masterpieces.
- [Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages](https://artsandculturetx.com/performania-a-spotlight-on-texas-stages-4/) - Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages
- [Presence, Absence and a Certain Tension: Timothy Harding Redefines Space](https://artsandculturetx.com/presence-absence-and-a-certain-tension-timothy-harding-redefines-space/) - In Timothy Harding’s paintings, there’s a kind of friction at play, a low hum between precision and improvisation, between gesture and grid, between what is seen and what is suggested.
- [Big Moves Ahead: Bruce Wood Dance Dallas Leans Into Legacy for 2025–26](https://artsandculturetx.com/big-moves-ahead-bruce-wood-dance-dallas-leans-into-legacy-for-2025-26/) - Bruce Wood Dance Dallas is approaching its sweet sixteen with a season that blurs boundaries between genres, generations, and creative disciplines.
- [Stage Left of Center: Four Texas Theaters Redefining Regional Performance](https://artsandculturetx.com/stage-left-of-center-four-texas-theaters-redefining-regional-performance/) - Texas is no stranger to theatrical prestige.
- [Forging Admiration: Art Worth encourages Fort Worth fans to see artists in their element](https://artsandculturetx.com/forging-admiration-art-worth-encourages-fort-worth-fans-to-see-artists-in-their-element/) - If you’ve ever wanted to watch molten glass stretch and curl into a goblet while an opera aria drifts through the autumn air, Fort Worth has just the weekend for you.
- [Innovation, Ingenuity and Intimacy: Texas Theater Designers Create Big Worlds in Small Spaces](https://artsandculturetx.com/innovation-ingenuity-and-intimacy-texas-theater-designers-create-big-worlds-in-small-spaces/) - “We can’t build sets in here. We have to build a real thing,” says Azizi of what he approximates is a 20 feet by 70 feet space, with half of that reserved for the audience.
- [A Half-Century of Vision: Moody Gallery Celebrates 50th Anniversary](https://artsandculturetx.com/a-half-century-of-vision-moody-gallery-celebrates-50th-anniversary/) - After 50 years in business, Betty Moody continues to run her gallery with passion and enthusiasm. She is celebrating this landmark occasion with two shows featuring gallery artists: Part I runs from Sept. 13 to Oct. 25, and Part II from Nov. 8 to Dec. 20.
- [Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries](https://artsandculturetx.com/gallery-row-a-seasonal-spotlight-on-six-texas-galleries-10/) - Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries
- [Caught in Motion: Robert Rauschenberg at the Menil](https://artsandculturetx.com/caught-in-motion-robert-rauschenberg-at-the-menil/) - A curtain lifts. A dancer moves across the stage, costume fluttering around graceful limbs.
- [Imaginative Freedom: Antony Gormley at the Nasher Sculpture Center](https://artsandculturetx.com/imaginative-freedom-antony-gormley-at-the-nasher-sculpture-center/) - Stop reading for a second and close your eyes. What do you see?
- [A Landmark Anniversary: AMSET Celebrates 75 Years](https://artsandculturetx.com/a-landmark-anniversary-amset-celebrates-75-years/) - While digging through the archives at the Art Museum of Southeast Texas (AMSET), Curator of Exhibitions Caitlin Clay discovered a picture of herself from when she was just two years old.
- [Reclaiming Agency: Joe Harjo’s Indian Removal Act](https://artsandculturetx.com/reclaiming-agency-joe-harjos-indian-removal-act/) - Sometimes the final act brings resolution and neatly ties up an epic tale. Sometimes the final act leaves little resolution and gives an opening for a follow-up, or nothing at all.
- [Fort Worth Symphony: From Beethoven and Brahms to the Bard and Ballet](https://artsandculturetx.com/fort-worth-symphony-from-beethoven-and-brahms-to-the-bard-and-ballet/) - The Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra still has its eye on Beethoven, Brahms, Debussy and their ilk. But it will peek beyond its artistic home turf next season, when it will share Bass Performance Hall with actors, dancers and even masterpieces of Spanish painting.
- [Vision and Variety: Texas Performing Arts Celebrates International and Local Artists](https://artsandculturetx.com/vision-and-variety-texas-performing-arts-celebrates-international-and-local-artists/) - The three witches in Shakespeare’s Macbeth, nursing their cauldron of toil and trouble, rank among the most chilling characters ever set loose onstage. Imagine what might happen if they found an apprentice to carry on their dark arts.
- [Dance with Abandon: Avant Chamber Ballet Grows a New Audience with Biggest Season Yet](https://artsandculturetx.com/dance-with-abandon-avant-chamber-ballet-grows-a-new-audience-with-biggest-season-yet/) - Katie Puder isn’t one to do things halfway. For Avant Chamber Ballet’s 13th season, the founding artistic director is nearly doubling the company’s repertoire, launching a new subscription series for families, premiering two original ballets, and restaging a landmark production by mentor and longtime collaborator Paul Mejia.
- [The Ballad of Stage West: Fort Worth theater company’s 47th season is a matter of life and death](https://artsandculturetx.com/the-ballad-of-stage-west-fort-worth-theater-companys-47th-season-is-a-matter-of-life-and-death/) - Stage West’s 47th season is full of wild turns: ghost machines, war-time ceasefires, financial despair, and a cottage crawling with infidelity.
- [A Season of Discovery and Wonder at Harmonia Stellarum Houston](https://artsandculturetx.com/a-season-of-discovery-and-wonder-at-harmonia-stellarum-houston/) - A conversation with Mario Aschauer, Founder and Artistic Director of Harmonia Stellarum Houston (HSH), often involves plunging down rabbit holes and winding through meandering paths before the subject emerges with newfound depth and clarity.
- [Glitter and Be Gay: Uptown Players celebrates chosen family, queer joy, resilience, and rebellion in 2025-26 season](https://artsandculturetx.com/glitter-and-be-gay-uptown-players-celebrates-chosen-family-queer-joy-resilience-and-rebellion-in-2025-26-season/) - The theater produced by Uptown Players has always pulsed with a particular kind of energy that’s equal parts heart, wit, and daring.
- [Value in Hu(e)manity: Tomashi Jackson: Across the Universe](https://artsandculturetx.com/value-in-huemanity-tomashi-jackson-across-the-universe/) - This is how Tomashi Jackson: Across the Universe, on view at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston through March 29, 2026, begins—or how it continues.
- [Everyday Art: The San Antonio Museum of Art Spotlights a Remix of Readymade Art](https://artsandculturetx.com/everyday-art-the-san-antonio-museum-of-art-spotlights-a-remix-of-readymade-art/) - From intricate sculptures carved from granite to precise brushstrokes on a canvas, art takes many forms.
- [Concert Trucks and Onstage Dinners: Performing Arts Houston offers its most varied schedule yet](https://artsandculturetx.com/concert-trucks-and-onstage-dinners-performing-arts-houston-offers-its-most-varied-schedule-yet/) - There’s multidisciplinary and then there’s Performing Arts Houston.
- [Accumulating Histories: Francesca Fuchs Redefines a Breathing Archive at the Menil](https://artsandculturetx.com/accumulating-histories-francesca-fuchs-redefines-a-breathing-archive-at-the-menil/) - In the attic of memory, objects slip out of time: A letter filed away, a photograph without a name, a clay koala bear made by a child and placed on a shelf.
- [Performative and All-encompassing: David-Jeremiah: The Fire This Time](https://artsandculturetx.com/performative-and-all-encompassing-david-jeremiah-the-fire-this-time/) - One of the profound joys of being a curator (and an arts writer) is discovering the work of an artist and, over the course of years, witnessing and supporting the development of their unique and uncompromising creative vision.
- [Performa/Dance Marks Their 10th Anniversary with ‘ANTHROPOCENE’](https://artsandculturetx.com/performa-dance-marks-their-10th-anniversary-with-anthropocene/) - How does a dance-maker address an impending climate catastrophe while still energizing and delighting audiences?
- [Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages](https://artsandculturetx.com/performania-a-spotlight-on-texas-stages-3/) - Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages
- [Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries](https://artsandculturetx.com/gallery-row-a-seasonal-spotlight-on-six-texas-galleries-9/) - Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries
- [Twists of Fate: Myths, Drama, and Phenomenal Voices in Ars Lyrica Houston’s New Season](https://artsandculturetx.com/twists-of-fate-myths-drama-and-phenomenal-voices-in-ars-lyrica-houstons-new-season/) - Mythological tales abound in Ars Lyrica Houston’s 2025-26 season, and no wonder.
- [Outcast Heroes and Storybook Musicals: Broadway Across Texas](https://artsandculturetx.com/outcast-heroes-and-storybook-musicals-broadway-across-texas/) - As we celebrate season announcement season at Arts and Culture, it’s time once again for this resident theater cartographer to unroll her maps and season schedule to chart the ebb and flow of big Broadway musicals as they tour the Lone Star State.
- [That ROCO Feeling: A Season of the Senses](https://artsandculturetx.com/that-roco-feeling-a-season-of-the-senses/) - A ROCO concert can hit all the senses at once.
- [Unbind Your Imagination: TITAS/Dance Unbound invites global dance into Dallas for 2025-26 season](https://artsandculturetx.com/unbind-your-imagination-titas-dance-unbound-invites-global-dance-into-dallas-for-2025-26-season/) - For TITAS/Dance Unbound’s 2025-26 season, the math is undeniably impressive: 10 companies from five different countries, among them two debuts (one U.S. and one Texas) and two world premieres.
- [Infinity Returns: Yayoi Kusama shares her eternal love of the pumpkin at the Dallas Museum of Art](https://artsandculturetx.com/infinity-returns-yayoi-kusama-shares-her-eternal-love-of-the-pumpkin-at-the-dallas-museum-of-art/) - It begins with the silent closure of a mirrored door.
- [A Blurred Utopia: Town Meeting 1978-2028 by Nick Vaughan & Jake Margolin](https://artsandculturetx.com/a-blurred-utopia-town-meeting-1978-2028-by-nick-vaughan-jake-margolin/) - In 1978, around 4,000 LGBTQIA+ Houstonians convened at the Astro Arena.
- [Fade To Black: Week-Long Arts Festival Amplifies Black Voices in Houston](https://artsandculturetx.com/fade-to-black-week-long-arts-festival-amplifies-black-voices-in-houston/) - At a time when many institutions are pulling away from telling diverse stories, Houston is proudly showing its support for the Black artistic community with the Fade To Black Festival.
- [Style & Luminosity: Tamara de Lempicka at the MFAH](https://artsandculturetx.com/style-luminosity-tamara-de-lempicka-at-the-mfah/) - Climb the stairs to the second level of the Law Building at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and you encounter two silent, black-and-white films, projected on the wall near the entrance to Tamara de Lempicka, the first major museum retrospective of the Art Deco pioneer and one of the 20th century’s most underappreciated artists.
- [Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries](https://artsandculturetx.com/gallery-row-a-seasonal-spotlight-on-six-texas-galleries-8/) - Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries
- [Material Culture: Betsabée Romero at Blanton Museum of Art](https://artsandculturetx.com/material-culture-betsabee-romero-at-blanton-museum-of-art/) - When do materials matter? Some artists might say: always.
- [Cartoon King: The Brilliant Accessibility of KAWS at Crystal Bridges](https://artsandculturetx.com/cartoon-king-the-brilliant-accessibility-of-kaws-at-crystal-bridges/) - It’s Mickey Mouse, but not. It’s The Simpsons, but twisted. It’s a shaggy Muppet, but there’s something off about the eyes…
- [Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages](https://artsandculturetx.com/performania-a-spotlight-on-texas-stages-2/) - Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages
- [Discoveries of the Dallas Design District](https://artsandculturetx.com/discoveries-of-the-dallas-design-district/) - For many years, we have traveled to Dallas to visit the city’s art venues, and the number of galleries has grown considerably.
- [Leaping into the Unknown: The Risks and Rewards of World Premieres](https://artsandculturetx.com/leaping-into-the-unknown-the-risks-and-rewards-of-world-premieres/) - Everyone loves a good first, from races to teams to a step on the moon, but when it comes to theater, being the first to offer a brand new work is not without risks.
- [Reimagining a Classic: Houston Ballet’s Stanton Welch Breathes New Life into Raymonda](https://artsandculturetx.com/reimagining-a-classic-houston-ballets-stanton-welch-breathes-new-life-into-raymonda/) - Stanton Welch’s links to Raymonda reach back to before he was even born.
- [Modern Art & Politics: Fort Worth’s Kimbell Art Museum Brings an Astonishing Collection of German Art Spanning Both World Wars to Texas](https://artsandculturetx.com/modern-art-politics-fort-worths-kimbell-art-museum-brings-an-astonishing-collection-of-german-art-spanning-both-world-wars-to-texas/) - Through more than 70 pieces from Berlin’s esteemed Neue Nationalgalerie, the latest exhibition at Fort Worth’s Kimbell Art Museum gives American audiences a rare opportunity to explore the artistic developments within one of history’s most infamous periods. Modern Art and Politics in Germany: 1910-1945 runs through June 22.
- [An Artistic Voyage East of the Pacific: The Carter Examines the Impact of Asian American Art in its Newest Exhibition to its History](https://artsandculturetx.com/an-artistic-voyage-east-of-the-pacific-the-carter-examines-the-impact-of-asian-american-art-in-its-newest-exhibition-to-its-history/) - Known for its stellar collection of American art, the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth is expanding the definition of what art and artists from the United States could be.
- [Celebrating 125 Years, the Dallas Symphony Looks Back to its History](https://artsandculturetx.com/celebrating-125-years-the-dallas-symphony-looks-back-to-its-history/) - The Dallas Symphony Orchestra is heading for a red-letter day: May 22 will mark the 125th anniversary of the group’s first concert.
- [More than a Distant Memory: Michael Tracy at the McNay](https://artsandculturetx.com/more-than-a-distant-memory-michael-tracy-at-the-mcnay/) - The internet is peppered with a handful of articles about the artist Michael Tracy, the majority of which take either his extravagant but gruff personality or his 2024 passing as their subject matter.
- [A Transformative Century: Black Queer Ecstasy at Art Galleries at Black Studies at UT Austin](https://artsandculturetx.com/a-transformative-century-black-queer-ecstasy-at-art-galleries-at-black-studies-at-ut-austin/) - It’s doubtful that a mystic Carmelite nun was the inspiration for scientists at the German company Merck when they developed 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine, also known as ecstasy and molly, in 1912.
- [Triumph in Tragedy: Ars Lyrica Houston’s Luminous Theodora](https://artsandculturetx.com/triumph-in-tragedy-ars-lyrica-houstons-luminous-theodora/) - Handel’s Theodora was the least-performed oratorio during the composer’s lifetime, yet he considered it one of his most important and finest creations.
- [Dallas Opera Brings the Audience Back](https://artsandculturetx.com/dallas-opera-brings-the-audience-back/) - It’s barely two days since the end of Dallas Opera’s season, and CEO Ian Derrer looks back with satisfaction.
- [Dance Here: Agora Artists is Planting the Seeds to Make Dallas a Dance Town](https://artsandculturetx.com/dance-here-agora-artists-is-planting-the-seeds-to-make-dallas-a-dance-town/) - A common lament among Dallas performing arts leaders is how the city’s talent doesn’t stay in Texas.
- [Something’s Missing in Alex Da Corte’s The Whale at The Modern](https://artsandculturetx.com/somethings-missing-in-alex-da-cortes-the-whale-at-the-modern/) - Can absence have a presence? Artist Alex Da Corte and The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth’s curator Alison Hearst think so.
- [Vision & Experience: Bart Keijsers Koning Takes the Helm of Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas](https://artsandculturetx.com/vision-experience-bart-keijsers-koning-takes-the-helm-of-contemporary-art-dealers-of-dallas/) - As the visionary owner of Keijsers Koning, gallerist Bart Keijsers Koning has never shied away from edgy programming.
- [Imagination and Experience: Nathaniel Donnett Teases Out the Threads](https://artsandculturetx.com/imagination-and-experience-nathaniel-donnett-teases-out-the-threads/) - “I think about how a traditional painting is compressed unto itself,” Nathaniel Donnett explained. “The object, ground, surface, texture, subject or non-subject, and the process of applying a substance that could be considered as paint.”
- [Immersive Worlds: Annie Arnoult’s Open Dance Project Celebrates 10 Years](https://artsandculturetx.com/immersive-worlds-annie-arnoults-open-dance-project-celebrates-10-years/) - When it comes to immersive performing arts no one in Houston, and perhaps all of Texas, is as bold as Houston’s Open Dance Project.
- [Stories From The Room: The Case for Live Performance](https://artsandculturetx.com/stories-from-the-room-the-case-for-live-performance/) - A few years have passed since live performance returned to stages across Texas after the pandemic, and we at Arts and Culture have been thinking about how easily its siren song called us back.
- [Texas Studio: Listening Intently with Yvonne Chen](https://artsandculturetx.com/texas-studio-listening-intently-with-yvonne-chen/) - Houston-based pianist Yvonne Chen seems to be doing everything everywhere all at once.
- [Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages](https://artsandculturetx.com/performania-a-spotlight-on-texas-stages/) - A Spotlight on Texas Stages
- [TX Studio: Emotions and Meaning Surface in Jessica Halonen’s Artworks](https://artsandculturetx.com/tx-studio-emotions-and-meaning-surface-in-jessica-halonens-artworks/) - When Jessica Halonen answers my phone call from her studio in San Antonio, I’m dying to ask her about one thing: poison.
- [Farima Fooladi Paints as an Act of Preservation](https://artsandculturetx.com/farima-fooladi-paints-as-an-act-of-preservation/) - Swimming pools, tennis courts, a bridge, an arch, her daughter’s toy blocks are all recurring images in Iranian-born artist Farima Faloodi’s paintings and installations.
- [Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries](https://artsandculturetx.com/gallery-row-a-seasonal-spotlight-on-six-texas-galleries-7/) - Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries
- [Dance Source Houston Honors C.C. Conner and Karen Stokes at the Annual SPARK Party](https://artsandculturetx.com/dance-source-houston-honors-c-c-conner-and-karen-stokes-at-the-annual-spark-party/) - C.C. Conner helped transform Houston Ballet, serving as its managing director as the company boosted its financial endowment and built its downtown home. Karen Stokes led the University of Houston’s dance program for more than 20 years
- [Next Chapter: The New Stewards of Fort Worth’s Amphibian Stage to Continue Commitment to New and Underrepresented Works](https://artsandculturetx.com/next-chapter-the-new-stewards-of-fort-worths-amphibian-stage-to-continue-commitment-to-new-and-underrepresented-works/) - Jay Duffer and Elizabeth Kensek have long traveled in similar circles.
- [Speaking of Beauty: Six Centuries of Painting from Museo de Arte de Ponce at the Meadows](https://artsandculturetx.com/speaking-of-beauty-six-centuries-of-painting-from-museo-de-arte-de-ponce-at-the-meadows/) - The Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, whose extensive collection of Spanish art has earned it the nickname “Prado on the Prairie,” is the first stop for The Sense of Beauty: Six Centuries of Painting from Museo de Arte de Ponce, an exhibition of over sixty European, American, and Puerto Rican masterworks dating from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first.
- [Early Exposure: Growing the Next Arts Generation in San Antonio](https://artsandculturetx.com/early-exposure-growing-the-next-arts-generation-in-san-antonio/) - The concerts, art shows and other cultural events in a city—say, San Antonio—don’t appeal just to the locals.
- [Storytime: Meow Wolf Leans into the Narrative in their immersive adventures](https://artsandculturetx.com/storytime-meow-wolf-leans-into-the-narrative-in-their-immersive-adventures/) - Several years ago on a trip to Santa Fe, New Mexico, I visited my first Meow Wolf project.
- [Finding His Niche: Actor/Playwright Parker Davis Gray Carves Out His Place](https://artsandculturetx.com/finding-his-niche-actor-playwright-parker-davis-gray-carves-out-his-place/) - Parker Davis Gray is not afraid to be weird. The SMU theater grad has played silly, sinister, sympathetic, and sometimes just plain psychotic on basically every professional stage in Dallas-Fort Worth since 2016; if he’s not taking a risk, he’s not satisfied.
- [Diving Into Hidden Universes: Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within at the MFAH](https://artsandculturetx.com/diving-into-hidden-universes-toshiko-takaezu-worlds-within-at-the-mfah/) - When an artist allows it, their practice can become all-encompassing, blurring the lines between practice, spirit, and the world around them.
- [Dallas artist Du Chau Wins Lifetime Achievement Award](https://artsandculturetx.com/dallas-artist-du-chau-wins-lifetime-achievement-award/) - In 1981, artist Du Chau and his family left Vietnam, emigrating to Dallas.
- [An Enigmatic Woman: Marisol’s Big Works Get an Even Bigger Retrospective at Dallas Museum of Art](https://artsandculturetx.com/an-enigmatic-woman-marisols-big-works-get-an-even-bigger-retrospective-at-dallas-museum-of-art/) - Her name was synonymous with Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and other iconic Pop artists of the 1960s. But few today remember Marisol Escobar or her ahead-of-its-time art, which provocatively explored femininity and women’s role in society.
- [Women First: Texas Ballet Theater Highlights Six Outstanding Female Choreographers](https://artsandculturetx.com/women-first-texas-ballet-theater-highlights-six-outstanding-female-choreographers/) - Texas Ballet Theater’s artistic director Tim O’Keefe has long wanted to present women choreographers.
- [Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries](https://artsandculturetx.com/gallery-row-a-seasonal-spotlight-on-six-texas-galleries-6/) - Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries
- [The Hills are Alive with a Pair of Mickle Mahers, Noises Off, Die Hard, Tharp, Cinderella’s Rats and so much more: The 2024 Season Wrap up](https://artsandculturetx.com/the-hills-are-alive-with-a-pair-of-mickle-mahers-noises-off-die-hard-tharp-cinderellas-rats-and-so-much-more-the-2024-season-wrap-up/) - It’s that time of year again, when we gather on the page to consider all the shows that we have seen, what stood out, who wowed us, and more.
- [TX Studio: Héctor Guzmán Conducts a Life](https://artsandculturetx.com/tx-studio-hector-guzman-conducts-a-life/) - There are certain moments in life that we look back upon and realize how pivotal they were. For Héctor Guzmán, it happened one evening in his early 20s after giving a performance of an organ concerto.
- [Beauty and Repulsion, Decay and Renewal: Jessica Kreutter at Galveston Arts Center](https://artsandculturetx.com/beauty-and-repulsion-decay-and-renewal-jessica-kreutter-at-galveston-arts-center/) - We may be made of star stuff, according to Carl Sagan, but the way Jessica Kreutter sees it we are all made of dirt.
- [A Sprawling History: Tavares Strachan at the Blanton](https://artsandculturetx.com/a-sprawling-history-tavares-strachan-at-the-blanton/) - Tavares Strachan wants to tell the story of the whole world.
- [Abstraction, Power, and Self: Joe Overstreet at the MENIL](https://artsandculturetx.com/abstraction-power-and-self-joe-overstreet-at-the-menil/) - People often consider abstraction to be the absence of content, the erasure of reference.
- [Building a Community: D. Wambui Richardson Invites Audiences to Become Part of Jubilee Theatre’s Family](https://artsandculturetx.com/building-a-community-d-wambui-richardson-invites-audiences-to-become-part-of-jubilee-theatres-family/) - D. Wambui Richardson wants to create one big theater family.
- [Born to Lead: Circle Theatre’s New Artistic Director Ashley H. White Isn’t Afraid to Shake Things Up](https://artsandculturetx.com/born-to-lead-circle-theatres-new-artistic-director-ashley-h-white-isnt-afraid-to-shake-things-up/) - When Imprint Theatreworks closed at the end of 2022, Ashley H. White found herself at a crossroads.
- [Smart Art: Breitbard Williams Fine Art Offers a Curated Way to Collect](https://artsandculturetx.com/smart-art-breitbard-williams-fine-art-offers-a-curated-way-to-collect/) - With over 150,000 new residents moving to North Texas just last year, it’s not difficult to imagine all the large, white walls waiting for the perfect piece of art.
- [Arts and Advocacy: Christopher Kiley Takes the Helm of Texans for the Arts](https://artsandculturetx.com/arts-and-advocacy-christopher-kiley-takes-the-helm-of-texans-for-the-arts/) - Like the Texas Legislature, Texans for the Arts operates on a two-year cycle.
- [Labor, Practice, and Knowledge: Designing Motherhood Explores the Connections between Caregiving and Craft](https://artsandculturetx.com/labor-practice-and-knowledge-designing-motherhood-explores-the-connections-between-caregiving-and-craft/) - Surprise, delight, and discomfort are a few of the feelings you may experience upon entering Designing Motherhood, an ambitious, wide-ranging, but ultimately cohesive survey of the physical, psychological, and political experience of human reproduction.
- [Spreading the Classical Music Word: San Antonio’s Agarita Thinks Beyond the Concert Hall](https://artsandculturetx.com/spreading-the-classical-music-word-san-antonios-agarita-thinks-beyond-the-concert-hall/) - Agarita performs in typical concert venues, just as any musical group does. But the San Antonio chamber ensemble has other options.
- [Revealing Repertoire: Houston Ballet’s Triple Bill Tells a Company’s Story](https://artsandculturetx.com/revealing-repertoire-houston-ballets-triple-bill-tells-a-companys-story/) - A Jerome Robbins gem gets top billing in the advertising. But each work in Houston Ballet’s “In the Night” program opens a window into the company and its history.
- [Texas Studio: Jordan Fuchs Starts with Choreography](https://artsandculturetx.com/texas-studio-jordan-fuchs-starts-with-choreography/) - Right from the beginning of his career, Jordan Fuchs knew he wanted to choreograph dances.
- [Awe and Wonder: Space City at Asia Society Texas](https://artsandculturetx.com/awe-and-wonder-space-city-at-asia-society-texas/) - Houston is a city with many identities, from Screwston, an homage to DJ Screw, and Bayou City to the simplicity of H-Town or the more commercial Energy Capital of the World. Space City, though, is more than a nickname; it speaks to a rich history of innovation and exploration entwining the city with NASA.
- [A Succession Story: Houston’s 4th Wall Theatre Company Secures its Future](https://artsandculturetx.com/a-succession-story-houstons-4th-wall-theatre-company-secures-its-future/) - Texas contains multitudes when it comes to performing arts companies. Yet from the venerable city institutions to those one-then-done popup companies, many have similar origin stories.
- [The Choreography We Carry: Considering Our Dance DNA with Houston Ballet Principal Connor Walsh](https://artsandculturetx.com/the-choreography-we-carry-considering-our-dance-dna-with-houston-ballet-principal-connor-walsh/) - Dance artists are shaped by the work they dance, and the relationship between the dancer and the dance-maker is extremely potent when it comes to what we see on stage.
- [Engaging Audiences: Frame Dance’s 2024 Frame x Frame Festival Focuses on Screendance’s Unique Space in the Dance Ecology](https://artsandculturetx.com/engaging-audiences-frame-dances-2024-frame-x-frame-festival-focuses-on-screendances-unique-space-in-the-dance-ecology/) - Frame Dance presents its seventh annual Frame x Frame Film Festival Nov 1-30 in a first ever online format, in three weekends and six outstanding programs.
- [Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries](https://artsandculturetx.com/gallery-row-a-seasonal-spotlight-on-six-texas-galleries-5/) - Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries
- [A Culture Examined: Kimbell Art Museum offers a window into Dutch art in the Global Age](https://artsandculturetx.com/a-culture-examined-kimbell-art-museum-offers-a-window-into-dutch-art-in-the-global-age/) - More than 100 pieces of art from this era will be displayed in the exhibition, Dutch Art in a Global Age: Masterpieces from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Nov. 10, 2024 – Feb. 9, 2025.
- [Art on the Horizon: Exploring the Cultural Landscape of Corpus Christi](https://artsandculturetx.com/art-on-the-horizon-exploring-the-cultural-landscape-of-corpus-christi/) - when Visit Corpus Christi invited me to discover some seaside, or in this case, Gulf-side art during their monthly Downtown Art Walk celebration, I answered that siren call.
- [The Wanderer: Gauguin at the MFAH](https://artsandculturetx.com/the-wanderer-gauguin-at-the-mfah/) - “He’s a wanderer by nature and upbringing,” describes Ann Dumas, consulting curator for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s fall blockbuster exhibition, Gauguin in the World, on view Nov. 3, 2024-Feb. 16, 2025.
- [Texas Studio: Virginia L. Montgomery Gets Surreal](https://artsandculturetx.com/texas-studio-virginia-l-montgomery-gets-surreal/) - MOON MOTH BED (2023), is not your typical nature documentary. Austin-based artist Virginia L. Montgomery created this video for EYE MOON COCOON, her fall 2023 exhibition at Austin’s Women & Their Work, who invited her to create a large immersive installation that referenced Texas and the Texas ecosystem.
- [A Scandinavian Frozen Highlights the TUTS season](https://artsandculturetx.com/a-scandinavian-frozen-highlights-the-tuts-season/) - Theatre Under The Stars holds a unique place in the Houston theater landscape. Since its founding over 55 years ago, the company has become one of the largest Houston theater companies by both producing its own versions of classic and contemporary musicals but also presenting the latest Broadway shows on national tours.
- [Historical Precedent: Valley House celebrates 70 years of bringing the best of art to Dallas](https://artsandculturetx.com/historical-precedent-valley-house-celebrates-70-years-of-bringing-the-best-of-art-to-dallas/) - On an unassuming road bisecting a suburban neighborhood lies one of Dallas’s most treasured art spaces.
- [Re-visioning the Family: Diaries of Home at The Modern](https://artsandculturetx.com/re-visioning-the-family-diaries-of-home-at-the-modern/) - We’ve heard it before: The camera doesn’t lie.
- [Kinetic at 10: Virtuosic Ensemble Grows Deep Roots in Houston](https://artsandculturetx.com/kinetic-at-10-virtuosic-ensemble-grows-deep-roots-in-houston/) - Houston’s conductorless string ensemble Kinetic is celebrating its tenth anniversary this season.
- [Look, Look Again, and Look Closely: Vincent Valdez at the CAMH](https://artsandculturetx.com/look-look-again-and-look-closely-vincent-valdez-at-the-camh/) - There’s an old adage about how those who don’t remember history are doomed to repeat it, but histories are constructed through the perspective of those in power.
- [A Fearless Feminist: Cecily Brown at the DMA](https://artsandculturetx.com/a-fearless-feminist-cecily-brown-at-the-dma/) - When British-born artist Cecily Brown landed in the New York art scene in the mid-1990s, conventional painting had taken a backseat to other less conventional practices of creating art.
- [Cheers to 15 Years: Bruce Wood Dance Dallas isn’t afraid to mix things up for 2025](https://artsandculturetx.com/cheers-to-15-years-bruce-wood-dance-dallas-isnt-afraid-to-mix-things-up-for-2025/) - For its 15th year, Bruce Wood Dance is gifting itself a new name.
- [Art Thrives on the South Plains: A Survey of Lubbock’s Cultural Scene](https://artsandculturetx.com/art-thrives-on-the-south-plains-a-survey-of-lubbocks-cultural-scene/) - Our short time in Lubbock revealed a vital and varied cultural arts scene.
- [A Charged Atmosphere: Bombshell Dance Project’s ‘Flies’ Packs with a Punch](https://artsandculturetx.com/a-charged-atmosphere-bombshell-dance-projects-flies-packs-with-a-punch/) - Early in their professional careers, Emily Bernet and Taylor Rodman felt dissatisfied with women’s roles in contemporary dance performance.
- [Beyond the Horse and Hat: The Carter Explores the Myriad Faces of the Contemporary Cowboy](https://artsandculturetx.com/beyond-the-horse-and-hat-the-carter-explores-the-myriad-faces-of-the-contemporary-cowboy/) - Cowboy culture might be having a resurgence, but the image of the cowboy, the horse-ridding, 10 gallon hat-wearing spirit of rugged independence never leaves the zeitgeist for very long. Cowboy, at the Carter, sets out on its own western journey to explore the myriad of faces of the contemporary cowboy, yet it also asks if our new cowboy diversity is really all that different from the cowboys of the last two centuries.
- [Survival and Perseverance: River on Fire at DiverseWorks Centers Climate Justice](https://artsandculturetx.com/survival-and-perseverance-river-on-fire-at-diverseworks-centers-climate-justice/) - Pollution is a constant presence in places like Houston, one that sinks into the background of our everyday lives becoming all too tolerable until we receive severe reminders of the impact.
- [Through An Inclusive Lens: Diversity and divas populate Uptown Players’ 2024-25 season](https://artsandculturetx.com/through-an-inclusive-lens-diversity-and-divas-populate-uptown-players-2024-25-season/) - Regional premieres abound for Uptown Players’ 23rd season, offering Dallas audiences several new ways to view love, self-discovery, and diversity onstage.
- [Between Race and Place: Charles L. Davis II considers the Black Home as Public Art at UT](https://artsandculturetx.com/between-race-and-place-charles-l-davis-ii-considers-the-black-home-as-public-art-at-ut/) - Charles L. Davis II, an associate professor of architectural history and criticism at UT Austin's School of Architecture, researches the relationship between race and place.
- [A Culture of Women: Now in its sixth year, Vignette Art Fair continues to promote women artists](https://artsandculturetx.com/a-culture-of-women-now-in-its-sixth-year-vignette-art-fair-continues-to-promote-women-artists/) - There is no shortage of artistic talent in Texas, but each year is another chance for the Vignette Art Fair in Dallas to remind us once again of how skilled and creative the women of the Lone Star State truly are.
- [TX Studio: Faith Scott Jessup and the Real Magic of Close Looking](https://artsandculturetx.com/tx-studio-faith-scott-jessup-and-the-real-magic-of-close-looking/) - “The devil is in the details,” or so the saying goes. But for Faith Scott Jessup, details are one way to hold onto hope.
- [Classical Theatre Company’s 24/25 Season Digs into Their Niche](https://artsandculturetx.com/classical-theatre-companys-24-25-season-digs-into-their-niche/) - After years of turbulent flux, Classical Theatre Company has settled into a new routine.
- [Texas Studio: Robert Jessup Envelops the Viewer](https://artsandculturetx.com/texas-studio-robert-jessup-envelops-the-viewer/) - “You find yourself alone in an empty room,” the artist begins.
- [More than Dance: Texas Flamenco Festival Brings Fiery Spanish Style to Oak Cliff](https://artsandculturetx.com/more-than-dance-texas-flamenco-festival-brings-fiery-spanish-style-to-oak-cliff/) - Dallas’ Oak Cliff neighborhood is in flux, again.
- [Enter to Win A Camiba Cultural Tour](https://artsandculturetx.com/sweepstakes/) - IN PARTNERSHIP WITH ENTER FOR A CHANCE TO WIN A TOUR TO YOUR CHOICE OF THESE THREE DESTINATIONS WITH CAMIBA CULTURAL TOURS: Oaxaca - Folk Art Tour or Guatemala - Lake Atitlan/Antigua or San Miguel - Day of the Dead Tour Official rules and facts > Sweepstakes begin September 1st and end at 11:59
- [Theater with a Capital T: Big titles connect Stage West to the community in 2024-25](https://artsandculturetx.com/theater-with-a-capital-t-big-titles-connect-stage-west-to-the-community-in-2024-25/) - After an unprecedented 2023, where it grew and thrived in the face of post-pandemic uncertainty, Stage West is continuing to flourish.
- [Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries](https://artsandculturetx.com/gallery-row-a-seasonal-spotlight-on-six-texas-galleries-4/) - Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries
- [Chance and Fate: Tacita Dean’s long overdue exhibit at the Menil](https://artsandculturetx.com/chance-and-fate-tacita-deans-long-overdue-exhibit-at-the-menil/) - Tacita Dean is possibly the most significant artist not widely known in the U.S.
- [Sharing Our Stories: Cara Mía Theatre’s 2024-25 season strengthens connection across borders](https://artsandculturetx.com/sharing-our-stories-cara-mia-theatres-2024-25-season-strengthens-connection-across-borders/) - It’s the largest Latinx theater company in Texas, but Dallas’s Cara Mía Theatre is making waves that ripple far outside the Lone Star State.
- [Texas Studio: Audrya Flores Needs Some Space](https://artsandculturetx.com/texas-studio-audrya-flores-needs-some-space/) - From Francis Bacon’s chaotically smeary Dublin hovel to Georgia O’Keefe’s airy New Mexico retreat, the way that artists use, arrange, divide, and negotiate their studios is as individual as the work that emerges from these spaces.
- [Land, memory, language, and ancestry: ‘Native America: In Translation’ at the Blanton](https://artsandculturetx.com/land-memory-language-and-ancestry-native-america-in-translation-at-the-blanton/) - “I was thinking about young Native artists and what would be inspirational and important for them as a road map,” said Wendy Red Star, curator of Native America: In Translation.
- [Art Around Every Corner: Discovering Cuba’s Cultural Treasures and Urban landscapes](https://artsandculturetx.com/art-around-every-corner-discovering-cubas-cultural-treasures-and-urban-landscapes/) - I was traveling as a guest of long-time Arts and Culture Texas friends, the Austin-based Camiba Cultural Tours.
- [Volcanic Revisioning: New Discoveries of Vesuvius at the Meadows](https://artsandculturetx.com/volcanic-revisioning-new-discoveries-of-vesuvius-at-the-meadows/) - Professor and University of Texas at Dallas’s Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History director Michael Thomas showcases his and others’ decades-long research into the excavation and findings following Mount Vesuvius’s eruption in 79 CE.
- [Making Waves: Discovering Contemporary Cuban Photography at the MFAH](https://artsandculturetx.com/making-waves-discovering-contemporary-cuban-photography-at-the-mfah/) - Thanks to a gift from Chicago collector Madeleine Plonsker and her husband Harvey, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, now has the most complete collection of post-revolutionary Cuban photography anywhere—nearly 400 works by some 80 artists.
- [Dallas Chamber Symphony carves its niche as a classical cornerstone in North Texas](https://artsandculturetx.com/dallas-chamber-symphony-carves-its-niche-as-a-classical-cornerstone-in-north-texas/) - Sitting at his desk on a June afternoon, Dallas Chamber Symphony Music Director and Conductor Richard McKay holds up a CD and smiles.
- [Bridging Musical Worlds: DACAMERA’s Transformative New Season](https://artsandculturetx.com/bridging-musical-worlds-dacameras-transformative-new-season/) - “One of the things we’re focusing on with this theme of alchemy is the way composers start with all different kinds of materials, and transform them into something truly magical,” says Sarah Rothenberg, DACAMERA’s artistic director.
- [Literary superstars and new voices: Inprint Houston’s biggest season ever](https://artsandculturetx.com/literary-superstars-and-new-voices-inprint-houstons-biggest-season-ever/) - Winners of National Book Awards, Pulitzer Prizes, Booker Prizes, MacArthur Fellows and even Oscar nominees are among the writers we expect every year when Houston’s foremost literary arts organization, Inprint, announces the lineup for their Margarett Root Brown Reading Series.
- [Drawing the Line: Amalia Mesa-Bains at San Antonio Museum of Art](https://artsandculturetx.com/drawing-the-line-amalia-mesa-bains-at-san-antonio-museum-of-art/) - When did you first learn that art had power? For groundbreaking Chicana artist, activist, scholar, and educator Amalia Mesa-Bains, the revelation came to her as a child.
- [The Long Game: Erin Cluley Gallery Celebrates Ten Years of Insightful Programming](https://artsandculturetx.com/the-long-game-erin-cluley-gallery-celebrates-ten-years-of-insightful-programming/) - In an industry so reliant on global trends and collectors’ whims, the fact that Erin Cluley’s eponymous space is celebrating a full decade is worth popping the champagne.
- [Texas Makes Way for a Dance Icon: Twyla Tharp’s Diamond Jubilee Tours Four Cities This Fall](https://artsandculturetx.com/texas-makes-way-for-a-dance-icon-twyla-tharps-diamond-jubilee-tours-four-cities-this-fall/) - This is not Twyla Tharp’s first rodeo.
- [Sculpture + Sanctuary: ‘Theaster Gates: The Gift and The Renege’](https://artsandculturetx.com/sculpture-sanctuary-theaster-gates-the-gift-and-the-renege/) - Change always comes at a cost, and more often than people realize, it is a human cost.
- [Fresh Revivals & New Stories: Broadway Across Texas](https://artsandculturetx.com/fresh-revivals-new-stories-broadway-across-texas/) - While the 2023-2024 Broadway touring season still has big productions left for Texas cities, we’ve also entered our favorite time of year, season announcement season.
- [Fast and Furious](https://artsandculturetx.com/fast-and-furious/) - The visual subject – she who sees – is always evolving. One does not look at the Mona Lisa today the same way the King at Fontainebleau did in the early 1500s, much less the way a clutch of tourists did in the 1980s. Our seeing, like our smelling, hearing, touching, and tasting, unfolds within
- [Pretty In Pink](https://artsandculturetx.com/fresh-friday-pretty-in-pink/) - The work of French artist Anne Ferrer falls somewhere between the living and unliving. To put it more precisely, her works on paper, wearables, and large-scale pneumatic sculptures are at once material and immaterial, made from stuff as tough and memorable as a shiny polyester tarp patterned in pink and red argyle and evanescent and
- [Execution: Crucifixion](https://artsandculturetx.com/execution-crucifixion/) - Symbols and Implements of Violent Death Abound in Lone Star Museums IMAGE ABOVE: Francisco Gallego (Spanish, order active ca. 1480 – ca. 1500), Acacius and the 10,000 Martyrs on Mount Ararat, ca. 1490. Tempera and oil on wood panel. Meadows Museum, SMU, Dallas, Algur H. Meadows Collection, MM.68.02. Photo by Michael Bodycomb. The everyday world
- [México Inside Out: Themes in Art Since 1990](https://artsandculturetx.com/mexico-inside-out-themes-in-art-since-1990/) - México Inside Out: Themes in Art Since 1990 is a tour de force of ambiguity. As a show with work by 23 artists connected to Mexico it runs the risk of being a politically-correct art-ghetto based on geographical stereotypes.
- [The Sweetest Taboo: Colette Copeland, Gabriel Martinez, Angela Fraleigh, Libby Rowe](https://artsandculturetx.com/the-sweetest-taboo-colette-copeland-gabriel-martinez-angela-fraleigh-libby-rowe/) - The last time anyone thought about masculine stereotypes in the art world was when, inspired by the obtuse adjacencies of Time-Life magazine cut-outs on the floor, Richard Prince re-photographed pictures of male models in the late 1970s.
- [Looking Back: Under Acceleration](https://artsandculturetx.com/looking-back-under-acceleration/) - According to the proverbial mission statement, the function of a given city’s contemporary art space is to exhibit the work of young, emerging artists from the area, and to proffer artistic experimentation therein. Let us consider this to be the face of things.
- [Adela Andea – Zero Degrees Celsius](https://artsandculturetx.com/adela-andea-zero-degrees-celsius/) - In her current body of work, Conroe-based artist Adela Andea uses lenticulars.
- [Focus: Fred Tomaselli](https://artsandculturetx.com/focus-fred-tomaselli/) - The art of Fred Tomaselli is refreshing in its clean, clear, unreconstructed negotiation of technology.
- [An Urbanist Mastermind at the Nasher](https://artsandculturetx.com/an-urbanist-mastermind-at-the-nasher/) - German-Iranian artist Bettina Pousttchi makes space through innuendo and urban device.
- [L’État, C’est Moi, Y’all](https://artsandculturetx.com/letat-cest-moi-yall/) - There was no public vernissage where art-fanboys might tip hats to a curator and the new artist on the scene, Dubya, while getting tipsy from champagne.
- [After Irony](https://artsandculturetx.com/after-irony/) - Irony has been the standard currency of avant-garde art for so long now—50 years or even a century depending on how one looks at it—that it is simply grammatical.
- [Fashioner of Form](https://artsandculturetx.com/fashioner-of-form/) - Josephine Durkin on her journey from oboist to empathetic sculptor
- [Review: George Grosz in Dallas](https://artsandculturetx.com/review-george-grosz-in-dallas/) - Flower of the Prairie: George Grosz in Dallas Dallas Museum of Art May 20–August 19, 2012 A Berlin Dadaist is invited to Dallas by a department store executive.… Sounds like a set up for a joke, no? It happened in 1952. Leon Harris, Jr., the vice president of the Dallas department store A. Harris &
- [The Modernist Musketeers](https://artsandculturetx.com/the-modernist-musketeers/) - Events in real time are fluid, dynamic, and spontaneous. Some philosophers call this quality “lived,” as in “the mouths of the crowd fell slack-jawed by the lived event of Jane streaking in the altogether across the lawn of First Methodist.” In like but less bawdy terms, history is a matter of real things unfolding in
- [All Is Fair In Art?](https://artsandculturetx.com/all-is-fair-in-art-2/) - The Dallas Art Fair (DAF) makes two unspoken promises that, prima facie, seem at odds — untenable in the coupling of the radically new and the easily recognizable. The DAF pro­poses to be the most hip, happening [...]
- [Painting as Painting](https://artsandculturetx.com/painting-as-painting/) - Dallas painter and post-medium practitioner Ludwig Schwarz loves a good glitch every now and then. “I am so glad you’re not recording me,” he said in response to the failures of the voice memos option on my iPhone. In self-deprecating fashion, he said, “I really don’t have anything [...]
- [A Collision of Thoughts](https://artsandculturetx.com/a-collision-of-thoughts/) - Born and bred in New York City, artist Glenn Ligon infuses the sumptuous surfaces of his paintings with the iconoclasm of a smart, young, super intelligent malcontent. Though he works across media with great agility [...]
- [Review: “Revelation: Major Paintings by Jules Olitski”](https://artsandculturetx.com/review-revelation-major-paintings-by-jules-olitski/) - “Revelation: Major Paintings by Jules Olitski” is a tight and quietly heroic retrospective of the work of Ukrainian born American painter Jules Olitski (1922–2007). The crowding of the exhibition’s 30 paintings is [...]
- [Review: Joel Shapiro “New Installation”](https://artsandculturetx.com/review-joel-shapiro-new-installation/) - Installation art can mean many things. Often it suggests the contiguity and continuity of stuff, the interconnection of materials and objects, found and made, in three-dimensional space. Boxy, craggy [...]
- [An Artful Life](https://artsandculturetx.com/an-artful-life/) - Deborah Colton & Her Texas Home for International Contemporary Art GALLERY OWNER AND COMMUnity leader Deborah Colton takes pride in the fact that her gallery is an entity of the world. It is an international art zone in the middle of one of the nation’s largest and fastest growing cities. Nonetheless, sickness true proof
- [Connecting Art to Hearts: Dallas’ contemporary Conduit Gallery celebrates 40 years](https://artsandculturetx.com/connecting-art-to-hearts-dallas-contemporary-conduit-gallery-celebrates-40-years/) - They say to do what you love, and Nancy Whitenack loves art.
- [Dallas’ Frontiers of Flight Museum Celebrates National Moon Day with Commissioned Apollo Program Artwork and an exclusive David Clark Co exhibition](https://artsandculturetx.com/frontiers-of-flight-museum-celebrates-moon-day-with-rare-exhibitions/) - Molly Searcy, voice actor and member of the Dallas Theater Center’s Diane and Hal Brierley Resident Acting Company, had the performance bug early.
- [Music and Democracy: Apollo Chamber Players garner national attention for their advocacy-centered programming](https://artsandculturetx.com/music-and-democracy-apollo-chamber-players-garner-national-attention-for-their-advocacy-centered-programming/) - Rather than focusing on a single upcoming concert, NPR’s Weekend Edition spotlighted Apollo for building its entire season around real-world events.
- [Material Girl: Jean Shin clothes the Amon Carter’s ‘Museum Body’](https://artsandculturetx.com/material-girl-jean-shin-clothes-the-amon-carters-museum-body/) - In our current era of fast fashion and 15-second TikTok videos, Jean Shin is looking for permanence, or at least a way to honor the people whose work and energy is directed at one common goal, at one specific place, during one particular point in time.
- [Shared Experiences: Patrick Martinez at Dallas Contemporary](https://artsandculturetx.com/shared-experiences-patrick-martinez-at-dallas-contemporary/) - The Road to Dallas is Paved with Trees, Plants and Neon
- [Texas Studio: Molly Searcy Looks for the Ease in Acting](https://artsandculturetx.com/texas-studio-molly-searcy-looks-for-the-ease-in-acting/) - Molly Searcy, voice actor and member of the Dallas Theater Center’s Diane and Hal Brierley Resident Acting Company, had the performance bug early.
- [Forward Thinking and Moving Forward: Avant Chamber Ballet Continues to Grow the Dallas Ballet Scene](https://artsandculturetx.com/forward-thinking-and-moving-forward-avant-chamber-ballet-continues-to-grow-the-dallas-ballet-scene/) - When Katie Puder incorporated her Dallas-based ballet ensemble in 2012, she thought long and hard about what to name it.
- [New Territory: Ars Lyrica Looks to Handel, a Commission and Women of Mozart’s Vienna](https://artsandculturetx.com/new-territory-ars-lyrica-looks-to-handel-a-commission-and-women-of-mozarts-vienna/) - Ars Lyrica Houston is adding a twist to its usual what’s-old-is-new-again programming: In the midst of the neglected gems that it has in store for next season, Houston’s baroque ensemble will throw in some works that actually are new.
- [Stars Align for Harmonia Stellarum Houston](https://artsandculturetx.com/stars-align-for-harmonia-stellarum-houston/) - Hidden in the mountains north of Lake Como, the beautiful Chiesa dei Santi Eusebio e Vittore in the town of Peglio sits forgotten in time and space.
- [Journey to Geneva: NobleMotion Explores the Intersection of Art, Neuroscience and AI](https://artsandculturetx.com/journey-to-geneva-noblemotion-explores-the-intersection-of-art-neuroscience-and-ai/) - The premiere of Meeting of Minds at the Midtown Arts and Theater Center Houston (MATCH) in January played to sold-out audiences.
- [Texas Studio: Gabriela Estrada brings dance history into motion](https://artsandculturetx.com/texas-studio-gabriela-estrada-brings-dance-history-into-motion/) - Choreographer and University of Houston Assistant Professor M. Gabriela Estrada has always looked to the past to inspire her work.
- [Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries](https://artsandculturetx.com/gallery-row-a-seasonal-spotlight-on-six-texas-galleries-3/) - Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries
- [From Page to Stage: Dallas Theater Center’s resident playwright Jonathan Norton is ready to lead](https://artsandculturetx.com/from-page-to-stage-dallas-theater-centers-resident-playwright-jonathan-norton-is-ready-to-lead/) - If you see Jonathan Norton at the theater, he wants you to stop and say, “Hi.”
- [Top Arts: In 2024, the Dallas Arts District is finally crowned the best in America](https://artsandculturetx.com/top-arts-in-2024-the-dallas-arts-district-is-finally-crowned-the-best-in-america/) - I moved to Dallas in October 2009, the same month and year that the AT&T Performing Arts Center opened.
- [Power and Glory: The Battle of Pavia Tapestries at the Kimbell](https://artsandculturetx.com/power-and-glory-the-battle-of-pavia-tapestries-at-the-kimbell/) - Imagine installing seven massive Flemish tapestries, each measuring 14 feet tall and 28 feet wide.
- [Making Memories: Thomas Demand’s The Stutter of History at the MFAH](https://artsandculturetx.com/making-memories-thomas-demands-the-stutter-of-history-at-the-mfah/) - Do you remember Princess Diana’s fatal car crash in 1997? How about the Fukushima nuclear accident of 2011? Florida’s 2000 presidential election recount, with its hanging chads?
- [Don’t Blink: Dallas Museum of Art stares down race, gender, and identity with ‘When You See Me’](https://artsandculturetx.com/dont-blink-dallas-museum-of-art-stares-down-race-gender-and-identity-with-when-you-see-me/) - The Dallas Museum of Art recently acquired several new works from TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art Fund, and it was this expansion of its permanent collection that inspired When You See Me: Visibility in Contemporary Art/History, on view now through April 13, 2025.
- [Doing it all: Performing Arts Houston offers a big tent of arts experiences](https://artsandculturetx.com/doing-it-all-performing-arts-houston-offers-a-big-tent-of-arts-experiences/) - “Zero constraints” that’s how Performing Arts Houston executive director Meg Booth describes the programming possibilities when the organization puts together a season lineup like the recently announced 2024-2025 season.
- [From ‘Ring’ to ‘Resurrection’: Dallas Symphony’s Ambitious Season](https://artsandculturetx.com/from-ring-to-resurrection-dallas-symphonys-ambitious-season/) - No doubt about it, the big event of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s coming season arrives near the start: Music director Fabio Luisi and company, going where no U.S. orchestra has gone in decades, will perform Richard Wagner’s epic The Ring of the Nibelung.
- [Dark Comedy: The de la Torres Brothers at the McNay](https://artsandculturetx.com/dark-comedy-the-de-la-torres-brothers-at-the-mcnay/) - Though they began their careers as artists independently, glass blowing brought them together and taught brothers Einar and Jamex de la Torre how to collaborate.
- [Amadigi Speaks to the Heart at Ars Lyrica Houston](https://artsandculturetx.com/amadigi-speaks-to-the-heart-at-ars-lyrica-houston/) - Ars Lyrica presented the Houston debut of a rarely heard Handel opera this weekend at Zilkha Hall (May 24-25, 2024), exactly 309 years after its sensational premiere at the King’s Theatre in London in 1715.
- [All That Dance Can Be: Ballet Austin’s Mind Opening New Season](https://artsandculturetx.com/all-that-dance-can-be-ballet-austins-mind-opening-new-season/) - Ballet Austin’s artistic director Stephen Mills remembers the time from his early professional career when concert dancers fell into one of two camps: ballet or modern.
- [Unexpected Interactions: Texas Performing Arts offers a revamp of the audience experience](https://artsandculturetx.com/unexpected-interactions-texas-performing-arts-offers-a-revamp-of-the-audience-experience/) - Arts lovers headed to performances know the drill: Enter the theater, settle into your seat and wait for the house lights to go down. Musicians, actors or dancers materialize onstage, and your adventure begins.
- [Art in Dark Places: Artists Sans Frontières comforts a world in crisis with the healing power of performing arts](https://artsandculturetx.com/art-in-dark-places-artists-sans-frontieres-comforts-a-world-in-crisis-with-the-healing-power-of-performing-arts/) - In 2017, Dallas-based dancer and choreographer Katie Burks felt compelled to offer aid and assistance in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. Upon arrival in Houston, however, she quickly realized that she was well-meaning but ill-prepared, and not trained as a first responder or member of the military.
- [All Together Now: Unexpected premieres and cherished favorites blend in TITAS/Dance Unbound’s new season](https://artsandculturetx.com/all-together-now-unexpected-premieres-and-cherished-favorites-blend-in-titas-dance-unbounds-new-season/) - For more than 40 years, TITAS/Dance Unbound has been bringing in dance companies that entertain, educate, and inspire Dallas audiences, and its 2024-25 season is no exception.
- [Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries](https://artsandculturetx.com/gallery-row-a-seasonal-spotlight-on-six-texas-galleries-2/) - Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries
- [People First: ROCO Celebrates 20 Years of Fostering a Culture of Connection](https://artsandculturetx.com/people-first-roco-celebrates-20-years-of-fostering-a-culture-of-connection/) - Let’s do the numbers. Houston’s premiere chamber orchestra ROCO will have reached a staggering 150 world premieres by the end of its 20th season.
- [Texas New Music Festival Celebrates New Works](https://artsandculturetx.com/texas-new-music-festival-celebrates-new-works/) - Texas New Music Festival (TNMF) is the brainchild of Chad Robinson, Founder and Artistic Director of the Texas New Music Ensemble (TNME).
- [Unique and Determined: ISHIDA Dance brings ‘Mutability’ to the Asia Society and The Long Center](https://artsandculturetx.com/unique-and-determined-ishida-dance-brings-mutability-to-the-asia-society-and-the-long-center/) - Austin-based choreographer Brett Ishida boasts a whirlwind June with performances of her company ISHIDA Dance in “Mutability” on June 7-9 at Asia Society Texas Center in Houston and June 12-14, 2024 at The Long Center in Austin.
- [Lost and Found: Justin Parr at the Center of the World](https://artsandculturetx.com/lost-and-found-justin-parr-at-the-center-of-the-world/) - The tagline for Justin Parr’s latest venture, a celebration of the artists he’s exhibited at Fl!ght Gallery over the past 23 years, is “San Antonio is the center of the world.”
- [Canyon Dancing: Open Dance Project’s Annie Arnoult takes us inside a Georgia O’Keeffe painting](https://artsandculturetx.com/canyon-dancing-open-dance-projects-annie-arnoult-takes-us-inside-a-georgia-okeeffe-painting/) - I’ve come to the Open Dance Project’s Houston-based studio to watch an early rehearsal of company artistic director and founder, Annie Arnoult’s latest creation Red Landscape: Georgia O'Keeffe in Texas 1912-1918, and the dancers have put me to work, the work of representing the audience that is.
- [Clay into Flora: Rebecca Manson at The Modern](https://artsandculturetx.com/clay-into-flora-rebecca-manson-at-the-modern/) - Rebecca Manson transforms clay into charged flora in her immersive installation, Barbecue, at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth from May 25 through Aug. 25.
- [Classical Gems: Dallas Opera will stage landmark works for its first time](https://artsandculturetx.com/classical-gems-dallas-opera-will-stage-landmark-works-for-its-first-time/) - The Dallas Opera will treat its audiences next season to two of opera’s all-time favorites, but the real news belongs to the season’s other two slots: They’ll hold a pair of landmark works the company has never staged.
- [Space Signal: Dario Robleto’s Quest to Know the Human Heart Unfolds at a new exhibition at The Carter](https://artsandculturetx.com/space-signal-dario-robletos-quest-to-know-the-human-heart-unfolds-at-a-new-exhibition-at-the-carter/) - Life, love, and death. Each of these states of being is intrinsically tied to a process of transformation, molecular to ethereal, scientific to spiritual.
- [Listen, Touch and Learn: Marie Watt at the Blanton](https://artsandculturetx.com/listen-touch-and-learn-marie-watt-at-the-blanton/) - Think back to your first museum visit. For many of us, it was probably as a child during a school field trip or on a summer afternoon with a parent, and we probably received stern instructions to keep our voices down and to not touch anything while inside the gallery.
- [Soy de Tejas: Traveling exhibition unites the Lone Star State in Fort Worth with Latinx art](https://artsandculturetx.com/soy-de-tejas-traveling-exhibition-unites-the-lone-star-state-in-fort-worth-with-latinx-art/) - In a state as vast as Texas, how do you go about building a survey that encompasses the Latinx population’s art?
- [Beyond East West Opposition: Raqib Shaw at the MFAH](https://artsandculturetx.com/beyond-east-west-opposition-raqib-shaw-at-the-mfah/) - Raqib Shaw: Ballads of East and West, on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston June 9 through Sept. 2, features works like the one described above, each painting ornately blending Eastern and Western influences, depicting hope and despair.
- [Consumed by Love: Houston Grand Opera’s New Season of Romance and Passion](https://artsandculturetx.com/consumed-by-love-houston-grand-operas-new-season-of-romance-and-passion/) - “What is it about opera that keeps everybody thinking in a romantic frame of mind?” That’s a question Khori Dastoor, General Director and CEO of Houston Grand Opera (HGO), pondered while deciding the theme for HGO’s 2024-25 season.
- [Love, Power and Gold: Dallas Symphony Orchestra Performs Wagner’s Epic Ring Cycle](https://artsandculturetx.com/love-power-and-gold-dallas-symphony-orchestra-performs-wagners-epic-ring-cycle/) - If you take it at face value, it’s an epic tale of gods and gnomes, fighting over a gold ring that confers supreme power over the world. But there’s a more compelling way to look at The Ring of the Nibelung, Richard Wagner’s four-opera cycle.
- [A Lifelong Exploration: Director Sasha Maya Ada navigates a new path for DFW theater](https://artsandculturetx.com/a-lifelong-exploration-director-sasha-maya-ada-navigates-a-new-path-for-dfw-theater/) - Listen to how she says “pecans,” and you’ll know immediately that Sasha Maya Ada is not a native Texan.
- [Drawing as a daily process: Ruth Asawa at the Menil](https://artsandculturetx.com/drawing-as-a-daily-process-ruth-asawa-at-the-menil/) - Ruth Asawa Through Line is the first exhibition to focus on Ruth Asawa’s lifelong drawing practice.
- [TX Studio: Megan Harrison Looks for the Defining Moments](https://artsandculturetx.com/tx-studio-megan-harrison-looks-for-the-defining-moments/) - San Antonio-based artist Megan Harrison knows about change. “I spend a lot of time outdoors, in nature. I’m drawn to the natural world because it’s more complicated than I can really understand,” she tells me during our recent conversation about her work. “It’s always unfolding and changing.”
- [Texas Studio: Evita Tezeno on collaging Black joy](https://artsandculturetx.com/texas-studio-evita-tezeno-on-collaging-black-joy/) - “I came out of the womb and knew I wanted to be an artist. It’s all I know.” Growing up in Port Arthur, Texas, Evita Tezeno was surrounded by female relatives who were quilters and seamstresses.
- [Houston Symphony Expands for the Strauss Festival](https://artsandculturetx.com/houston-symphony-expands-for-the-strauss-festival/) - The Houston Symphony will end its season with a splash: a two-weekend festival devoted to Richard Strauss, whose name is practically synonymous with sonic spectacle.
- [The Collaborative Spirit: Houston Ballet Offers a Lively Season Ahead](https://artsandculturetx.com/the-collaborative-spirit-houston-ballet-offers-a-lively-season-ahead/) - Julie Kent and Stanton Welch haven’t reached the point of finishing one another’s sentences. Nevertheless, just a few months after Kent joined Welch at the helm of Houston Ballet, they show clear signs of being in sync.
- [Fire Music: Loop38 makes an impact with new music for our times](https://artsandculturetx.com/fire-music-loop38-makes-an-impact-with-new-music-for-our-times/) - As the largest wildfire in Texas history raged across the Panhandle in March of this year, Loop38, the Houston-based new music ensemble, was set to begin a multi-day residency at Stephen F. Austin State University (SFA) centered on the premiere of composer Ben Morris’s multimedia work Longleaf.
- [In Good Company: Alley Theatre’s New Season offers plays for Houston Audiences and the resident actors](https://artsandculturetx.com/in-good-company-alley-theatres-new-season-offers-plays-for-houston-audiences-and-the-resident-actors/) - In the United States, the Alley Theatre is the last theater standing with a year-round, full-time, salaried resident acting company and that makes all the difference when building a new season.
- [Houston’s Rec Room Arts Wants to Bring Us Together](https://artsandculturetx.com/houstons-rec-room-arts-wants-to-bring-us-together/) - Rec Room Art’s Artistic Director Matt Hune says that building a theater season is like creating an album: each play makes up a story that flows through the year.
- [Invited to Learn: Bishop Arts Theatre Center ends its 30th season with groundbreaking plays about history-making women](https://artsandculturetx.com/invited-to-learn-bishop-arts-theatre-center-ends-its-30th-season-with-groundbreaking-plays-about-history-making-women/) - The Bishop Arts neighborhood of Dallas has enjoyed a surge in popularity these past few years, but many of its diners, drinkers, and shoppers probably aren’t aware that just a mile away sits the area’s namesake theater company.
- [Taking Flight: Zeke Williams and his feathered friends nest at Galveston Arts Center](https://artsandculturetx.com/taking-flight-zeke-williams-and-his-feathered-friends-nest-at-galveston-arts-center/) - Dallas-based artist Zeke Williams is addicted to making work.
- [Love, Time & Aging: Alan Cumming Tours Texas](https://artsandculturetx.com/love-time-aging-alan-cumming-tours-texas/) - Along with some very fashionable real ones, multi-hyphenated artist Alan Cumming wears a lot of figurative hats.
- [Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries](https://artsandculturetx.com/gallery-row-a-seasonal-spotlight-on-six-texas-galleries/) - A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries in San Antonio, Houton, Dallas and Autin
- [Realer than Real: Sarah Sze at the Nasher Sculpture Center](https://artsandculturetx.com/realer-than-real-sarah-sze-at-the-nasher-sculpture-center/) - The distinctions between what’s real and what’s virtual are growing fuzzier with each new day, not to mention each new tech gadget.
- [Building a Global Network: The Fusebox Universe at 20](https://artsandculturetx.com/building-a-global-network-the-fusebox-universe-at-20/) - The planets will align this spring for Fusebox Festival’s 20th anniversary.
- [Visible Labor: Inside the world of art handlers at Houston’s Center for Contemporary Craft](https://artsandculturetx.com/visible-labor-inside-the-world-of-art-handlers-at-houstons-center-for-contemporary-craft/) - If you’ve ever visited an exhibition and wondered how an artist pulled something off, chances are good a preparator had something to do with it.
- [Power Structures: FotoFest Focuses on Critical Geography](https://artsandculturetx.com/power-structures-fotofest-focuses-on-critical-geography/) - Critical geography focuses in on oppressive, inequitable power relations in different areas.
- [Houston Chamber Choir’s Springtime: Stravinsky to Brubeck to Buller](https://artsandculturetx.com/houston-chamber-choirs-springtime-stravinsky-to-brubeck-to-buller/) - The Houston Chamber Choir’s annual showcase of high school choirs was mere days away, and artistic director Robert Simpson was making the rounds of the featured schools to touch base.
- [Pioneering Paintings by Janet Sobel Reunited at the Menil](https://artsandculturetx.com/pioneering-paintings-by-janet-sobel-reunited-at-the-menil/) - Inspired by a gift from her grandson of one painting and four drawings, Janet Sobel’s early but short-lived career is now the subject of a compelling exhibition at the Menil Collection from Feb. 23 through Aug. 11.
- [Mysticism, spirituality, and revolution: Black and Caribbean Surrealists at The Modern](https://artsandculturetx.com/mysticism-spirituality-and-revolution-black-and-caribbean-surrealists-at-the-modern/) - The exhibition title, Surrealism and Us, references the essay “1943: Surrealism and Us” by Suzanne Césaire (1915-1966), a Martinique writer, feminist, and anti-colonialist. Césaire believed that the concepts, aesthetics, and power of Surrealism could encourage self-determination and independence.
- [Eyes toward the future: Houston’s Hobby Center Builds a New Vision](https://artsandculturetx.com/eyes-toward-the-future-houstons-hobby-center-builds-a-new-vision/) - As Houston’s Hobby Center for the Performing Arts celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2022, its board, staff and its new president and CEO Mark Folkes decided to get contemplative about their identity, especially when it comes to the “Center” in the name.
- [Diversity, Connections and Community: Black Collage Comes to MFAH](https://artsandculturetx.com/diversity-connections-and-community-black-collage-comes-to-mfah/) - Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage, on view Feb. 18 through May 12 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is the first museum survey of Black collage artists.
- [Amazing, Fabulous, Spectacular: New Works Light Up Fort Worth’s Amphibian Stage in 2024](https://artsandculturetx.com/amazing-fabulous-spectacular-new-works-light-up-fort-worths-amphibian-stage-in-2024/) - It’s likely you’ve never heard of any of the titles in Amphibian Stage’s 2024 season, and that’s exactly how Kathleen Culebro wants it.
- [TX Studio: Adam Castañeda, processing life through dance](https://artsandculturetx.com/tx-studio-adam-castaneda-processing-life-through-dance/) - Dancer, choreographer and artistic director of Pilot Dance Project, Adam Castañeda didn’t begin dance training until his early twenties, yet he believes leaping over those childhood and adolescent studio years might have given him some advantages.
- [Women Making Art History: He Said/She Said at the Dallas Museum of Art](https://artsandculturetx.com/women-making-art-history-he-said-she-said-at-the-dallas-museum-of-art/) - The DMA has been earnest and intentional in its efforts to acquire works by women and people of color over the past seven years and the current exhibition reflects that.
- [Texas Studio: Bombshell Dance Project Goes Immersive](https://artsandculturetx.com/texas-studio-bombshell-dance-project-goes-immersive/) - Long-time friends and former dancers for Dark Circles Contemporary Dance Emily Bernet and Taylor Rodman founded Bombshell Dance Project in Dallas in 2016.
- [Pleasures of the Floating World: Ukiyo-e at the Blanton](https://artsandculturetx.com/pleasures-of-the-floating-world-ukiyo-e-at-the-blanton/) - During the relatively peaceful, prosperous, but isolationist Edo period (1603-1868) in Japan, ukiyo-e flourished as a popular art form.
- [Old Friends, New Stories: Familiar faces meet provocative premieres in Uptown Players’ 2024 season](https://artsandculturetx.com/old-friends-new-stories-familiar-faces-meet-provocative-premieres-in-uptown-players-2024-season/) - Since its founding in 2001, Uptown Players has put a heavy emphasis on relationships—not only with its patrons, the majority of whom identify as LGBTQ+, but also with its performers, musicians, crew, artistic and administrative staff, and playwrights and composers.
- [TX Studio: Dallas Composer Quinn Mason’s Clear Vision](https://artsandculturetx.com/tx-studio-dallas-composer-quinn-masons-clear-vision/) - Remember the age-old maxim, Know Thyself? Dallas’ Quinn Mason is crystal clear on his identity as a composer.
- [TX Studio: Callina Anderson finds her balance](https://artsandculturetx.com/tx-studio-callina-anderson-finds-her-balance/) - Callina Anderson is a Houston-based actor who recently wrapped On the Exhale at Unity Theatre in Brenham.
- [Points of View: Radcliffe Bailey, Kara Walker and Derrick Adams at the McNay](https://artsandculturetx.com/points-of-view-radcliffe-bailey-kara-walker-and-derrick-adams-at-the-mcnay/) - The McNay Art Museum in San Antonio is using the recent acquisition of two important print suites as impetus to explore the diverse visions of three contemporary Black artists: Radcliffe Bailey, Kara Walker and Derrick Adams.
- [Changing My Major: SMU’s newly endowed musical theater program is being built by a Dallas legend](https://artsandculturetx.com/changing-my-major-smus-newly-endowed-musical-theater-program-is-being-built-by-a-dallas-legend/) - Since 1969, Southern Methodist University has been offering performing arts degrees in theater, music, and dance through undergraduate tracks in the Meadows School of the Arts.
- [Poetic Radiance: ‘An Archeology of Silence’ by Kehinde Wiley at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston](https://artsandculturetx.com/poetic-radiance-an-archeology-of-silence-by-kehinde-wiley-at-the-museum-of-fine-arts-houston/) - Kehinde Wiley and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Director Gary Tinterow first met in New York when Tinterow, then a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, proposed the acquisition of Wiley’s The Veiled Christ, a large 2008 watercolor.
- [Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Five Texas Galleries](https://artsandculturetx.com/gallery-row-a-seasonal-spotlight-on-five-texas-galleries/) - A Seasonal Spotlight on Five Texas Galleries in Houston, Dallas and San Antonio
- [No Milestone Unturned: Honoring Stanton Welch’s 20-Year Contribution to Houston Ballet](https://artsandculturetx.com/no-milestone-unturned-honoring-stanton-welchs-20-year-contribution-to-houston-ballet/) - Stanton Welch has provided visionary leadership for Houston Ballet since picking up its creative torch in 2003.
- [Kinsey African American Art & History Collection at the Holocaust Museum Houston](https://artsandculturetx.com/kinsey-african-american-art-history-collection-at-the-holocaust-museum-houston/) - When the public has the chance to view a monumental, but private collection of art, it usually occurs if the collection is loaned to a museum and perhaps organized as a special exhibition.
- [Social Issues, Puppets, Yellow Swings and Big Changes: The 2023 Wrap Up](https://artsandculturetx.com/social-issues-puppets-yellow-swings-and-big-changes-the-2023-wrap-up/) - We are back for our epic annual public chit chat, a tiny snapshot of the thousand dishy emails that fly across the inter tubes discussing what we just saw, missed, didn’t understand or flat out loved.
- [No Barriers: Performing Arts Houston’s New Now Series Nurtures Houston Artists](https://artsandculturetx.com/no-barriers-performing-arts-houstons-new-now-series-nurtures-houston-artists/) - Can a series of world premiere, multidisciplinary performances also quickly become an annual New Year tradition?
- [Excellence & Wisdom: Orpheus Chamber Singers offers a living museum of choral music](https://artsandculturetx.com/excellence-wisdom-orpheus-chamber-singers-offers-a-living-museum-of-choral-music/) - Here’s something that won’t be a surprise to some people: Choral music is a pretty big deal in North Texas.
- [Legendary Threads: Anni Albers at the Blanton](https://artsandculturetx.com/legendary-threads-anni-albers-at-the-blanton/) - The German-born artist Anni Albers is not more widely known for several, unfortunately, common reasons.
- [A Cosmos of Chaos and Order: Leonardo Drew at the Carter](https://artsandculturetx.com/a-cosmos-of-chaos-and-order-leonardo-drew-at-the-carter/) - Leonardo Drew combines hundreds of intricate handmade objects to transform the first-floor gallery at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth into a multi-dimensional environment.
- [Embracing the Theatrical in Non-Theatrical Spaces: Kitchen Dog Theater makes all of Dallas its stage](https://artsandculturetx.com/embracing-the-theatrical-in-non-theatrical-spaces-kitchen-dog-theater-makes-all-of-dallas-its-stage/) - At the start of its 33rd season, Kitchen Dog Theater found itself without a home.
- [Texas Studio: Michelle Cortez Gonzales in Full Bloom](https://artsandculturetx.com/texas-studio-michelle-cortez-gonzales-in-full-bloom/) - “I consider myself a bit of a late bloomer,” artist Michelle Cortez Gonzales tells me from her home studio in Fort Worth.
- [From Storms to Sunshine: Dallas Symphony Orchestra performs works by Saint-Saëns, Xi Wang and Sophia Jani](https://artsandculturetx.com/from-storms-to-sunshine-dallas-symphony-orchestra-performs-works-by-saint-saens-xi-wang-and-sophia-jani/) - Nobody can say whether Camille Saint-Saëns had an extramusical topic in mind when he cast his “Organ” Symphony as a journey from storms to blazing sunshine.
- [Art, Life, & Space Travel: ‘Six Scenes From Our Future’ at the CAMH](https://artsandculturetx.com/art-life-space-travel-six-scenes-from-our-future-at-the-camh/) - For 75 years, the Contemporary Art Museum Houston (CAMH) has sought to engage its community in a dialogue that stems from its inaugural exhibition: This Is Contemporary Art (1948).
- [Musical Anchor: Chamber Music Society of Fort Worth charts a forward looking new year](https://artsandculturetx.com/musical-anchor-chamber-music-society-of-fort-worth-charts-a-forward-looking-new-year/) - “The rich history of CMSFW since its founding is part of the Fort Worth DNA,” Levinson says.
- [From the Cistern to the Cross-Country Chamber Consortium: Musiqa charts an ambitious new path](https://artsandculturetx.com/from-the-cistern-to-the-cross-country-chamber-consortium-musiqa-charts-an-ambitious-new-path/) - Musiqa took a turn underground. In November 2023 the Houston-based new music organization had the opportunity to present the world premiere of a site-specific work by Houston composer Pierre Jalbert in the Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern as part of its popular Underground Sounds series.
- [Labor in Motion: Laura Gutierrez at DiverseWorks](https://artsandculturetx.com/labor-in-motion-laura-gutierrez-at-diverseworks/) - Choreographer Laura Gutierrez honors her father’s 48 years of labor in the premiere of In Tarps I Trust, commissioned and presented by DiverseWorks on Feb. 22-24, 2024 at the MATCH in Houston.
- [A Brilliant Legacy: Abraham Ángel at the DMA](https://artsandculturetx.com/a-brilliant-legacy-abraham-angel-at-the-dma/) - Sometimes the drama of an artist’s life can overshadow the art itself. Case in point, Mexican Modernist painter Abraham Ángel, whose paintings are featured in almost every book or exhibition devoted to the period.
- [In the Space Between: AT&T Performing Arts Center’s Elevator Project continues to tell Dallas’ unique stories](https://artsandculturetx.com/in-the-space-between-att-performing-arts-centers-elevator-project-continues-to-tell-dallas-unique-stories/) - “Warning: You’re going to hear me say ‘I’m really excited about this’ a lot.” This is one of the first things Hector Garcia says during our interview about the Elevator Project’s 2024 season, and it’s not an understatement.
- [‘Bonnard’s Worlds’ at the Kimbell Art Museum](https://artsandculturetx.com/bonnards-worlds-at-the-kimbell-art-museum/) - Pierre Bonnard is one of the influential masters of the early twentieth century.
- [Bucking the Trend: While other arts organizations are barely surviving, Fort Worth’s Stage West is thriving](https://artsandculturetx.com/bucking-the-trend-while-other-arts-organizations-are-barely-surviving-fort-worths-stage-west-is-thriving/) - In a time when regional theaters are reeling from post-pandemic shortages, losses, and even devastating closings, one Fort Worth theater seems remarkably immune (knock on wood).
- [Natasha Bowdoin: In the Garden](https://artsandculturetx.com/natasha-bowdoin-in-the-garden/) - There are various kinds of fabrics and fabrications, health from metaphoric to material, structural to ideological, social to moral, and more. The fabrics — the “stuff” — artists turn to for ideas and inspiration for their work might be obvious, difficult to see or entirely hidden. In Natasha Bowdoin’s exhibition In the Garden at Talley
- [DallasSITES: Available Space](https://artsandculturetx.com/dallassites-available-space/) - viagra 100mg Post Communiqué (detail), discount 2013. Courtesy of the Dallas Museum of Art." src="http://artsandculturetx.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Homecoming_01.jpg" width="500" height="333" /> One of many possible origin narratives of DallasSITES: Available Space begins with curatorial research. For the past couple of years Leigh Arnold, the Dallas Museum of Art’s research project coordinator, has been acquiring ephemera and select art
- [Houston Cinema Arts Festival Focuses on Texas, the Arts and Home](https://artsandculturetx.com/houston-cinema-arts-festival-focuses-on-texas-the-arts-and-home/) - There’s no place like Houston for cinephiles when the Houston Cinema Arts Society opens its 15th annual film festival with a "Bring It On Home" theme.
- [Boredom, Chaos, and Intimacy from Austin Playwright Sam Mayer](https://artsandculturetx.com/boredom-chaos-and-intimacy-from-austin-playwright-sam-mayer/) - Austin-based playwright Sam Mayer is in that fray, questioning what success in the theater means, both for him and for the art form more generally.
- [Bach Society Houston Celebrates Profundity and Fun](https://artsandculturetx.com/bach-society-houston-celebrates-profundity-and-fun/) - The Bach Society Houston will offer this season’s audiences some of its namesake’s profoundest music. But even the iconic Bach doesn’t live by devoutness alone.
- [Ground Truth: Women Land Artists at the Nasher](https://artsandculturetx.com/ground-truth-women-land-artists-at-the-nasher/) - In 2013, at the Dallas Museum of Art, Leigh Arnold curated Robert Smithson in Texas, a first of its kind look at the famous land artist’s finished and unfinished works in the state.
- [Coming into Light: Chryssa & New York at The Menil](https://artsandculturetx.com/coming-into-light-chryssa-new-york-at-the-menil/) - The Greek artist Chryssa was an influential force on the New York art scene from the late 1950s to the early 1970s, but since that time, she has become deeply under-recognized, despite having created innovative work in light sculpture.
- [Holiday Office Party Spirit: ‘The Ugly Xmas Sweater Musical’ at TUTS](https://artsandculturetx.com/holiday-office-party-spirit-the-ugly-xmas-sweater-musical-at-tuts/) - Houston’s Theatre Under The Stars also understands the allure of some tacky fun and plans to offer the ultimate holiday show alternative this season with the world premiere, The Ugly Xmas Sweater Musical.
- [To the Edge and Back: How Bruce Wood Dance is honoring its namesake with passion and power in 2023-24](https://artsandculturetx.com/to-the-edge-and-back-how-bruce-wood-dance-is-honoring-its-namesake-with-passion-and-power-in-2023-24/) - The 2023-24 season marks 10 years since the passing of legendary dancer and choreographer Bruce Wood, and his namesake company is honoring his memory by making big moves in Texas and beyond.
- [Spiraling Vessels: Carlos Rosales-Silva paints a Welcome Mural at San Antonio Museum of Arts](https://artsandculturetx.com/spiraling-vessels-carlos-rosales-silva-paints-a-welcome-mural-at-san-antonio-museum-of-arts/) - The San Antonio Museum of Art recently rolled out the welcome mural for visitors in the form of a monumental painting by Texas artist Carlos Rosales-Silva, on view through Sept. 2025.
- [A Must See: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith traces her Memory Map at The Modern](https://artsandculturetx.com/a-must-see-jaune-quick-to-see-smith-traces-her-memory-map-at-the-modern/) - When a retrospective of Jaune Quick-to-See Smith’s work arrives at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in October, it might be the first time some Texas patrons will have heard of the groundbreaking artist, activist, educator, and advocate.
- [Contemplating Tsherin Sherpa’s Spirits at Asia Society Texas](https://artsandculturetx.com/contemplating-tsherin-sherpas-spirits-at-asia-society-texas/) - Renowned Himalayan artist Tsherin Sherpa created the first work of his provocative Spirits series in 2009.
- [Bringing Artists’ Visions to Life: Bob Bursey Leads Texas Performing Arts into the Future](https://artsandculturetx.com/bringing-artists-visions-to-life-bob-bursey-leads-texas-performing-arts-into-the-future/) - As the head of Austin’s Texas Performing Arts, Bob Bursey plays a leading role in the state’s cultural scene. But he makes no bones about one thing.
- [Weaving a Collective Mural: Meow Wolf in Grapevine, Texas](https://artsandculturetx.com/weaving-a-collective-mural-meow-wolf-in-grapevine-texas/) - The first time I visited strange new art worlds via a space/time refrigerator portal I had to travel to a renovated bowling alley in New Mexico to do so.
- [Movement, Rhythm, Expression: Dallas Black Dance Theatre spotlights world premieres and homegrown talent in 47th season](https://artsandculturetx.com/movement-rhythm-expression-dallas-black-dance-theatre-spotlights-world-premieres-and-homegrown-talent-in-47th-season/) - Four world premieres and more than 20 total works are the foundation for Dallas Black Dance Theatre’s 47th season, and that’s the sort of abundance that artistic director Melissa M. Young loves to see.
- [Hope and Humanity Side by Side: Robert Frank and Todd Webb at MFAH](https://artsandculturetx.com/hope-and-humanity-side-by-side-robert-frank-and-todd-webb-at-mfah/) - While those who are familiar with 20th-century photography know Robert Frank’s body of work, it is less likely they recognize the name Todd Webb. Why are their photographs being shown side by side for the first time?
- [Texas Studio: Playwright Crystal Jackson Stays Off the Main Road](https://artsandculturetx.com/texas-studio-playwright-crystal-jackson-stays-off-the-main-road/) - Austin-based Crystal Jackson took her time getting around to playwriting. Even in the thick of it, she once thought she might be done for good.
- [The Female Gaze: Texas Vignette spotlights women artists with art fair dedicated to their work](https://artsandculturetx.com/the-female-gaze-texas-vignette-spotlights-women-artists-with-art-fair-dedicated-to-their-work/) - Though Texas Vignette may be a juried art show focusing solely on female-identifying artists currently living in the Lone Star State, curator Emily Edwards guarantees that everyone is welcome.
- [Portals to the Divine: Nestor Topchy at the Menil](https://artsandculturetx.com/portals-to-the-divine-nestor-topchy-at-the-menil/) - Nestor Topchy’s iconic portraits are about community and connection.
- [Giving Voice: Apollo Chamber Players Address Censorship](https://artsandculturetx.com/giving-voice-apollo-chamber-players-address-censorship/) - After 15 years of mixing the sounds and traditions of classical music with those of musical styles from around the world, the Apollo Chamber Players are opting this season for a different focus: as the main concert series’ label puts it, “Silenced Voices.”
- [When a Ballet becomes a Poem: Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s Delmira Premieres at Houston Ballet](https://artsandculturetx.com/when-a-ballet-becomes-a-poem-annabelle-lopez-ochoas-delmira-premieres-at-houston-ballet/) - For choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, poetry and ballet share a similar terrain.
- [‘Spanish Light: Sorolla in American Collections’ Shines at the Meadows Museum](https://artsandculturetx.com/spanish-light-sorolla-in-american-collections-shines-at-the-meadows-museum/) - In 1909, the Hispanic Society of America in New York City hosted a landmark solo exhibition of Spanish painter Joaquín Sorolla’s works.
- [CREATIVE TEAM JAKE HEGGIE, GENE SCHEER, AND JAWOLE WILLA JO ZOLLAR TAKE ON CIVIL WAR HISTORY IN HOUSTON GRAND OPERA’s ‘INTELLIGENCE’](https://artsandculturetx.com/creative-team-jake-heggie-gene-scheer-and-jawole-willa-jo-zollar-take-on-civil-war-history-in-houston-grand-operas-intelligence/) - Jake Heggie visited the Smithsonian Institution a few years ago for a performance of his Iconic Legacies, a song cycle evoking four U.S. first ladies.
- [WindSync Turns 15: How Does the Garden Grow?](https://artsandculturetx.com/windsync-turns-15-how-does-the-garden-grow/) - Back in 2009, the music entrepreneurship movement was gathering steam and start-up ensembles were popping up everywhere.
- [Destabilizing Discomfort: Jordan Strafer’s Trilogy at the CAMH](https://artsandculturetx.com/destabilizing-discomfort-jordan-strafers-trilogy-at-the-camh/) - In Trilogy, on view at the Contemporary Art Museum Houston through Nov. 26, 2023, Strafer provides a darkly humorous meditation on the human capacity for violence.
- [Texas Deep Divers: Turning Research Into Art](https://artsandculturetx.com/texas-deep-divers-turning-research-into-art/) - A researcher—who just might be an artist—enters a university library and gains access to a rarely viewed archive.
- [Pride and Intention: Texas’s Historic Gay Men’s Chorus Turtle Creek Chorale Finishes Season Strong](https://artsandculturetx.com/pride-and-intention-texass-historic-gay-mens-chorus-turtle-creek-chorale-finishes-season-strong/) - 1980 was when Dallas hosted its first official gay pride parade. The Turtle Creek Chorale was born that same year, founded by a small group of gay men in the city who simply wanted a place to sing together.
- [Building a Legacy: Harry Geffert at Cris Worley Fine Arts](https://artsandculturetx.com/building-a-legacy-harry-geffert-at-cris-worley/) - The essence of Harry Geffert’s art is relationships.
- [Texas Studio: Susan Budge Invites You into a World of Myth and Mystery](https://artsandculturetx.com/texas-studio-susan-budge-invites-you-into-a-world-of-myth-and-mystery/) - Over the span of six months in 2022, Houston sculptor Susan Budge lost her mother, got married, saw her son graduate from high school, built a kiln in a new studio, and was diagnosed with breast cancer.
- [Texas Lens: Ann S. Graham on Arts Advocacy](https://artsandculturetx.com/texas-lens-ann-s-graham-on-arts-advocacy/) - Hot-button issues may have dominated the headlines out of Austin, but the Texas Legislature this past spring made a quiet move that some of us will appreciate: It expanded the Texas State Artists Award program, which includes the poet laureate and such, to include a slot for a classical musician.
- [Reading Together Again: Inprint Houston’s New Season Dazzles with Big Name Writers](https://artsandculturetx.com/reading-together-again-inprint-houstons-new-season-dazzles-with-big-name-writers/) - With the series back to live, in-person readings for over a year now, Inprint executive director, Rich Levy, says the literary-loving audiences have also come back to see and hear from their favorite writers.
- [Beyond Diversity: ROCO Redefines the Classical Music Canon](https://artsandculturetx.com/beyond-diversity-roco-redefines-the-classical-music-canon/) - Houston’s ROCO chamber orchestra has introduced so many new works, and featured so many composers and performers from diverse backgrounds, that its founder sees no point in reciting the numbers.
- [Dancer, Environmentalist, Visionary: Louise Nevelson at Amon Carter](https://artsandculturetx.com/dancer-environmentalist-visionary-louise-nevelson-at-amon-carter/) - The World Outside: Louise Nevelson at Midcentury is one of the first exhibitions to focus on the artist’s midcentury sculptures and works on paper as seen through the lens of the world in which she lived.
- [POP DEMO: Toni Leago Valle’s Speakeasy Comes to the MATCH](https://artsandculturetx.com/pop-demo-toni-leago-valles-speakeasy-comes-to-the-match/) - Houston’s favorite provocateur Toni Leago Valle is back at it this fall with the premiere of 6 Degrees in her latest opus, POP DEMO, which she describes as “a dance/theater experience blending political commentary, offbeat theater, aerial, contemporary dance and visual projections.”
- [Art All Year: Texas Performing Arts teams up with Fusebox for 2023-24 season](https://artsandculturetx.com/art-all-year-texas-performing-arts-teams-up-with-fusebox-for-2023-24-season/) - It has long been the goal of Texas Performing Arts to help “keep Austin weird” onstage, but the 2023-24 season promises to be especially experimental.
- [A Critic Looks Ahead: Top Picks for 2023-24 on DFW Stages](https://artsandculturetx.com/a-critic-looks-ahead-top-picks-for-2023-24-on-dfw-stages/) - American regional theater is dying.
- [How to Harmonize with Nature: The Blanton Museum of Art plants Texas in the climate change conversation](https://artsandculturetx.com/how-to-harmonize-with-nature-the-blanton-museum-of-art-plants-texas-in-the-climate-change-conversation/) - Mere days before acclaimed environmental journalist Jeff Goodell picks up the phone to talk about the Blanton Museum of Art’s If the Sky Were Orange: Art in the Time of Climate Change, a special exhibition running Sept. 9, 2023—Feb. 11, 2024, the skies along the East Coast actually do turn orange.
- [Global Resilience: Afro-Atlantic Histories concludes its tour at the Dallas Museum of Art](https://artsandculturetx.com/global-resilience-afro-atlantic-histories-concludes-its-tour-at-the-dallas-museum-of-art/) - Ade Omotosho couldn’t think of a more perfect topic for his first big exhibition.
- [HARMONIA STELLARUM: A NEW STAR ON THE TEXAS EARLY MUSIC HORIZON](https://artsandculturetx.com/harmonia-stellarum-a-new-star-on-the-texas-early-music-horizon/) - Mario Aschauer, Founder and Artistic Director of Houston’s newest early music ensemble Harmonia Stellarum Houston (HSH), likes to take road trips to look at organs.
- [Potent Ingredients: Stephen Lapthisophon at Conduit Gallery](https://artsandculturetx.com/potent-ingredients-stephen-lapthisophon-at-conduit-gallery/) - The canvas’ title, Sogni Dorati, translates from Italian as “golden dreams.”
- [Dance for All: Dallas’ Avant Chamber Ballet stretches into Fort Worth with historic, world premiere-packed season](https://artsandculturetx.com/dance-for-all-dallas-avant-chamber-ballet-stretches-into-fort-worth-with-historic-world-premiere-packed-season/) - Debuting two full-length world premiere ballets in one season would be ambitious enough, but Avant Chamber Ballet isn’t stopping there.
- [Stepping into Joy: Performing Arts Houston’s lively 23/24 Season](https://artsandculturetx.com/stepping-into-joy-performing-arts-houstons-lively-23-24-season/) - Performing Arts Houston leans into joy for its recently announced 2023-2024 season.
- [Staying in the Moment: Mayuko Ono Gray at Galveston Arts Center](https://artsandculturetx.com/staying-in-the-moment-mayuko-ono-gray-at-galveston-arts-center/) - A single calligraphic line runs through Mayuko Ono Gray’s large-scale graphite drawings.
- [Fresh Pictorial Spaces: Michael Frank Blair at Conduit Gallery](https://artsandculturetx.com/fresh-pictorial-spaces-michael-frank-blair-at-conduit-gallery/) - Michael Blair is trying to get to a place where everything is open and possible.
- [Maya Masterpieces at the Kimbell: Why you’ll likely never see these rare works again](https://artsandculturetx.com/maya-masterpieces-at-the-kimbell-why-youll-likely-never-see-these-rare-works-again/) - The term “once in a lifetime” gets thrown around a lot, but it is entirely accurate in the case of Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art at the Kimbell Art Museum.
- [‘Hyperreal: Gray Foy’ Draws Devotion at the Menil](https://artsandculturetx.com/hyperreal-gray-foy-draws-devotion-at-the-menil/) - By the late ’60s, Foy’s drawing practice had waned, and by 1975 he had stopped drawing altogether, seemingly for Lerman’s sake.
- [Live From Dallas: TITAS/Dance Unbound lures global stars and eager audiences back to Big D](https://artsandculturetx.com/live-from-dallas-titas-dance-unbound-lures-global-stars-and-eager-audiences-back-to-big-d/) - During the pandemic, Dallas’ TITAS/Dance Unbound truly embraced digital performance and streaming.
- [Texas Studio: Carlos Donjuan transforms grief and loss](https://artsandculturetx.com/texas-studio-carlos-donjuan-transforms-grief-and-loss/) - Carlos Donjuan is known for his surrealist paintings of masked figures punctuated by pops of searing color, striking minimalist shapes, and spurts of spray-paint that nod to his graffiti-painting artistic origins.
- [Transportation to Another Realm: Ming Smith: Feeling the Future at CAMH](https://artsandculturetx.com/transportation-to-another-realm-ming-smith-feeling-the-future-at-camh/) - Photography has been ever present in the life of Ming Smith. A hobby of her father’s, cameras weren’t anything new when Smith picked one up, but the appeal was a slow burn.
- [Victoria Bach Festival Promises a Wide-Ranging Lineup](https://artsandculturetx.com/victoria-bach-festival-promises-a-wide-ranging-lineup/) - The Victoria Bach Festival is heading towards the half-century mark.
- [Seeing Things: Sarah Fisher at landSPACE in Austin](https://artsandculturetx.com/seeing-things-sarah-fisher-at-landspace-in-austin/) - Sarah Fisher walks constantly, and she is always looking.
- [Live performance and film come together for Barnstorm Dance Fest 2023](https://artsandculturetx.com/live-performance-and-film-come-together-for-barnstorm-dance-fest-2023/) - For a while, many dancers and choreographers had no other outlet: The pandemic shutdowns cut them off from live audiences, so they showcased their work to online viewers on video.
- [Comedy Tonight: Big names are flocking to Fort Worth for Amphibian Stage’s stand-up comic residency](https://artsandculturetx.com/comedy-tonight-big-names-are-flocking-to-fort-worth-for-amphibian-stages-stand-up-comic-residency/) - Workshops and new play readings are nothing new in the theater world, but at Amphibian Stage in Fort Worth that same experimental spirit is extended to a different kind of performance art: stand-up comedy.
- [Sacred and Secular Merge at MFAH’s new Art of the Islamic Worlds Galleries](https://artsandculturetx.com/sacred-and-secular-merge-at-mfahs-new-art-of-the-islamic-worlds-galleries/) - A blue day dawns at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Such was my first thought stepping into the welcoming light and waves of blue in the Art of the Islamic Worlds Galleries.
- [Segue to Season Five: Summer Doesn’t Slow for Marlana Doyle or Her Dance Companies](https://artsandculturetx.com/segue-to-season-five-summer-doesnt-slow-for-marlana-doyle-or-her-dance-companies/) - One bustling summer stands between Marlana Doyle and a milestone—the 5th season for Houston Contemporary Dance Company (HCDC) and the Institute of Contemporary Dance in Houston, two organizations she founded in 2019.
- [A Kind of Dream: Mark di Suvero at the Nasher Sculpture Center](https://artsandculturetx.com/a-kind-of-dream-mark-di-suvero-at-the-nasher-sculpture-center/) - Many readers will be familiar with Mark di Suvero and his work.
- [Form Follows Concept for San Antonio Artist Jesse Amado](https://artsandculturetx.com/form-follows-concept-for-san-antonio-artist-jesse-amado/) - When Jesse Amado goes into the studio, he is open to whatever concept may present itself.
- [Ars Lyrica’s Handel Delivers Musical Fireworks](https://artsandculturetx.com/ars-lyricas-handel-delivers-musical-fireworks/) - No wonder Ars Lyrica Houston opted to showcase Handel’s Clori, Tirsi e Fileno for the third time since 2005.
- [Epic Season at Houston Grand Opera Begins with Intelligence](https://artsandculturetx.com/epic-season-at-houston-grand-opera-begins-with-intelligence/) - Houston Grand Opera’s 2023-24 season is nothing short of epic. “We are producing some of the grandest and most mature artistic works in the repertoire all in one season,” says Khori Dastoor, HGO General Director and CEO. “Verdi’s last opera, Wagner’s last opera, late Mozart—these pieces are Mount Everest, each one of them.”
- [Classics and New Shows: A Lively New Season for Theatre Under The Stars](https://artsandculturetx.com/classics-and-new-shows-a-lively-new-season-for-theatre-under-the-stars/) - “You’ve just got to keep moving,” says Theatre Under The Stars artistic director, Dan Knechtges, when I asked him what lessons he’s learned about programming the company through several years of theater under crisis.
- [When Abstraction Gets Personal: Robert Motherwell at the Modern](https://artsandculturetx.com/when-abstraction-gets-personal-robert-motherwell-at-the-modern/) - Robert Motherwell: Pure Painting, on view at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth from June 4 to Sept. 17, is the first presentation in over 25 years to survey the life and work of the influential post-war artist, whose paintings have been recognized as some of the most inventive of his time.
- [‘The Diving Bell and the Butterfly’ world premiere finally arrives in The Dallas Opera’s new season](https://artsandculturetx.com/the-diving-bell-and-the-butterfly-world-premiere-finally-arrives-in-the-dallas-operas-new-season/) - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly celebrates the power of the human spirit when it faces a cataclysm.
- [Celebrating 150 Years with 150 Artists at Texas Christian University](https://artsandculturetx.com/celebrating-150-years-with-150-artists-at-texas-christian-university/) - As Texas Christian University celebrates the sesquicentennial of its founding, the School of Art is mounting a group exhibition of 150 artists celebrating the talent and range of artists whose work has contributed to the creative life of TCU students and faculty, as well as Texas art and beyond.
- [Wagner, Mahler, Mozart and more: Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s Epic New Season](https://artsandculturetx.com/wagner-mahler-mozart-and-more-dallas-symphony-orchestras-epic-new-season/) - The challenge is so great that no U.S. orchestra has pulled it off in recent decades: a concert-hall presentation of Richard Wagner’s four-opera epic, The Ring of the Nibelung. But the Dallas Symphony Orchestra is taking it on.
- [Cliburn contest helps aspiring pianists envision their future](https://artsandculturetx.com/cliburn-contest-helps-aspiring-pianists-envision-their-future/) - After taking the helm at The Cliburn, which runs the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Fort Worth, Jacques Marquis looked back across the contest’s winners and noticed a pattern.
- [Texas Studio: Alli Villines wants you to Feel Whatever You Feel](https://artsandculturetx.com/texas-studio-alli-villines-wants-you-to-feel-whatever-you-feel/) - Alli Villines’s grandmother prophesied at her birth that she would be a singer, a divine foretelling that has proven true.
- [Show Up: Tammie Rubin at Big Medium](https://artsandculturetx.com/show-up-tammie-rubin-at-big-medium/) - When I caught up with artist, professor, and 2022 Tito’s Art Prize winner Tammie Rubin, she was deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains, about to begin her second session at the Penland Artist Residency.
- [100 Years of Magic at Miller Outdoor Theatre](https://artsandculturetx.com/100-years-of-magic-at-miller-outdoor-theatre/) - Houstonians have experienced the magic of Miller Outdoor Theatre for 100 years now. What is it about this place that tugs on the heart strings, and turns shared moments into lasting memories?
- [Reckoning with History While Interpreting the Future: Emancipation explored at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art](https://artsandculturetx.com/reckoning-with-history-while-interpreting-the-future-emancipation-explored-at-the-amon-carter-museum-of-american-art/) - Today, a bronze cast of The Freedman can be found at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth.
- [An Epic Re-Imagined](https://artsandculturetx.com/an-epic-re-imagined/) - AtticRep's From the Mahabharata—The Great Dance-Off
- [Strength, understanding and resiliency: Karin Broker at the Art Museum of South Texas](https://artsandculturetx.com/strength-understanding-and-resiliency-karin-broker-at-the-art-museum-of-south-texas/) - So, the Houston artist and Rice University printmaking professor, known for her collages, text-based work and prints and interest in gender roles, seized on her anger and a sense of purpose.
- [Future Stars: Young Texas Artists Music Competition Highlights Up and Coming Talent](https://artsandculturetx.com/future-stars-young-texas-artists-music-competition-highlights-up-and-coming-talent/) - Launched in 1993 as a showcase for a single performer, it has evolved into an annual contest that offers $40,000 in prize money to aspiring musicians aged 18 to 32.
- [Discovering the Dallas Arts District](https://artsandculturetx.com/discovering-the-dallas-arts-district/) - It’s the start of my whirlwind tour of the Dallas Arts District. Improbably, in all the years I have lived in Houston (23) and all the time I have been an arts writer in Texas (5), I had never been to Dallas. I am here now as a first time arts tourist, eager to absorb the wonders of a new place, open to every experience that might come my way.
- [The Aura of Honor: Suzanne Bocanegra weaves a wandering road through a 16th century tapestry](https://artsandculturetx.com/the-aura-of-honor-suzanne-bocanegra-weaves-a-wandering-road-through-a-16th-century-tapestry/) - Honor, commissioned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, was presented on Jan. 27, 2023, at Rice University’s Moody Center for the Arts.
- [The Curatorial Imagination: Walter Hopps at the Menil](https://artsandculturetx.com/the-curatorial-imagination-walter-hopps-at-the-menil/) - During a visit to the Getty Research Institute years ago, on an informal tour through the archives, I caught a glimpse of a box filled with Walter Hopps’s letters, marked “Top Secret” or some such about how the contents were to remain sealed until a certain date.
- [Dance of Death: South Africa’s Vuyani Dance Theatre explores grief during three-stop Texas debut](https://artsandculturetx.com/vuyani-dance-theatre/) - In 1995, South African novelist and playwright Zakes Mda wrote a book called Ways of Dying that features a character named Toloki, a professional mourner at township funerals in post-Apartheid South Africa.
- [Toward the Infinity of Possibility: Leslie Martinez at Blaffer Art Museum](https://artsandculturetx.com/toward-the-infinity-of-possibility-leslie-martinez-at-blaffer-art-museum/) - In the work of Leslie Martinez, on view at the Blaffer Art Museum from through March 12, 2023, viewers tumble across landscapes as they explore the peaks and valleys of each piece unhindered by borders.
- [A Tour through the Bower: DiverseWorks and Texas Artists Celebrate the Locke Surls Center for Art and Nature @ Splendora Gardens](https://artsandculturetx.com/a-tour-through-the-bower-diverseworks-and-texas-artists-celebrate-the-locke-surls-center-for-art-and-nature-splendora-gardens/) - “I am turning 80 on April 19, and this is one of those ‘woulda-gonna’ projects that is finally happening,” Surls said. “If I’m going to do it, I have to do it now.”
- [A Narrative Signature: International Choreographer Cathy Marston Prioritizes Storytelling in her Interpretation of a Southern Classic](https://artsandculturetx.com/a-narrative-signature-international-choreographer-cathy-marston-prioritizes-storytelling-in-her-interpretation-of-a-southern-classic/) - choreographer Cathy Marston has developed a unique narrative signature, prioritizing storytelling with the body as much as she can.
- [Shannon and William Cannings Collaborate on ‘Duplicity’ at Anya Tish Gallery](https://artsandculturetx.com/shannon-and-william-cannings-collaborate-on-duplicity-at-anya-tish-gallery/) - h Shannon and William Cannings are represented by Anya Tish Gallery, so showing them together at some point seemed predestined.
- [Fresh Beauty: Matthew Bourne spins a darkly beautiful world](https://artsandculturetx.com/fresh-beauty-matthew-bourne-spins-a-darkly-beautiful-world/) - A longed-for royal baby, a series of blessings and curses from a good-to-evil spectrum of fairies, a bit of a prick, a bead of blood then a century of sleep until a spell-breaking kiss brings the great awakening, happily ever after.
- [Informed by Labor: Day Jobs at the Blanton Museum of Art](https://artsandculturetx.com/informed-by-labor-day-jobs-at-the-blanton-museum-of-art/) - There is actually no way to know how many artists support themselves solely through their artwork, but most people agree that it’s a fairly low percentage.
- [Expanding the Classical Ballet Canon Part II: Alexa Capareda’s Maria and the Mouse Deer](https://artsandculturetx.com/expanding-the-classical-ballet-canon-part-ii-alexa-caparedas-maria-and-the-mouse-deer/) - PART TWO: Think about classical ballet’s signature repertoire—The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, Cinderella. Each of these canonic story ballets is drawn from a European folk tale or story, and set to music by a European composer. Is it time to ask, “what other stories can ballets tell?”
- [Expanding the Classical Ballet Canon Part I: Nao Kusuzaki’s Genji at Asia Society Texas Center in partnership with Houston Ballet](https://artsandculturetx.com/expanding-the-classical-ballet-canon-part-i-nao-kusuzakis-genji-at-asia-society-texas-center-in-partnership-with-houston-ballet/) - Think about classical ballet’s signature repertoire—The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, Cinderella. Each of these canonic story ballets is drawn from a European folk tale or story, and set to music by a European composer. Is it time to ask, “what other stories can ballets tell?”
- [Wonders of the Wetlands: University of Texas at El Paso Project Unleashes the Creativity of Students and Residents](https://artsandculturetx.com/wonders-of-the-wetlands-university-of-texas-at-el-paso-project-unleashes-the-creativity-of-students-and-residents/) - The park in El Paso covers 372 acres running right up to the Rio Grande, and it gives many visitors a big surprise.
- [Wild Time: Fusebox 2023 Brings the Fun Factor](https://artsandculturetx.com/wild-time-fusebox-2023-brings-the-fun-factor/) - Now as spring blooms, we find Austin’s Fusebox, the state’s largest multidisciplinary arts festival, carrying the trend into 2023 with five days (April 12-16) filled with its usual innovative and experimental work, but also a particularly playful and fun lineup.
- [A Feast for the Eyes: Dallas Museum of Art overflows with 300 years of Flemish masterworks](https://artsandculturetx.com/a-feast-for-the-eyes-dallas-museum-of-art-overflows-with-300-years-of-flemish-masterworks/) - “Stepping into this exhibition truly feels like you’re embarking on a journey through time,” says Dr. Nicole R. Myers, Dallas Museum of Art’s interim chief curator and The Barbara Thomas Lemmon senior curator of European Art.
- [Come to the Cabaret: How an underdog musical triumphantly returned to Dallas](https://artsandculturetx.com/come-to-the-cabaret-how-an-underdog-musical-triumphantly-returned-to-dallas/) - In summer 2022, a little-musical-that-could defied the odds in Dallas. Produced as an independent entity, Cabaret at Arts Mission Oak Cliff had no established theater company backing it, no built-in subscriber base, and no big names attached.
- [A Complete Vision: ISHIDA Dance Looks to the Future](https://artsandculturetx.com/a-complete-vision-ishida-dance-looks-to-the-future/) - In one of the biggest Texas dance stories of the year, ISHIDA Dance Company, a contemporary dance company co-located in Austin and Houston, has just made Dance Magazine’s 2023 “25 to Watch” list, one of the most coveted accolades in the dance industry.
- [Moon Over Kathmandu: Lain Singh Bangdel at Asia Society Texas Center](https://artsandculturetx.com/moon-over-kathmandu-lain-singh-bangdel-at-asia-society-texas-center/) - Twenty years after his passing, the extraordinary twentieth-century polymath and pioneering modernist Lain Singh Bangdel is finally getting some much-deserved recognition in the United States.
- [Serious Screentime: ‘I’ll be Your Mirror’ at The Modern](https://artsandculturetx.com/serious-screentime-ill-be-your-mirror-at-the-modern/) - More than 25,000 square feet of gallery space at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth are devoted to I’ll Be Your Mirror: Art and the Digital Screen (Feb. 12- April 30, 2023).
- [An alternative reality of fantasy and myth: Dallas Opera Presents a timeless ‘Das Rheingold’](https://artsandculturetx.com/an-alternative-reality-of-fantasy-and-myth-dallas-opera-presents-a-timeless-das-rheingold/) - For all the glories of Carmen, La Boheme, Aida and the like, opera companies sometimes want to tackle a work that’s out-of-the-ordinary: Call it a statement opera. The urge came upon The Dallas Opera before the pandemic.
- [Pulling it All Together: Cutting Edge Music Programming at Texas Performing Arts](https://artsandculturetx.com/pulling-it-all-together-cutting-edge-music-programming-at-texas-performing-arts/) - As everybody knows, the University of Texas at Austin has transformed its hometown thanks to its role as a hotbed of research. There’s more to that than churning out innovations in computers and technology.
- [Roaring Back: The 2022 Wrap up](https://artsandculturetx.com/roaring-back-the-2022-wrap-up/) - It’s been way too long since I sat around the virtual table with our fabulous theater writers Lindsey Wilson and Tarra Gaines to chat about all things performing arts in Houston, Dallas and beyond.
- [Texas Studio: Jose Villalobos](https://artsandculturetx.com/texas-studio-jose-villalobos/) - In my first brief conversation with San Antonio-based artist Jose Villalobos regarding his 2018 Luminaria artwork, La Carga de Tradición, the artist was incorporating dance-based performance with wearable sculpture.
- [Taking Shape: B. MOORE DANCE Lets Imagination Reign in Season Four](https://artsandculturetx.com/taking-shape-b-moore-dance-lets-imagination-reign-in-season-four/) - Last season, B. MOORE DANCE debuted four world premieres under the direction and choreography of founder and artistic director Bridget L. Moore.
- [Show Up: Joey Fauerso at Galveston Arts Center](https://artsandculturetx.com/show-up-joey-fauerso-at-galveston-arts-center/) - When planning her show of paintings, sculptures, and videos at the Galveston Arts Center (Jan. 14-April 16, 2023), Joey Fauerso decided to consider the large, high-ceilinged main gallery as the site of a single installation.
- [Home is where the art is: Uptown Players debuts a new Dallas space for 2023 season](https://artsandculturetx.com/home-is-where-the-art-is-uptown-players-debuts-a-new-dallas-space-for-2023-season/) - Don’t worry, Uptown Players is still in Uptown—at least part of the time.
- [Lone Star Art Stars: The Texas Medal of Arts Return](https://artsandculturetx.com/lone-star-art-stars-the-texas-medals-return/) - to celebrate that Texas art pride, every two years the Texas Cultural Trust puts on the ultimate star-gazing party, a.k.a. the Texas Medal of Arts Awards.
- [Deep Time: Michelle Mackey at Holly Johnson Gallery](https://artsandculturetx.com/deep-time-michelle-mackey-at-holly-johnson-gallery/) - The solo exhibition Michelle Mackey: Beyond Measure (Nov. 19, 2022-Feb. 11, 2023), at Holly Johnson Gallery in Dallas, is in many ways a homecoming for the artist.
- [The Meaning of Meaningless: Walter De Maria at the Menil Collection](https://artsandculturetx.com/the-meaning-of-meaningless-walter-de-maria-at-the-menil-collection/) - What constitutes meaning? It’s not a simple question, and it’s one that has captured the imagination of artists, philosophers, and scholars alike for millennia.
- [Dallas Chamber Symphony Celebrates 10 years of Innovative Programming](https://artsandculturetx.com/dallas-chamber-symphony-celebrates-10-years-of-innovative-programming/) - McKay’s goal for each concert is to create a program that has an arc and trajectory to it, making an experience that feels organic in the way it unfolds.
- [Wreckers Away! A Thrilling, Compelling HGO Production Does Justice to a Masterpiece](https://artsandculturetx.com/wreckers-away-a-thrilling-compelling-hgo-production-does-justice-to-a-masterpiece/) - It was a revelatory night at the Houston Grand Opera for the opening of Dame Ethel Smyth’s The Wreckers.
- [A Meeting to Remember: Aaron Landsman and Mallory Catlett’s new book on ‘City Council Meeting’](https://artsandculturetx.com/a-meeting-to-remember-aaron-landsman-and-mallory-catletts-new-book-on-city-council-meeting/) - City Council Meeting was developed by Aaron Landsman amd Mallory Catlett, with design by Jim Findlay, and developed (in part) during a residency at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts.
- [Radical Visions Play Out at Houston Cinema Arts Festival 2022](https://artsandculturetx.com/radical-visions-play-out-at-houston-cinema-arts-festival-2022/) - Radical visions—that’s what lead programmer, Jazmyne Moreno, says we should look for at this year’s Houston Cinema Arts Festival (Nov. 10-16).
- [Constructing Fragility: Diane Severin Nguyen at the CAMH](https://artsandculturetx.com/constructing-fragility-diane-severin-nguyen-at-the-camh/) - On view at the Contemporary Art Museum Houston from Oct. 28 through Feb. 26, 2023, If Revolution Is a Sickness centers around a video of the same name.
- [Lone Star Legacy: Anne Windfohr Marion’s Philanthropy Lives On at The Modern](https://artsandculturetx.com/lone-star-legacy-anne-windfohr-marions-philanthropy-lives-on-at-the-modern/) - Anne Windfohr Marion’s life story has the makings of a Lone Star legacy. Recognized as an oil heiress, rancher, horse breeder, and business executive, her philanthropy included support for the arts as well.
- [Moving Bodies, Moving Cameras: Frame x Frame Expands to Three Locations](https://artsandculturetx.com/moving-bodies-moving-cameras-frame-x-frame-expands-to-three-locations/) - With a tagline of “international, powered by women & curiously lo-fi,” Frame Dance’s line-up this year for Frame x Frame Film Fest 2022 offers a range of impactful films.
- [Accelerating Their Artistic Voice: Dallas Black Dance Theatre builds on recent triumphs with inspiring season](https://artsandculturetx.com/accelerating-their-artistic-voice-dallas-black-dance-theatre-builds-on-recent-triumphs-with-inspiring-season/) - By all measurements, Dallas Black Dance Theatre had a stellar 2021 and first part of 2022.
- [Tapping Texas Talent: Women Choreographers Make their Mark on Musical Theater](https://artsandculturetx.com/tapping-texas-talent-women-choreographers-make-their-mark-on-musical-theater/) - Back in pre-pandemic 2020, B. Moore Dance company founder Bridget Moore signed on as choreographer for the Second Thought Theatre’s production of Lynn Nottage’s play Mlima's Tale.
- [The Way of Water: Forklift Danceworks to premiere new production](https://artsandculturetx.com/the-way-of-water-forklift-danceworks-to-premiere-new-production/) - While there was little rainfall over the summer in central Texas, money flowed from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to 51 national awardees, including Austin’s venerable Forklift Danceworks, in the form of Our Town grants.
- [Dali and Vermeer in Dialogue at the Meadows](https://artsandculturetx.com/dali-and-vermeer-in-dialogue-at-the-meadows/) - Meadows Museum in Dallas secured Vermeer’s Woman in Blue Reading a Letter for its new exhibition, Dalí/Vermeer: A Dialogue, on display Oct. 16, 2022 through Jan. 15, 2023.
- [‘Survivance’: The Carter Turns the Lens Over to Indigenous Photographers](https://artsandculturetx.com/survivance-the-carter-turns-the-lens-over-to-indigenous-photographers/) - Speaking With Light: Contemporary Indigenous Photography, on display at the Amon Carter through Jan. 22, 2023.
- [Texas Studio: Matthew Bourbon on Blunting the Edges of Certainty](https://artsandculturetx.com/texas-studio-matthew-bourbon-on-blunting-the-edges-of-certainty/) - Like so many artists, Matthew Bourbon holds an array of roles in the field.
- [Jenelle Esparza Weaves Ancestral History at Women & Their Work](https://artsandculturetx.com/jenelle-esparza-weaves-ancestral-history-at-women-their-work/) - Jenelle Esparza’s weavings reflect her South Texas lineage, but also ask what that history might look like from the perspective of the landscape.
- [Gordon Parks at the MFAH: Behind-the-lens insights into the mind of one of America’s most visionary photographers](https://artsandculturetx.com/gordon-parks-at-the-mfah-behind-the-lens-insights-into-the-mind-of-one-of-americas-most-visionary-photographers/) - In 1966, Gordon Parks, one of the most acclaimed photographers of the 20th century, set out to profile rising civil rights leader Stokely Carmichael for Life magazine.
- [Global Thinking: Dallas Opera Livestreams Main Stage Productions](https://artsandculturetx.com/global-thinking-dallas-opera-livestreams-main-stage-productions/) - For a decade, The Dallas Opera has periodically invaded the Cowboys’ home turf—literally.
- [Seriality, color, and time: Matthew Wong at DMA](https://artsandculturetx.com/seriality-color-and-time-matthew-wong-at-dma/) - The Dallas Museum of Art seemed to have known that Matthew Wong was on the cusp of fame before most of the world’s other leading art museums.
- [The New Now Continues: Performing Arts Houston Commissioning Project Celebrates Local Artists](https://artsandculturetx.com/the-new-now-continues-performing-arts-houston-commissioning-project-celebrates-local-artists/) - Booth hopes that the program will continue to prove Houston’s cultural excellence to go along with the city’s reputation as a home to global business innovators.
- [Stir Your Heart Toward Change: Bruce Wood Dance Expands Its Reach](https://artsandculturetx.com/stir-your-heart-toward-change-bruce-wood-dance-expands-its-reach/) - The 2022-23 season is a bit of a homecoming for Bruce Wood Dance.
- [Matt Manalo asks ‘Is Liberation Attainable?’](https://artsandculturetx.com/matt-manalo-asks-is-liberation-attainable/) - Manalo’s family immigrated to the United States from the Philippines when he was nineteen, sparking what would become one of the major driving questions - what does ‘home’ mean?
- [Kinetic Season 8: Distinct Voices, New Works, and Wild Soundscapes](https://artsandculturetx.com/kinetic-season-8-distinct-voices-new-works-and-wild-soundscapes/) - In Kinetic’s collaborative model, each of the 16 musicians in the conductorless string ensemble brings his or her creative voice to the table, to the rehearsal space, and to the concert stage.
- [Houston Chamber Choir Expands its Reach](https://artsandculturetx.com/houston-chamber-choir-expands-its-reach/) - Nobody expected the Houston Chamber Choir’s season opener to tie in with the news of the world.
- [Houston Symphony Expands its Range with a New Director and Season](https://artsandculturetx.com/houston-symphony-expands-its-range-with-a-new-director-and-season/) - The Houston Symphony’s new music director, Juraj Valčuha, acknowledged that opening the season with a requiem may strike some as “a strange idea.” But Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem is no ordinary setting of the mass for the dead.
- [Loud and Clear: Vignette Art Fair amplifies women’s voices](https://artsandculturetx.com/loud-and-clear-vignette-art-fair-amplifies-womens-voices/) - The Vignette Art Fair gives women artists from all over Texas the opportunity to exhibit their work and make their voices known.
- [New and rediscovered voices: Dallas Symphony Orchestra Celebrates Women in Fall Concerts](https://artsandculturetx.com/new-and-rediscovered-voices-dallas-symphony-orchestra-celebrates-women-in-fall-concerts/) - Almost overnight, orchestral concerts went through a revolution.
- [Apollo Chamber Players Celebrates 15 Years with an Ambitious Season](https://artsandculturetx.com/apollo-chamber-players-celebrates-15-years-with-an-ambitious-season/) - When the Apollo Chamber Players made its debut, grand visions of the future had nothing to do with it. The quartet, violinist Matthew Detrick recalls, had one simple goal: “to do that first concert.”
- [The Parts that Make Us Whole: Benny Andrews and Deborah Roberts at the McNay Art Museum](https://artsandculturetx.com/the-parts-that-make-us-whole-benny-andrews-and-deborah-roberts-at-the-mcnay-art-museum/) - “Creative people need time to sit around and do nothing.” This perceptive quote from author Austin Kleon, a self-described “writer who draws,” is front and center on Deborah Robert’s Instagram account as I’m writing.
- [Still Rising: Deborah D.E.E.P Mouton brings Lauren Anderson’s story to the Stage](https://artsandculturetx.com/still-rising-deborah-d-e-e-p-mouton-brings-houston-ballet-legend-lauren-andersons-story-to-life-in-choreopoem-plumshuga-at-stages/) - When one of Houston’s most acclaimed poets, Deborah D.E.E.P Mouton, set out to interview the city’s most legendary dancer, Lauren Anderson, she didn’t have a fully-formed creative objective.
- [The difficult past and hopeful future of Latinx theater in Dallas](https://artsandculturetx.com/the-difficult-past-and-hopeful-future-of-latinx-theater-in-dallas/) - In 1980, two years after Teatro Dallas was founded by Cora Cardona and Jeff Hurst, only 9.9% of Dallas’s 904,078 residents ticked the newly added box for “Hispanic.”
- [A Good Laugh: The Fun Factor on Texas Stages](https://artsandculturetx.com/a-good-laugh-the-fun-factor-on-texas-stages/) - After a performance season filled with joyful starts, heart-breaking cancellations and casting understudies for the understudies when positive COVID tests rolled in, Texas theater companies have endured much real life drama to make the leap back to live performances.
- [Ambiente Amore: Felipe Lopez at Clarke & Associates](https://artsandculturetx.com/ambiente-amore-felipe-lopez-at-clarke-associates/) - Through the expansive storefront windows of Clarke & Associates in Houston comes a flood of light.
- [The Power of an Image: FotoFest Biennial 2022 confronts the issues of our time](https://artsandculturetx.com/the-power-of-an-image-fotofest-biennial-2022-confronts-the-issues-of-our-time/) - Just as the song was a response to the concerns of its time, the works that constitute the central exhibition of FotoFest Biennial 2022: If I Had a Hammer (Sept. 24-Nov. 6 at Silver Street and Winter Street Studios) confront the issues of our time.
- [All in for Beauty: Charlotte Smith at Camiba Gallery](https://artsandculturetx.com/all-in-for-beauty-charlotte-smith-at-camiba-gallery/) - For more than 20 years Dallas-based artist Charlotte Smith has reveled in experimenting with paint, and occasionally other materials, creating a signature style grounded in process-driven abstraction.
- [Purcell, Vivaldi, Monteverdi, Handel and more: Ars Lyrica’s Bright New Season](https://artsandculturetx.com/purcell-vivaldi-monteverdi-handel-and-more-ars-lyricas-bright-new-season/) - Ars Lyrica is picking up right where it left off. After closing last season with the poignant finish of Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, Houston’s baroque ensemble will launch its 2022-23 season with another helping of the melancholy, gently dissonant harmony that bears Purcell’s trademark.
- [Next Chapter: Artist, Curator, and Educator Benito Huerta Retires](https://artsandculturetx.com/next-chapter-artist-curator-and-educator-benito-huerta-retires/) - The artist has held roles as Professor and Curator at the University of Texas at Arlington for twenty-five years, and the occasion of our conversation is his retirement.
- [Avant Chamber Ballet’s 10th season celebrates women and whimsy](https://artsandculturetx.com/avant-chamber-ballets-10th-season-celebrates-women-and-whimsy/) - Ten years is a huge milestone for an arts organization, and Avant Chamber Ballet is celebrating accordingly.
- [Afsaneh Aayani Manifests ‘Theater For All’](https://artsandculturetx.com/afsaneh-aayani-manifests-theater-for-all/) - If you saw Innominate by Afsaneh Aayani at Catastrophic Theatre, you might think you know who Aayani is. You would be right and wrong at the same time.
- [Between sacred and secular: Murillo at the Kimbell](https://artsandculturetx.com/between-sacred-and-secular-murillo-at-the-kimbell/) - Spanish Golden Age painter Bartolomé Esteban Murillo might be hailed as the leading religious painter of Seville during his lifetime, which spanned 1617–1682, but he wasn’t initially a favorite of former Louvre curator Guillaume Kientz.
- [Identities, Narratives, and Histories: CraftTexas 2022 at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft](https://artsandculturetx.com/identities-narratives-and-histories-crafttexas-2022-at-houston-center-for-contemporary-craft/) - How does craft tell stories differently than other visual arts media? I posed this question to Texas-raised, Los Angeles-based artist and curator Andres Payan Estrada, juror for CraftTexas 2022, the biennial juried exhibition presented by Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (HCCC), now in its 11th edition.
- [Ambiguous places of beauty and sadness: Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin’s Wayfinding at the Blaffer](https://artsandculturetx.com/ambiguous-places-of-beauty-and-sadness-nick-vaughan-and-jake-margolins-wayfinding-at-the-blaffer/) - Ten years ago, multidisciplinary artists and life partners Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin set out to trace a little-known bit of queer U.S history, an 1843 pleasure excursion by100 men from St Louis to the Wind River Range of Wyoming, likely the first example of North American gay eco/party tourism.
- [On Fascination, Form, and Future: David-Jeremiah at HMAAC](https://artsandculturetx.com/on-fascination-form-and-future-david-jeremiah-at-hmaac/) - Reference to these machines is a common thread across the majority of David-Jeremiah: Early Career Survey, on view at HMAAC through Sept. 10, 2022.
- [Fort Worth Arts Moves Forward](https://artsandculturetx.com/fort-worth-arts-moves-forward/) - Among the many changes to the inside of the midcentury visual and performing arts center at 1300 Gendy Street in Fort Worth is that management finally tore out the carpet, a final blow to the carpet lobby’s dominance in the Cultural District.
- [Quintessential DACAMERA: Programming Magic in the 2022-23 Season](https://artsandculturetx.com/quintessential-dacamera-programming-magic-in-the-2022-23-season/) - In Artistic Director Sarah Rothenberg’s mind, a quintessential DACAMERA season must have a balance of beloved masterpieces performed by great musicians from the classical world, and fantastic jazz of varying styles that reflect the ever-widening genre.
- [Colette Copeland: My Jesse James Adventure at the Old Jail Art Center and Jody Klotz Fine Art](https://artsandculturetx.com/colette-copeland-my-jesse-james-adventure-at-the-old-jail-art-center-and-jody-klotz-fine-art/) - Driving alone through the middle of the country, spanning nine states and more than 4,000 miles, Dallas-based artist, cultural critic, and social activist Colette Copeland spent three summers visiting the numerous sites where Jesse James lived and outlawed, filming on location throughout her performative journey.
- [Beauty Transcends Death: Dido and Aeneas at Ars Lyrica Houston](https://artsandculturetx.com/beauty-transcends-death-dido-and-aeneas-at-ars-lyrica-houston/) - English Baroque composer Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, his only true opera, is an indisputable masterpiece and one of the most beloved operas in the repertoire.
- [Born a Yarn Spinner: Stanton Welch on Storytelling in Ballet](https://artsandculturetx.com/born-a-yarn-spinner-stanton-welch-on-storytelling-in-ballet/) - Houston Ballet’s Artistic Director Stanton Welch grew up around ballet.
- [Dallas Opera Celebrates 65 Years](https://artsandculturetx.com/dallas-opera-celebrates-65-years/) - To help make the 65th-anniversary season special, the company is staging four operas that it hasn’t produced in more than a decade, Derrer says, and it will showcase each in a production that’s new to Dallas audiences.
- [Show Up: Kelli Vance at Cris Worley](https://artsandculturetx.com/show-up-kelli-vance-at-cris-worley/) - The best parts of horror movies are always the early scenes, when a director can revel in the shadows and tease us with glimpses of the monster, allowing our brains to fill in the blanks.
- [Go Big, Go Joyful: The Journey Back to the Theater](https://artsandculturetx.com/go-big-go-joyful-the-journey-back-to-the-theater/) - During the height of the streamed performing arts portion of the pandemic, I thought a lot about the difference between being a viewer and an audience member.
- [Acts of Resistance: Black Every Day at The Carter](https://artsandculturetx.com/acts-of-resistance-black-every-day-at-the-carter/) - The scene is the summer of 2020. The country is in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. Protestors are outraged by the murder of George Floyd and other Black men at the hands of the police.
- [A Season of Hope: Theatre Under The Stars’ Celebratory Vision](https://artsandculturetx.com/a-season-of-hope-theatre-under-the-stars-celebratory-vision/) - If the 2021-2022 theater season was about getting back on stage for many Texas performing arts companies, Theatre Under The Star’s 2022-2023 season might be best described as a season ready to take that big breath, then sing, dance and celebrate life renewed.
- [Cultural Meeting Points: Amoako Boafo at the CAMH](https://artsandculturetx.com/cultural-meeting-points-amoako-boafo-at-the-camh/) - Amoako Boafo: Soul of Black Folks was first exhibited at San Francisco’s moAD and has now traveled to the Contemporary Art Museum Houston, on view May 27 through Oct. 2.
- [Scaling Up: Landmarks Unveils a New Commission by Sarah Oppenheimer](https://artsandculturetx.com/scaling-up-landmarks-unveils-a-new-commission-by-sarah-oppenheimer/) - The project Oppenheimer is referring to, which will be unveiled Sept. 15, is C-010106, commissioned by Landmarks, the public art program of the University of Texas at Austin.
- [Beyond the Binary: Women Painting Women at The Modern](https://artsandculturetx.com/beyond-the-binary-women-painting-women-at-the-modern/) - On view at The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth May 15 through September 25 is Women Painting Women, a thematic exhibition of forty-six women artists who choose women as subject matter in their works.
- [Texas on Stage at the McNay](https://artsandculturetx.com/texas-on-stage-at-the-mcnay/) - The Tobin Collection of Theatre Arts contains artifacts dating back centuries, and its exhibitions sometimes revel in that broad historical panorama. But The Great Stage of Texas, running through July 24 at San Antonio’s McNay Art Museum—the collection’s home—could hardly be more contemporary.
- [Progress Ahead: PrintHouston Returns with Momentum](https://artsandculturetx.com/progress-ahead-printhouston-returns-with-momentum/) - The pandemic forced PrintHouston to sit out 2021. Now that the virus is largely under control, the city’s biennial celebration of the printmaking art isn’t waiting for another odd-numbered year to roll around.
- [Full Strength: TITAS/Dance Unbound Returns with a Packed Season](https://artsandculturetx.com/full-strength-titas-dance-unbound-returns-with-a-packed-season/) - After a shortened 2021-22 season, TITAS/Dance Unbound is roaring back for its first full, live season since the pandemic. That’s 10 companies, hailing from four countries, with five making their Texas debut.
- [ROCO at 18: A Season to be Grateful](https://artsandculturetx.com/roco-at-18-a-season-to-be-grateful/) - ROCO is everywhere. In its 18th season, this industry-changing chamber orchestra from Houston has reached well beyond the walls of the traditional concert space, laying down a vibrant and diverse soundtrack for an entire city.
- [Window to the World and Mirror to the Community: Performing Arts Houston New Season](https://artsandculturetx.com/window-to-the-world-and-mirror-to-the-community-performing-arts-houston-new-season/) - Society for the Performing Arts is now Performing Arts Houston, but Meg Booth, chief executive officer, makes it clear that their mission to bring the world of music, dance, theater as well as cultural speakers to the city is still fundamental to who they are after 50 years.
- [All the World’s a Stage: Shakespeare Dallas turns 50](https://artsandculturetx.com/all-the-worlds-a-stage-shakespeare-dallas-turns-50/) - Nothing says summer in Dallas quite like Shakespeare in the Park. For 50 years now, the Bard of Avon’s fans have been unfurling blankets, laying out picnics, and popping the corks on glistening bottles of chilled wine before enjoying an evening of iambic pentameter under the stars.
- [The Pace of Place: Jamal Cyrus at The Modern](https://artsandculturetx.com/the-pace-of-place-jamal-cyrus-at-the-modern/) - Cyrus shares aspects of his spirited path along sonic territories by creating sculptures, denim works, drawings, and sound, all of which are part of his upcoming solo exhibition at The Modern in Fort Worth, on view through June 26 as part of the museum’s ongoing Focus series.
- [The Third Time’s the Charm: Dance Salad Determined to Celebrate its 25th Year in Houston](https://artsandculturetx.com/the-third-times-the-charm-dance-salad-determined-to-celebrate-its-25th-year-in-houston/) - “This is our third year trying to do our 25th year,” says Houston’s unofficial dance ambassador Nancy Henderek, whose annual springtime Dance Salad Festival (for reasons you can probably guess) took an unexpected hiatus in 2020 and again in 2021.
- [Texas Studio: Sarah Fox’s Bad Bunny Gets Real](https://artsandculturetx.com/texas-studio-sarah-foxs-bad-bunny-gets-real/) - “My work starts with a character,” says San Antonio artist Sarah Fox.
- [Fortune Favors the Bold: Powerhouse Women Lead Houston Grand Opera’s New Season](https://artsandculturetx.com/fortune-favors-the-bold-powerhouse-women-lead-houston-grand-operas-new-season/) - Describing herself as “relentlessly optimistic,” Khori Dastoor officially took over the reins as Houston Grand Opera (HGO)’s General Director and CEO in January 2022, becoming the first woman to lead the prestigious company in its 67-year history.
- [Branching Out: Dallas Symphony Orchestra Offers Audiences New Listening Experiences](https://artsandculturetx.com/branching-out-dallas-symphony-orchestra-offers-audiences-new-listening-experiences/) - The Dallas Symphony Orchestra has been fortunate. Except for recasting a few concert programs in January after a few cases of omicron cropped up among its musicians—who recovered—it has been able to operate “full go-ahead” this season as planned, executive director Kim Noltemy says.
- [Texas Lens: Leading The Crossings in San Antonio](https://artsandculturetx.com/texas-lens-leading-the-crossings-in-san-antonio/) - Damaris Ferrer describes a bridge as a portal and any path or structure that serves as a connector. The Crossings is her global project which uses a massive, red fabric with eight elastic waistbands for eight movers as a catalyst.
- [Finishing Strong: TITAS/Dance Unbound assembles star-studded lineup for its spring season](https://artsandculturetx.com/finishing-strong-titas-dance-unbound-assembles-star-studded-lineup-for-its-spring-season/) - During the first part of its 2021-22 season, TITAS/Dance Unbound treated Dallas audiences to U.S. and Texas premieres, reimagined cultural icons, exuberant Latin dance, and even pieces choreographed to the music of R&B legend D’Angelo.
- [Indigenous perspectives: ‘The Language of Beauty in African Art’ at the Kimbell Language of Beauty in African Art](https://artsandculturetx.com/indigenous-perspectives-the-language-of-beauty-in-african-art-at-the-kimbell-language-of-beauty-in-african-art/) - More than a century ago, the western art world found a new subject of intrigue. As Europeans began heavier colonization of Africa, they began returning home with a variety of exotic art unlike anything the public had seen before.
- [To See and Be Seen: Dawoud Bey at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston](https://artsandculturetx.com/to-see-and-be-seen-dawoud-bey-at-the-museum-of-fine-arts-houston/) - Bey is one of the most important artists working today, and that isn’t hyperbole. Dawoud Bey: An American Project, co-organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, is on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, through May 30.
- [Meaning in the Making: Kinji Akagawa at the Amon Carter Museum of Art](https://artsandculturetx.com/meaning-in-the-making-kinji-akagawa-at-the-amon-carter-museum-of-art/) - Art Making as Life Making: Kinji Akagawa at Tamarind, on view April 23 through Oct. 30 at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, showcases the meaning and impact of collaboration in this renowned artist’s life.
- [Ancient Wisdom: Spirit Lodge at Dallas Museum of Art](https://artsandculturetx.com/ancient-wisdom-spirit-lodge-at-dallas-museum-of-art-2/) - It’s no exaggeration to say that Spirit Lodge: Mississippian Art from Spiro, on view at the DMA March 13-Aug. 7, could be the last time a show of this magnitude comes around, at least in our lifetime.
- [Building on Partnerships: Fusebox Festival Returns to Austin](https://artsandculturetx.com/fusebox22/) - “Sonic partnerships.” If we had to describe the return of Austin’s Fusebox Festival in 2022 after its pandemic interruption, a plethora of sound performances and projects emerging from very unique partnerships leads to such a description.
- [Mapping Grief: Bruce Wood Dance Premieres New Work by Stephanie Martinez](https://artsandculturetx.com/mapping-grief-bruce-wood-dance-premieres-new-work-by-stephanie-martinez/) - Despite the ongoing pandemic-related complications, Dallas-based company Bruce Wood Dance has continued to commission and premiere new works over the past months.
- [Hovering Words: Ignasi Aballí at the Meadows](https://artsandculturetx.com/hovering-words-ignasi-aballi-at-the-meadows/) - Palabras Vacias, which means “Empty Words'', is on view at SMU’s Meadows Museum through June 26, a minimal contemporary installation in an institution more often associated with the gilded frame than the white cube.
- [Collage Artist: Annie Arnoult’s Immersive World at Open Dance Project](https://artsandculturetx.com/collage-artist-annie-arnoults-immersive-world-at-open-dance-project/) - During an immersive dance production the line between audience and dancer can blur, but in an Annie Arnoult Open Dance Project performance that blurring expands from the space between dancer and audience to the line between theater and dance, history and story, viewing and autonomous experiencing.
- [Topography: Billy Hassell at the Art Museum of Southeast Texas](https://artsandculturetx.com/topography-billy-hassell-at-the-art-museum-of-southeast-texas/) - Egrets and pelicans, bobcat and wild turkey, dolphins and gar, migrating geese and monarch butterflies–creatures great and small from the East Texas and Gulf Coast regions will populate Hassell’s canvases and color lithographs at the Art Museum of Southeast Texas (AMSET) in Beaumont when the museum presents Billy Hassell: Topography (March 26-June 19).
- [Against Erasure: Shahzia Sikander at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston](https://artsandculturetx.com/against-erasure-shahzia-sikander-at-the-museum-of-fine-arts-houston/) - Shahzia Sikander recognizes the many forms that the erasure of women can take, whether historically or in contemporary life. And she has focused her art practice on changing that reality.
- [A Closer Look: Avant Chamber Ballet stretches into new venues for its 9th  season](https://artsandculturetx.com/a-closer-look-avant-chamber-ballet-stretches-into-new-venues-for-its-9th-season/) - Of all the changes to come out of the pandemic, having an audience be closer to its performers is not one many dance groups anticipated. But Katie Puder, Avant Chamber Ballet’s artistic director, is thrilled with this outcome for her company.
- [In the Ring: How performer Christopher Llewyn Ramirez brought lucha libre to Dallas stages](https://artsandculturetx.com/in-the-ring-how-performer-christopher-llewyn-ramirez-brought-lucha-libre-to-dallas-stages/) - It can be argued that wrestling is a form of theater, with its dramatic storylines, thrilling choreography, and powerful characters.
- [A Spark in the Dark: Chemistry on Stage](https://artsandculturetx.com/a-spark-in-the-dark-chemistry-on-stage/) - Flash forward deep into the pandemic and the height of streaming theater while lying on a couch, I thought a lot about live, in-person stage chemistry.
- [An all-night vigil, fairytales and a DACAMERA performance: Houston Chamber Choir’s Big Spring Season](https://artsandculturetx.com/an-all-night-vigil-fairytales-and-a-dacamera-performance-houston-chamber-choirs-big-spring-season/) - As he planned out the Houston Chamber Choir’s season, artistic director Robert Simpson figured on two must-haves: a return visit by guest conductor María Guinand, the Venezuelan he calls “a joy generator”; and a performance of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil, the soulful a cappella work the choir was rehearsing when the covid-19 shutdown silenced it in March 2020.
- [Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra’s New Vision](https://artsandculturetx.com/fort-worth-symphony-orchestras-new-vision/) - When the doors of Bass Performance Hall open for the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra’s first concert of their 2022-23 season this September, it will also mark the beginning of a new era for the 110-year-old organization.
- [Moody Center for the Arts Celebrates Five Years of Ideas, Dialogue and Innovation](https://artsandculturetx.com/moody-center-for-the-arts-celebrates-five-years-of-ideas-dialogue-and-innovation/) - If conversation can truly rise to an art form, Rice University’s Moody Center for the Arts has proven a most creative ground for such an idea-exchanging medium.
- [Powerful and complex: Jill Magid reflects on Labor and Value at The Modern](https://artsandculturetx.com/powerful-and-complex-jill-magid-reflects-on-labor-and-value-at-the-modern/) - Works stemming from the massive public artwork, including sculptures and a film, are displayed in the exhibit FOCUS: Jill Magid at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, which runs through March 20.
- [Imagining the Invisible: Oscar Muñoz’s retrospective at the Blanton](https://artsandculturetx.com/imagining-the-invisible-oscar-munozs-retrospective-at-the-blanton/) - Curated by Vanessa Davidson, the exhibition will open in February at the Blanton Museum in Austin, following its debut in Phoenix. It is the first U.S. retrospective from Colombian artist Oscan Muñoz (b. 1951).
- [ISHIDA Brings Literature to Dance for Texas Audiences](https://artsandculturetx.com/ishida-brings-literature-to-dance-for-texas-audiences/) - Brett Ishida, a California transplant to Austin, is bringing her new Austin-based contemporary dance company ISHIDA to the stage for the company’s first evening-length production since the pandemic began.
- [Historical Echoes: Mel Chin at UTA](https://artsandculturetx.com/historical-echoes-mel-chin-at-uta/) - Two of the central artworks in Mel Chin’s latest exhibition, Inescapable Histories, on view at the University of Texas at Arlington through March 30, are diptych paintings of a circular shape, resembling a solar body.
- [Their Stories: Spring 2022 Season at Ballet Austin](https://artsandculturetx.com/their-stories-spring-2022-season-at-ballet-austin/) - Ballet Austin’s spring season at the Long Center for the Performing Arts is composed of a mix of comedic, contemporary and canonical ballets that range from Artistic Director Stephen Mills’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (February 11-13), to Her Stories (April 1-3) with unique works by three female choreographers, to the traditional Swan Lake (May 6-8).
- [Casting Light on Houston Ballet's 2022 Lineup](https://artsandculturetx.com/casting-light-on-houston-ballets-2022-lineup/) - The second part of Houston Ballet’s 2021-2022 season features productions that reflect the wide-ranging talents and skills of the company’s dancers.
- [Double Vision: Dallas Opera Returns to Grandeur and Grows its Digital Audience](https://artsandculturetx.com/double-vision-dallas-opera-returns-to-grandeur-and-grows-its-digital-audience/) - Opera’s grandeur will at last come back to the Winspear Opera House on Feb. 18, when TDO revives its production of Giacomo Puccini’s Madame Butterfly (through Feb. 26).
- [Texas Legend Octavio Medellín Honored at the DMA](https://artsandculturetx.com/texas-legend-octavio-medellin-honored-at-the-dma/) - More than twenty years after his death, his legacy will be honored in the retrospective, Octavio Medellín: Spirit and Form, on view at the Dallas Museum of Art, Feb. 2, 2022- Jan. 15, 2023.
- [Pegasus Contemporary Ballet Takes Flight over DFW](https://artsandculturetx.com/pegasus-contemporary-ballet-takes-flight-over-dfw/) - North Texas has a new ballet company, but don’t expect a production of Swan Lake or The Nutcracker. “I love those ballets; I’ve performed them as a professional,” says Diana Crowder, Artistic Director and Founder of Pegasus Contemporary Ballet.
- [Crossing the Scratch on the Earth: Wendy Red Star at San Antonio Museum of Art](https://artsandculturetx.com/crossing-the-scratch-on-the-earth-wendy-red-star-at-san-antonio-museum-of-art/) - This force, rooted in Red Star’s deep connection to Crow culture and identity, is foundational to all of Red Star’s works. When the San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA) presents Wendy Red Star: A Scratch on the Earth (Feb.11-May 8), it will be the first solo exhibition of a Native American artist for the museum.
- [The Underworld on Stage: ‘Hadestown’ Tours Texas](https://artsandculturetx.com/the-underworld-on-stage-hadestown-tours-texas/) - Even once the show goes on, the director’s work is still not done. This has become especially true for the Tony winning director of Hadestown, Rachel Chavkin.
- [The State of the World: Frances Stark at The Modern](https://artsandculturetx.com/the-state-of-the-world-frances-stark-at-the-modern/) - Frances Stark hasn’t been this angry and disillusioned with the state of the world in a while—if ever. That’s evident in FOCUS: Frances Stark of the artist’s paintings on display at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth through January 9.
- [The South’s Got Something to Say: <em>Dirty South</em> at CAMH](https://artsandculturetx.com/the-souths-got-something-to-say-dirty-south-at-camh/) - First opened at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and on view at the Contemporary Art Museum Houston (CAMH) through Feb. 6, 2022, The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse is a survey of Southern art that shies away from nothing.
- [Keep an Eye on It: Neva Mikulicz’s Sci-Fi World at Anya Tish Gallery](https://artsandculturetx.com/keep-an-eye-on-it-neva-mikuliczs-sci-fi-world-at-anya-tish-gallery/) - Artist Neva Mikulicz sees a growing “anti-science” attitude in our culture, and it creeps her out.
- [The Alley Theatre at 75](https://artsandculturetx.com/the-alley-theatre-at-75/) - Houston’s Alley Theatre, one of the oldest and largest companies in Texas, celebrates its 75th anniversary with a beautiful monster of a season.
- [Pop Art, Designed for 2021: A look into the Blanton’s Pop Crítico](https://artsandculturetx.com/pop-art-designed-for-2021-a-look-into-the-blantons-pop-critico/) - there was some speculation as to the potential impact of the Blanton exhibit Pop Crítico/Political Pop: Expressive Figuration in the Americas, 1960s-1980s (through Jan. 16), as well as a certain wariness when it comes to trying to parallel contemporary problems with art from the past.
- [A Different Light: ‘Georgia O’Keeffe, Photographer’ at the MFAH](https://artsandculturetx.com/a-different-light-georgia-okeeffe-photographer-at-the-mfah/) - Now the world will also view O’Keeffe in a different light and see a trove of her recently discovered photographic art in the MFAH exhibition Georgia O’Keeffe, Photographer, running through Jan. 22.
- [Ars Lyrica](https://artsandculturetx.com/ars-lyrica/) - When the pandemic forced Ars Lyrica to cancel plans last season for its second opera staging, the group didn’t take it lying down.
- [It all Happens in Houston: Houston Cinema Arts Festival Returns](https://artsandculturetx.com/hcaf-2021/) - “It’s Houston. Literally every single thing is happening, including filmmaking. Everything is happening in Houston.”
- [An Archive of Black Joy: Tito’s Prize winners Michael J. Love and Ariel René Jackson at Big Medium](https://artsandculturetx.com/an-archive-of-black-joy-titos-prize-winners-michael-love-and-ariel-rene-jackson-at-big-medium/) - This is Descendance, a work by artists and sometimes-collaborators Michael Love and Ariel René Jackson, who in April were named winners of the 2021 Tito’s Prize.
- [Taking Flight: Dallas Black Dance Theatre forges new connections in its 45th anniversary season](https://artsandculturetx.com/taking-flight-dallas-black-dance-theatre-forges-new-connections-in-its-45th-anniversary-season/) - “It’s surreal to think that the start of our 45th anniversary began with our Jacob’s Pillow debut,” says DBDT artistic director Melissa M. Young.
- [Texas Studio: Ari Brielle](https://artsandculturetx.com/ari-brielle/) - “There are many Black people who feel like art is not their space…it’s been really great to have shows where people come who might not typically engage with the art. Where they can be seen in a special way.”
- [This Time ʼRound: Jennifer Ling Datchuk at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft](https://artsandculturetx.com/this-time-ʼround-jennifer-ling-datchuk-at-houston-center-for-contemporary-craft/) - San Antonio-based artist Jennifer Ling Datchuk reminded me of Brecht’s riddle-like assurance while discussing her current exhibition Later, Longer, Fewer: The Work of Jennifer Ling Datchuk, on view at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft until Jan. 8, 2022.
- [Show Up: Nic Nicosia at Erin Cluley Gallery](https://artsandculturetx.com/show-up-nic-nicosia-at-erin-cluley-gallery/) - The everyday is extraordinary, or so it seems in artist Nic Nicosia’s exhibition homemade stories 2020-2021, on view at Erin Cluley Gallery through Nov. 13.
- [A World Apart: Naudline Pierre at the Dallas Museum of Art](https://artsandculturetx.com/a-world-apart-naudline-pierre-at-the-dallas-museum-of-art/) - In September, Nelson’s wish came true: She curated the DMA’s new exhibition, Naudline Pierre: What Could Be Has Not Yet Appeared, on view through May 15, 2022.
- [Treasures and Discoveries Revealed: San Antonio Museum of Art Celebrates 40 Years](https://artsandculturetx.com/treasures-and-discoveries-revealed-san-antonio-museum-of-art-celebrates-40-years/) - Sir Joshua Reynolds’ Mary, Lady Arundel of Wardour has belonged to the San Antonio Museum of Art since 1981.
- [Immersive Nature: Anila Quayyum Agha at the Carter](https://artsandculturetx.com/immersive-nature-anila-quayyum-agha-at-the-carter/) - A Beautiful Despair, Agha’s exhibition commissioned by The Carter, is on view at the museum through Jan. 9, 2022.
- [Make It So: Texas Biennial Centers and Connects Visionary Artists](https://artsandculturetx.com/make-it-so-texas-biennial-centers-and-connects-visionary-artists/) - From slabs on the scene to teeter-totters at the border, and all manner of complexity in between, what happens in Texas does anything but stay put.
- [Turner’s Modern World at the Kimbell](https://artsandculturetx.com/turners-modern-world-at-the-kimbell/) - “Steam-powered anything is one of the backstories of this exhibition,” explains George Shackelford, Kimbell Art Museum’s deputy director and curator of European art, referring to the museum’s latest exhibition, Turner’s Modern World, Oct. 17-Feb. 6, 2022.
- [A Hybrid Story: Hubbard / Birchler’s Flora at the Modern](https://artsandculturetx.com/a-hybrid-story-hubbard-birchlers-flora-at-the-modern/) - Flora Mayo was an American artist who came from an influential family.
- [Power Surge: Christopher Blay’s Solo Exhibition at Austin’s Big Medium](https://artsandculturetx.com/power-surge-christopher-blays-solo-exhibition-at-austins-big-medium/) - Language is everywhere,” says Christopher Blay, artist, art critic, and newly appointed chief curator at Houston Museum of African American Culture.
- [Dancing on a Lake and Other Pandemic Miracles](https://artsandculturetx.com/dancing-on-a-lake-and-other-pandemic-miracles/) - If 2020 into 2021 was the ultimate annus horribilis, the year really became the worst of times for that most ephemeral and impermanent of arts, live performance.
- [Connecting Across Disciplines: Vicki Meek Texas Artist of the Year](https://artsandculturetx.com/connecting-across-disciplines-vicki-meek-texas-artist-of-the-year/) - Getting in touch with one’s heritage is something of an American pastime.
- [ACTX Holiday Gift Guide](https://artsandculturetx.com/actx-holiday-gift-guide/) - 2020 ACTX HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE
- [Straight to the Top: AT&T Performing Arts Center’s Elevator Project returns](https://artsandculturetx.com/straight-to-the-top-att-performing-arts-centers-elevator-project-returns/) - Now in its 7th season, AT&T Performing Arts Center’s Elevator Project is still an excellent launch-pad for the unique.
- [Reflecting the Community: Fort Worth Opera’s Diamond Anniversary Season](https://artsandculturetx.com/reflecting-the-community-fort-worth-operas-diamond-anniversary-season/) - In time, a diamond is created. Incidentally, as Fort Worth Opera steps into its 75th season in the wake of a pandemic, the Diamond Anniversary designation is perhaps more appropriate than ever imagined.
- [Canvas & Silk at the Meadows](https://artsandculturetx.com/canvas-silk-at-the-meadows/) - If fashion has a place in a museum, is it just brand promotion, or is it as vital as any other of the decorative arts and architecture?
- [Agarita Brings an  Immersive Vibe to San Antonio](https://artsandculturetx.com/agarita-brings-an-immersive-vibe-to-san-antonio/) - Bushman and three other San Antonio musicians—pianist Daniel Anastasio, cellist Ignacio Gallego and violinist Sarah Silver Manzke—joined forces in 2018. To symbolize their group’s roots in the city, they dubbed it Agarita, taking the name from a shrub that’s native to San Antonio and the Hill Country.
- [Texas Studio: Bennie Flores Ansell](https://artsandculturetx.com/texas-studio-bennie-flores-ansell/) - The idea of migration has been with Flores Ansell all her life. “I am evidence of a migration.”
- [Stories of Humor, Hope and Resilience: Dallas Theater Center Returns to the Stage](https://artsandculturetx.com/stories-of-humor-hope-and-resilience-dallas-theater-center-returns-to-the-stage/) - Human connection and community: these ideas lie at the heart of Dallas Theatre Center’s recently-announced 2021-2022 season.
- [New Season, Then New Director for Houston Symphony](https://artsandculturetx.com/new-season-then-new-director-for-houston-symphonys/) - The Houston Symphony had even more on its mind this past season than scrambling to adapt to covid-19.
- [Sage Studio: Artists in Tandem](https://artsandculturetx.com/sage-studio-artists-in-tandem/) - In the three years that Sage Studio has showcased artists with disabilities—helping its roster develop and sell their works, much as ordinary galleries do—Austin’s art scene has embraced it, co-founder Lucy Gross says.
- [A Cartography of Broadway Shows Across Texas](https://artsandculturetx.com/a-cartography-of-broadway-shows-across-texas/) - We’re still holding our breath, knocking on a forest full of wood and sacrificing chicken-shaped tofu to Dionysius, but it looks like in-person, inside-an-actual-theater, theater will finally take the stage this fall.
- [Lost Time: Nastassja Swift at Galveston Arts Center](https://artsandculturetx.com/lost-time-nastassja-swift-at-galveston-art-center/) - Nastassja Swift’s primary mode of artmaking in recent years has been needle felting—a form of textile production that renders wool into saturated, light-absorbing forms. Her dolls, figures, and tapestries of tiny faces are equal parts comforting and unsettling.
- [On Utopia, Galvanization, and Interstellar Travel: Cauleen Smith: We Already Have What We Need at CAMH](https://artsandculturetx.com/on-utopia-galvanization-and-interstellar-travel-cauleen-smith-we-already-have-what-we-need-at-camh/) - “My pathology is your profit,” a banner reads. Hanging from the rafters of the Contemporary Art Museum Houston’s main gallery, the silvery background glimmers as the text picks up the purplish hue of the light.
- [TITAS Leaps Into Live Performance](https://artsandculturetx.com/titas-leaps-into-live-performance/) - The name of TITAS/DANCE UNBOUND’s new season—its first full return to live performance since the pandemic—packs a punch.
- [A Passion for Impressionism: Monet to Matisse at the MFAH](https://artsandculturetx.com/a-passion-for-impressionism-monet-to-matisse-at-the-mfah/) - Texans love Impressionism in all its nationalities and schools, and Texas museums love bringing us Impressionist exhibitions in a myriad of flavors and themes.
- [Eclipsed No More: DMA Shines Light on Rare Edward Steichen Murals](https://artsandculturetx.com/eclipsed-no-more-dma-shines-light-on-rare-edward-steichen-murals/) - In 1913, Agnes Ernst Meyer, the wife of financier Eugene Meyer, Jr., and pregnant with her second child, was out of sorts and unable to make her rounds to the art galleries, where, as a former New York Post reporter on the art beat, she had been dubbed “the Sun Girl” by photographer-gallerists Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen. Writing to Stieglitz, a brooding Meyer quipped, “I am now your Eclipsed Sun-girl.”
- [The ACTX Top Ten:  June 2019](https://artsandculturetx.com/the-actx-top-ten-june-2019/) - ACTX magazine's top ten picks for arts and culture events happening across the Lone Star State in June 2019.
- [Fall for Impressionism: Morisot and Monet to Picasso at MFAH](https://artsandculturetx.com/fall-for-impressionism-morisot-and-monet-to-picasso-at-mfah/) - To see an Impressionist painting is to peer back in time as only art allows us to do.
- [Classics, Blockbusters and a Salute to the ’80s: TUTS Returns to the Hobby](https://artsandculturetx.com/classics-blockbusters-and-a-salute-to-the-80s-tuts-returns-to-the-hobby/) - “There’s a powerful thing with nostalgia and remembrance,” TUTS executive director Dan Knechtges says. “There’s great comfort in it after we’ve been through this plague—this pandemic.”
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- [Traversing Geographies: Rethinking the Story of American Impressionism at San Antonio Museum of Art](https://artsandculturetx.com/traversing-geographies-rethinking-the-story-of-american-impressionism-at-san-antonio-museum-of-art/) - On view at San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA) from June 11-Sept. 5, the expansive exhibition America’s Impressionism: Echoes of a Revolution, co-organized by the Brandywine River Museum of Art in Pennsylvania, the Dixon Gallery and Gardens in Tennessee, and SAMA, brings together 62 works from a wide range of public and private collections.
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- [Nefertari’s Egypt on View at Kimbell Art Museum](https://artsandculturetx.com/nefertaris-egypt-on-view-at-kimbell-art-museum/) - For those Texans seeking art refuge this weary winter, the Kimbell Art Museum has a queen’s knees of an exhibition to transport us back 3000 years into the world of Queen Nefertari’s Egypt (now through March 14).
- [MFAH Expands with New Building](https://artsandculturetx.com/mfah-expands-with-new-building/) - recently-unveiled Nancy and Rich Kinder Building at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and a way of contemplating the Kinder’s impact on the landscape of the museum campus, the city of Houston and even the international art world.
- [A Season for Singing Together: Houston Chamber Choir Launches New Season on the Digital Stage](https://artsandculturetx.com/a-season-for-singing-together-houston-chamber-choir-launches-new-season-on-the-digital-stage/) - For the Houston Chamber Choir (HCC), and the choral community at large, it has been an exceptionally challenging year.
- [Texas Studio: Adrian Esparza](https://artsandculturetx.com/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.
- [We Are Breath: The Black Man Project](https://artsandculturetx.com/we-are-breath-the-black-man-project/) - Breathing consists of two phases: Inspiration and exhalation. Our body automatically moves air into and out of the lungs.
- [A Love Letter to the Audience:  Tarra Gaines on her Digital Diet and Missing Live Performance](https://artsandculturetx.com/a-love-letter-to-the-audience/) - Tarra Gaines on her Digital Diet and Missing Live Performance
- [Society for the Performing Arts Goes Digital](https://artsandculturetx.com/society-for-the-performing-arts-goes-digital/) - Radical reinvention: That’s what Meg Booth, chief executive officer for Society for the Performing Arts, sees in this time when artists and audiences must stay separate to stay safe.
- [Open Air Performance in Texas](https://artsandculturetx.com/open-air-performance-in-texas/) - As a pandemic spring spun into summer, it seemed all the performing arts world became a virtual stage and all the men and women remote players.
- [The New Normal: The 2020 Austin Studio Tour Goes Digital](https://artsandculturetx.com/the-new-normal-the-2020-austin-studio-tour-goes-digital/) - In a normal year, hundreds of Austin art studios and workshops would fill with thousands of visitors next week.
- [Marina Adams at The Modern](https://artsandculturetx.com/marina-adams-at-the-modern/) - Adams, who splits her time between New York and Parma, Italy, has spent her career instilling passion in viewers with her colorful, abstract paintings, prints and gouaches, linking contemporary life and universal patterns.
- [Marina Adams at The Modern - Alt](https://artsandculturetx.com/marina-adams-at-the-modern-alt/) - Adams, who splits her time between New York and Parma, Italy, has spent her career instilling passion in viewers with her colorful, abstract paintings, prints and gouaches, linking contemporary life and universal patterns.
- [Frame x Frame Film Fest 2020: Drive In Distanced, Drive Out Hopeful](https://artsandculturetx.com/frame-x-frame-film-fest-2020-drive-in-distanced-drive-out-hopeful/) - Since its founding in 1982, TITAS has been all about bringing the best of the arts to North Texas. The 2020-21 season had been planned to expand upon this mission by featuring, for the first time ever, an all-American lineup of visiting dance companies—until the coronavirus happened.
- [How to be Flexible: TITAS explores new ideas while (safely) welcoming America’s top dance companies](https://artsandculturetx.com/how-to-be-flexible-titas-explores-new-ideas-while-safely-welcoming-americas-top-dance-companies/) - Since its founding in 1982, TITAS has been all about bringing the best of the arts to North Texas. The 2020-21 season had been planned to expand upon this mission by featuring, for the first time ever, an all-American lineup of visiting dance companies—until the coronavirus happened.
- [A Splash of Color and Light: ROCO Paints a New Landscape](https://artsandculturetx.com/a-splash-of-color-and-light-roco-paints-a-new-landscape/) - I was especially thrilled to be the first person to receive a print copy of River Oaks Chamber Orchestra’s Season 16 brochure, fresh off the press.
- [Dallas Opera Goes Digital with the TDO Network](https://artsandculturetx.com/dallas-opera-goes-digital-with-the-tdo-network/) - The Dallas Opera had just begun rehearsals for a landmark event: the company’s first production in more than 30 years of Giuseppe Verdi’s Don Carlo, a drama whose challenges tower nearly as high as its musical splendors.
- [Back From the Grave: Teatro Dallas partners with Deep Vellum Publishing for outdoor literary theatrical event](https://artsandculturetx.com/back-from-the-grave-teatro-dallas-partners-with-deep-vellum-publishing-for-outdoor-literary-theatrical-event/) - Many things were on the cusp of happening when the COVID-19 shutdown occurred, including Teatro Dallas’ landmark production of Cement City.
- [Love and other words: Robert Indiana’s Enduring Influence at the McNay](https://artsandculturetx.com/love-and-other-words-robert-indianas-enduring-influence-at-the-mcnay/) - Sometimes LOVE is all-consuming. Nowadays, Robert Indiana’s iconic LOVE artworks—with their clunky capital L and tilted O stacked over the V and E—are everywhere.
- [Two Outstanding Berruguete Exhibitions at the Meadows Museum](https://artsandculturetx.com/two-outstanding-berruguete-exhibitions-at-the-meadows-museum/) - Even if you’ve never been to Spain, you’re likely to be familiar with some of the country’s most stunning signature artistic marvels, such as the elaborate retablos, or altarpieces, found in churches and cathedrals throughout the region.
- [Afton Battle Takes the Lead at Fort Worth Opera](https://artsandculturetx.com/afton-battle-takes-the-lead-at-fort-worth-opera/) - Battle’s move to the company completes a journey--a more circuitous one than she imagined--that began that night at La Traviata.
- [Ars Lyrica’s Retooled Season Offers Fresh Musical Experiences](https://artsandculturetx.com/ars-lyricas-retooled-season-offers-fresh-musical-experiences/) - The coronavirus’ upheaval forced Ars Lyrica Houston to throw out most of its plans for this season--including its cherished project for its second fully staged opera.
- [Movement & Mobility: American Impressionism at Art Museum of South Texas](https://artsandculturetx.com/movement-mobility-american-impressionism-at-art-museum-of-south-texas/) - The new traveling exhibition alighting at the Art Museum of South Texas, Across the Atlantic: American Impressionism Through the French Lens ( through Jan. 3, 2021) offers a new and new world perspective on Impressionism.
- [Cabinet Cards and Everett Spruce: Two Must-See Shows at the Amon Carter](https://artsandculturetx.com/cabinet-cards-and-everett-spruce-two-must-see-shows-at-the-amon-carter/) - Nineteenth-century cabinet cards and a forgotten Texas artist are the two new exhibitions at the re-opened Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth.
- [Hope through a Latinx Lens: 'In the Heights' at Dallas Theater Center](https://artsandculturetx.com/hope-through-a-latinx-lens-in-the-heights-at-dallas-theater-center/) - In the Heights, with music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda and book by Quiara Alegría Hudes, won four 2008 Tony Awards and has become the most recognizable Latinx musical.
- [Bridging Science and Art: Jennifer Steinkamp’s <em>Eon</em>](https://artsandculturetx.com/bridging-science-and-art-jennifer-steinkamps-eon/) - Jennifer Steinkamp’s new digital work Eon, recently unveiled as part of the University of Texas Landmarks Collection and commissioned for Welch Hall, the university’s recently renovated science building, invokes these complex ideas not in the form of ephemeral petals, but in massive LED screens.
- [It Happened in Texas: Anna Pavlova](https://artsandculturetx.com/it-happened-in-texas-anna-pavlova/) - For many years now, upon arriving in a new city one of the first things I do is find out not where the best places to eat or visit are, but to research whether Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes or Anna Pavlova’s company performed there.
- [LAYOUT #2](https://artsandculturetx.com/layout-2/) - On a clear day, I can usually see all the way to Watts, 2001. Mixed media on canvas. 72 × 84 inches. The Bluff Collection. © Mark Bradford. Juice, 2003. Mixed media on canvas. 72 × 84 inches. Private Collection. © Mark Bradford. Photo: Charles White. Eve, 2001. Mixed media on canvas. 72 × 84
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- [A Ruckus Rodeo Returns to the Modern](https://artsandculturetx.com/a-ruckus-rodeo-returns-to-the-modern/) - When the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth commissioned Red Grooms and ten other artists to contribute to the rodeo-themed 1976 exhibition The Great American Rodeo, Grooms spent a year observing rodeos, including the city’s annual Stock Show and Rodeo held at the neighboring Will Rogers Memorial Center.
- [Virtual Flores Mexicanas exhibition](https://artsandculturetx.com/floresmexicanas/) - ABOUT THE EXHIBITION Flores Mexicanas: Women in Modern Mexican Art surveys changing representations of women in paintings, works on paper, and textiles early in 20th-century Mexican art through works by some of Mexico’s most renowned artists. The exhibition is inspired by the loan of the monumental painting Flores Mexicanas by Alfredo Ramos Martínez to the DMA from the Missouri History
- [American Mariachi | Dallas Theater Center](https://artsandculturetx.com/videotest/) - Get a special look at American Mariachi, a hilarious comedy and feel-good story filled with music about familia, amor and tradición! AMERICAN MARIACHI A co-production with Goodman Theatre. Written by José Cruz González Directed by Henry Godinez Onstage through April 5 Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre Get tickets here: https://dallastheatercenter.org/
- [Listen, Touch and Wander: DMA’s speechless: different by design](https://artsandculturetx.com/listen-touch-and-wander-dmas-speechless-different-by-design/) - Think back to your first visit to an art museum as a child. Before entering, it’s likely that the first words out of the mouth of your chaperone were, “Don’t touch anything.”
- [Dallas Black Dance Theatre and Dallas Opera Collaborate for ‘Pulcinella’](https://artsandculturetx.com/dallas-black-dance-theater-and-dallas-opera-collaborate-for-pulcinella/) - Pulcinella is an odd duck of a ballet.
- [Expanding Histories at Austin’s Fusebox 2020](https://artsandculturetx.com/expanding-histories-at-austins-fusebox-2020/) - Artists grappling with the political has been the norm for thousands of years, but when art and social-political questioning merge at an interdisciplinary performance festival like Austin’s Fusebox Festival 2020 (April 15-19), the results can sometimes expand artistic boundaries.
- [From Comedy to Tragedy: Expect Variety at Fort Worth Opera’s 2020 Festival](https://artsandculturetx.com/from-comedy-to-tragedy-expect-variety-at-fort-worth-operas-2020-festival/) - Attention, opera-goers: If you’ve been looking for a chance to change the mind of “that one friend” who swears they don’t like opera, this could be the time.
- [Explosions + Reverberations: CounterCurrent 2020](https://artsandculturetx.com/explosions-reverberations-countercurrent-2020/) - Since 2014, Houston has been host to a citywide takeover. For one week in April, the city itself is activated as a site for art, creativity, social consciousness, and dialogue as the CounterCurrent festival and its artists spread throughout the inner loop to hold a series of provocative performances.
- [Made in Texas: Trey McIntyre Returns with a Houston Ballet World Premiere](https://artsandculturetx.com/made-in-texas-trey-mcintyre-returns-with-a-houston-ballet-world-premiere/) - In the midst of its celebratory 50th anniversary season comprised entirely of works created for the company by world-renowned choreographers, Houston Ballet presents Forged in Houston March 12-21.
- [Room to Move: Nicole Eisenman at The Contemporary Austin](https://artsandculturetx.com/room-to-move-nicole-eisenman-at-the-contemporary-austin/) - Emotion, individualism, unfettered expression, fruitful rebellion, and spontaneous movement are not often the makings of everyday life. But sometimes the storm and stress of life bring such things into being.
- [From Faraway Lands to the Apocalypse, Soluna Festival Is All About Adventure](https://artsandculturetx.com/from-faraway-lands-to-the-apocalypse-soluna-festival-is-all-about-adventure/) - The Dallas Symphony’s 2020 Soluna festival will encompass all that and more. The annual music and arts showcase, opening April 3, will feature Dallas artists plus globe-trotting guests; traditional concerts and multimedia immersions; a live incarnation of an acclaimed rock ’n’ roll album as well as a documentary film whose subjects perform in person in front of it.
- [Our Stories Onstage: How Dallas grew one of the nation’s biggest LGBTQ theater companies](https://artsandculturetx.com/our-stories-onstage-how-dallas-grew-one-of-the-nations-biggest-lgbtq-theater-companies/) - Nearly 20 years ago, Craig Lynch and Jeff Rane took a look around Dallas and noticed a gap. Despite having the sixth-biggest population of LGBTQ people in the nation and a reputation as one of the country’s most gay-friendly cities, no theater company in Dallas was regularly producing theater that told this community’s stories.
- [Texas Studio: Lina Dib](https://artsandculturetx.com/texas-studio-lina-dib/) - Lina Dib is a collector. Objects, affects, memories, and sounds; one may be stored in a cabinet, another on a hard drive.
- [Texas Studio: Matt Clark](https://artsandculturetx.com/texas-studio-matt-clark/) - Artist Matt Clark, painter, professor, collaborator, and entrepreneur thinks art makers “sharpen that trait over time…
- [The ACTX Top Ten:  March 2020](https://artsandculturetx.com/the-actx-top-ten-march-2020/) - Our top ten picks for arts and culture events happening across the Lone Star State in March 2020.
- [Texas Studio:  Katy Heinlein](https://artsandculturetx.com/texas-studio-katy-heinlein/) - Sculptor Katy Heinlein’s studio is quiet, cozy, exploding with texture and color, and perhaps most important of all, stable.
- [Rock reset: With her Tito’s Prize exhibition, Betelhem Makonnen suggests an alternative to our current climate of temporal anxiety](https://artsandculturetx.com/rock-reset-with-her-titos-prize-exhibition-betelhem-makonnen-suggests-an-alternative-to-our-current-climate-of-temporal-anxiety/) - Time is of the essence for Betehelm Makonnen.
- [The ACTX Top Ten:  February 2020](https://artsandculturetx.com/the-actx-top-ten-february-2020/) - The top ten arts and culture events happening across the Lone Star State in February 2020.
- [The Not-So-Secret Life of Objects: Hillerbrand+Magsamen’s Devices Spread Throughout Texas](https://artsandculturetx.com/the-not-so-secret-life-of-objects-hillerbrandmagsamens-devices-spread-throughout-texas/) - Houston-based artists Stephan Hillerbrand and Mary Magsamen, known collectively as Hillerbrand+Magsamen, address topics of family, communication, and consumerism, most recently through their ongoing body of artworks called The Devices Project.
- [Double Vision: Francis Bacon at the MFAH](https://artsandculturetx.com/double-vision-francis-bacon-at-the-mfah/) - In 1971 when figurative painting master Francis Bacon was in his early 60s, the Grand Palais in Paris mounted a major retrospective.
- [Mark Dion’s “perilous Texas adventure” debuts at Amon Carter](https://artsandculturetx.com/mark-dions-perilous-texas-adventure-debuts-at-amon-carter/) - Mark Dion, a conceptual artist, has spent the past four years tracing the four characters’ journeys through Texas for the exhibition The Perilous Texas Adventures of Mark Dion, which runs through May 17 at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth.
- [Reunited Lovers & Maritime Allies: Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin on Louisiana’s Queer History](https://artsandculturetx.com/reunited-lovers-maritime-allies-nick-vaughan-and-jake-margolin-on-louisianas-queer-history/) - For artists Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin, putting up plaques and statues or writing books are still absolutely necessary, but still they see many opportunities to let queer folk “be super queer in how they honor and preserve these histories.”
- [State of the Art 2020: San Antonio Artists at Crystal Bridges and The Momentary](https://artsandculturetx.com/state-of-the-art-2020-san-antonio-artists-at-crystal-bridges-and-the-momentary/) - San Antonio is having a moment, and it’s a good one.
- [A Rear-View Mirror on Humanity: FotoFest Explores African Cosmologies](https://artsandculturetx.com/a-rear-view-mirror-on-humanity-african-cosmologies/) - Photography, as with many aspects of Western culture, comes loaded with a eurocentric canon that shapes the everyday perspective and expectations of the field.
- [Life Is a Cabaret: The Legacy of Mama’s Party in Dallas-Fort Worth](https://artsandculturetx.com/life-is-a-cabaret-the-legacy-of-mamas-party-in-dallas-fort-worth/) - Amy Stevenson, a performer and educator who founded and hosts a weekly cabaret called Mama’s Party, has been more than good to Dallas-Fort Worth for the last 14 years.
- [Houston Symphony’s New Season Highlights Women Violinists, Beethoven and a partnership with Perlman](https://artsandculturetx.com/houston-symphonys-new-season-highlights-women-violinists-beethoven-and-a-partnership-with-perlman/) - The Houston Symphony will be one of many orchestras that mark the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth. But how many groups will also spend part of next season celebrating women who play the violin?
- [Texas Studio: Matt Messinger](https://artsandculturetx.com/texas-studio-matt-messinger/) - Houston artist Matt Messinger is a collector—of art yes, but also of ephemera, which leaks and injects itself into his work.
- [Bizarre and commanding: A look inside Danielle Georgiou’s boundary-crossing theater of dance](https://artsandculturetx.com/bizarre-and-commanding-a-look-inside-danielle-georgious-boundary-crossing-theater-of-dance/) - If you’ve had any brush with dance, theater, or art in Dallas, you’ve probably seen Danielle Georgiou’s work in one form or another.
- [Show Up: Jo Ann Fleischhauer at the Old Jail Art Center](https://artsandculturetx.com/show-up-jo-ann-fleischhauer-at-the-old-jail-art-center/) - But now she is the recipient of a grant through the Houston Arts Alliance, and her impending exhibition will debut at the Old Jail Art Center on Feb. 22, before making its way to the Institute for Art and Olfaction in Los Angeles in May, finally landing at Rudolph Blume Fine Art/ Artscan Gallery in Houston in October.
- [Staring into the Theater Infinity: ‘The Fantasticks’ at Stages](https://artsandculturetx.com/staring-into-the-theater-infinity-the-fantasticks-at-stages/) - Somewhere near the end of the first act of Stages’ sweet and nostalgic production of the classic musical The Fantasticks when a happy ending tableau had arrived but an entire second act still remained to follow, I couldn’t stop thinking of that likely-apocryphal story about the cosmologist confronting a turtle infinity.
- [Texas Studio: Ana Fernandez](https://artsandculturetx.com/texas-studio-ana-fernandez/) - San Antonio artist Ana Fernandez, a regionalist for the 21st century, finds that it’s really the people that make a place.
- [Neighborly Life and Death: ‘The Realistic Jones’ at 4th Wall](https://artsandculturetx.com/neighborly-life-and-death-the-realistic-jones-at-4th-wall/) - As that infamous theatrical adage goes: dying is easy; comedy is hard.
- [Magpies & Peacocks: Art, High Fashion, and Saving the Planet](https://artsandculturetx.com/magpies-and-peacocks-art-high-fashion-and-saving-the-planet/) - A visit to the cavernous EaDO warehouse at 908 Live Oak Street in Houston, the physical home of the groundbreaking non-profit design house Magpies & Peacocks (M&P), leaves a mélange of aesthetic impressions that reflects the environmental sustainability mission of the organization, yet defies definition.
- [Texas Studio: Delita Martin](https://artsandculturetx.com/texas-studio-delita-martin/) - When I visited artist Delita Martin at her Black Box Press Studio this past December, it became clear over the course of our conversation that her bold, multi-layered prints of “everyday” working-class black women emerge through a strikingly similar kind of spiritual traversal.
- [A new way of looking: Dallas Children’s Theater premieres a trans story for all teens](https://artsandculturetx.com/a-new-way-of-looking-dallas-childrens-theater-premieres-a-trans-story-for-all-teens/) - But as families and school administrators are beginning to acknowledge the journey that more and more young transgender people are recognizing, exploring, and living, so is Dallas Children’s Theater.
- [Texas Lens: 10 Years of Flamencura in Austin](https://artsandculturetx.com/texas-lens-10-years-of-flamencura-in-austin/) - I sat down with Director Olivia Chacón to discuss Austin’s burgeoning flamenco scene, the growth of the studio and the company’s next theatrical production.
- [Seeing Language: Ed Ruscha at Blanton Museum of Art](https://artsandculturetx.com/seeing-language-ed-ruscha-at-blanton-art-museum/) - Hollywood. Angel. Zoo. Just a few of the word-image artworks created by American artist Ed Ruscha, a master of using language as form, symbol, and material—and bringing words to the forefront.
- [Texas Studio: Catherine Turocy](https://artsandculturetx.com/texas-studio-catherine-turocy/) - Search for information on baroque dance and it won’t be long before you come across the name Catherine Turocy.
- [Starting from Scratch: Jennifer Mabus builds a Dance BFA at the University of St. Thomas](https://artsandculturetx.com/starting-from-scratch-jennifer-mabus-builds-a-dance-bfa-at-the-university-of-st-thomas/) - 2019 was a year of firsts for the University of St. Thomas (UST) in Houston and its Dance Program Chair Jennifer Mabus as the school’s inaugural cohort of dance majors stepped into the studio for the fall semester.
- [In HGO’s Marian Anderson Opera, a Legendary Voice Still Resonates](https://artsandculturetx.com/in-hgos-marian-anderson-opera-a-legendary-voice-still-resonates/) - Even after Marian Anderson won international acclaim as a singer, she felt the sting of racial discrimination. She fought back with unique weapons: her deep river of a contralto voice and her unshakably dignified bearing.
- [Orchestra of New Spain Conquers Another Zarzuela](https://artsandculturetx.com/orchestra-of-new-spain-conquers-another-zarzuela/) - The Orchestra of New Spain specializes in reviving long-lost music. Founder Grover Wilkins and his ensemble have freed a string of neglected Spanish-baroque works from the prison of the library shelves, and on Feb. 21 and 22, the group will give a belated U.S. premiere to a 300-year-old tale of passion among gods and mortals.
- [Texas Studio: Alicia Eggert](https://artsandculturetx.com/texas-studio-alicia-eggert/) - The Dallas-based artist Alicia Eggert, along with collaborator James Akers, recently opened a captivating new work at Houston’s Color Factory, a pop-up space that focuses on “instagrammable,” site-specific installations.
- [Nancy and Tarra Dish on the Decade, 2019 and Chekhov's Gun](https://artsandculturetx.com/nancy-and-tarra-dish-on-the-decade-2019-and-chekhovs-gun/) - Nancy Wozny: Pack a lunch, Lady T, we have a year and a decade to discuss. Let’s not be so top ten-ish, but think categorically. I always find what we are still talking about is the most revealing.
- [Ensemble Storytelling: Come From Away Comes to Texas](https://artsandculturetx.com/ensemble-storytelling-come-from-away-comes-to-texas/) - As the United States closed its skies on September 11, 2001, thousands of plane passengers found themselves in midair over the Atlantic with only one place to land—the airport near the small town of Gander, Newfoundland.
- [Community’s Mirror: Denise Lee writes a play for the people in Dallas](https://artsandculturetx.com/communitys-mirror-denise-lee-writes-a-play-for-the-people-in-dallas/) - As an admired and award-winning singer and actor in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, Denise Lee is used to hearing accolades and raves.
- [The ACTX Top Ten:  January 2020](https://artsandculturetx.com/the-actx-january-2020/) - The top ten arts and culture events happening across the Lone Star State in January 2020.
- [From Film to Stage: ‘The Band’s Visit’ Visits Texas](https://artsandculturetx.com/from-film-to-stage-the-bands-visit-visits-texas/) - From Shakespeare to SciFi, actors often return to a beloved character to find new life in the role. Yet, very few of these revisits hold such a unique offstage story like acclaimed international film, television and stage actor Sasson Gabay.
- [Ready for the Classics: Avant Chamber Ballet Tackles ‘The Nutcracker’ and More](https://artsandculturetx.com/ready-for-the-classics-avant-chamber-ballet-tackles-the-nutcracker-and-more/) - Dallas’s Avant Chamber Ballet is taking the plunge: The seven-year-old company unveils its first staging of The Nutcracker, complete with a live orchestra, on Dec. 20.
- [Walking on the Edge: Artistic Directors Define Risk](https://artsandculturetx.com/walking-on-the-edge-artistic-directors-define-risk/) - “You can’t fly if you have never left the ground,” says Houston’s 4th Wall Theatre cofounder, Kim Tobin-Lehl, when thinking about taking artistic risks.
- [Show Up: Amber Eagle at Galveston Arts Center](https://artsandculturetx.com/show-up-amber-eagle-at-galveston-art-center/) - Monja Coronada (“crowned nun”) paintings are portraits of nuns completed either at the profession of their vows or upon their deaths.
- [Music for All: Fort Worth Opera’s Relaxed Performances](https://artsandculturetx.com/music-for-all-fort-worth-operas-relaxed-performances/) - Six-year-old Jan Lucca’s facial expressions mirror the activity in front of him: Staring intently at the stage, his eyes widen at exciting moments. He clasps his hands together against his chest during the suspenseful ones. He swings his legs from the chair and his mom smiles from the seat next to him. It’s his first opera.
- [Awakening Conversation: Group Acorde Gives Us Something to Talk About](https://artsandculturetx.com/awakening-conversation-group-acorde-gives-us-something-to-talk-about/) - Group Acorde wants people talking about art—theirs or otherwise. The interdisciplinary, Houston-based quartet—dancers Lindsey McGill and Roberta Paixão Cortes, bassist Thomas Helton and saxophonist Seth Paynter—are in the middle of their fourth season.
- [Graphic Nature: Prints from Self Help Graphics at The Blanton](https://artsandculturetx.com/graphic-nature-prints-from-self-help-graphics-at-the-blanton/) - Two years ago, the Blanton Museum of Art received a gift of more than 350 prints from collector Dr. Gilberto Cárdenas, who holds one of the largest private collections of Latinx art.
- [See for Yourself: Martine Gutierrez at The Modern](https://artsandculturetx.com/see-for-yourself-martine-gutierrez-at-the-modern/) - For better or worse, beauty occupies a contested space. Brooklyn-based performance artist Martine Gutierrez inhabits that space— well, beautifully.
- [A Lesson in Looking: McNay Art Museum Focuses on Minimalism](https://artsandculturetx.com/a-lesson-in-looking-mcnay-art-museum-focuses-on-minimalism/) - San Antonio’s McNay Art Museum operated for decades with a major gap in its holdings. “When you think of all 20th-century art, the U.S. made two huge contributions to the canon,” says Lyle W. Williams, the McNay’s curator of prints and drawings.
- [Texas Studio: Brendan Bourque-Sheil](https://artsandculturetx.com/texas-studio-brendan-bourque-sheil/) - Houston playwright Brendan Bourque-Sheil describes his journey to his current situation as a rollercoaster with many trips to “the deep end.”
- [A Lonely Beauty: ‘The Children’ at the Rec Room](https://artsandculturetx.com/a-lonely-beauty-the-children-at-the-rec-room/) - Two women, old friends but decades absent from each other, have tea in an isolated British seaside cottage.
- [Unsettled Images: Beatriz González at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston](https://artsandculturetx.com/unsettled-images-beatriz-gonzalez-at-the-museum-of-fine-arts-houston/) - Every once in a while, an artist steals our attention and shakes, shocks, or stuns us into awareness. Colombian artist Beatriz González also graciously opens our minds in the process, exposing the world to us in ways we may not have considered.
- [The ACTX Top Ten:  November 2019](https://artsandculturetx.com/the-actx-top-ten-november-2019/) - The top ten arts and culture events happening across the Lone Star State in November, 2019.
- [Selecting the season: Stage West’s 2019-20 lineup](https://artsandculturetx.com/selecting-the-season-stage-wests-2019-20-lineup/) - For the past 40 years, Fort Worth’s Stage West has been producing works that challenge, inspire, and entertain.
- [Data Mapping: Nathalie Miebach at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft](https://artsandculturetx.com/data-mapping-nathalie-miebach-at-houston-center-for-contemporary-craft/) - From across the room, Nathalie Miebach’s wall pieces trigger a vague sense of recognition.
- [Tour de Force: Year 18 of the East Austin Studio Tour](https://artsandculturetx.com/tour-de-force-year-18-of-the-east-austin-studio-tour/) - The phrase “art studio tour” doesn’t typically bring to mind mass crowds of visitors, city-wide organizational partnerships, or heated discussions about escalating real estate prices.
- [Show Up: Marcelyn McNeil at Conduit Gallery](https://artsandculturetx.com/show-up-marcelyn-mcneil-at-conduit-gallery/) - “I’ve tried to make an intentional shift in the work in the past few years,” Marcelyn McNeil tells me, recently. When we talk, her exhibition of new paintings, Slow Eddy, is about to open at Conduit Gallery (Oct. 19-Nov. 23).
- [Cowboys, Astronauts and Art: Jessica Green leads HCAF into the Future](https://artsandculturetx.com/cowboys-astronauts-and-art-jessica-green-leads-hcaf-into-the-future/) - When New York native Jessica Green took the position of artistic director of Houston Cinema Arts Festival this year, she decided the best way to program the sprawling arts-based film festival for Houston was to let this enigma of a city become her muse.
- [Bringing Your Heart to a Role: <em>Dear Evan Hansen</em> Tours Texas](https://artsandculturetx.com/bringing-your-heart-to-a-role-dear-evan-hansen-tours-texas/) - Coming of Broadway age in the shadow of the Hamilton juggernaut, Dear Evan Hansen, the seemingly unassuming musical about an unpopular high school kid with social anxiety, managed to turn its misfit story into a multiple Tony® Award winner.
- [McNay’s Tobin Collection of Theatre Arts Gets a New Show and Curator](https://artsandculturetx.com/mcnays-tobin-collection-of-theatre-arts-gets-a-new-show-and-curator/) - An orchestral score for a ballet wouldn’t ordinarily pop up in an art museum’s storage room. But the one in San Antonio’s McNay Art Museum, a score of Erik Satie’s surrealist Parade, was no ordinary example.
- [Defying the art Establishment: The Pre-Raphaelites at San Antonio Museum of Art](https://artsandculturetx.com/defying-the-art-establishment-the-pre-raphaelites-at-san-antonio-museum-of-art/) - Now a new exhibition, Victorian Radicals: From the Pre-Raphaelites to the Arts & Crafts Movement, brings their masterworks and stories to the San Antonio Museum of Art (Oct. 11, 2019-Jan. 5, 2020).
- [Opening to Baroque  Possibilities: Houston’s Bach Society for the Americas](https://artsandculturetx.com/opening-to-baroque-possibilities-houstons-bach-society-for-the-americas/) - The Bach Society Houston will perform a smattering of its namesake’s most popular music this season.
- [Hypnotized by the Highway with Will Boone at the CAMH](https://artsandculturetx.com/hypnotized-by-the-highway-with-will-boone-at-the-camh/) - Boone, gearing up for his solo exhibition at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, The Highway Hex (Nov. 9-Feb. 17), has concocted a body of work inspired in its way by both Leatherface and Stanley Kubrick.
- [The Art of Programming Surprise: Aperio Unleashes Seductive New Season](https://artsandculturetx.com/the-art-of-programming-surprise-aperio-unleashes-seductive-new-season/) - Aperio opened its 2019-2020 season in September riding the Onda Nueva (New Wave), relishing the characteristic blurring of boundaries that makes music from Latin America so rich and vital.
- [Texas Studio: Deborah Roberts](https://artsandculturetx.com/texas-studio-deborah-roberts/) - With ten sold-out shows in a span of two and a half years, including the Stephen Friedman Gallery in London and Vielmetter Los Angeles, Deborah Roberts is experiencing a deluge of success.
- [Texas Studio: Maja Ruznic](https://artsandculturetx.com/texas-studio-maja-ruznic/) - Rooted in trauma, identity and the refugee experience, the artistic practice of Bosnia-born painter Maja Ruznic draws on collective memory.
- [The ACTX Top Ten:  October 2019](https://artsandculturetx.com/the-actx-top-ten-october-2019/) - The top ten arts and culture events happening across the Lone Star state in October 2019.
- [Representation in the Borderlands: UTEP Brings Latinx Theater to El Paso](https://artsandculturetx.com/representation-in-the-borderlands-utep-brings-latinx-theater-to-el-paso/) - On August 3, 2019, El Paso entered the national zeitgeist when an active shooter killed 22 people at a Walmart. The shooter’s goal: to kill as many people of Mexican descent as possible.
- [Sound, Fury and Bears: ‘The Winter’s Tale’ at the Alley](https://artsandculturetx.com/sound-fury-and-bears-the-winters-tale-at-the-alley/) - Even in a canon filled with political advising witches, fairy marriage wars and revenge seeking ghosts, Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale still stands–statuesque–as an odd chimera of a play.
- [Heart and Mind Synchronicity: ‘The Hard Problem’ at MST](https://artsandculturetx.com/heart-and-mind-synchronicity-the-hard-problem-at-mst/) - In one of his most recent works, The Hard Problem, getting its regional premiere at Main Street Theater (through Oct. 6), Stoppard goes in heavy on the head, rather literally as the play follows scientists looking into questions of how the brain creates the mind, how we are conscious of our own consciousness.
- [Dreams Made Manifest: Ruby City Opens in San Antonio](https://artsandculturetx.com/dreams-made-manifest-ruby-city-opens-in-san-antonio/) - The dream of Ruby City is coming true.
- [The World Dances: TITAS Brings International Troupes to Dallas](https://artsandculturetx.com/the-world-dances-titas-brings-international-troupes-to-dallas/) - TITAS stands for Texas International Theatrical Arts Society, but not since the 1999-2000 season has the presenter put so many international acts on stage.
- [Becoming a Sensational One: TUTS Revisits ‘A Chorus Line’](https://artsandculturetx.com/becoming-a-sensational-one-tuts-revisits-a-chorus-line/) - The problem with bringing a groundbreaking work of art into the world is that sometimes it alters the landscape so much that when we revisit it we might forget that such a wonder didn’t always exist.
- [Acting in Texas: Shannon McGrann](https://artsandculturetx.com/acting-in-texas-shannon-mcgrann/) - What do Carrie Fisher, the Wicked Witch of the West, and a rabbit have in common? It’s not a trick question, but a sampling of the roles Shannon McGrann has played over her years onstage and in front of the camera.
- [Musiqa’s Open Field Season](https://artsandculturetx.com/musiqas-open-field-season/) - Anthony Brandt urges his composition students at Rice University to keep an open mind about the musical styles that influence them. “I often say, ‘Don’t put a fence around yourself. Feel the joy of having an open field around you, and discover what you might love that you didn’t know you would,’” he explains.
- [Listening to the Individual: Soundings New Music at the Nasher](https://artsandculturetx.com/listening-to-the-individual-soundings-new-music-at-the-nasher/) - When Seth Knopp plans out the Soundings new-music series for Dallas’ Nasher Sculpture Center, he likes to leave audiences free to spot resonances and parallels among each season’s concerts.
- [Show Up: Margarita Cabrera](https://artsandculturetx.com/show-up-margarita-cabrera/) - To artist Margarita Cabrera, loose threads are “a reference to the labor and the importance in the act of making by hand.”
- [Visible Changes: The Amon Carter Museum of American Art’s Renovation](https://artsandculturetx.com/visible-changes-the-amon-carter-museum-of-american-arts-renovation/) - After almost a year of construction, The Amon Carter Museum of American Art is starting a new chapter.
- [Going Up: AT&T Performing Arts Center’s Elevator Project keeps rising in its fifth year](https://artsandculturetx.com/going-up-att-performing-arts-centers-elevator-project-keeps-rising-in-its-fifth-year/) - If you’re wondering how the Dallas performing arts scene has changed over the past five years, just look at the Elevator Project.
- [Local Excellence: A New Chapter for Fine Arts Chamber Players](https://artsandculturetx.com/local-excellence-a-new-chapter-for-fine-arts-chamber-players/) - Ever since she can remember, Emily Levin has loved putting stuff together: Crossword puzzles, planning vacations, hosting murder mystery parties—being an organizer is sort of her thing.
- [Ahead of the Curve: Dallas Opera and Dallas Symphony Orchestra Focus on Women](https://artsandculturetx.com/ahead-of-the-curve-dallas-opera-and-dallas-symphony-orchestra-focus-on-women/) - This fall, The Dallas Opera launches its fifth residency of the Linda and Mitch Hart Institute for Women Conductors Oct. 27-Nov. 9—designed to help female opera conductors take their careers to the next level.
- [A Theater of Objects, Ideas and Ideals: Glass Half Full Theatre in Austin](https://artsandculturetx.com/a-theater-of-objects-ideas-and-ideals-glass-half-full-theatre-in-austin/) - Human-induced climate change, denied by certain politicians and often ignored by many, is a threat to every species on the planet.
- [Dark Circles’s Joshua Peugh Takes on Peter Pan with ‘PETE: A New Dance Musical’](https://artsandculturetx.com/dark-circless-joshua-peugh-takes-on-peter-pan-with-pete-a-new-dance-musical/) - In Dark Circles Contemporary Dance Artistic Director Joshua L. Peugh’s newest work, Pete: A Dance Musical a playground becomes Neverland and a favorite childhood fairy tale extends beyond a youthful adventure and incorproates commentary on life’s inherent contradictions and the queer, minority experience.
- [Meg Booth Breaks Down SPA's Dance Series and Hopefully Some Barriers, Too](https://artsandculturetx.com/meg-booth-breaks-down-spas-dance-series-and-hopefully-some-barriers-too/) - Meg Booth worked with organizations like North Carolina Dance Theatre, White Oak Dance Project, Twyla Tharp Dance and Dance/USA before spending 11 years directing dance programming at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.
- [Dark Territory: Robyn O’Neil at The Modern](https://artsandculturetx.com/dark-territory-robyn-oneil-at-the-modern/) - Artist Robyn O’Neil is funny. Not ironically funny; honestly funny.
- [Acting in Texas: Greg Cote](https://artsandculturetx.com/acting-in-texas-greg-cote/) - Greg Cote lived on all three US coasts before he reached the sixth grade. When his Dad retired from the Navy in 2000 the family found themselves in Lake Jackson, Texas trying to decide where to go next.
- [The ACTX Top Ten:  September 2019](https://artsandculturetx.com/the-actx-top-ten-september-2019/) - The top ten arts and culture events happening across the Lone Star State in September 2019.
- [Expanded Missions: Dallas and Houston Holocaust Museums Open Spacious New Homes](https://artsandculturetx.com/expanded-missions-dallas-and-houston-holocaust-museums-open-spacious-new-homes/) - Holocaust museums aren’t just about the Nazis’ slaughter of 6 million Jews. How could they be?
- [Ars Lyrica’s Sumptuous Season](https://artsandculturetx.com/ars-lyricas-sumptuous-season/) - After staging its first full-length opera last season, Houston’s Ars Lyrica is giving itself a year’s break before it presents the second.
- [Legacies of a Friendship: UT Celebrates Major Charles White Donation](https://artsandculturetx.com/legacies-of-a-friendship-ut-receives-major-charles-white-donation/) - In the fall of 2017 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, artist David Hammons curated an exhibition called Charles White—Leonardo da Vinci.
- [Wait & See: Elmgreen & Dragset at Nasher Sculpture Center](https://artsandculturetx.com/wait-see-elmgreen-dragset-at-nasher-sculpture-center/) - Whether it’s creating a faux art fair or turning a giant swimming pool on its Vincent-Van-Gogh’s-ear, two international artists are bringing their conceptual sculptural sensibilities to Dallas.
- [Signature Works and Milestones: Houston Ballet at 50](https://artsandculturetx.com/signature-works-and-milestones-houston-ballet-at-50/) - A 50th anniversary deserves a celebration. But what kind? Houston Ballet’s leaders looked back across the company’s history, starting before the 1969 debut of the company as we know it today.
- [Texas Studio: Olaniyi Rasheed Akindiya](https://artsandculturetx.com/texas-studio-olaniyi-rasheed-akindiya/) - Full of color, depth, and texture, the work of Olaniyi Rasheed Akindiya — brush name Akirash — seeks to dance, pull viewers in, and let them connect with the work and the world around it.
- [Haley Nelson In Residence: Dallas’s Kitchen Dog Theater’s In-House Producer](https://artsandculturetx.com/haley-nelson-in-residence-dallass-kitchen-dog-theaters-in-house-producer/) - Since its founding in 1998, the National New Play Network has produced 85 rolling world premieres. Dallas’s Kitchen Dog Theater, formed in 1990, is one of NNPN’s founding core theaters, and hosts the longest-running new play festival in Texas.
- [Da Camera’s Big, Varied Season](https://artsandculturetx.com/da-cameras-big-varied-season/) - Houston’s Da Camera bills itself as a presenter of chamber music and jazz, but that hardly gives you the whole picture.
- [Homegrown World Premiere: Blake Hackler at Second Thought and Circle Theatre](https://artsandculturetx.com/homegrown-world-premiere-blake-hackler-at-second-thought-and-circle-theatre/) - When Blake Hackler handed over his newest play, What We Were, to Second Thought Theatre artistic director Alex Organ, he wasn’t expecting an offer to produce it.
- [Show Up: Vincent Falsetta](https://artsandculturetx.com/show-up-vincent-falsetta/) - At first glance, Vincent Falsetta’s studio doesn’t seem different than that of any other established painter, with its high ceilings and ample light.
- [A State of Their Own: Latinx Playwrights Call Texas Home](https://artsandculturetx.com/a-state-of-their-own-latinx-playwrights-call-texas-home/) - Texas is home to a growing cohort of Latinx playwrights working in all parts of the state who have chosen to remain here despite the unique challenges that they face as artists of color in the Lone Star State.
- [Texas Lens: The Most Important Work We Do—Scenes from <em>I Am My Future</em>](https://artsandculturetx.com/texas-lens-the-most-important-work-we-do-scenes-from-i-am-my-future/) - Sometimes the most meaningful musical experience transpires in the most unexpected place.
- [Directing in Texas: Matt Hune](https://artsandculturetx.com/directing-in-texas-matt-hune/) - When Matt Hune, artistic director of Houston’s Rec Room Arts, talks about his role as a theater director, he speaks of perspective, space, color and texture, words that seem more the purview of the visual artist than the vocabulary of someone audiences might imagine as that mysterious person behind the scenes bossing about all the actors.
- [Directing in Texas: Emily Scott Banks](https://artsandculturetx.com/directing-in-texas-emily-scott-banks/) - In her decade of professional directing, the former dancer (and award-winning actor) has led more than her share of challenging shows.
- [Novels, Poems, Memoirs!: Inprint’s Margarett Root Brown Reading Series Addresses Our Complicated World](https://artsandculturetx.com/inprints-margarett-root-brown-reading-series-addresses-our-complicated-world/) - For the performing arts lover, one of the annual small joys in life can come from a favorite dance, theater or music organization revealing their next season.
- [All the World’s a Murder Train: Agatha Christie at the Alley](https://artsandculturetx.com/all-the-worlds-a-murder-train-agatha-christie-at-the-alley/) - Theater critic true confession: I love spoilers.
- [The ACTX Top Ten:  Summer 2019](https://artsandculturetx.com/the-actx-top-ten-summer-2019/) - The top ten arts and culture events happening across the Lone Star State in the summer of 2019.
- [‘The hearts I have touched will be the proof' Jeffrey Gibson at the Blanton](https://artsandculturetx.com/the-hearts-i-have-touched-will-be-the-proof-jeffrey-gibson-at-the-blanton/) - There are many songs that thread through This is the Day (on view at Austin’s Blanton Museum of Art, July 14-Sept. 29).
- [Reimagining Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes: ‘Immortal Longings’ at the ZACH](https://artsandculturetx.com/reimagining-diaghilevs-ballet-russes-immortal-longings-at-the-zach/) - Impresario, the promoter, financier, artistic director and all round driving visionary of a performing arts company or enterprise, is not a title bestowed onto individuals much anymore.
- [Texas Studio: Chesley Antoinette](https://artsandculturetx.com/texas-studio-chesley-antoinette/) - Chesley Antoinette is a Dallas-based multidisciplinary artist whose soft sculptures elevate humble materials to regal new heights.
- [Every Body: Transamerica/n at the McNay](https://artsandculturetx.com/every-body-transamerica-n-at-the-mcnay/) - In James Gobel’s 2007 work Robert, we see a bearded and tattooed person—presumably named Robert—wearing a black Morrissey tee-shirt.
- [Movement in Time and Space: Summer at the MFAH](https://artsandculturetx.com/movement-in-time-and-space-summer-at-the-mfah/) - In 2013 with James Turrell: The Light Inside, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston began a unique summer precedent, presenting an immersive contemporary art exhibition and inviting the public to beat the heat, not merely to view but to journey inside the art.
- [Wolves, Mountains and Big Brother: Tarra & Nancy Dish on Texas Stages](https://artsandculturetx.com/wolves-mountains-and-big-brother-tarra-nancy-dish-on-texas-stages/) - Enjoy our semi-annual Texas performance gab session, where we discuss all that we saw, what we missed and what we loved!
- [Texas Lens: Us and Us](https://artsandculturetx.com/texas-lens-us-and-us/) - “What would you do,” the performer asks, turning to the audience, “if you were in our shoes?”
- [Nudged Out of the Cloud: Michelle Ellsworth’s <em>The Rehearsal Artist</em> and <em>Post-Verbal Social Network</em>](https://artsandculturetx.com/nudged-out-of-the-cloud-michelle-ellsworths-the-rehearsal-artist-and-post-verbal-social-network/) - In one more step towards the antiseptic future envisioned largely by sci-fi movies- a future without dust, disease, age or decay-the very language we invent for our technological revolution has become disembodied and etherealized.
- [A Jerome Robbins Wonderland Comes to Houston](https://artsandculturetx.com/a-jerome-robbins-wonderland-comes-to-houston/) - Houston gets a welcome blast of Robbins’ legendary work when Theatre Under The Stars (TUTS) presents Jerome Robbins’ Broadway, a sweeping anthology of the American choreographer’s work all on one night.
- [Flying High Above the Texas Sky: Aerial Dance takes off in the Lone Star State](https://artsandculturetx.com/flying-high-above-the-texas-sky-aerial-dance-takes-off-in-the-lone-star-state/) - “I guess I could say it’s like partnering…partnering with a very tall, not-so-helpful dancer.”
- [Jerome Robbins <em>Broadway</em> at TUTS](https://artsandculturetx.com/jerome-robbins-broadway-at-tuts/) - For the last Hobby Center production of its 50th anniversary season Theatre Under The Stars threw a hell of a centennial birthday party for Broadway icon, choreographer and director Jerome Robbins with their revival of Jerome Robbins’ Broadway.
- [Directing in Texas: Brandon Weinbrenner and Mitchell Greco](https://artsandculturetx.com/directing-in-texas-brandon-weinbrenner-and-mitchell-greco/) - Five years ago, Arts and Culture Texas profiled a group of millennial theater artists striving to find creative roles for themselves offstage and to bring an innovative and fresh perspective onto Texas stages. Since then, two of those “Next Gen Leaders,” Brandon Weinbrenner, artistic associate at the Alley Theatre, and Mitchell Greco, artistic associate at Stages Repertory Theatre, have not only steadily risen to directorial prominence in Houston, they’ve also managed to carve out a personal life and marry each other.
- [Apollo Chamber Players Concludes 20x2020](https://artsandculturetx.com/apollo-chamber-players-concludes-20x2020/) - The project could hardly have a catchier title: 20x2020. But the Apollo Chamber Players faced the challenge of bringing it off. With only six years to go, could the group choose and commission 20 composers to create works it could premiere by 2020?
- [Texas Lens: Watching Dallas Dance](https://artsandculturetx.com/texas-lens-watching-dallas-dance/) - I became an accidental dance critic in Dallas a decade ago, just in time.
- [Thriving at the Helm: Joy Bollinger Finds her Stride at Bruce Wood Dance](https://artsandculturetx.com/thriving-at-the-helmjoy-bollinger-finds-her-stride-at-bruce-wood-dance/) - Five years after the death of its namesake choreographer, Bruce Wood Dance is in a good place.
- [Texas Studio: Jimmy Castillo](https://artsandculturetx.com/texas-studio-jimmy-castillo/) - In his watercolor-like photographs, artist Jimmy Castillo takes on a raft of issues.
- [Children at Play: Gary Lee Price at Dallas Arboretum](https://artsandculturetx.com/children-at-play-gary-lee-price-at-dallas-arboretum/) - Well-behaved visitors to the Dallas Arboretum wouldn’t dare. But people who are sculpted in bronze in can get away with a lot more, can’t they?
- [The ACTX Top Ten:  May 2019](https://artsandculturetx.com/the-actx-top-ten-may-2019/) - Our top ten picks for arts and culture events happening across the Lone Star State in May 2019.
- [Icon of Style: Dior at DMA](https://artsandculturetx.com/icon-of-style-dior-at-dma/) - Before the word “Dior” became synonymous with haute couture, before the House of Dior became the global fashion giant and icon of style, Christian Dior, the pioneering designer, ran art galleries and organized exhibitions that featured artists such as Picasso, Matisse, Alexander Calder, Jean Cocteau, Dalí and Duchamp.
- [REVIEW: ‘Stonewall 50’ at the CAMH](https://artsandculturetx.com/review-stonewall-50at-the-camh/) - In late June of 1969, police raided the Stonewall Inn, a prominent gay bar in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. This raid sparked a series of demonstrations by an outraged, oppressed community, often referred to as the Stonewall Riots or Stonewall Uprising, that are seen as the precursor to the Gay liberation movement and the continued fight for LGBT rights.
- [Disappearing into California Conceptualism at The Modern](https://artsandculturetx.com/disappearing-into-california-conceptualism-at-the-modern/) - In 1971, artist Chris Burden vanished for three days. No one knew where he had gone, and for those three days the artist questioned his own existence and what his disappearance meant.
- [Dream with Them: The Sin Fronteras Festival Brings Theater for Young Audiences to Austin](https://artsandculturetx.com/dream-with-them-the-sin-fronteras-festival-brings-theater-for-young-audiences-to-austin/) - What power do young people have to transform the very fabric of our nation? How can theater do this type of social justice work?
- [Dream Fest: Stages Repertory Theater Launches Sin Muros: A Latina/o Theatre Festival](https://artsandculturetx.com/dream-fest-stages-repertory-theater-launches-sin-muros-a-latinao-theatre-festival/) - If good playwrights tend to have discerning ears for the language and voices around them, then perhaps those wanting to produce a new kind of theater festival need to become the most sensitive of auditory aficionado as well. Kenn McLaughlin, artistic director of Stages Repertory Theatre in Houston, seems to subscribe to this theory because when the company began organizing their new play-reading event that would become Sin Muros: A Latina/o Theatre Festival, he knew the first act of creation was to be quiet and listen.
- [Latinx Roots in the Lone Star State: Cara Mía Theatre Co.’s 2018-19 Season](https://artsandculturetx.com/latinx-roots-in-the-lone-star-state-cara-mia-theatre-co-s-2018-19-season/) - Immigration, belonging, and identity are three of today’s most pressing issues; Dallas’s Cara Mia Theatre Co. is tackling them head-on.
- [Acting in Texas: Luis Galindo](https://artsandculturetx.com/acting-in-texas-luis-galindo/) - Since I moved to Texas, Luis Galindo has been one the local actors that I most look forward to seeing on stage.
- [Immigration Remains Pressing Issue in <em>Real Women Have Curves</em> at Dallas Theater Center](https://artsandculturetx.com/immigration-remains-pressing-issue-in-real-women-have-curves-at-dallas-theater-center/) - As soon as Dallas Theater Center (DTC) announced its 2018-19 season, my group text with Houston theater writers began buzzing with excitement over productions of The Wolves and Sweat.
- [Latina/o Talent Front and Center: Texas Playwrights at Carnaval](https://artsandculturetx.com/latinao-talent-front-and-center-texas-playwrights-at-carnaval/) - Already bursting with talent, Chicago will be overflowing with creativity from July 23-25. That’s when the groundbreaking Carnaval 2015 is taking place at the Theatre School at DePaul University.
- [Big Dreams: Discovering Latina/o Theater in Texas](https://artsandculturetx.com/big-dreams-discovering-latinao-theater-in-texas/) - What do we mean when we talk about Latina/o theater in Texas? This was the question I kept pondering at the beginning of yet another one of the wandering/mapping jaunts I occasionally take when I find myself yearning to exploring more Texas theater.
- [Growing a Teatro Scene: Latina/o Theater in San Antonio](https://artsandculturetx.com/growing-a-teatro-scene-latinao-theater-in-san-antonio/) - From Oct. 29-Nov. 19, 2017, San Antonio’s Nicolás Valdez will travel to California to be in residence at the Los Angeles Theatre Center where his show, Conjunto Blues, will play in repertory alongside 12 other productions as part of the Encuentro de las Américas International Theatre Festival.
- [TUTS Reinvents the Classics with Latina/o-Inspired Guys & Dolls](https://artsandculturetx.com/tuts-reinvents-the-classics-with-latina-o-inspired-guys-dolls/) - When you think of Guys & Dolls, does the United States’ rising Latina/o population come to mind?
- [Texas Music Festival Turns 30](https://artsandculturetx.com/texas-music-festival-turns-30/) - When Immanuel and Helen Olshan founded the Texas Music Festival (TMF) 30 years ago at the University of Houston, they had their eyes on the future.
- [Texas Studio: Lovie Olivia](https://artsandculturetx.com/texas-studio-lovie-olivia/) - Lovie Olivia is an artist living in, and hailing from, Houston, TX. I have visited this studio before, when I wrote about Olivia’s partner, Preetika Rajgariah.
- [Artistic Partners, New Works, and Historic Musical Moments: Houston’s ROCO at 15](https://artsandculturetx.com/artistic-partners-new-works-and-historic-musical-moments-houstons-roco-at-15/) - Don’t hold your breath waiting for Houston’s River Oaks Chamber Orchestra (ROCO) to anoint a conductor as its music director. Being player-driven is in ROCO’s DNA.
- [Texas Studio: Kristen Cochran](https://artsandculturetx.com/texas-studio-kristen-cochran/) - Cast your brain on the ocean of pop culture references for “perpetual worker” and you may come up with workaholic TV dads, the Energizer Bunny, or even Sisyphus, doomed to an eternity of useless boulder-pushing.
- [Shifting Landscapes: Learning from the Land at Texas Tech](https://artsandculturetx.com/shifting-landscapes-learning-from-the-land-at-texas-tech/) - In 2016, Claudia Vásquez Gómez, an artist from Chile, was especially struck by the way border police attached tires to the backs of their vehicles, dragging them across the desert.
- [Texas Studio: Annette Lawrence](https://artsandculturetx.com/texas-studio-annette-lawrence/) - Annette Lawrence reads me something she’s written about her work: “I’m tuned in to things that go unannounced and remain steady, continuous, and unremarkable on the surface, but hold magic over time.”
- [Printmaking Matters: PrintHouston 2019 Celebrates and Shares the Art Form](https://artsandculturetx.com/printmaking-matters-printhouston-2019-celebrates-and-shares-the-art-form/) - “Printmaking is one of the art forms that gets lost in the shuffle,” says Ken General, executive director of PrintMatters.
- [Texas Lens: American Made, American Maker](https://artsandculturetx.com/texas-lens-american-made-american-maker/) - Both of my grandmothers were factory workers. Paw Paw, my Chinese grandmother, watched her family oppose the Communist party in China and lose everything. They left mainland China for British-controlled Hong Kong before arriving to the United States as refugees.
- [Artful Summer Travels: Santa Fe Opera & Crested Butte Arts Festival](https://artsandculturetx.com/artful-summer-travels-santa-fe-opera-crested-butte-arts-festival/) - Once Texas’ summer torpor hits, escaping the heat may be priority No. 1. If you’re looking for a reason to flee to a higher, cooler altitude, Santa Fe Opera (June 28-Aug. 24) offers a world premiere, the company’s first staging of a 20th-century classic, and new productions of two perennial favorites.
- [Corporeal Narratives: Queering Contemporary Dance in San Antonio Towards Voices of Color](https://artsandculturetx.com/corporeal-narratives-queering-contemporary-dance-in-san-antonio-towards-voices-of-color/) - San Antonio may be overlooked as it is browner than other major cities in Texas, and although people of color are the numerical majority in the city, there is little ethnic or racial diversity in the field of contemporary dance.
- [Dallas Opera’s Season of Celebration](https://artsandculturetx.com/dallas-operas-season-of-celebration/) - The Dallas Opera commemorates a handful of anniversaries next season, and the most notable involves one of your not-so-catchy numbers.
- [Dallas Black Dance Theatre Looks Ahead with New Artistic Director at the Helm](https://artsandculturetx.com/dallas-black-dance-theatre-looks-ahead-with-new-artistic-director-at-the-helm/) - The wall next to Melissa Young’s desk is covered in neatly arranged Post-it notes. It’s how the artistic director of Dallas Black Dance Theatre keeps track of her future plans for the company.
- [Forward Facing Art: SPA’s Meg Booth Starts a New Chapter in Houston](https://artsandculturetx.com/forward-facing-art-spas-meg-booth-starts-a-new-chapter-in-houston/) - “I do passionately believe that the arts are avenues of hope.” So says Meg Booth, the new CEO at Houston’s Society for the Performing Arts.
- [The ACTX Top Eleven:  April 2019](https://artsandculturetx.com/the-actx-top-ten-april-2019/) - The top ten picks for arts and culture events happening across the Lone Star State in April 2019.
- [State of Startup: New Texas Dance Troupes](https://artsandculturetx.com/new-texas-troupes-where-collaboration-meets-the-future-is-female/) - From Houston, Austin, and the Dallas area, Texas choreographers are exploring and investigating new opportunities within the Texas dance landscape.
- [Houston’s Spring of Latinx Art](https://artsandculturetx.com/houstons-spring-of-latino-art/) - With exhibitions and performances at more than 20 venues across the city, Houston’s spring of Latino art is in full-swing.
- [Out of the Shadows: HGO’s ‘Don Giovanni’ and ‘The Phoenix’ Explore the Mozart & da Ponte Partnership](https://artsandculturetx.com/out-of-the-shadows-hgos-don-giovanni-and-the-phoenix-explores-the-mozart-da-ponte-partnership/) - He helped create an iconic group of operas, but to most of us, he exists as little more than a surname after a hyphen: Mozart-da Ponte. Yet without Lorenzo da Ponte’s librettos, we wouldn’t have Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni or Così fan tutte.
- [In a city filled with festivals, Fusebox forges its own path](https://artsandculturetx.com/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.
- [More Than a Festival: Dance Salad is a Concept that Attracts Top International Artists](https://artsandculturetx.com/more-than-a-festival-dance-salad-is-a-concept-that-attracts-top-international-artists/) - Celebrating its 24th anniversary in Houston and the 27th season since its inception in Belgium, Dance Salad Festival returns to the Wortham this Easter weekend (April 20-21) with its customarily diverse mix of classical and contemporary works from all over the world.
- [Dallas Symphony’s Soluna Festival Thinks Big](https://artsandculturetx.com/dallas-symphonys-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.
- [Impossible Art: CounterCurrent Festival Spreads Out over Houston](https://artsandculturetx.com/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.
- [Fort Worth Opera Festival Kicks off with ‘Porgy and Bess’](https://artsandculturetx.com/fort-worth-opera-festival-kicks-off-with-porgy-and-bess/) - Thanks to his boundless optimism, the hero of Porgy and Bess is one of opera’s most lovable characters. Porgy needs all the hope he can summon, because he often contends with the weaknesses and errors of others--especially those of his beloved Bess.
- [Starry Rise: Van Gogh at MFAH](https://artsandculturetx.com/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.
- [A Playwright Rises: Jonathan Norton takes up residence at Dallas Theater Center](https://artsandculturetx.com/a-playwright-rises-jonathan-norton-takes-up-residence-at-dallas-theater-center/) - At the beginning of 2019, Dallas Theater Center announced Jonathan Norton as its new playwright in residence, but the history between the two actually goes back much farther:
- [Houston Arts Alliance Helps Artists and Organizations Get Ready & Resilient](https://artsandculturetx.com/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.
- [Sonia Sanchez Documentary Headlines REELpoetry](https://artsandculturetx.com/sonia-sanchez-documentary-headlines-reelpoetry/) - While not quite as ancient as all nine muses of the arts, the conversation between the arts of poetry and film goes back some time. REELpoetry, curated by Toni Holland, is Public Poetry’s first poetry film event, featuring documentaries, workshops, panels, poetry performances, and cinepoetry.
- [‘REVIEW: Roni Horn, When I Breathe I Draw Part I’ at Menil Drawing Institute](https://artsandculturetx.com/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.
- [Painting Toward Intimacy:  Jonas Wood at Dallas Museum of Art](https://artsandculturetx.com/painting-toward-intimacy-jonas-wood-at-dallas-museum-of-art/) - There’s an intimacy that comes with looking at painting, Jonas Wood tells me.
- [The ACTX Top Ten:  March 2019](https://artsandculturetx.com/the-actx-top-ten-march-2019/) - Our top ten picks for arts and culture events happening across the Lone Star State in March 2019.
- [Sideways to the Sun: Natasha Bowdoin at the Moody Center](https://artsandculturetx.com/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).
- [GRLZ + VEILS: Cheryl Donegan at the CAMH](https://artsandculturetx.com/grlz-veils-cheryl-donegan-at-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.
- [Rescue Music:  DSO Oboist Erin Hannigan's Artists for Animals](https://artsandculturetx.com/rescue-music-dso-oboist-eric-hannigans-artists-for-animals/) - The audience members at the Meyerson Symphony Center had no idea what an adventure the oboist onstage had on her way in to work that night.
- [Musical Story Lines: Houston Symphony’s New Season](https://artsandculturetx.com/musical-stories-lines-houston-symphonys-new-season/) - A festival celebrating arch-Romantic composer Robert Schumann. Spotlights on Richard Strauss, master of orchestral tone-painting, and today’s John Adams. A pairing of dramatic but little-known choral works by Felix Mendelssohn and Gustav Mahler.
- [Have a Seat: Tom Loeser’s Playful Furniture at the Craft Center](https://artsandculturetx.com/have-a-seat-tom-loesers-playful-furniture-at-the-craft-center/) - Simple ideas, reimagined. This is central to Tom Loeser’s practice.
- [The Company Model on Texas Stages](https://artsandculturetx.com/the-company-model-on-texas-stages/) - The plays change but the players remain the same: Such is the model of a resident acting company, a group of artists who create theater together as a team.
- [Texas Lens: Finding My Voice](https://artsandculturetx.com/texas-lens-finding-my-voice/) - My name is Agostina Migoni and I am an opera singer. My grandfather, who lived with us during my childhood, was also an opera singer and my first music teacher, so I feel that my career path was determined pretty early on.
- [The ACTX Top Ten:  February 2019](https://artsandculturetx.com/the-actx-top-ten-february-2019/) - Our top ten picks for arts and culture events happening across the Lone Star State in Feb 2019.
- [REVIEW: HGO’s First Pearl Fishers Dazzles and Gleams](https://artsandculturetx.com/review-hgos-first-pearl-fishers-dazzles-and-gleams/) - It was a night of many firsts at Houston Grand Opera’s production of French composer Georges Bizet’s The Pearl Fishers.
- [Salon and Culture Jack bring New Artists and Ideas Together in Dallas](https://artsandculturetx.com/salon-and-culture-jack-bring-new-artists-and-ideas-together-in-dallas/) - This is French Room Salon and Culture Jack, two distinctly different series of art events, both gifted to Dallas towards the end of 2018. Although varied in format and feel, both series bring people together in close proximity, where they are subject to new art and ideas on a monthly basis.
- [Rich Aste Reflects on His First Two Years at the McNay](https://artsandculturetx.com/rich-aste-reflects-on-his-first-two-years-at-the-mcnay/) - “I arrived with very big ideas,” Rich Aste says, as he surveys his first two years as Director of the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio.
- [It Happened in Houston: Judy Chicago’s <em>The Dinner Party </em> at UH Clear Lake](https://artsandculturetx.com/it-happened-in-houston-judy-chicagos-the-dinner-party-at-uh-clear-lake/) - Judy Chicago’s monumental installation, The Dinner Party, debuted March 14, 1979, at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the first stop on a planned nine-year tour of the U.S. and abroad.
- [<em>Sylvia</em> Continues Houston Ballet’s Storybook Season](https://artsandculturetx.com/sylvia-continues-houston-ballets-storybook-season/) - Thanks to Welch’s love for the music, he and the company are about to unveil their first staging of the mythology-based work, which premiered in a luxe Paris Opera Ballet production in 1876. Sylvia, the tale of a shepherd’s love for a forest nymph, is the first of four full-length story ballets that Houston Ballet has in store from now through June. The coming ones include the other great beneficiary of Delibes’ gifts, Coppélia.
- [Texas Studio: Marshall Harris](https://artsandculturetx.com/texas-studio-marshall-harris/) - The 2013 Hunting Art Prize winner describes the entire universe of a body or an object with subtle tones and pencil marks on translucent Mylar—a surface so delicate that one swipe of his hand could smudge it irreparably. In this way it is reminiscent of Buddhist sand mandalas, an effort of time and “intense study,” as the artist puts it.
- [Texas Studio: Audrya Flores and Lisette Chavez](https://artsandculturetx.com/texas-studio-audrya-flores-and-lisette-chavez/) - When I walk into Audrya Flores’s home studio in San Antonio, I find a wood-paneled room, with a carefully curated selection of objects—needlework, prints, collages, fabric pieces—paired with found things—a turtle shell, stones, a preserved bat, potted plants.
- [Capturing the Moment at San Antonio Museum of Art](https://artsandculturetx.com/capturing-the-moment-at-san-antonio-museum-of-art/) - The donated collection includes over 500 photographs, 75 of which will be on view Feb. 22 – May 12 in Capturing the Moment: Photographs from the Marie Brenner and Ernest Pomerantz Collection at SAMA alongside key works from the Museum’s existing photography collection.
- [Dallas Chamber Symphony Finds its Niche](https://artsandculturetx.com/dallas-chamber-symphony-finds-its-niche/) - When the Dallas City Performance Hall (now Moody Performance Hall) opened its doors to the public in 2012, it also opened the doors of opportunity to a number of mid-sized arts groups in need of a right-sized venue. And so begins the story of the Dallas Chamber Symphony.
- [The ACTX Top Ten:  January 2019](https://artsandculturetx.com/the-actx-top-ten-jan-2019/) - Our top ten picks for arts and culture events happening in Texas in January 2019.
- [Texas Studio: Angel Oloshove](https://artsandculturetx.com/texas-studio-angel-oloshove/) - I visited ceramicist Angel Oloshove at her studio in the Houston Heights to talk about her process, what’s on the horizon, and how she got to where she is.
- [It Happened in Texas: Josephine Boudreaux at the Houston Symphony](https://artsandculturetx.com/it-happened-in-texas-josephine-boudreaux-at-the-houston-symphony/) - “She played with a fine fury all evening, and her bow was a rod and a staff for the comfort of Nespoli,” lauded music critic Hubert Roussel, writing for the Houston Gargoyle.
- [Come, Play, Hang Out:  House Concerts Take Hold in Texas](https://artsandculturetx.com/come-play-hang-out-house-concerts-take-hold-in-texas/) - Imagine listening to Liszt in your living room. Whether it’s Mozart or Brahms or more contemporary offerings, house concerts have become so popular in Texas that you can find one happening most weekends throughout the state.
- [Bold Cinema: Houston Iranian Film Festival at the MFAH, Rice Cinema and Asia Society](https://artsandculturetx.com/bold-cinema-houston-iranian-film-festival-at-the-mfah-rice-cinema-and-asia-society/) - At the MFAH’s Houston Iranian Film Festival, now in its 26th year, the seats are always full. The festival, established by the MFAH and Rice Cinema, runs Jan. 18-26, with screenings at both venues and at Asia Society Texas Center.
- [REVIEW: Contesting Modernity: Informalism in Venezuela, 1955-1975 at the MFAH](https://artsandculturetx.com/review-contesting-modernity-informalism-in-venezuela-1955-1975-at-the-mfah/) - In five sections, Contesting Modernity surveys twenty years of work in Venezuela by numerous artists, some of whom a Houston audience will already know from curator Mari Carmen Ramírez’s extensive catalog of groundbreaking, research-driven exhibitions at the MFAH.
- [Houston Theater 2018: A Chat with Tarra Gaines](https://artsandculturetx.com/houston-theater-2018-a-chat-with-tarra-gaines/) - It was a big year on the Houston theater landscape. Most nights of the week ACTX’s trusted Houston theater writer Tarra Gaines can be found in a theater seat. Gaines visited with ACTX editor Nancy Wozny to sort out what happened on Houston stages in 2018.
- [REVIEW: Beauty and the Beast at TUTS](https://artsandculturetx.com/review-beauty-and-the-beast-at-tuts/) - Twenty-five years ago, to the month, Theatre Under the Stars world-premiered Disney’s Beauty and the Beast in its pre-Broadway run and introduced this independent Belle to the stage. As a grand holiday offering (through Dec. 23), TUTS now revives the show for its 50th anniversary season.
- [REVIEW: Tammie Rubin, <em>Everything You Ever </em> at Women & Their Work](https://artsandculturetx.com/review-tammie-rubin-everything-you-ever-at-women-their-work/) - Tammie Rubin’s exhibition at Austin’s Women & Their Work (through Jan. 10) ostensibly takes the Texas ball moss as its subject.
- [REVIEW: ‘Pride and Prejudice’ at 4th Wall Theatre](https://artsandculturetx.com/review-pride-and-prejudice-at-4th-wall-theatre/) - The great grand dame of hate-becomes-love stories Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice always held a current of social commentary beneath the surface of the glorious romance.
- [Catching up with North Texas Theater: A Conversation with Lindsey Wilson](https://artsandculturetx.com/catching-up-with-north-texas-theater-a-conversation-with-lindsey-wilson/) - Lindsey Wilson is hands down one of the most prolific theater writers in Texas.
- [REVIEW: Ghada Amer at Dallas Contemporary](https://artsandculturetx.com/review-ghada-amer-at-dallas-contemporary/) - Fingers hover over lips and breasts, hair cascades over and around faces, kisses are blown and shared, pleasure is given and received: Ghada Amer’s ceramic sculptures shiver with ecstatic encounter.
- [REVIEW: Nicolas Moufarrege at the CAMH](https://artsandculturetx.com/review-nicolas-moufarrege-at-the-camh/) - The story of Nicolas Moufarrege is a sad one. Lost to the AIDS crisis in New York City at the age of 36, the artist had only been in practice for a decade and undoubtedly had much left to produce. Curated by Dean Daderko and on view at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston through Feb. 17, 2019, Nicolas Moufarrege: Recognize My Sign is the first solo museum exhibition for Moufarrege.
- [REVIEW: Ars Lyrica’s ‘Agrippina’](https://artsandculturetx.com/review-ars-lyricas-agrippina/) - When Matthew Dirst was a graduate student in France, a splashy revival of a long-neglected 17th-century opera galvanized his love of baroque music.
- [Sci-Fi Theater: The Epic Adventure of ‘Panto Star Force’ at Stages](https://artsandculturetx.com/sci-fi-theater-the-epic-adventure-of-panto-star-force-at-stages/) - If you are familiar with a certain popular space franchise enjoying a reboot right now, you might see some similarities with this years Panto at Stages Repertory Theatre, which promises to take us to a galaxy far, far away.
- [Loop38 and Texas New Music Ensemble Stir up Houston’s Contemporary Music Scene](https://artsandculturetx.com/loop38-and-texas-new-music-ensemble-stir-up-houstons-contemporary-music-scene/) - A pair of excellent new music concerts on the Houston calendar this month illuminated the distinct yet overlapping currents that shape the body of contemporary music.
- [Texas Lens: Ian Casady’s 20 years at Houston Ballet](https://artsandculturetx.com/texas-lens-ian-casadys-20-years-at-houston-ballet/) - Houston Ballet Principal Ian Casady will be honored for his twenty spectacular years with the company during the Margaret Alkek Williams Jubilee of Dance on Nov. 30 at the Wortham Center.
- [Tap Dance for the 21st Century: Michelle Dorrance brings artistry, collaboration, and innovation to Texas](https://artsandculturetx.com/tap-dance-for-the-21st-century-michelle-dorrance-brings-artistry-collaboration-and-innovation-to-texas/) - Michelle Dorrance’s no-holds-barred approach to tap dancing has endeared her to audiences and presenters throughout her career as a solo artist.
- [Life, Death and Healing: Hyde Park Theatre Partners with Catastrophic Theatre for Will Eno's <em>Wakey, Wakey</em>](https://artsandculturetx.com/life-death-and-healing-hyde-park-theatre-partners-with-catastrophic-theatre-for-will-enos-wakey-wakey/) - In Obie Award-winning playwright Will Eno’s latest work, Wakey, Wakey, the endearingly befuddled Guy takes the audience along on a somewhat bumbling memorial journey through his life on the way to his death.
- [Avant Chamber Ballet’s Musical Season](https://artsandculturetx.com/avant-chamber-ballets-musical-season/) - Avant Chamber Ballet opens its seventh season with an ambitious collaboration with the Verdigris Ensemble for a stunning production of The Little Match Girl Passion, David Lang’s haunting choral adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, “The Little Match Girl.”
- [Dialogues Between Art and Music/Soundings: New Music at the Nasher](https://artsandculturetx.com/dialogues-between-art-and-music-soundings-new-music-at-the-nasher/) - Listen to music in a roomful of visual art, and your eyes and ears may pick up parallels thanks to sheer serendipity.
- [Art for All at Austin’s SAGE Studio](https://artsandculturetx.com/art-for-all-at-austins-sage-studio/) - Even though Katie Stahl enjoyed painting when she was growing up, she earned her college degree in psychology. Later, a friend’s suggestion led her to visit Creativity Explored, a San Francisco art center with a special mission: helping people with developmental disabilities become working artists.
- [Invoking the Body: Jasper Johns at Menil Drawing Institute](https://artsandculturetx.com/invoking-the-body-jasper-johns-at-menil-drawing-institute/) - On view through Jan. 27, The Condition of Being Here at the newly-inaugurated Menil Drawing Institute (MDI) in Houston includes a selection of Jasper Johns’s drawings dating from 1954 to 2016, many of which get at the fragility of the body and its musings.
- [Texas Lens: Artwork is Work](https://artsandculturetx.com/texas-lens-artwork-is-work/) - One recent Friday evening, my kitchen was filled with artists. Drinking, commiserating, and laughing, we all compared gigs.
- [REVIEW: The Nature of Arp at Nasher Sculpture Center](https://artsandculturetx.com/review-the-nature-of-arp-at-nasher-sculpture-center/) - At Dallas’s Nasher Sculpture Center through Jan. 6, The Nature of Arp considers Jean (Hans) Arp’s diverse production through his processes, linking them to the processes of the natural world.
- [Under a Sister’s Shadow: Ida O’Keeffe at DMA](https://artsandculturetx.com/under-a-sisters-shadow-ida-okeeffe-at-dma/) - Being a sister is complicated. In 1961, the year Ida O’Keeffe died, her sister wrote, “In some odd way, it is a wasted life.” That sister, Georgia, would be the one the world remembered.
- [Playful Challenges Ahead:  Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company's Austin Season](https://artsandculturetx.com/playful-challenges-ahead-kathy-dunn-hamrick-dance-companys-austin-season/) - Kathy Dunn Hamrick begins with a really clean slate.
- [The ACTX Top Ten:  November 2018](https://artsandculturetx.com/the-actx-top-ten-november-2018/) - Our top ten picks for arts and culture events across the Lone Star State in November 2018.
- [Boundless Quantum and Galactic Space: 'The Demon in the Diagram' at the Moody Center](https://artsandculturetx.com/boundless-quantum-and-galactic-space-the-demon-in-the-diagram-at-the-moody-center/) - Millennia before mapping the universe became the purview of the scientist, the first artists scratched marks, lines and shapes onto cave walls, perhaps to make some sense of the world around them through pictorial representation.
- [REVIEW: Jessica Stockholder, <em>Relational Aesthetics </em> and Robert Davidson, <em>U and Eye </em> at The Contemporary Austin](https://artsandculturetx.com/review-jessica-stockholder-robert-davidson-contemporary-austin/) - Stockholder titled the Davidson exhibition U and Eye (through March 3, 2019), taking the title from one of his prints, but with a nod to both artists' interests in relationships.
- [Texas Studio: Preetika Rajgariah](https://artsandculturetx.com/texas-studio-preetika-rajgariah/) - Preetika Rajgariah will spend much of the remainder of 2018 travelling so I was lucky to catch her at her home studio in Houston that she shares with her partner, Lovie Olivia.
- [REVIEW: Margaret Meehan, <em>Hope is the Thing with Feathers</em> and Eric Zimmerman, <em>A Few Things for the World's End </em>at Conduit Gallery](https://artsandculturetx.com/review-margaret-meehan-hope-is-the-thing-with-feathers-and-eric-zimmerman-a-few-things-for-the-worlds-end-at-conduit-gallery/) - As you come around the entrance to Margaret Meehan's Conduit Gallery exhibition, Hope is the Thing with Feathers (through Nov. 24), a concrete cast of a tree stump sits facing the pink parachute installation in the center of the room.
- [REVIEW: New Cartographies at Asia Society Texas Center](https://artsandculturetx.com/review-new-cartographies-at-asia-society-texas-center/) - Cartography is a fascinating practice.
- [Death and Redemptive Love: 'The Flying Dutchman' at Dallas Opera](https://artsandculturetx.com/death-and-redemptive-love-the-flying-dutchman-at-dallas-opera/) - The Dallas Opera's production of The Flying Dutchman, beautifully conducted by Emmanuel Villaume and under the direction of chorus master Alexander Rom and stage director Christopher Alden, takes 1930s-era Germany as its visual and conceptual stage.
- [Sculpture Month Houston Spreads Out Beyond the Silos](https://artsandculturetx.com/sculpture-month-houston-spreads-out-beyond-the-silos/) - In 46 venues, sculpture at its most expansive will be on view through Dec. 1.
- [Zine Fest Houston Returns to Lawndale](https://artsandculturetx.com/zine-fest-houston-returns-to-lawndale/) - Zines aren’t new, and neither are zinefests, but many people haven’t heard of either. Zines are self published “magazines” and can be about literally any subject and in any medium.
- [Steve Parker’s Surround Sounds](https://artsandculturetx.com/steve-parkers-surround-sounds/) - For his Tito’s Prize-winning exhibition, the Austin artist creates cacophonous new sculpture
- [EAST Shifts](https://artsandculturetx.com/east-shifts/) - The East Austin Studio Tour is arguably the city’s largest art event when you add up the number of participating artists, the audience and the footprint of the two-weekend self-guided free tour.
- [Houston Cinema Arts Festival at Ten](https://artsandculturetx.com/houston-cinema-arts-festival-at-ten/) - Consider the Houston Cinema Arts Festival (HCAF), this year celebrating its tenth anniversary, and Richard Herskowitz, its artistic director.
- [Join The Chanclas Squad: Dallas Artist Giovanni Valderas Runs For City Council](https://artsandculturetx.com/join-the-chanclas-squad-dallas-artist-giovanni-valderas-runs-for-city-council/) - How much can art do? In a way, this question animates the work of many artists whose work is socially and politically engaged.
- [REVIEW: 'Swimming While Drowning' at Stages](https://artsandculturetx.com/review-swimming-while-drowning-at-stages/) - Ah, young love, that time in life when two star-crossed lovers might feel they exist in a world to themselves or the whole world is out to pull them asunder.
- [Art for the Crowd: Luminaria Layers History in San Antonio](https://artsandculturetx.com/art-for-the-crowd-luminaria-layers-history-in-san-antonio/) - “My biggest take away from last year was that I didn’t get to experience everything,” says Kathy Armstrong, executive director of Luminaria.
- [line upon line Celebrates Percussion Icons](https://artsandculturetx.com/line-upon-line-celebrates-percussion-icons/) - Less than a century has gone by since a composer first had the brainstorm of creating a piece solely for percussion.
- [Space is the Medium: Runo Lagomarsino at the DMA](https://artsandculturetx.com/space-is-the-medium-runo-lagomarsino-at-the-dma/) - Concentrations 61: Entremundos, on view at the Dallas Museum of Art through Feb. 17, 2019, is the first solo museum exhibition in the United States by Swiss and Brazilian-based artist Runo Lagomarsino, although he has shown work throughout the country.
- [Communication, context, and consent: Why more Texas theaters are hiring intimacy directors](https://artsandculturetx.com/communication-context-and-consent-why-more-texas-theaters-are-hiring-intimacy-directors/) - As more instances of sexual harassment and abuse of power are being uncovered, especially in the theatrical community, more companies are realizing they need an important addition to their creative team: an intimacy director.
- [Between Two Elizabeths: British Royal Portraits at the MFAH](https://artsandculturetx.com/between-two-elizabeths-british-royal-portraits-at-the-mfah/) - Recounted in song, plays, novels, films and Lifetime television movies, the saga of the rise and fall of generations of British royals has fascinated commoners for centuries.
- [Texas Studio: Rabéa Ballin](https://artsandculturetx.com/texas-studio-rabea-ballin/) - Terence Publius was the Africa-born slave of Roman Senator Terentius Lucanus.
- [Friendship, Rivalries and Lots of Ale: 'Book of Will' at Main Street Theater](https://artsandculturetx.com/friendship-rivalries-and-lots-of-ale-book-of-will-at-main-street-theater/) - Will Shakspere, actor, theater owner and writer is dead; long live–for 400 years–William Shakespeare.
- [The ACTX Top Ten:  October 2018](https://artsandculturetx.com/the-actx-top-ten-october-2018/) - The top ten arts and culture events happening across Texas in October 2018.
- [The ACTX Top Ten:  September 2018](https://artsandculturetx.com/the-actx-top-ten-september-2018/) - The ACTX top ten picks for September 2018.
- [The Second Decade: Apollo Chamber Players’ Season 11](https://artsandculturetx.com/the-second-decade-apollo-chamber-players-season-11/) - Continuing its unique mission to explore and incorporate diverse folkloric elements and global inspirations while enriching and augmenting the classical repertoire, Apollo Chamber Players embarks on its second decade with fresh ideas and new sounds.
- [Dallas Onstage: Bishop Arts Theatre Center Strives to Remain a Neighborhood Resource](https://artsandculturetx.com/dallas-onstage-bishop-arts-theatre-center-strives-to-remain-a-neighborhood-resource/) - In May 2018, Teresa Coleman Walsh published an essay on HowlRound, the popular online platform for theater makers sponsored by Emerson College, titled “The Ugly Truth about Arts Institutions Led by Women of Color.”
- [New Leader, New Focus: Theatre Under the Stars Returns to its Houston Roots](https://artsandculturetx.com/new-leader-new-focus-theatre-under-the-stars-returns-to-its-houston-roots/) - When Tony®-Award-nominated director and choreographer Dan Knechtges took the helm of one of Houston’s oldest and largest theater companies, Theatre Under the Stars, he knew the artistic director title might require steering the organization through some stormy times, but he likely wasn’t ready for a real hurricane.
- [The Space Between the Extremes: Goya at the Kimbell](https://artsandculturetx.com/the-space-between-the-extremes-goya-at-the-kimbell/) - The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth will give Texas art lovers a new and unique perspective on the complex genius with the exhibition Goya in Black and White, Oct. 7-Jan. 6, 2019.
- [Show Up: Buster Graybill](https://artsandculturetx.com/show-up-buster-graybill/) - “The gateway drug to art is drawing,” Buster Graybill laughs.
- [Beyond Broadway: The Long Center Expands its Mission](https://artsandculturetx.com/beyond-broadway-the-long-center-expands-its-mission/) - If you check out what Austin’s Long Center has in store for its 10th anniversary season, you’ll find theater, dance, music of many genres, and more. But the bill of fare leaves out a staple of performing arts centers nationwide: Broadway shows.
- [The Fest Test: The Impact of Dance Festivals on Texas Dance](https://artsandculturetx.com/the-fest-test-the-impact-of-dance-festivals-on-texas-dance/) - Dance audiences worldwide have long come together for festivals large and small to engage with the art form.
- [Watch Her Work: Suzan-Lori Parks Gives 2018 Mitchell Artist Lecture](https://artsandculturetx.com/watch-her-work-suzan-lori-parks-gives-2018-mitchell-artist-lecture/) - In 2014, internationally renowned playwright Suzan-Lori Parks began her much-discussed “Watch Me Work,” an occasional performance on Monday evenings in which audiences can quite literally watch Parks working on her newest writing projects on the mezzanine of the Public Theater in New York.
- [TX Studio: Otis Jones](https://artsandculturetx.com/tx-studio-otis-jones/) - For Dallas-based artist Otis Jones, paintings are a bit like rocks.
- [Texas Lens: Joshua L. Peugh and Chadi El-khoury Discuss the Making of Aladdin, حبيبي‎](https://artsandculturetx.com/texas-lens-joshua-l-peugh-and-chadi-el-khoury-discuss-the-making-of-aladdin-حبيبي‎/) - Creating new work is like talking to myself; It’s me trying to understand the world I live in and the things that happen in it.
- [Double 'Dutchman' opens HGO and Dallas Opera Seasons](https://artsandculturetx.com/double-dutchman-opens-hgo-and-dallas-opera-seasons/) - He’s the ultimate outsider. Cursed by Satan, the protagonist of Richard Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman must sail the world’s seas for all eternity.
- [From the Ground Up: Lily Cox-Richard at DiverseWorks](https://artsandculturetx.com/from-the-ground-up-lily-cox-richard-at-diverseworks/) - In her solo exhibition Berm, on view at DiverseWorks through Nov. 3, Richmond-based sculptor Lily Cox-Richard thinks about infrastructure and public space, from the ground up.
- [The Good Fight: 'Exit Strategy' at Rec Room](https://artsandculturetx.com/the-good-fight-exit-strategy-at-rec-room/) - When should we fight the good fight? When do we surrender to survive another day, and when should we give up and put on the comfortable armor of cynicism?
- [REVIEW: 'Walls Turned Sideways: Artists Confront the Justice System' at the CAMH](https://artsandculturetx.com/review-walls-turned-sideways-artists-confront-the-justice-system-at-the-camh/) - Art can be radical. There’s nothing new about this statement because art has always been radical in some form or function.
- [REVIEW: ‘Reclaimed’ at Ruby City](https://artsandculturetx.com/review-reclaimed-at-ruby-city/) - In Reclaimed, the current exhibition through Jan. 26, 2019 at Ruby City in San Antonio, the collection attempts to host a myriad of themes, visual relationships, and connections through a small sampling of works by nine prominent female artists.
- [Choral Music for Modern Audiences: Verdigris Offers a New Perspective in Dallas](https://artsandculturetx.com/choral-music-for-modern-audiences-verdigris-offers-a-new-perspective-in-dallas/) - It’s likely that no one in the seats of the UT Arlington Planetarium had ever been to a choral concert like this one.
- [A Kind of Truth-Telling: Laurie Simmons at The Modern](https://artsandculturetx.com/a-kind-of-truth-telling-laurie-simmons-at-the-modern/) - “I’m trying to tell my own truth,” says Laurie Simmons. When we speak on the phone, she is in the midst of preparing for Big Camera/Little Camera, a major survey of her work at The Modern Museum of Fort Worth on view Oct. 14 through Jan. 27, 2019.
- [Houston Celebrates Bergman at the MFAH](https://artsandculturetx.com/houston-celebrates-bergman-at-the-mfah/) - Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman is nobody’s idea of a summer watching.
- [Texas Lens: Reflecting on 36 Years at Booker T.](https://artsandculturetx.com/texas-lens-reflecting-on-36-years-at-booker-t/) - I am proud to say that I am a former member of the dance faculty at Booker T. (an affectionate name given to the school by recent alums).
- [Second Chapters: Texas Artists Navigate Change](https://artsandculturetx.com/second-chapters-texas-artists-navigate-change/) - A death in the family, the loss of a home, a call to leave a familiar position or job and head out alone are the kinds of dramatic life changes all of us, including artists and companies, are likely face sooner or later.
- [Houston’s Period-instrument Group puts Music in its Original Context](https://artsandculturetx.com/houstons-period-instrument-group-puts-music-in-its-original-context/) - In your typical music-school teaching studio, a Steinway grand piano would easily dominate the room.
- [Houston's ROCO focuses on Works by Women](https://artsandculturetx.com/houstons-roco-focuses-on-works-by-women/) - Alecia Lawyer, the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra’s artistic director, introduced the idea discreetly last fall: She and two other musicians devoted a program on the group’s Unchambered series entirely to works by female composers.
- [Surrealistic Americana: Devon Nowlin Colorfully Riffs on Nostalgia at Artspace 111](https://artsandculturetx.com/surrealistic-americana-devon-nowlin-colorfully-riffs-on-nostalgia-at-artspace-111/) - For her new solo exhibition, Familiar Strangers, Devon Nowlin returns to the vintage photographs she has been using as source material since 2008.
- [No Small Feat: Salvador Dalí at the Meadows Museum](https://artsandculturetx.com/no-small-feat-salvador-dali-at-the-meadows-museum/) - Sometimes artists dream of success and fame. And, sometimes, it’s the dreams themselves that make the artist famous.
- [The ACTX Top Ten:  November 2014](https://artsandculturetx.com/the-ac-top-ten-november/) - our list of top ten arts + theater events around Texas this November...
- [The ACTX Top Ten: December 2014](https://artsandculturetx.com/the-ac-top-ten-december/) - Houston Ballet's Jubilee of Dance HOUSTON- Ballet fans love the smorgasbord of offerings Stanton Welch puts together for Houston Ballet's annual Jubilee of Dance, Dec. 5 at Wortham Center. This year ABT ballerina Julie Kent makes a special guest appearance in Welch's Clear, a role that he created for her in 2001 at ABT. On
- [The ACTX Top Ten:  January 2015](https://artsandculturetx.com/the-ac-top-ten-january/) - Our top picks for visual and performing arts events across Texas for January 2015.
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- [Top Ten Spring Dance Events in Texas](https://artsandculturetx.com/top-ten-spring-dance-events-in-texas/) - Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s Genesis performed by Eastman, Antwerp, Belgium and Yabin Studio, Beijing, China.
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- [Show Up: Francesca Fuchs](https://artsandculturetx.com/show-up-francesca-fuchs/) - Francesca Fuchs’s subtle alchemy takes place under the bright light of her studio, where shadows aren’t quite banished but rather lifted.
- [Badge of Honor: SMU Dance Grads Impact Texas Dance](https://artsandculturetx.com/badge-of-honor-smu-dance-grads-impact-texas-dance/) - Southern Methodist University’s Meadows School of the Arts in Dallas is home to one of the nation’s most highly regarded and rigorous dance programs.
- [A Tale of Two Festivals](https://artsandculturetx.com/a-tale-of-two-festivals/) - A woman weaves on a loom while fifty amateur violinists and an accordionist surround her with music. The aftermath of a young man’s suicide unfolds on a large screen through social media.
- [Texas String Divas](https://artsandculturetx.com/texas-string-divas/) - For classically-trained string players, the traditional route to making a living as a professional musician is fairly narrow: win a job in a major orchestra, find a full-time teaching position, or gig like there is no tomorrow.
- [The Big Surround: Nancy and Tarra talk Immersivity on Texas Stages](https://artsandculturetx.com/the-big-surround-nancy-and-tarra-talk-immersivity-on-texas-stages/) - Since we (Nancy Wozny & Tarra Gaines) have an ongoing conversation on what defines an immersive performance, we decided to share some of our adventures and to make some of our endless road trip banter public.
- [Festivals on Tap this Summer](https://artsandculturetx.com/festivals-on-tap-this-summer/) - Hundreds of hoofers converge to shed wood at the Lone Star State’s top tap dance festivals.
- [The Lone Star State en Pointe](https://artsandculturetx.com/the-lone-star-state-en-pointe/) - No, ballet wasn’t born in Texas. But, in accord with the proverbial Law of Attraction, it got here as fast as it could. Since the arrival of a troupe of traveling Russians during a time when even Hollywood movies were still, literally, finding their voice, the art and practice of ballet has been nurtured by Texans, who support not one, but three multi-million-dollar-budget ballet companies, and a host of smaller, but no less notable, organizations.
- [You Didn’t Have to Be There, But It Helps: Stage Environment at CAMH](https://artsandculturetx.com/you-didnt-have-to-be-there-but-it-helps-stage-environment-at-camh/) - “It is not an acropolis we want there. It is not Culture on a corner. I think of the new museum building as a stage environment to house the multimedia in which artists of today are working.”
- [Full Circle:  A New Vision for Iconic Austin Mural](https://artsandculturetx.com/full-circle-a-new-vision-for-iconic-austin-mural/) - In 1992, two young local artists, Robert Herrera and Oscar Cortez, began transforming a 700-square foot wall section around the Holly Street Power Plant in East Austin into a spray-painted story of identity, pride, and community.
- [Into the Vortex: NobleMotion Dance Turns Ten](https://artsandculturetx.com/into-the-vortex-noblemotion-dance-turns-ten/) - Andy and Dionne Sparkman Noble celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the company NobleMotion Dance with Vortex on Aug. 25-25 at The Hobby Center’s Zilkha Hall.
- [Texas Lens: Audience as Player/Experiments in Interactive Performance](https://artsandculturetx.com/texas-lens-audience-as-player-experiments-in-interactive-performance/) - You arrive at Texas State University’s Performing Arts Center in San Marcos and find the front doors to the lobby locked.
- [Funny stuff: Dallas’ first nonprofit comedy theater proves laughter is the best medicine](https://artsandculturetx.com/funny-stuff-dallas-first-nonprofit-comedy-theater-proves-laughter-is-the-best-medicine/) - In a newly rehabbed, 75-seat black box theater, tucked behind Peticolas Brewing Company in the Dallas Design District, two men are pretending to tour a home.
- [Why We Sing: Houston Chamber Choir Celebrates the Art and Joy of Singing Together](https://artsandculturetx.com/why-we-sing-houston-chamber-choir-celebrates-the-art-and-joy-of-singing-together/) - Robert Simpson, founder and artistic director of the Houston Chamber Choir (HCC), has just brought home one of the most coveted awards in the field of choral music.

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- [brentano string quartet](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/brentano-string-quartet/)
- [Debra Barrera](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/debra-barrera/)
- [TX 13 Group Survey Exhibition](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/tx-13-group-survey-exhibition/)
- [Rude Mechs](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/rude-mechs/)
- [King John](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/king-john/)
- [matthew bourbon](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/matthew-bourbon/)
- [Otis and Velma Davis Dozier Travel Grant](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/otis-and-velma-davis-dozier-travel-grant/)
- [University of North Texas](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/university-of-north-texas/)
- [women and their work](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/women-and-their-work/)
- [thirst](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/thirst/)
- [lady bird lake](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/lady-bird-lake/)
- [fairfax dorn](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/fairfax-dorn/)
- [leonardo drew](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/leonardo-drew/)
- [thomas hirschhorn](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/thomas-hirschhorn/)
- [isa genzken](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/isa-genzken/)
- [trenton doyle hancock](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/trenton-doyle-hancock/)
- [christian marclay](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/christian-marclay/)
- [Lance Letscher](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/lance-letscher/)
- [Pregunta Numero Uno](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/pregunta-numero-uno/)
- [Jesse Morgan Barnett](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/jesse-morgan-barnett/)
- [FotoFest-Houston Center for Photography](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/fotofest-houston-center-for-photography/)
- [Moving/Still: Recent Photography by Texas Artists](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/movingstill-recent-photography-by-texas-artists/)
- [Kerry Inman](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/kerry-inman/)
- [Paho Mann](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/paho-mann/)
- [Re-inhabited Circle Ks](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/re-inhabited-circle-ks/)
- [megan badger](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/megan-badger/)
- [hector hernandez](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/hector-hernandez/)
- [Invariant Interval](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/invariant-interval/)
- [alyson shotz](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/alyson-shotz/)
- [UT Visual Arts Center (VAC)](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/ut-visual-arts-center-vac/)
- [sama](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/sama/)
- [meadows museum at smu](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/meadows-museum-at-smu/)
- [goya](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/goya/)
- [hidden room theatre](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/hidden-room-theatre/)
- [forth worth opera](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/forth-worth-opera/)
- [north texas giving day](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/north-texas-giving-day/)
- [dance source houston](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/dance-source-houston/)
- [mcnay art musem](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/mcnay-art-musem/)
- [fixing shakespeare](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/fixing-shakespeare/)
- [Koloman Moser](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/koloman-moser/)
- [Designing Modern Vienna](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/designing-modern-vienna/)
- [School of Applied Arts in Vienna](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/school-of-applied-arts-in-vienna/)
- [Wiener Werkstätte](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/wiener-werkstatte/)
- [Fixing King John](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/fixing-king-john/)
- [Off Center](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/off-center/)
- [Carnival Round the Central Figure](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/carnival-round-the-central-figure/)
- [Mildred’s Umbrella Theatre Company](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/mildreds-umbrella-theatre-company/)
- [Studio 101](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/studio-101/)
- [Diana Amsterdam](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/diana-amsterdam/)
- [dead white zombies](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/dead-white-zombies/)
- [bull game](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/bull-game/)
- [Edward Ruscha](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/edward-ruscha/)
- [University of Texas at Austin](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/university-of-texas-at-austin/)
- [Twentysix Gasoline Stations](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/twentysix-gasoline-stations/)
- [Every Building on the Sunset Strip](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/every-building-on-the-sunset-strip/)
- [Some Los Angeles Apartments](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/some-los-angeles-apartments/)
- [Peter Brötzmann](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/peter-brotzmann/)
- [Keiji Haino](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/keiji-haino/)
- [nameless sound](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/nameless-sound/)
- [Renzo Piano Pavilion](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/renzo-piano-pavilion/)
- [Menil Collection Houston](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/menil-collection-houston/)
- [texas holiday performances](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/texas-holiday-performances/)
- [texas theatre](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/texas-theatre/)
- [Houston Cinema Arts Festival (HCAF)](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/houston-cinema-arts-festival-hcaf/)
- [Spotlight on Houston](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/spotlight-on-houston/)
- [Southwest Alternate Media Project (SWAMP)](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/southwest-alternate-media-project-swamp/)
- [Houston Short Film Fund Films (HSFF)](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/houston-short-film-fund-films-hsff/)
- [Kathryn Kane](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/kathryn-kane/)
- [Sing-Song](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/sing-song/)
- [Lauren Kelley](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/lauren-kelley/)
- [Burlap Interior](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/burlap-interior/)
- [Douglas Newman](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/douglas-newman/)
- [Bellows and Buttons](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/bellows-and-buttons/)
- [Gabbanelli Accordions](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/gabbanelli-accordions/)
- [Jerry Ochoa](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/jerry-ochoa/)
- [This Neighborhood](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/this-neighborhood/)
- [martin burke](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/martin-burke/)
- [david mamet](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/david-mamet/)
- [Chris Carlos](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/chris-carlos/)
- [Max Hartman](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/max-hartman/)
- [Jamal Gibran Sterling](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/jamal-gibran-sterling/)
- [Jaquai Wade](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/jaquai-wade/)
- [McKinney Avenue Contemporary museum](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/mckinney-avenue-contemporary-museum/)
- [Wendy Perron](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/wendy-perron/)
- [through the eyes of a dancer](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/through-the-eyes-of-a-dancer/)
- [marie and bruce](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/marie-and-bruce/)
- [tamarie cooper](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/tamarie-cooper/)
- [jason nodler](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/jason-nodler/)
- [charlie scott](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/charlie-scott/)
- [Kyle Sturdivant](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/kyle-sturdivant/)
- [Wallace Shawn](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/wallace-shawn/)
- [Laura Fine Hawkes](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/laura-fine-hawkes/)
- [art in the park](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/art-in-the-park/)
- [Annise Parker](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/annise-parker/)
- [Hermann Park](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/hermann-park/)
- [Hermann Park Conservancy](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/hermann-park-conservancy/)
- [wind waves](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/wind-waves/)
- [yvonne domengue](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/yvonne-domengue/)
- [orly genger](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/orly-genger/)
- [micropavilion: reframe x frame](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/micropavilion-reframe-x-frame/)
- [sharon engelstein](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/sharon-engelstein/)
- [ugo rondinone](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/ugo-rondinone/)
- [Pilobolus](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/pilobolus/)
- [paramount theatre](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/paramount-theatre/)
- [ARTS San Antonio](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/arts-san-antonio/)
- [Pilobolus Dance Theater](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/pilobolus-dance-theater/)
- [Jonathan Wolken](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/jonathan-wolken/)
- [Raychael Stine: a little ways away from everywhere](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/raychael-stine-a-little-ways-away-from-everywhere/)
- [Conspirare](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/conspirare/)
- [Craig Hella Johnson](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/craig-hella-johnson/)
- [New Texas Festival](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/new-texas-festival/)
- [Harmonia Mundi](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/harmonia-mundi/)
- [Arthur Peña](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/arthur-pena/)
- [slight shift](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/slight-shift/)
- [steady hand](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/steady-hand/)
- [Attempts](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/attempts/)
- [contemporary dance texas](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/contemporary-dance-texas/)
- [hope stone](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/hope-stone/)
- [karen stokes](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/karen-stokes/)
- [Bruce Wood Dance Project](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/bruce-wood-dance-project/)
- [manny vega](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/manny-vega/)
- [UTSA](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/utsa/)
- [University of Texas at San Antonio Downtown Art Gallery](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/university-of-texas-at-san-antonio-downtown-art-gallery/)
- [Arturo Infante Almeida](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/arturo-infante-almeida/)
- [PAI AGENOR](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/pai-agenor/)
- [MONGO SANTAMARI.](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/mongo-santamari/)
- [Waltercio Caldas](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/waltercio-caldas/)
- [the nearest air](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/the-nearest-air/)
- [blanton](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/blanton/)
- [brazilian conceptual artist](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/brazilian-conceptual-artist/)
- [Fundação Iberê Camargo](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/fundacao-ibere-camargo/)
- [Porto Alegre](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/porto-alegre/)
- [Brazil](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/brazil/)
- [Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/gabriel-perez-barreiro/)
- [melissa thorne](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/melissa-thorne/)
- [a wall around a window](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/a-wall-around-a-window/)
- [devin borden gallery](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/devin-borden-gallery/)
- [jay sullivan](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/jay-sullivan/)
- [Eurydice](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/eurydice/)
- [alley acting company](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/alley-acting-company/)
- [the elephant man](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/the-elephant-man/)
- [you cant take it with you](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/you-cant-take-it-with-you/)
- [freuds last session](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/freuds-last-session/)
- [Eight](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/eight/)
- [Eighteen](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/eighteen/)
- [Teresa Hubbard](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/teresa-hubbard/)
- [Alexander Birchler](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/alexander-birchler/)
- [Kathryn Kanyo](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/kathryn-kanyo/)
- [Linda Pace’s Camp Street apartment](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/linda-paces-camp-street-apartment/)
- [Anna Reyes](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/anna-reyes/)
- [raychael stine](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/raychael-stine/)
- [WWII](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/wwii/)
- [Second World War](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/second-world-war/)
- [Jed Morse](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/jed-morse/)
- [Return to Earth: Ceramic Sculpture of Fontana](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/return-to-earth-ceramic-sculpture-of-fontana/)
- [Melotti](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/melotti/)
- [Miró](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/miro/)
- [Noguchi](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/noguchi/)
- [Picasso](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/picasso/)
- [vanda jordan](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/vanda-jordan/)
- [brook wyeth](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/brook-wyeth/)
- [jon robin baitz](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/jon-robin-baitz/)
- [other desert cities](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/other-desert-cities/)
- [AMOA](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/amoa/)
- [arthouse](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/arthouse/)
- [jones center](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/jones-center/)
- [burned bridge junction](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/burned-bridge-junction/)
- [sue graze gallery](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/sue-graze-gallery/)
- [common crossings](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/common-crossings/)
- [louis gracho](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/louis-gracho/)
- [Robyn O’Neil](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/robyn-oneil/)
- [WE SPOKE MIRAGE](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/we-spoke-mirage/)
- [Talley Dunn Gallery](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/talley-dunn-gallery/)
- [misha penton](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/misha-penton/)
- [late nights](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/late-nights/)
- [todd reynolds](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/todd-reynolds/)
- [musiqua](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/musiqua/)
- [contemporary museum of art houston](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/contemporary-museum-of-art-houston/)
- [da camera](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/da-camera/)
- [margaret mims](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/margaret-mims/)
- [carolyn bess](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/carolyn-bess/)
- [stacey lizotte](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/stacey-lizotte/)
- [fine arts chamber players](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/fine-arts-chamber-players/)
- [music & masterpieces](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/music-masterpieces/)
- [color!](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/color/)
- [John Rohrbach](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/john-rohrbach/)
- [Alfred Stieglitz](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/alfred-stieglitz/)
- [William Eggleston](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/william-eggleston/)
- [Jack Delano](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/jack-delano/)
- [Mark Cohen](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/mark-cohen/)
- [Antonio Berni](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/antonio-berni/)
- [Rauschenberg](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/rauschenberg/)
- [performances in texas](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/performances-in-texas/)
- [Visual Arts Texas](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/visual-arts-texas/)
- [mark morris dance group](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/mark-morris-dance-group/)
- [festival dance](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/festival-dance/)
- [wortham center](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/wortham-center/)
- [texas performing arts](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/texas-performing-arts/)
- [barbara hammer](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/barbara-hammer/)
- [Jonas Mekas](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/jonas-mekas/)
- [John Carrithers](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/john-carrithers/)
- [Juan Manuel Echavarría](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/juan-manuel-echavarria/)
- [Zachary Heinzerling](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/zachary-heinzerling/)
- [Kevin Schreck](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/kevin-schreck/)
- [James Broughton](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/james-broughton/)
- [Meredith Danluck](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/meredith-danluck/)
- [Hao Jie](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/hao-jie/)
- [Alexander Payne](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/alexander-payne/)
- [ars lyrica](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/ars-lyrica/)
- [matthew dirst](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/matthew-dirst/)
- [Blair Doerge](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/blair-doerge/)
- [Melissa Givens](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/melissa-givens/)
- [Yung-Hsiang Wang](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/yung-hsiang-wang/)
- [Colin St. Martin](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/colin-st-martin/)
- [Richard Savino](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/richard-savino/)
- [porgy and bess](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/porgy-and-bess/)
- [diane paulus](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/diane-paulus/)
- [suzan-lori parks](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/suzan-lori-parks/)
- [george and ira gershwin](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/george-and-ira-gershwin/)
- [nathaniel stampley](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/nathaniel-stampley/)
- [alicia hall moran](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/alicia-hall-moran/)
- [christopher akerlind](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/christopher-akerlind/)
- [santaland diaries](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/santaland-diaries/)
- [david sedaris](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/david-sedaris/)
- [Garret Storms](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/garret-storms/)
- [liminal space](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/liminal-space/)
- [george heathco](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/george-heathco/)
- [luke hubley](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/luke-hubley/)
- [Steve Reich’s 2X5](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/steve-reichs-2x5/)
- [Lydia Hance](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/lydia-hance/)
- [frame dance productions](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/frame-dance-productions/)
- [Bastion Carboni](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/bastion-carboni/)
- [poison apple initiatve](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/poison-apple-initiatve/)
- [Kayla Newman](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/kayla-newman/)
- [Terah Zolman](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/terah-zolman/)
- [We Were Nothing](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/we-were-nothing/)
- [Will Arbery](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/will-arbery/)
- [theatre communcations group](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/theatre-communcations-group/)
- [bath house cultural center](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/bath-house-cultural-center/)
- [fun house theatre](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/fun-house-theatre/)
- [amphibian stage production](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/amphibian-stage-production/)
- [davis street collective](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/davis-street-collective/)
- [second thought theatre](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/second-thought-theatre/)
- [undermain theatre](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/undermain-theatre/)
- [Mireille Hassenboehler](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/mireille-hassenboehler/)
- [The Merry Widow](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/the-merry-widow/)
- [Black Lab](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/black-lab/)
- [die fledermaus](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/die-fledermaus/)
- [john tyson](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/john-tyson/)
- [dayne lathrop](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/dayne-lathrop/)
- [panto goldilocks](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/panto-goldilocks/)
- [hope stone dance company](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/hope-stone-dance-company/)
- [outside the lines](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/outside-the-lines/)
- [mildred umbrella](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/mildred-umbrella/)
- [foxfinder](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/foxfinder/)
- [matt huff](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/matt-huff/)
- [stephen petronio](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/stephen-petronio/)
- [underland](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/underland/)
- [sons de l'ame](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/sons-de-lame/)
- [bruce dern](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/bruce-dern/)
- [nebraska](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/nebraska/)
- [carolyn dorfman](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/carolyn-dorfman/)
- [holocaust survivors](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/holocaust-survivors/)
- [dance month](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/dance-month/)
- [Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/evelyn-rubenstein-jewish-community-center/)
- [Maxine Silberstein](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/maxine-silberstein/)
- [legacy project](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/legacy-project/)
- [Texas Commission on the Arts](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/texas-commission-on-the-arts/)
- [gary gibbs](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/gary-gibbs/)
- [TCA](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/tca/)
- [national assembly of state arts agencies](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/national-assembly-of-state-arts-agencies/)
- [mid america arts alliance](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/mid-america-arts-alliance/)
- [national endowment for the arts](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/national-endowment-for-the-arts/)
- [homeward bound](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/homeward-bound/)
- [kaplan theatre](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/kaplan-theatre/)
- [betty morgan](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/betty-morgan/)
- [Ella Dr. Arthur Hamberger](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/ella-dr-arthur-hamberger/)
- [Choreographers X 6](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/choreographers-x-6/)
- [Scandinavian Spirit](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/scandinavian-spirit/)
- [Christ the King Lutheran Church](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/christ-the-king-lutheran-church/)
- [Matthew Detrick](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/matthew-detrick/)
- [Hardanger fiddle](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/hardanger-fiddle/)
- [Into the Woods](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/into-the-woods/)
- [James Lapine](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/james-lapine/)
- [Macy Lyne](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/macy-lyne/)
- [crystal o'brien](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/crystal-obrien/)
- [marcos camacho](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/marcos-camacho/)
- [david wald](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/david-wald/)
- [amanda passanate](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/amanda-passanate/)
- [kregg dailey wolf](https://artsandculturetx.com/tag/kregg-dailey-wolf/)
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