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Wagner, Mahler, Mozart and more: Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s Epic New Season

Steven Brown·April 3, 2023

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.

Dallas/Ft Worth Music

Victoria Bach Festival Promises a Wide-Ranging Lineup

Steven Brown·April 3, 2023

The Victoria Bach Festival is heading towards the half-century mark.

Music Victoria

Celebrating 150 Years with 150 Artists at Texas Christian University

Donna Tennant·April 3, 2023

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.

Dallas/Ft Worth Visual Art

Sacred and Secular Merge at MFAH’s new Art of the Islamic Worlds Galleries

Tarra Gaines·March 22, 2023

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.

Houston Visual Art

Texas Studio: Alli Villines wants you to Feel Whatever You Feel

Emily Hynds·March 22, 2023

Alli Villines’s grandmother prophesied at her birth that she would be a singer, a divine foretelling that has proven true.

Houston Music Texas Studio Theater

Cliburn contest helps aspiring pianists envision their future

Steven Brown·March 22, 2023

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.

Dallas/Ft Worth Music

A Kind of Dream: Mark di Suvero at the Nasher Sculpture Center

Nancy Zastudil·March 20, 2023

Many readers will be familiar with Mark di Suvero and his work.

Dallas/Ft Worth Visual Art

100 Years of Magic at Miller Outdoor Theatre

Sherry Cheng·March 17, 2023

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?

Dance Houston Music Theater

Strength, understanding and resiliency: Karin Broker at the Art Museum of South Texas

James Russell·February 23, 2023

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.

Corpus Christi Visual Art

Future Stars: Young Texas Artists Music Competition Highlights Up and Coming Talent

Steven Brown·February 20, 2023

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.

Houston Music

Discovering the Dallas Arts District

Sherry Cheng·February 16, 2023

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.

Dallas/Ft Worth Dance Music Visual Art

The Aura of Honor: Suzanne Bocanegra weaves a wandering road through a 16th century tapestry

Sherry Cheng·February 16, 2023

Honor, commissioned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, was presented on Jan. 27, 2023, at Rice University’s Moody Center for the Arts.

Houston Music Visual Art

Visual Art

Performative and All-encompassing: David-Jeremiah: The Fire This Time

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Accumulating Histories: Francesca Fuchs Redefines a Breathing Archive at the Menil

Gallery Row

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Dance

Performa/Dance Marks Their 10th Anniversary with ‘ANTHROPOCENE’

Concert Trucks and Onstage Dinners: Performing Arts Houston offers its most varied schedule yet

Unbind Your Imagination: TITAS/Dance Unbound invites global dance into Dallas for 2025-26 season

Music

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

Concert Trucks and Onstage Dinners: Performing Arts Houston offers its most varied schedule yet

Twists of Fate: Myths, Drama, and Phenomenal Voices in Ars Lyrica Houston’s New Season

Theater

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

Concert Trucks and Onstage Dinners: Performing Arts Houston offers its most varied schedule yet

Outcast Heroes and Storybook Musicals: Broadway Across Texas

Wagner, Mahler, Mozart and more: Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s Epic New Season

Victoria Bach Festival Promises a Wide-Ranging Lineup

Celebrating 150 Years with 150 Artists at Texas Christian University

Sacred and Secular Merge at MFAH’s new Art of the Islamic Worlds Galleries

Texas Studio: Alli Villines wants you to Feel Whatever You Feel

Cliburn contest helps aspiring pianists envision their future

A Kind of Dream: Mark di Suvero at the Nasher Sculpture Center

100 Years of Magic at Miller Outdoor Theatre

Strength, understanding and resiliency: Karin Broker at the Art Museum of South Texas

Future Stars: Young Texas Artists Music Competition Highlights Up and Coming Talent

Discovering the Dallas Arts District

The Aura of Honor: Suzanne Bocanegra weaves a wandering road through a 16th century tapestry