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
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
The essence of Harry Geffert’s art is relationships.
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.
Reading Together Again: Inprint Houston’s 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.
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.
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.
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?
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
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.”
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
Ade Omotosho couldn’t think of a more perfect topic for his first big exhibition.