The ACTX Top Ten: July & August 2017
Arts + Culture Texas Magazine's top ten picks for performing and visual arts events happening across Texas in July and August 2017.
Spirit, Promise and Giving Back: REACH at Houston Ballet
Entering the lobby at Houston Ballet's Center for Dance for Project REACH on balmy Saturday night felt like going to a club where all of the city's A-lister dance folks had gathered for something big and important.
Visions of America: Three Centuries of Prints at the Dallas Museum of Art
A captivating exhibition of over 150 prints drawn from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. has quietly opened at the Dallas Museum of Art as if it flew in under the radar.
The Polaroid Project: At the Intersection of Art and Technology
An exhibition surrounding Polaroid photography has landed at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, and for many of us the subject is something from the not-so-distant past that comes with a heady dose of nostalgia.
Texas Studio: Dan Lam
Viewers have many different reactions to Dan Lam’s sublime and potentially grotesque art.
Pixel Forest and Worry Will Vanish: Pipilotti Rist at MFAH
Last summer, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presented two installations and a few somewhat overlooked paintings by Yayoi Kusama.
Forklift Danceworks Dives into Austin’s Public Pools
It only takes one summer in Texas to feel the heat, and the City of Austin Aquatics Division is feeling it these days in more than one way.
Texas Studio: Jennifer Ling Datchuk
Eyebrow-plucking as critique of conventional gender roles; wigs that mimic authenticity but question identity; porcelain mugs in service of social awareness: These are just a few of the recent artworks by Jennifer Ling Datchuk that provoke important, if not awkward, conversations.
Shaping the Public Realm: A Look At Austin’s State of Public Art
Ai Weiwei’s Forever Bicycles lit up Austin social media feeds days before the dizzying sculpture had its official June 3rd opening.
Rec Room’s Punk New Season
“What the heck is a Rec Room?” was the question I set out to answer almost a year ago when I interviewed the performance art space co-owners and founders, Matt Hune and Stephanie Wittels Wachs
Over the Borderline: Exhibitions at Artpace Address Contemporary Divisions
It could be argued that art is limitless. But is it borderless? This summer, Artpace embraces this question with two solo exhibitions of work by Sabine Senft and Doerte Weber, artists who are addressing global issues of migration and geopolitical borders.
Lynn Lane’s Transitory Sound and Movement Collective is Making Shifts in Houston
I think of Houston as a creative Bento box, in the way that New York is a melting pot. Art people go to galleries and museums, music people go to the opera and symphony, and so on.