Ruth Asawa Through Line
Ruth Asawa Through Line is the first exhibition to focus on the artist’s lifelong drawing practice. The exhibition presents drawings, collages, & sketchbooks alongside stamped prints, paperfolds, & more, showing […]
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The Menil Drawing Institute, 1412 W. Main St., Houston, TX, 77006, United States
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Abstraction after Modernism: Recent Acquisitions
The Menil Collection, 1533 Sul Ross Street, Houston, TX, 77006, United States“Abstraction after Modernism: Recent Acquisitions” highlights work made by succeeding generations of artists who forged new paths in their approaches to non-representational art. The exhibition brings together acquisitions made by […]
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Gabriel Lester: Odeon
Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston, 4173 Elgin St The University of Houston, Fine Arts Building, Houston, TX, 77004, United StatesThe Blaffer Art Museum is proud to present the first solo museum exhibition in the United States of preeminent European artist Gabriel Lester, who has gained an international standing for […]
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Unearthing: Black Porosity – Open Studio Hours
TXUnearthing: Black Porosities by artist-in-residence Rian Crane (he/they) will be open for public viewing in tandem with Sawyer Yards’ Second Saturdays! Unearthing: Black Porosity is an amalgamation of works exploring […]
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Summer Exhibitions Reception
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, 4848 Main Street, Houston, Tx, 77002, United StatesPlease join HCCC to celebrate the opening of our summer exhibitions, “Georgina Treviño: La Fuente del Deseo” and “Disclosure: The Whiteness of Glass”. The evening will also feature open studios […]
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Apollo Chamber Players Presents Muted
Rice University – Alice Pratt Brown Hall – Duncan Recital Hall, 6100 Main St. entrance 18, Houston, TX, 77005Our season finale uplifts voices that have been suppressed by totalitarian dogma and those silenced within ourselves. While Dutch-Jewish composer Dick Kattenburg perished in Auschwitz because of his faith, Robert Schumann perpetually battled and was ultimately defeated by the scourge of mental illness. We welcome Netherlands-based composer Joey Roukens to the Bayou City for the […]
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Level 0 – FREE Intro to Improv Class
Station Theater, 2219 Crockett St #C2, Houston, 77007, United StatesOur FREE Level 0 class is a fun, no-pressure way to try improv! This weekly 30-minute class lets you get a taste of Station’s improv training program, and it’s a great way to spend a Friday night! Level 0 students will receive a $25 discount code for our nine-week Level 1 – Fundamentals of Improv […]
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Level 0 – Intro to Improv Class
Station Theater, 2219 Crockett St #C2, Houston, 77007, United StatesStation Theater’s weekly FREE Level 0 class is a fun, no-pressure way to try improv! This weekly 30-minute class lets you get a taste of Station’s improv training program, and it’s a great way to spend a Friday night! Students are invited to stay for the 8:00 pm show for free, pending ticket availability, and […]
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MUTED
Rice University – Alice Pratt Brown Hall – Duncan Recital Hall, 6100 Main St. entrance 18, Houston, TX, 77005Apollo Chamber Players’ Silenced Voices season finale uplifts voices that have been suppressed by totalitarian dogma and those silenced within ourselves. While Dutch-Jewish composer Dick Kattenburg perished in Auschwitz because of his faith, Robert Schumann perpetually battled and was ultimately defeated by the scourge of mental illness. Join us for MUTED and experience the world-premiere […]
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Beyond Broadway Series: Alan Cumming Is Not Acting His Age
Hobby Center – Zilkha Hall, 800 Bagby, Houston, TX, 77002, United StatesIn Alan Cumming Is Not Acting His Age, he covers all the bases: sex, death and bacchanalia, with a set list as eclectic as the man himself. Songs from Cabaret authors Kander and Ebb blend with contemporary favourites and even a self-penned paean against plastic surgery. ‘I am literally the only person on American TV […]
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Free Salsa Lesson at Latin Beats Downtown Aquarium
Downtown Aquarium, 410 Bagby St., Houston, TX, 77002, United StatesOrganized by the Texas Salsa Congress & Downtown Aquarium, this event promises salsa family fun that’s perfect for celebrating the summer vibes. We’re marking our 19th season with the 2024 Season at the Downtown Aquarium! FREE Salsa Lessons at Latin Beats! Whether it’s a romantic date night, a girls’ night out, a happy hour with […]
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THE FATHER presented by 4th Wall Theatre Company
4th Wall Theatre, 1824 Spring Street Studio 101, Houston, TX, 77007, United StatesEstimated runtime of 1 hour and 30 minutes with no intermission. Andre is an elderly man who is struggling with memory loss and confusion as he ages. Through shifting perceptions of reality, he grapples with the loss of his sense of self and the people around him. THE FATHER questions the nature of identity, memory, […]
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Taking Steps
Main Street Theater – Rice Village, 2540 Times Blvd. , Houston, TX, 77005, United StatesBy Alan Ayckbourn A tongue-tied solicitor has bitten off more than he can chew overseeing the sale of a crumbling, possibly haunted house that, um, used to be a brothel. Then in the course of one hectic night and morning, two couples, the solicitor and realtor, each immersed in their own personal problems, end up […]
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Amadigi di Gaula
Hobby Center – Zilkha Hall, 800 Bagby, Houston, TX, 77002, United StatesGRAMMY-nominated early music organization Ars Lyrica Houston closes its 2023/24 season with a new production of Handel’s magic opera “Amadigi di Gaula.” The cast includes four rising stars of the operatic firmament, all ideally suited to this exceptionally beautiful score. Tara Faircloth directs and Matthew Dirst conducts this Houston premiere. Featuring: Amadigi — Randall Scotting, […]
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Beetlejuice
Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, 800 Bagby Street, Houston, TX, 77002, United StatesHe earned his stripes on Broadway… now the ghost-with-the-most is coming to Austin. It’s showtime! Based on Tim Burton’s dearly beloved film, this hilarious musical tells the story of Lydia Deetz, a strange and unusual teenager whose whole life changes when she meets a recently deceased couple and a demon with a thing for stripes. […]
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Appropriate
MATCH Houston (Midtown Arts and Theater Center Houston), 3400 Main St., Houston, TX, 77002, United StatesThe estranged members of the Lafayette clan have returned to their crumbling Arkansas plantation home to settle the estate of their recently deceased patriarch. As they sort through a lifetime of their father’s junk and hoarded mementos, a disturbing and horrifying discovery surfaces, confronting the family with more than what to do with a house […]
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It Is Magic
MATCH Houston (Midtown Arts and Theater Center Houston), 3400 Main St., Houston, TX, 77002, United StatesDeb and Sandy are auditioning Tim for the role of the Wolf in a production of The Three Little Pigs, but there’s a mysterious haze in the basement of the Mortier Civic Playhouse and that, in addition to interruptions from the director of ‘the Scottish play’ that’s having its opening night upstairs, is making things […]
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DISNEY’S NEWSIES at Theatre Under The Stars
Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, 800 Bagby Street, Houston, TX, 77002, United StatesSEIZE THE DAY They delivered the papers, and then they made the headlines… Newsies, the smash-hit, crowd-pleasing, Tony Award-winning musical in a brand-new production by Theatre Under The Stars. Newsies is an extraordinary story, inspired by actual events. When a band of underdogs became unlikely heroes and stood up to the most powerful men in […]
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Breathe -A Social-Consciousness stage-play
MATCH Houston (Midtown Arts and Theater Center Houston), 3400 Main St., Houston, TX, 77002, United StatesThis has been a period of uncertainty for many. A world thrown into viral chaos, families separated either by geographic boundaries or medical necessity and motivational pursuits stifled due to one of the smallest creatures in the universe – a virus. But this pales in comparison to the outbreak of cultural hatred that has poured […]
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COME CELEBRATE WITH US!
Russian Cultural Center “Our Texas”, 2337 Bissonnet St, Houston, TX, 77005, United StatesCultural Center “Our Texas” offers its venue for public events – recitals, corporate events, concerts, lectures, and more. The Gallery can seat up to 60 people. Amenities include a/v equipment and sound system, screen and projector, grand piano, stage and backstage, chairs and tables. AMENITIES & DECOR A/V equipment and sound system Big Screen and […]
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What Is A Ward?
Sabine Street Studios, 1907 Sabine Street Studios, Houston, TX, 77007, United StatesWhat defines a Ward, or in a more modern sense of the word, a neighborhood? Sabine Street Studios is located in Houston’s historic First Ward, meaning the first developed in […]
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‘Rafael Domenech and Tomas Vu Heat Silhouette’
Asia Society Texas Center, 1370 Southmore Blvd., Houston, TX, 77004, United StatesAsia Society Texas is pleased to present Rafael Domenech and Tomas Vu Heat Silhouette, the organization’s first public art installation. This collaboration between Cuban American artist Rafael Domenech and Vietnamese American artist Tomas Vu assumes […]
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“Resilience Rising: Navigating Earth’s Challenges”
Julia Hester Community Center, 2020 Solo Street, Houston, TX, 77020, United States“Resilience Rising: Navigating Earth’s Challenges” is a thought-provoking art exhibition that delves into the urgent need for awareness and preparedness in the face of environmental risks. Through various artistic mediums, […]
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Buffalo Soldiers National Museum ‘The Blue Helmets in Action” Rotating Exhibit
Buffalo Soldiers National Museum, 3816 Caroline, Houston, TX, 77004, United StatesBuffalo Soldiers National Museum’s new rotating exhibition, The Blue Helmets in Action, focuses on the 93rd Infantry Division, the first African American combat division to be activated during World War […]
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Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo (HLSR) History Exhibit
The Heritage Society, 1100 Bagby, Houston, TX, 77002, United StatesFebruary 1, 2024 – July 31, 2024 From award-winning paintings to vintage bronco bull riding photos, this HLSR exhibit complements the rodeo season in February and the Texas History Month […]
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Latino cARTographies Digital Board Exhibit of Houston Artists
The Heritage Society, 1100 Bagby, Houston, TX, 77002, United StatesWe are featuring an exhibit with the University of Houston that features Latin artists through an art digital board that also features our mural. Under the leadership of Dr. Pamela […]
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Xu Bing: Word Alchemy
Asia Society Texas Center, 1370 Southmore Blvd., Houston, TX, 77004, United States‘Xu Bing: Word Alchemy’ assembles more than 50 of Xu Bing’s most important woodcut prints, videos, drawings, installations, and other ephemera representing almost 50 years of the artist’s creative output. […]
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The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection
Holocaust Museum Houston, 5401 Caroline St., Houston, TX, 77004-6804, United States“The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection” celebrates the achievements and contributions of Black Americans from 1595 to present day. Considered one of the most comprehensive surveys of African […]
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Cyanotype Workshop
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, 4848 Main Street, Houston, Tx, 77002, United StatesJoin HCCC and current resident artist Hai-Wen Lin for an in-depth workshop on the cyanotype process, an early form of photography that uses basic chemistry, light, and time to produce […]
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Brenda Biondo: Sun to Earth
Koslov Larsen, 4411 Montrose Blvd Suite C, Houston, TX, 77006, United StatesKoslov Larsen is pleased to present Sun to Earth, the gallery’s third solo presentation by artist Brenda Biondo. Combining several series of Biondo’s works, Sun to Earth introduces new ways […]
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Tracye Wear | From the Garden
Moody Gallery, 2815 Colquitt, Houston, TX, 77098, United StatesAn exhibition of recent sculpture by Tracye Wear. Wear is inspired by her combined interests in Cubist and early 20th Century sculpture with natural forms found in her garden. “With […]
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SHAPE’s 45th Annual Pan-African Cultural Festival
S.H.A.P.E. Community Center, 3815 Live Oak, Houston, TX, 77004, United StatesWelcome to SHAPE’s 45th Annual Pan African Cultural Festival! Join us at the S.H.A.P.E. Community Center for a day filled with vibrant performances, delicious food, and the celebration of culture. […]
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Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence
Museum of Fine Arts – Audrey Jones Beck Building, 5601 Main Street, Houston, TX, 77005, United StatesKehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence showcases Kehinde Wiley’s new, monumental body of work, with large-scale paintings and sculptures of men and women in repose. Through his work, with detailed […]
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Theaster Gates: The Gift and The Renege
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH), 5216 Montrose, Houston, TX, 77006, United StatesTheaster Gates: The Gift and The Renege presents work by the acclaimed Chicago-based artist, featuring large-scale paintings, sculptures, and installations that highlight the seen and unseen dynamics of Freedmen’s Town […]
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Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism
Museum of Fine Arts – Caroline Wiess Law Building, 1001 Bissonnet Street, Houston, TX, 77005, United StatesIn the summer of 1905, Henri Matisse and André Derain embarked on a creative partnership that would change the course of French painting. The two painters experimented with daring directions in energetic bursts of color, form, and structure that eventually led to a boldly inventive artistic language known as Fauvism (from the French fauve, or […]
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Olivia Erlanger: If Today Were Tomorrow
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH), 5216 Montrose, Houston, TX, 77006, United StatesOlivia Erlanger: If Today Were Tomorrow is the artist’s first solo museum presentation in the United States. Across an installation, a video, and a series of commissioned sculptures, Erlanger continues her decade-long disruption of the “semiotics of suburbia.” In her practice, Erlanger thinks of the home as a greater ecosystem containing not only houses but […]
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Janet Sobel: All-Over
The Menil Collection, 1533 Sul Ross Street, Houston, TX, 77006, United StatesThe Menil Collection will open “Janet Sobel: All-Over” on February 23, 2024, featuring some thirty paintings and drawings made by artist Janet Sobel (1893–1968). This exhibition, the first to focus on Sobel’s highly accomplished and influential abstract paintings, will explore the artist’s work as one of the first to pioneer a new approach to modern […]
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Abstraction after Modernism: Recent Acquisitions
The Menil Collection, 1533 Sul Ross Street, Houston, TX, 77006, United States“Abstraction after Modernism: Recent Acquisitions” highlights work made by succeeding generations of artists who forged new paths in their approaches to non-representational art. The exhibition brings together acquisitions made by the Menil over the past fifteen years, including work by Agnes Denes, Suzan Frecon, Sam Gilliam, Ellsworth Kelly, Rick Lowe, and Richard Serra.
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Ruth Asawa Through Line
The Menil Drawing Institute, 1412 W. Main St., Houston, TX, 77006, United StatesRuth Asawa Through Line is the first exhibition to focus on the artist’s lifelong drawing practice. The exhibition presents drawings, collages, & sketchbooks alongside stamped prints, paperfolds, & more, showing the breadth of Asawa’s innovative practice.
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Gabriel Lester: Odeon
Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston, 4173 Elgin St The University of Houston, Fine Arts Building, Houston, TX, 77004, United StatesThe Blaffer Art Museum is proud to present the first solo museum exhibition in the United States of preeminent European artist Gabriel Lester, who has gained an international standing for his art, performance, and film as well as his dynamic public art installations. Across his now decades-long career, Lester has developed a captivating cinematic lens […]
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Unearthing: Black Porosity – Open Studio Hours
TXUnearthing: Black Porosities by artist-in-residence Rian Crane (he/they) will be open for public viewing in tandem with Sawyer Yards’ Second Saturdays! Unearthing: Black Porosity is an amalgamation of works exploring the ongoing lasting legacies, histories, and current relations of Black +/ Indigenous lifeways in the gulf south/ global south. Engaging writings from Black/ Caribbean scholars […]
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“From Plantation to Emancipation – The Freedom Experience” is a “Houston Signature Experience” by Visit Houston
The Heritage Society, 1100 Bagby, Houston, TX, 77002, United StatesDuring your tour of three historic houses that tell Houston’s stories from plantation to emancipation, the talented actor brings the hardships of slavery and the victory of freedom to life in dramatic reenactments. The historical script was written by Martha Whiting-Goddard, Reverend Jack Yates’ great granddaughter, who lived in the Yates House that was relocated […]
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Drop-In Experience | Impossible Paper Architecture
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH), 5216 Montrose, Houston, TX, 77006, United StatesInspired by artist Olivia Erlanger’s off-world landscapes and impossible architectures as featured in Olivia Erlanger: If Today Were Tomorrow, create a surreal structure using paper and tape.
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Uncle Bob’s Photo Zine Market
TXUncle Bob’s Photo Zine Market is a one-day market showcasing regional photography zine-makers. The zine, or self-published magazine, is an affordable distribution medium that is often overlooked in the larger photography world. Since zines are published using minimal personnel and less costly materials, they represent a more accessible way for new patrons to support local […]
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Level 0 – FREE Intro to Improv Class
Station Theater, 2219 Crockett St #C2, Houston, 77007, United StatesOur FREE Level 0 class is a fun, no-pressure way to try improv! This weekly 30-minute class lets you get a taste of Station’s improv training program, and it’s a great way to spend a Friday night! Level 0 students will receive a $25 discount code for our nine-week Level 1 – Fundamentals of Improv […]
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Beyond Broadway Series: Alan Cumming Is Not Acting His Age
Hobby Center – Zilkha Hall, 800 Bagby, Houston, TX, 77002, United StatesIn Alan Cumming Is Not Acting His Age, he covers all the bases: sex, death and bacchanalia, with a set list as eclectic as the man himself. Songs from Cabaret authors Kander and Ebb blend with contemporary favourites and even a self-penned paean against plastic surgery. ‘I am literally the only person on American TV […]
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THE FATHER presented by 4th Wall Theatre Company
4th Wall Theatre, 1824 Spring Street Studio 101, Houston, TX, 77007, United StatesEstimated runtime of 1 hour and 30 minutes with no intermission. Andre is an elderly man who is struggling with memory loss and confusion as he ages. Through shifting perceptions of reality, he grapples with the loss of his sense of self and the people around him. THE FATHER questions the nature of identity, memory, […]
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Taking Steps
Main Street Theater – Rice Village, 2540 Times Blvd. , Houston, TX, 77005, United StatesBy Alan Ayckbourn A tongue-tied solicitor has bitten off more than he can chew overseeing the sale of a crumbling, possibly haunted house that, um, used to be a brothel. Then in the course of one hectic night and morning, two couples, the solicitor and realtor, each immersed in their own personal problems, end up […]
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Amadigi di Gaula
Hobby Center – Zilkha Hall, 800 Bagby, Houston, TX, 77002, United StatesGRAMMY-nominated early music organization Ars Lyrica Houston closes its 2023/24 season with a new production of Handel’s magic opera “Amadigi di Gaula.” The cast includes four rising stars of the operatic firmament, all ideally suited to this exceptionally beautiful score. Tara Faircloth directs and Matthew Dirst conducts this Houston premiere. Featuring: Amadigi — Randall Scotting, […]
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Mayerling
Wortham Theater Center – Brown Theater, 501 Texas Ave., Houston, TX, 77002, United StatesChoreography: Sir Kenneth MacMillan Music: Franz Liszt arranged and orchestrated by John Lanchbery OBE The psychological thriller of Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s Mayerling comes to the Wortham Theater stage for the first time after its Houston Ballet debut in 2017 as part of our Hometown Tour. An epic triumph in classical story-telling, this titillating three-act ballet […]
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Beetlejuice
Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, 800 Bagby Street, Houston, TX, 77002, United StatesHe earned his stripes on Broadway… now the ghost-with-the-most is coming to Austin. It’s showtime! Based on Tim Burton’s dearly beloved film, this hilarious musical tells the story of Lydia Deetz, a strange and unusual teenager whose whole life changes when she meets a recently deceased couple and a demon with a thing for stripes. […]
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Appropriate
MATCH Houston (Midtown Arts and Theater Center Houston), 3400 Main St., Houston, TX, 77002, United StatesThe estranged members of the Lafayette clan have returned to their crumbling Arkansas plantation home to settle the estate of their recently deceased patriarch. As they sort through a lifetime of their father’s junk and hoarded mementos, a disturbing and horrifying discovery surfaces, confronting the family with more than what to do with a house […]
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Adams’s El Niño
Jones Hall for the Performing Arts, 615 Louisiana St., Houston, TX, 77002, United StatesThe vibrant and eclectic style of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Adams is paired with biblical verse, modern Spanish-language poetry, and more in this contemporary take on the Christmas story, uniquely told from a mother’s point of view. Experience the power of this spellbinding masterpiece, which in Adams’s words explores “what is meant by a miracle.”
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It Is Magic
MATCH Houston (Midtown Arts and Theater Center Houston), 3400 Main St., Houston, TX, 77002, United StatesDeb and Sandy are auditioning Tim for the role of the Wolf in a production of The Three Little Pigs, but there’s a mysterious haze in the basement of the Mortier Civic Playhouse and that, in addition to interruptions from the director of ‘the Scottish play’ that’s having its opening night upstairs, is making things […]
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DISNEY’S NEWSIES at Theatre Under The Stars
Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, 800 Bagby Street, Houston, TX, 77002, United StatesSEIZE THE DAY They delivered the papers, and then they made the headlines… Newsies, the smash-hit, crowd-pleasing, Tony Award-winning musical in a brand-new production by Theatre Under The Stars. Newsies is an extraordinary story, inspired by actual events. When a band of underdogs became unlikely heroes and stood up to the most powerful men in […]
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COME CELEBRATE WITH US!
Russian Cultural Center “Our Texas”, 2337 Bissonnet St, Houston, TX, 77005, United StatesCultural Center “Our Texas” offers its venue for public events – recitals, corporate events, concerts, lectures, and more. The Gallery can seat up to 60 people. Amenities include a/v equipment and sound system, screen and projector, grand piano, stage and backstage, chairs and tables. AMENITIES & DECOR A/V equipment and sound system Big Screen and […]
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What Is A Ward?
Sabine Street Studios, 1907 Sabine Street Studios, Houston, TX, 77007, United StatesWhat defines a Ward, or in a more modern sense of the word, a neighborhood? Sabine Street Studios is located in Houston’s historic First Ward, meaning the first developed in Houston. As artists and creatives we all come from different backgrounds and heritages, as does our practice. But this practice has a shared sense of […]
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‘Rafael Domenech and Tomas Vu Heat Silhouette’
Asia Society Texas Center, 1370 Southmore Blvd., Houston, TX, 77004, United StatesAsia Society Texas is pleased to present Rafael Domenech and Tomas Vu Heat Silhouette, the organization’s first public art installation. This collaboration between Cuban American artist Rafael Domenech and Vietnamese American artist Tomas Vu assumes the form of a dynamic outdoor pavilion with two stages, occupying AST’s 13,000-square-foot lot at the intersection of Oakdale and Caroline Streets in the heart […]
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“Resilience Rising: Navigating Earth’s Challenges”
Julia Hester Community Center, 2020 Solo Street, Houston, TX, 77020, United States“Resilience Rising: Navigating Earth’s Challenges” is a thought-provoking art exhibition that delves into the urgent need for awareness and preparedness in the face of environmental risks. Through various artistic mediums, the project confronts issues such as the climate crisis, flooding, food deserts, hurricanes and tropical storms, environmental justice, and electricity disruption. The exhibition aims to […]
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Xu Bing: Word Alchemy
Asia Society Texas Center, 1370 Southmore Blvd., Houston, TX, 77004, United States‘Xu Bing: Word Alchemy’ assembles more than 50 of Xu Bing’s most important woodcut prints, videos, drawings, installations, and other ephemera representing almost 50 years of the artist’s creative output. Starting with Xu’s early engagements with social realism and Western art historical traditions alike, the exhibition charts the evolution of the artist’s linguistic experiments which […]
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Olivia Erlanger: If Today Were Tomorrow
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH), 5216 Montrose, Houston, TX, 77006, United StatesOlivia Erlanger: If Today Were Tomorrow is the artist’s first solo museum presentation in the United States. Across an installation, a video, and a series of commissioned sculptures, Erlanger continues her decade-long disruption of the “semiotics of suburbia.” In her practice, Erlanger thinks of the home as a greater ecosystem containing not only houses but […]
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Theaster Gates: The Gift and The Renege
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH), 5216 Montrose, Houston, TX, 77006, United StatesTheaster Gates: The Gift and The Renege presents work by the acclaimed Chicago-based artist, featuring large-scale paintings, sculptures, and installations that highlight the seen and unseen dynamics of Freedmen’s Town in Houston’s Fourth Ward. Throughout his career, Theaster Gates has soulfully elevated our understanding of Black labor, materials, place, and community to revitalize underrecognized neighborhoods […]
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Janet Sobel: All-Over
The Menil Collection, 1533 Sul Ross Street, Houston, TX, 77006, United StatesThe Menil Collection will open “Janet Sobel: All-Over” on February 23, 2024, featuring some thirty paintings and drawings made by artist Janet Sobel (1893–1968). This exhibition, the first to focus on Sobel’s highly accomplished and influential abstract paintings, will explore the artist’s work as one of the first to pioneer a new approach to modern […]
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Abstraction after Modernism: Recent Acquisitions
The Menil Collection, 1533 Sul Ross Street, Houston, TX, 77006, United States“Abstraction after Modernism: Recent Acquisitions” highlights work made by succeeding generations of artists who forged new paths in their approaches to non-representational art. The exhibition brings together acquisitions made by the Menil over the past fifteen years, including work by Agnes Denes, Suzan Frecon, Sam Gilliam, Ellsworth Kelly, Rick Lowe, and Richard Serra.
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Ruth Asawa Through Line
The Menil Drawing Institute, 1412 W. Main St., Houston, TX, 77006, United StatesRuth Asawa Through Line is the first exhibition to focus on the artist’s lifelong drawing practice. The exhibition presents drawings, collages, & sketchbooks alongside stamped prints, paperfolds, & more, showing the breadth of Asawa’s innovative practice.
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ART SCHOOL FOR KIDS
Russian Cultural Center “Our Texas”, 2337 Bissonnet St, Houston, TX, 77005, United StatesWe’re thrilled to introduce the latest addition to our team, Ms. Anastasia Ferrer, an accomplished children’s arts and crafts instructor, with a degree from the Saint-Petersburg Institute for Educators. At our Art School, your children’s creative journey will extend far beyond just painting and drawing. They’ll dive into the tactile world of clay, embrace the […]
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The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection
Holocaust Museum Houston, 5401 Caroline St., Houston, TX, 77004-6804, United States“The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection” celebrates the achievements and contributions of Black Americans from 1595 to present day. Considered one of the most comprehensive surveys of African American history and culture outside the Smithsonian Institution, the exhibition of the same name features the shared treasures amassed by Shirley and Bernard Kinsey during […]
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Gabriel Lester: Odeon
Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston, 4173 Elgin St The University of Houston, Fine Arts Building, Houston, TX, 77004, United StatesThe Blaffer Art Museum is proud to present the first solo museum exhibition in the United States of preeminent European artist Gabriel Lester, who has gained an international standing for his art, performance, and film as well as his dynamic public art installations. Across his now decades-long career, Lester has developed a captivating cinematic lens […]
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Unearthing: Black Porosity – Open Studio Hours
TXUnearthing: Black Porosities by artist-in-residence Rian Crane (he/they) will be open for public viewing in tandem with Sawyer Yards’ Second Saturdays! Unearthing: Black Porosity is an amalgamation of works exploring the ongoing lasting legacies, histories, and current relations of Black +/ Indigenous lifeways in the gulf south/ global south. Engaging writings from Black/ Caribbean scholars […]
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Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence
Museum of Fine Arts – Audrey Jones Beck Building, 5601 Main Street, Houston, TX, 77005, United StatesKehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence showcases Kehinde Wiley’s new, monumental body of work, with large-scale paintings and sculptures of men and women in repose. Through his work, with detailed portrayals of Black and Brown individuals, the artist confronts the silence surrounding systemic violence and injustice. In this body of work, Wiley uses the visual […]
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Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism
Museum of Fine Arts – Caroline Wiess Law Building, 1001 Bissonnet Street, Houston, TX, 77005, United StatesIn the summer of 1905, Henri Matisse and André Derain embarked on a creative partnership that would change the course of French painting. The two painters experimented with daring directions in energetic bursts of color, form, and structure that eventually led to a boldly inventive artistic language known as Fauvism (from the French fauve, or […]
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DISNEY’S NEWSIES at Theatre Under The Stars
Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, 800 Bagby Street, Houston, TX, 77002, United StatesSEIZE THE DAY They delivered the papers, and then they made the headlines… Newsies, the smash-hit, crowd-pleasing, Tony Award-winning musical in a brand-new production by Theatre Under The Stars. Newsies is an extraordinary story, inspired by actual events. When a band of underdogs became unlikely heroes and stood up to the most powerful men in […]
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Appropriate
MATCH Houston (Midtown Arts and Theater Center Houston), 3400 Main St., Houston, TX, 77002, United StatesThe estranged members of the Lafayette clan have returned to their crumbling Arkansas plantation home to settle the estate of their recently deceased patriarch. As they sort through a lifetime of their father’s junk and hoarded mementos, a disturbing and horrifying discovery surfaces, confronting the family with more than what to do with a house […]
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Mayerling
Wortham Theater Center – Brown Theater, 501 Texas Ave., Houston, TX, 77002, United StatesChoreography: Sir Kenneth MacMillan Music: Franz Liszt arranged and orchestrated by John Lanchbery OBE The psychological thriller of Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s Mayerling comes to the Wortham Theater stage for the first time after its Houston Ballet debut in 2017 as part of our Hometown Tour. An epic triumph in classical story-telling, this titillating three-act ballet […]
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Adams’s El Niño
Jones Hall for the Performing Arts, 615 Louisiana St., Houston, TX, 77002, United StatesThe vibrant and eclectic style of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Adams is paired with biblical verse, modern Spanish-language poetry, and more in this contemporary take on the Christmas story, uniquely told from a mother’s point of view. Experience the power of this spellbinding masterpiece, which in Adams’s words explores “what is meant by a miracle.”
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Taking Steps
Main Street Theater – Rice Village, 2540 Times Blvd. , Houston, TX, 77005, United StatesBy Alan Ayckbourn A tongue-tied solicitor has bitten off more than he can chew overseeing the sale of a crumbling, possibly haunted house that, um, used to be a brothel. Then in the course of one hectic night and morning, two couples, the solicitor and realtor, each immersed in their own personal problems, end up […]
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Beyond Broadway Series: Alan Cumming Is Not Acting His Age
Hobby Center – Zilkha Hall, 800 Bagby, Houston, TX, 77002, United StatesIn Alan Cumming Is Not Acting His Age, he covers all the bases: sex, death and bacchanalia, with a set list as eclectic as the man himself. Songs from Cabaret authors Kander and Ebb blend with contemporary favourites and even a self-penned paean against plastic surgery. ‘I am literally the only person on American TV […]
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Beetlejuice
Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, 800 Bagby Street, Houston, TX, 77002, United StatesHe earned his stripes on Broadway… now the ghost-with-the-most is coming to Austin. It’s showtime! Based on Tim Burton’s dearly beloved film, this hilarious musical tells the story of Lydia Deetz, a strange and unusual teenager whose whole life changes when she meets a recently deceased couple and a demon with a thing for stripes. […]
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DISNEY’S NEWSIES at Theatre Under The Stars
Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, 800 Bagby Street, Houston, TX, 77002, United StatesSEIZE THE DAY They delivered the papers, and then they made the headlines… Newsies, the smash-hit, crowd-pleasing, Tony Award-winning musical in a brand-new production by Theatre Under The Stars. Newsies is an extraordinary story, inspired by actual events. When a band of underdogs became unlikely heroes and stood up to the most powerful men in […]
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COME CELEBRATE WITH US!
Russian Cultural Center “Our Texas”, 2337 Bissonnet St, Houston, TX, 77005, United StatesCultural Center “Our Texas” offers its venue for public events – recitals, corporate events, concerts, lectures, and more. The Gallery can seat up to 60 people. Amenities include a/v equipment and sound system, screen and projector, grand piano, stage and backstage, chairs and tables. AMENITIES & DECOR A/V equipment and sound system Big Screen and […]
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What Is A Ward?
Sabine Street Studios, 1907 Sabine Street Studios, Houston, TX, 77007, United StatesWhat defines a Ward, or in a more modern sense of the word, a neighborhood? Sabine Street Studios is located in Houston’s historic First Ward, meaning the first developed in Houston. As artists and creatives we all come from different backgrounds and heritages, as does our practice. But this practice has a shared sense of […]
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‘Rafael Domenech and Tomas Vu Heat Silhouette’
Asia Society Texas Center, 1370 Southmore Blvd., Houston, TX, 77004, United StatesAsia Society Texas is pleased to present Rafael Domenech and Tomas Vu Heat Silhouette, the organization’s first public art installation. This collaboration between Cuban American artist Rafael Domenech and Vietnamese American artist Tomas Vu assumes the form of a dynamic outdoor pavilion with two stages, occupying AST’s 13,000-square-foot lot at the intersection of Oakdale and Caroline Streets in the heart […]
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“Resilience Rising: Navigating Earth’s Challenges”
Julia Hester Community Center, 2020 Solo Street, Houston, TX, 77020, United States“Resilience Rising: Navigating Earth’s Challenges” is a thought-provoking art exhibition that delves into the urgent need for awareness and preparedness in the face of environmental risks. Through various artistic mediums, the project confronts issues such as the climate crisis, flooding, food deserts, hurricanes and tropical storms, environmental justice, and electricity disruption. The exhibition aims to […]
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The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection
Holocaust Museum Houston, 5401 Caroline St., Houston, TX, 77004-6804, United States“The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection” celebrates the achievements and contributions of Black Americans from 1595 to present day. Considered one of the most comprehensive surveys of African American history and culture outside the Smithsonian Institution, the exhibition of the same name features the shared treasures amassed by Shirley and Bernard Kinsey during […]
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Unearthing: Black Porosity – Open Studio Hours
TXUnearthing: Black Porosities by artist-in-residence Rian Crane (he/they) will be open for public viewing in tandem with Sawyer Yards’ Second Saturdays! Unearthing: Black Porosity is an amalgamation of works exploring the ongoing lasting legacies, histories, and current relations of Black +/ Indigenous lifeways in the gulf south/ global south. Engaging writings from Black/ Caribbean scholars […]
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Beyond Broadway Series: Alan Cumming Is Not Acting His Age
Hobby Center – Zilkha Hall, 800 Bagby, Houston, TX, 77002, United StatesIn Alan Cumming Is Not Acting His Age, he covers all the bases: sex, death and bacchanalia, with a set list as eclectic as the man himself. Songs from Cabaret authors Kander and Ebb blend with contemporary favourites and even a self-penned paean against plastic surgery. ‘I am literally the only person on American TV […]
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Appropriate
MATCH Houston (Midtown Arts and Theater Center Houston), 3400 Main St., Houston, TX, 77002, United StatesThe estranged members of the Lafayette clan have returned to their crumbling Arkansas plantation home to settle the estate of their recently deceased patriarch. As they sort through a lifetime of their father’s junk and hoarded mementos, a disturbing and horrifying discovery surfaces, confronting the family with more than what to do with a house […]
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Beetlejuice
Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, 800 Bagby Street, Houston, TX, 77002, United StatesHe earned his stripes on Broadway… now the ghost-with-the-most is coming to Austin. It’s showtime! Based on Tim Burton’s dearly beloved film, this hilarious musical tells the story of Lydia Deetz, a strange and unusual teenager whose whole life changes when she meets a recently deceased couple and a demon with a thing for stripes. […]
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HAAPIFEST 2024 5/27 Film Kick-Off Event at Axelrad Beer Garden
AXELRAD, 1517 Alabama street, Houston, TX, 77004, United StatesGet ready to dive into history with The Herricanes by Olivia Kuan at HAAPIFEST Film Festival! Join us at Axelrad for an inspiring journey back to the 1970s, where a group of remarkable women defied the odds by forming the Houston Herricanes, the first full-tackle women’s football team. Don’t miss this chance to witness their […]
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COME CELEBRATE WITH US!
Russian Cultural Center “Our Texas”, 2337 Bissonnet St, Houston, TX, 77005, United StatesCultural Center “Our Texas” offers its venue for public events – recitals, corporate events, concerts, lectures, and more. The Gallery can seat up to 60 people. Amenities include a/v equipment and sound system, screen and projector, grand piano, stage and backstage, chairs and tables. AMENITIES & DECOR A/V equipment and sound system Big Screen and […]
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What Is A Ward?
Sabine Street Studios, 1907 Sabine Street Studios, Houston, TX, 77007, United StatesWhat defines a Ward, or in a more modern sense of the word, a neighborhood? Sabine Street Studios is located in Houston’s historic First Ward, meaning the first developed in Houston. As artists and creatives we all come from different backgrounds and heritages, as does our practice. But this practice has a shared sense of […]
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‘Rafael Domenech and Tomas Vu Heat Silhouette’
Asia Society Texas Center, 1370 Southmore Blvd., Houston, TX, 77004, United StatesAsia Society Texas is pleased to present Rafael Domenech and Tomas Vu Heat Silhouette, the organization’s first public art installation. This collaboration between Cuban American artist Rafael Domenech and Vietnamese American artist Tomas Vu assumes the form of a dynamic outdoor pavilion with two stages, occupying AST’s 13,000-square-foot lot at the intersection of Oakdale and Caroline Streets in the heart […]
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Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo (HLSR) History Exhibit
The Heritage Society, 1100 Bagby, Houston, TX, 77002, United StatesFebruary 1, 2024 – July 31, 2024 From award-winning paintings to vintage bronco bull riding photos, this HLSR exhibit complements the rodeo season in February and the Texas History Month in March. This exhibit represents the cowboy spirit across Houston’s main heritages and is a big part of Houston history! Rodeo culture brings nearly all […]
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Buffalo Soldiers National Museum ‘The Blue Helmets in Action” Rotating Exhibit
Buffalo Soldiers National Museum, 3816 Caroline, Houston, TX, 77004, United StatesBuffalo Soldiers National Museum’s new rotating exhibition, The Blue Helmets in Action, focuses on the 93rd Infantry Division, the first African American combat division to be activated during World War II. The purpose of the exhibition is to educate visitors about this historically overlooked Army division. The exhibition follows the formation of The Blue Helmets, […]
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“Resilience Rising: Navigating Earth’s Challenges”
Julia Hester Community Center, 2020 Solo Street, Houston, TX, 77020, United States“Resilience Rising: Navigating Earth’s Challenges” is a thought-provoking art exhibition that delves into the urgent need for awareness and preparedness in the face of environmental risks. Through various artistic mediums, the project confronts issues such as the climate crisis, flooding, food deserts, hurricanes and tropical storms, environmental justice, and electricity disruption. The exhibition aims to […]
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The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection
Holocaust Museum Houston, 5401 Caroline St., Houston, TX, 77004-6804, United States“The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection” celebrates the achievements and contributions of Black Americans from 1595 to present day. Considered one of the most comprehensive surveys of African American history and culture outside the Smithsonian Institution, the exhibition of the same name features the shared treasures amassed by Shirley and Bernard Kinsey during […]
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Tracye Wear | From the Garden
Moody Gallery, 2815 Colquitt, Houston, TX, 77098, United StatesAn exhibition of recent sculpture by Tracye Wear. Wear is inspired by her combined interests in Cubist and early 20th Century sculpture with natural forms found in her garden. “With her latest series, Tracye Wear pushes the scale limitations of the ceramic arts while reveling in the life-affirming forms of nature. Not thrown on a […]
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Brenda Biondo: Sun to Earth
Koslov Larsen, 4411 Montrose Blvd Suite C, Houston, TX, 77006, United StatesKoslov Larsen is pleased to present Sun to Earth, the gallery’s third solo presentation by artist Brenda Biondo. Combining several series of Biondo’s works, Sun to Earth introduces new ways of looking at common subjects while challenging viewers’ perception of color and three-dimensional space. The works explored throughout the show focus on atmospheric phenomena and […]
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Gabriel Lester: Odeon
Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston, 4173 Elgin St The University of Houston, Fine Arts Building, Houston, TX, 77004, United StatesThe Blaffer Art Museum is proud to present the first solo museum exhibition in the United States of preeminent European artist Gabriel Lester, who has gained an international standing for his art, performance, and film as well as his dynamic public art installations. Across his now decades-long career, Lester has developed a captivating cinematic lens […]
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Unearthing: Black Porosity – Open Studio Hours
TXUnearthing: Black Porosities by artist-in-residence Rian Crane (he/they) will be open for public viewing in tandem with Sawyer Yards’ Second Saturdays! Unearthing: Black Porosity is an amalgamation of works exploring the ongoing lasting legacies, histories, and current relations of Black +/ Indigenous lifeways in the gulf south/ global south. Engaging writings from Black/ Caribbean scholars […]