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Event Series Theaster Gates: The Gift and The Renege

Theaster Gates: The Gift and The Renege

Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH) 5216 Montrose, Houston, TX, United States

Theaster 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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Event Series “Out of Thin Air: Emerging Forms”

“Out of Thin Air: Emerging Forms”

Menil Drawing Institute 1412 W. Main St., Houston, TX, United States

"Out of Thin Air: Emerging Forms" examines drawing as a meditative process that invites the gradual appearance of indeterminate images. Selected from the Menil Collection’s permanent collection, this display of twenty-nine drawings dating from the late 1930s to the present share a visual language of emerging forms. On view September 20, 2024 through January 26, […]

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Event Series “Fragments of Memory”

“Fragments of Memory”

Menil Drawing Institute 1412 W. Main St., Houston, TX, United States

"Fragments of Memory", a selection of works from the Menil Collection’s permanent collection, explores the ways in which the past imbues present experiences. In their drawings, the featured artists take up commonplace embodiments of personal and collective memory, such as scrapbooks, snapshots, notes, relics, and odes, to reimagine how we might access fraught memories and […]

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Event Series Wall Drawing Series: Ronny Quevedo

Wall Drawing Series: Ronny Quevedo

The Menil Drawing Institute 1412 W. Main St., Houston, TX, United States

Wall Drawing Series: Ronny Quevedo features a site-specific work by New York-based artist Ronny Quevedo (b. 1981). The 36-foot triptych, C A R A A C A R A, 2024, explores the relationship between origin, transfer, and translation, with each panel of the composition indicating a different step in the artist’s process.

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Event Series Proposal for a 28th Amendment? Is it Possible to Amend an Unequal System?

Proposal for a 28th Amendment? Is it Possible to Amend an Unequal System?

Project Row Houses 2500 Holman , Houston, TX, United States

Proposal for a 28th Amendment? Is it Possible to Amend an Unequal System? is a participatory installation by artist collaborators Alex Strada and Tali Keren. It critically examines the U.S. Constitution and creates space for intervention and political imagination. The artists ask visitors to engage critically with the U.S. Constitution and pose two questions: What […]

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Event Series Shakespeare-by-the-Book Festival: Twelfth Night

Shakespeare-by-the-Book Festival: Twelfth Night

Fort Bend County Libraries - George Memorial Library 1001 Golfview, Richmond, TX, United States

Fort Bend County Libraries (FBCL) is excited to announce the return of the Shakespeare-by-the-Book Festival this fall! Part of FBCL’s “On Stage at the George” series, the live theatrical performances are presented FREE to the public. Live theatrical performances of William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night – an uproariously funny romantic comedy with a 1980s twist – […]

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Artist Talk: Kathy Vargas in Conversation with Zhaira Costiniano

Art League Houston 1953 Montrose Blvd., Houston, TX

Art League Houston is thrilled to present an artist talk with the renowned Kathy Vargas—artist, art administrator, mentor, activist, and curator. In conversation with Zhaira Costiniano, ALH's Curator and Exhibition Manager, this discussion accompanies Kathy's 2024 exhibition, "Light Needs Shadow Needs Light..." As Kathy Vargas reflects on her extraordinary, decades-long career, this talk and exhibition […]

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Event Series Scenes From Films I’ll Never Make

Scenes From Films I’ll Never Make

Sabine Street Studios 1907 Sabine Street Studios, Houston, TX, United States

Marking a major shift in Maloney’s practice, Scenes From Films I’ll Never Make, introduces a selection of 10 new oil paintings made by the artist within the last year. As the title suggests, a lot of the pieces were first conceived as ideas for films that for one reason or another never came to be. […]

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Event Series WiVLA Presents: Entangled

WiVLA Presents: Entangled

Sabine Street Studios 1907 Sabine Street Studios, Houston, TX, United States

Women in the Visual and Literary Arts (WiVLA) is excited to announce that its 2024 Biennial Collaboration, one of WiVLA’s hallmark events, will be hosted at Sabine Street Studios North Gallery from September 12 through November 2. The Biennial Collaboration, which began in 1994, enables a visual or performance artist to collaborate with a literary […]

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Event Series They, Who Sound

They, Who Sound

Lawndale Art Center 4912 Main St., Houston, TX, United States

Every Monday Nameless Sound and Lawndale Art Center join forces to present an evening of experimental sound-making, improvised music, noises, the sounding of art, the performance of art, and more. Two different sets each week showcase a rich and vibrant diversity of international and regional creative offerings, with an emphasis on Houston’s vibrant local scene. […]

Event Series Scenes From Films I’ll Never Make

Scenes From Films I’ll Never Make

Sabine Street Studios 1907 Sabine Street Studios, Houston, TX, United States

Marking a major shift in Maloney’s practice, Scenes From Films I’ll Never Make, introduces a selection of 10 new oil paintings made by the artist within the last year. As the title suggests, a lot of the pieces were first conceived as ideas for films that for one reason or another never came to be. […]

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Event Series WiVLA Presents: Entangled

WiVLA Presents: Entangled

Sabine Street Studios 1907 Sabine Street Studios, Houston, TX, United States

Women in the Visual and Literary Arts (WiVLA) is excited to announce that its 2024 Biennial Collaboration, one of WiVLA’s hallmark events, will be hosted at Sabine Street Studios North Gallery from September 12 through November 2. The Biennial Collaboration, which began in 1994, enables a visual or performance artist to collaborate with a literary […]

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