“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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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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“Tacita Dean: Blind Folly”

The Menil Collection 1533 Sul Ross Street, Houston, TX, United States

"Tacita Dean: Blind Folly" is the first major museum survey in the United States of work by British European visual artist Tacita Dean (b. 1965). The exhibition, organized in close collaboration with Dean, spotlights her career-defining approach to creating art through unmediated and chance-based drawing processes across a variety of mediums, from film to printmaking.

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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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River on Fire – an exhibition

DiverseWorks - at MATCH Houston 3400 Main Street, Houston, TX, United States

River on Fire is a multidisciplinary exhibition showcasing the work of 14 artists who respond to environmental crises and climate change. Curated by Ashley DeHoyos Sauder, the exhibition draws inspiration from a long history of environmental activism related to river fires across the nation— events that have significantly shaped understandings of ecological preservation and environmental […]

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Drop-In Experience | Impossible Paper Architecture

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

Inspired by artist Olivia Erlanger’s futuristic landscapes and impossible architectures, create a surreal structure using paper and tape.

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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 Round 57: Southern Survey Biennial II Opening + Community Market

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

Project Row Houses (PRH) proudly presents the second iteration of our Southern Survey Biennial with a Round Opening and Community Market. This survey of recent works created by contemporary visual artists living and working in “The South” will feature installations in PRH's historic row houses from Rabeeha Adnan (Richmond, VA), Nic Brierre Aziz (New Orleans, […]

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Level 0 – FREE Intro to Improv Class

Station Theater 2219 Crockett St #C2, Houston, United States

Our 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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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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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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Olivia Erlanger: If Today Were Tomorrow

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

Olivia 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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