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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 River on Fire – an exhibition

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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Event Series Houston reVision CommUnity Night

Houston reVision CommUnity Night

Houston reVision Community Center 6856 Bellaire Blvd., Houston, TX, United States

reVision’s CommUnity Night is a weekly get together for a hot meal, music, dancing, and celebration. While primarily focused on school-aged children and youth, and young adults, reVision's CommUnity Night is open to the public. The musical focus is on hiphop, a live DJ plays music, and children and youth can learn the fundamentals of […]

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‘Vibrant Voices: Musical Portraits From the Houston Asian American Archive’

Asia Society Texas Center 1370 Southmore Blvd., Houston, TX, United States

Join Asia Society Texas, Houston Asian American Archive, and Musiqa for an evening celebrating Asian American experiences in Houston through music and oral history! 'Vibrant Voices: Musical Portraits from the Houston Asian American Archive' is a unique and innovative concert experience that highlights immigrant experiences and triumphs in Houston. Join three young Houston-based composers — […]

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Event Series The TUNNEL by BIG ART

The TUNNEL by BIG ART

Discovery Green Labranch at Lamar, Houston, TX, United States

Discovery Green invites you on a journey to a bright future this fall at The TUNNEL. Visitors will experience 12-foot-tall structures arranged to form a 100-foot-long tunnel of magical light and sound. Other visitors may serve as “pilots” using an interactive device to manipulate the array and guide your path. Over 150 LED bars are […]

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Event Series Mindful Morning Moments

Mindful Morning Moments

Online/Virtual Space

Carry the ease of the morning into the busier parts of the day. Mornings are a special time. When our brains have not yet started to make the connections that will eventually lead us to identify with our roles in the world, we are simply mindful beings. Join us early on Friday mornings for a […]

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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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