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Lord Karl “Disruption” Opening Reception November 2, 6pm – 9pm

Redbud Arts Center 303 East 11th Street, Houston, TX, United States

Redbud Arts Center is excited to present "Disruption," the first solo exhibition by emerging artist Lord Karl, debuting with a public reception on Saturday, November 2, from 6–9 PM. Known for his bold, unconventional style, Lord Karl uses brand-name leather jackets as his canvas to explore themes of identity, rebellion, and self-expression. Drawing inspiration from […]

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John Altoon “About Women” Opening Reception

Redbud Arts Center 303 East 11th Street, Houston, TX, United States

Redbud Arts Center is pleased to announce, “About Women” series, an important collaboration by the Los Angeles surrealist and abstract expressionist artist John Altoon and the American poet Robert Creeley. This series of ten lithographs was inspired by Creeley’s three poems: "Anger," "The Woman," and "Distance". Altoon first met Creeley on the Spanish Island of […]

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Event Series Level 0 – FREE Intro to Improv Class

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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Pilobolus re:CREATION

Miller Outdoor Theatre 6000 Hermann Park Dr., Houston, TX, United States

Step into a realm where imagination knows no limits. The boundaries of gravity and creativity blur, offering an intimate window into the essence of creativity itself with Pilobolus’s re:CREATION Tour. Following a triumphant three week summer residency at The Joyce Theatre in New York, Pilobolus’s re:CREATION tour embarks on a nationwide journey, bringing their celebrated […]

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Event Series Limitless Dance Festival

Limitless Dance Festival

The DeLuxe Theater 3303 Lyons Avenue, Houston, TX, United States

About the Festival: Rivkah French Choreography presents a dynamic and thought-provoking weekend of dance performances and workshops, with the central theme of post-pandemic recovery and our shared liberation. The weekend features a series of dance performances by renowned Houston-based artists - each expressing their unique interpretation of post-pandemic life and freedom through various dance styles […]

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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 “Tacita Dean: Blind Folly”

“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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Event Series Artist Round 57: Southern Survey Biennial II

Artist Round 57: Southern Survey Biennial II

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

Project Row Houses (PRH) proudly presents the second iteration of our Southern Survey Biennial in the historic row houses on Holman Street in Third Ward. 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 […]

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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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Houston Music Festival: The Music of H-Town @ The Orange Show

The Orange Show Center for Visionary Art 2334 Gulf Terminal Drive, Houston, TX

The final event of Houston Music Festival’s inaugural season will take place on Sunday, November 3rd at Smither Park’s first-Sunday vendor market. This performance will be a celebration of Houston, and the many different communities that call this city home. Emceed by Outspoken Bean, and featuring string quartet works by Nicky Sohn and Reena Esmail, […]

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