This body of work is inspired by mythical creatures, religious objects, funeral jewelry, and anthropomorphic animals, which have symbolic meaning and embody our longing for what we don’t have as well as what we wish did. The work is made from found insect parts assembled chimerically referencing Buddhist and Hindu deities, transformed into copper, then […]
Tsherin Sherpa Spirits tells the stories of loss, struggle, and empowerment in this thought-provoking and participatory art experience by renowned Himalayan artist Tsherin Sherpa. Born and raised in Kathmandu, Nepal, Sherpa studied Tibetan Buddhist painting with his father from the age of thirteen. In his late 20s, he relocated to California, where he continued his traditional art practice […]
Huntsville artist Lee Jamison spent more than a year exploring, sketching and journaling his way through East Texas. The result is a rich record of the land and culture as viewed through the eyes of an accomplished painter. As you wander through the Main Gallery you’ll find yourself transported in a sensory expedition, feeling the […]
Andrew Durham Gallery is thrilled to announce its upcoming exhibition, featuring a collection of artworks by acclaimed artists Frances Bagley, Becky Newsom, Scott Madison, Steve Murphy, Jeff Jennings, and Tom Orr. Artist reception to be held November 4th from 6-8 p.m. The exhibition will captivate art enthusiasts and collectors alike with its diverse range of sculptures, each artist […]
Radio broadcasts to the public began in Czechoslovakia on May 18, 1923. In Europe, only the BBC offered regular radio programming before Radiojurnal (the name under which Czechoslovak Radio started broadcasting) first went on the airwaves. The station’s history reflects the history of the country - the prosperous 1920s, the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, the […]
Guts And Glory: The War Train that Shaped a Nation Discover the incredible journey of 60,000 Czech and Slovak soldiers stranded in Russia during the Russian Revolution at World War I's end. Experience their unity, seizing the Trans-Siberian Railway for a 5,000-mile trek to Vladivostok. Relive their heroic journey, which vitalized the Allies and paved […]
Both perversely pleasurable and pleasurably perverse, Jordan Strafer’s videos are absurd, fantastical, humorous, and, at times, violent meditations on power and the uniquely human capacity to inflict violence, be it physical, psychological, or both. The artist’s first solo museum exhibition, Jordan Strafer: Trilogy presents Strafer’s recent trilogy of videos PEP (Process Entanglement Procedure) (2019), SOS […]
This exhibition presents more than one hundred portraits made over the past twenty years by Houston-based artist Nestor Topchy (b. 1963). The small paintings, with their gold backgrounds, resemble Byzantine icons; however, rather than representing religious figures, Topchy depicts friends and colleagues in the art community.
Nascimento is an Afro-Brazilian artist from the Recôncavo region of Bahia, who has moved to Houston and continues his artist-activist links to the defense of indigenous rights in Brazil. His work has been exhibited in Brazil and the United States. This exhibition illustrates the bond of kinship between brothers, sisters and the deeper connection between […]
False Negative sure has changed and so has John Waters’ spoken word show, now entitled End of the World. This all-new, fast-moving, comic monologue about today’s despair and diseases, desires and desperation breaks through with an insane optimism that welcomes all audiences into a new dawn of depravity. How to reinvent the movie business, embrace stupidity […]
In this workshop we will explore the complexity of truth within us and between us, and examine the distinctions between cohesive and coherent narratives. While cohesive narratives hold something together tightly, these stories can result in a fundamentalist rigidity without integration of past, present, or future. Coherent narratives, on the other hand, fluidly lend themselves […]
The outstanding Valeriy Sokolov performs Barber’s enchanting Violin Concerto. Ending with a rollicking dance inspired by Argentine gauchos, Alberto Ginastera’s Estancia will have you dancing in your seat. And, hit the bustling streets of Harlem with jazz-infused music by Duke Ellington.
