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Event Series Jordan Strafer: Trilogy

Jordan Strafer: Trilogy

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

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 […]

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Event Series Six Scenes From Our Future

Six Scenes From Our Future

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

Presented in coordination with Contemporary Arts Museum Houston’s (CAMH) 75th anniversary, Six Scenes From Our Future features the work of six artists who were invited to respond to the institution’s inaugural exhibition, This Is Contemporary Art (1948). This first show proposed a radical approach to the presentation of art. Offering unexpected pairings—like a Jacob Lawrence […]

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Event Series The Iconic Portrait Strand by Nestor Topchy

The Iconic Portrait Strand by Nestor Topchy

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

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.

Event Series Hanne Darboven—Writing Time

Hanne Darboven—Writing Time

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

Hanne Darboven—Writing Time explores the intertwining of writing and drawing that formed the core of the artist’s practice for over forty years. Hanne Darboven (1941–2009), a German conceptual artist, is best known for her immersive installations of individually framed sheets filled with text formulations and collaged images. At the heart of her practice is the question […]

Event Series Nichos of the Afterlife

Nichos of the Afterlife

Kismet Boutique 720 Telephone Road, Houston, TX

Inspired by the little and colorful scenes in Mexican nicho boxes for Day of the Dead, artist Tina Hernandez created 3 colorful self-portraits for her latest project Nichos of the Afterlife. This series integrates the artist’s Chicanisma, crafting, prop-making, self-portraiture, and photography. The artist usually creates the scenes for her self-portraits from the waist up, […]

Frame X Frame Workshop “Partner Massage for Movers”

Frame Dance Studio 2426 Bartlett St. Ste. D, Houston, TX

RIVKAH FRENCH | DANCE SOURCE HOUSTON This 90 minute session will provide movers of all types with a healing and rejuvenating massage experience. Rivkah French (Registered Massage Therapist) will guide participants to give and receive therapeutic massage with a partner. Attendees will leave the workshop with massage skills they can take into their daily well-being […]

Event Series Journey of Poetry

Journey of Poetry

Writespace 1907 Sabine Street Ste 125, Houston, TX

INSTRUCTOR  Dr. Cynthia Childress TIME Four Wednesdays, November 8, 15, 22, 29, 6:00–9:00 p.m. CST PRICE Early bird price $150 for members, $180 for nonmembers. The deadline for early bird pricing is Thursday, November 2. After Thursday, November 2 $180 for members, $210 for nonmembers. Become a member here. Apply for a scholarship here. LOCATION Online via […]

Event Series Words of the Work: A Survey of the Semantics of Social Justice (In Person)

Words of the Work: A Survey of the Semantics of Social Justice (In Person)

The Jung Center of Houston 5200 Montrose Blvd, Houston, TX, United States

Words have histories, and they are also dangerous. In some cases, they can be so dangerous that their history is also a story of how their meaning has been manipulated or even hidden by those in positions of power. Join us for this examination of the language related to the social justice and racial equity […]

Event Series Jeffrey Kripal’s “The Superhumanities”: A Book Study (Hybrid)

Jeffrey Kripal’s “The Superhumanities”: A Book Study (Hybrid)

The Jung Center of Houston 5200 Montrose Blvd, Houston, TX, United States

Jeffrey Kripal’s recently published The Superhumanities is both a radical proposal for re-conceiving the humanities, and a summation of his thoughts on spiritual life after more than three decades in the study of comparative religion. Deeply sympathetic to humankind’s spiritual striving, Kripal builds on a “third space” apart from conventional religious belief and materialistic dismissal of religious […]

Moores School Faculty Chamber Recital Mann-Wen Lo, violin

University of Houston - Dudley Recital Hall Fine Arts Building-UH Room 122, Houston, TX

Professor of Practice Dr. Mann-Wen Lo presents a recital of the violin. Celebrated violinist Dr. Mann-Wen Lo enchants audiences worldwide as a soloist and chamber musician. Her performances grace esteemed venues like Carnegie Hall and Walt Disney Hall, with recognition from awards like the Na Hoku Hanohano. Collaborating with luminaries such as the Juilliard and […]

LANDS – Portrait of the City of Houston

MATCH Houston (Midtown Arts and Theater Center Houston) 3400 Main St., Houston, TX, United States

LANDS – Portrait of the City of Houston is a performance and film installation developed by French artists Jocelyn Cottencin and Emmanuelle Huynh. LANDS examines the past and present of Houston and its growth toward becoming the 4th largest city in the United States and invites audiences to reimagine the city’s possible future. The evening will feature a series of outdoor performances that Cottencin […]

Falstaff

Wortham Theater Center - Brown Theater 501 Texas Ave., Houston, TX, United States

Who will get the last laugh? Falstaff, Verdi’s enduringly popular final masterpiece, recounts the misdeeds of drunken, absurdly vain, formerly thin knight Sir John Falstaff, plucked straight from Shakespeare’s plays. He’s fallen on hard times and, while drinking at an inn, announces his plans to pay off his debts by wooing not one, but two […]