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Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism

Museum of Fine Arts - Caroline Wiess Law Building 1001 Bissonnet Street, Houston, TX, United States

In the summer of 1905, Henri Matisse and André Derain embarked on a creative partnership that would change the course of French painting. The two painters experimented with daring directions in energetic bursts of color, form, and structure that eventually led to a boldly inventive artistic language known as Fauvism (from the French fauve, or […]

Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage

Museum of Fine Arts - Caroline Wiess Law Building 1001 Bissonnet Street, Houston, TX, United States

Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage is the first major museum exhibition devoted to exploring the breadth and complexity of Black identity and experiences in the United States through collage. Works by multiple generations of living artists examine concepts such as cultural hybridity, gender fluidity, historical memory, and notions of beauty and power. By assembling […]

Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence

Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building 5601 Main Street, Houston, TX, United States

Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence showcases Kehinde Wiley’s new, monumental body of work, with large-scale paintings and sculptures of men and women in repose. Through his work, with detailed portrayals of Black and Brown individuals, the artist confronts the silence surrounding systemic violence and injustice. In this body of work, Wiley uses the visual […]

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 THIS WAY: A Houston Group Show

THIS WAY: A Houston Group Show

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

THIS WAY: A Houston Group Show showcases new work from Black artists who are invited to examine innovative ways of participating in the storytelling of their legacy and heritage of Houston Freedmen’s Town. Each artist in THIS WAY: A Houston Group Show has demonstrated unique approaches that have inspired the momentum of Houston’s Black art […]

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Event Series (of) Everything Island

(of) Everything Island

Katrina Moorhead’s (of) Everything Island is an assembly of evocative sculptural objects interacting with one another in the main gallery. Building off Moorhead’s sensitivity to materials’ potential for expansive storytelling, these objects explore places where the veil between the real and the otherworldly is thin and porous. The works reimagine aspects of the natural world, […]

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Critical Geography – FotoFest Biennial 2024

FotoFest at Silver Street Studios 2000 Edwards Street (Silver Street Studios Building C, Suite 2), Houston, TX, United States

The FotoFest Biennial 2024 central exhibition, "Critical Geography", reexamines traditional Western and historical understandings of geography while expanding these investigations to new realms. Borrowing its name from the subdiscipline of geography that questions and challenges power structures, inequality, and the dominant ideologies shaping physical space, Critical Geography explores how space, place, and communities are influenced […]

Event Series Janet Sobel: All-Over

Janet Sobel: All-Over

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

The Menil Collection will open "Janet Sobel: All-Over" on February 23, 2024, featuring some thirty paintings and drawings made by artist Janet Sobel (1893–1968). This exhibition, the first to focus on Sobel’s highly accomplished and influential abstract paintings, will explore the artist’s work as one of the first to pioneer a new approach to modern […]

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Event Series Cohort 4 Mentorship Showcase

Cohort 4 Mentorship Showcase

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

This group installation celebrates the work of the 4th cohort of artists in Project Row Houses' Building Blocks of Creative Careers (BBCC) Artist Mentorship Program. The program brings together a cohort of emerging artists and pairs each of them with a mentor. Mentors are established Houston artists who share their expertise and insight into all […]

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Click, Clack, Moo Cows That Type

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

Click, Clack, Moo Cows That Type Based on the book by Doreen Cronin with pictures by Betsy Lewin Adapted by James E. Grote and George Howe Farmer Brown has a problem. His cows like to type! And when they start using the typewriter to make demands and stand up for their rights, he has his […]

Event Series Building a Poetry Collection

Building a Poetry Collection

Writespace 1907 Sabine Street Ste 125, Houston, TX
Virtual Event Virtual Event

INSTRUCTOR: Kendra Preston Leonard, Ph.D. TIME: Six Wednesdays, March 6, 13, SKIP March 20, 27, April 3, 10, 17, 6:00–9:00 p.m. CST PRICE: Early bird price: $210 for members, $240 for nonmembers. The deadline for early bird pricing is Thursday, February 29. After Thursday, February 29: $240 for members, $270 for nonmembers. Become a member […]

$210 – $270
Event Series King James

King James

Rec Room Arts 100 Jackson Street 130 C, Houston, TX, United States

by RAJIV JOSEPH directed by PHILIP KERSHAW Sports: for some, a trivial diversion; for many others, a way to perceive and experience something greater than ourselves. An opportunity to break away from the ordinary and catch a glimpse of the extraordinary and transcendent, even if only in forty-eight-minute increments. Over a ten-year span, for two […]