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 […]
This exhibition presents the innovative art made by the Greek-born artist Chryssa (1933–2013) while she was living in New York City from the late 1950s to the early 1970s. Renowned for her adoption of industrial process, found commercial materials and early work with neon light, she stands at the forefront of American art in the […]
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 […]
Intimate confession is a project is a group exhibition that considers transmission, intergenerational life, and cultural inheritance through the prism of intimacy and infrastructure. Through the work of eleven artists spanning generations and geographies, the exhibition thinks through infrastructure as an intimate holding cell, capable of affective and affirmative power. The title is borrowed from […]
Inspired by Women’s History Month, DACAMERA Young Artists present Hear Herstory: Celebrating Women Composers. Check back for more about the musicians and the music they will perform. A Little Day Music is a series of free concerts presented at noon on the first Wednesday of the month in the Grand Foyer of the Wortham Center. […]
The Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston is proud to present the first solo museum exhibition in the United States of Cuban conceptual artist Reynier Leyva Novo. Former Present Today presents a newly realized installation and painting series to simultaneously reveal and conceal monuments, structures, and figureheads which manifest revolution and tyranny. The […]
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 […]
How can we bring a more grounded and mindful version of ourselves to friends, work colleagues, and family members? This class will provide training in practices aimed at setting clear intentions, learning to pause in conversation, and listening deeply for feelings and needs. Through experiential exercises, we'll learn to question our thoughts and to see […]
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 […]
In Alan Cumming Is Not Acting His Age, he covers all the bases: sex, death and bacchanalia, with a set list as eclectic as the man himself. Songs from Cabaret authors Kander and Ebb blend with contemporary favourites and even a self-penned paean against plastic surgery. ‘I am literally the only person on American TV […]
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 […]
"Shop Talk, the barbershop podcast" celebrates, revives, and restores those old school Black Barbershop conversations that held the community down and lifted the community up! Those conversations were about everything relevant to the Black community, and "Shop Talk, the barbershop podcast" creates that same safe space, embodying an institution of influence and inspiration. True to […]
