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Santa’s First Day

Memorial City Mall 900 Gessner Rd., Houston, TX

Kick off the Christmas season in style with Santa's First Day at Memorial City Mall's enchanting St. Nick's Park beginning November 4 through December 24. Get ready to share your holiday wishes with Santa Claus himself and seize the perfect photo opportunity that will become a cherished memory for years to come.

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 […]

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, […]

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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Caring Santa

Memorial City Mall 900 Gessner Rd., Houston, TX

At St. Nick’s Park, we believe in making cherished traditions accessible to all. Our sensory-friendly opportunity allows children with special needs to enjoy the time-honored tradition of a visit with Santa. St. Nick’s Park will lower the music volume and lighting to create a calming environment for everyone to enjoy their visit. November 5th - […]

Intimate confession is a project

Blaffer Art Museum 120 Fine Arts Building, Houston, TX

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 […]

Event Series The Time is Now Collection

The Time is Now Collection

Join us to experience Snater George of Gmadixx Art: "The Time is Now Collection" Solo Art Exhibit! November 11, 2023 - November 30, 2023 from 12:00-5:00 pm at the BamaTexas Gallery located at 2102 Edwards Street Suite 3, Houston, TX 77007. Discover the eloquence of hands at this mesmerizing art exhibit by the talented Snater […]

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Event Series Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence

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 […]

Reception August Bats by Damon Thomas

Mystic Lyon 5017 Lyons Ave., Houston, TX

Mystic Lyon presents a new window installation and fundraiser by Houston artist Damon Thomas. Featuring 31 pit-fired and glazed ceramics bats, “August Bats” by Damon Thomas will be on view through the closing ceremony and reception on November 26. The title is derived from Thomas’ making of one bat each day through the month of […]

Event Series Houston Ballet’s The Nutcracker

Houston Ballet’s The Nutcracker

Wortham Theater Center 501 Texas at Smith, Houston, TX, United States

Houston’s holiday tradition continues with the magic and wonder of Stanton Welch’s The Nutcracker. Following the annual Stahlbaum Christmas party, journey through the glittering Land of Snow to the bright and joyful Kingdom of Sweets with Clara, Drosselmeyer and the Prince as he reunites with the Sugar Plum Fairy amongst the clouds, where the real […]

Rhyme and Reason: A Celebration of Black History

Children's Museum of Houston 1500 Binz, Houston, TX, United States

Written and Directed by Tim Fried-Fiori Music, dance and poetry presenting Black History from ancient Africa to today. Featuring original poetry by Houston Poet Laureates, Deborah DEEP Mouton and Emanuelee “Outspoken” Bean and others. From Queen Nefertiti to Duke Ellington and Katanji Brown Jackson, this show presents the unique role African Americans play in American […]