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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 […]

Health and Wellness Workshop Series

Anderson Center for the Arts 13334 Wallisville Rd., Houston, TX

Join us for an exciting in-person fitness workshop led by Lakisha Owens! This event will be held at the Anderson Center for the Arts, a perfect venue for a day filled with fun and fitness. During this workshop, Lakisha Owens will guide you through a warm up, a variety of exercises and techniques to help […]

Free

Craft Community Day

Houston Center for Contemporary Craft 4848 Main Street, Houston, Tx, United States

Join HCCC for this free spring event featuring local artist guilds and community groups. Visitors of all ages are invited to see craft demonstrations, visit the resident artists’ studios, and view the spring exhibitions. -Watch craft demonstrations by a variety of Houston-area artist guilds and community groups -See the exhibitions on view: "THIS SIDE UP" […]

Free

Deangelo McMahon, Jr.: High-Speed Channel Surfing

Lawndale Art Center 4912 Main St., Houston, TX, United States

Hi-Speed Channel Surfing presents new work by Houston-based artist Deangelo McMahon Jr. Through still images that emulate classic television, this exhibition explores mass media, shared memory, and censorship. In the featured paintings, McMahon creates visual white noise with gestures such as cross-hatching and pointillism. These artworks carefully attend to color and scale, bordering trompe-l’œil. In […]

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Li(sa E.) Harris: This is the Day

Lawndale Art Center 4912 Main St., Houston, TX, United States

Li(sa E.) Harris (aka “Li”) opens This is the Day in John M. O’Quinn Gallery, on Thursday, February 15 from 5 – 7 PM. This exhibition will culminate on Monday, April 8 from 12:30 – 3:01 PM with Li’s performance Onshore Trilling: What to Do When the Earth Sings the Bruise in Lawndale’s outdoor space […]

Free
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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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 […]

Free

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 […]

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 […]

Chryssa and New York

Menil Collection 1515 Sul Ross, Houston, TX, United States

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 […]

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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HITS Theatre presents Frozen KIDS ‘ICE CAST’

HITS Theatre 311 W. 18th Street, Houston, TX, United States

HITS Theatre presents FROZEN KIDS 'ICE CAST' Starring students in grades 3-6 Music & Lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez Book by Jennifer Lee Based on the Disney film written by Jennifer Lee and directed by Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee Directed by Brennan Ashley Music Directed by Dennis Arrowsmith Choreographed by Dana Lewis* […]