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 […]
During ReelWorkplace 2024: Real Success, four professionals with disabilities will share their journeys to accomplished careers, identifying what the businesses they worked for did to ease, or, in some cases, make more difficult, the path to success. This signature event of the ReelAbilities Houston Film & Arts Festival helps Houston's business community understand the importance […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Orchids might seem intimidating, but with the proper know-how, they make excellent house plants. Belonging to a group of organisms named epiphytes, orchids, and other "air plants", grow perched upon other plants rather than rooting in the ground. We will show you how to pot, fertilize, and care for these exotic plants, and you will […]
Moores School of Music presents: Bands Chamber Concert
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 […]
Directed by Elizabeth Bunch One of Shakespeare’s greatest comedies, Twelfth Night ponders love lost and found. A shipwreck separates twins Viola and Sebastian, but tragedy quickly turns to comedy when they wash up in a land turned upside-down by love. Mistaken identities and role reversals abound in one of Shakespeare’s most inventive romantic romps.
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 […]
Architecture Center Houston is proud to announce their upcoming exhibition The Voices of People. The Stories of Place. The Politics of Power., opening Thursday, February 22, 6-8pm, and on view through April 26, 2024. Curated by Susan Rogers and José Mario López, the exhibition amplifies and centers the voices and visions of twelve Houston communities […]
Costumbres is an art exhibition designed to display the art of Cuban artist Alberto Carratala. His art depicts Cuban life, folklore, and history through paintings and sculptures. This event is designed to bring attention to the art of Houston's Latin-American artistic community, bringing people of different backgrounds together to share appreciation for art.
