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Event Series Critical Geography – FotoFest Biennial 2024

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

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Free
Event Series Ruth Asawa Through Line

Ruth Asawa Through Line

The Menil Drawing Institute 1412 W. Main St., Houston, TX, United States

Ruth Asawa Through Line is the first exhibition to focus on the artist’s lifelong drawing practice. The exhibition presents drawings, collages, & sketchbooks alongside stamped prints, paperfolds, & more, showing the breadth of Asawa’s innovative practice.

Free
Event Series HEART STRINGS: Creating Connection to the World’s Children

HEART STRINGS: Creating Connection to the World’s Children

Post HTX 401 Franklin St. Houston, TX, Houston, TX, United States

UNICEF USA will host a multi-city, first of its kind experience designed for audiences of all ages. The exhibit will serve as an engaging opportunity for guests to travel around the world in just forty-five minutes and learn about UNICEF’s efforts to ensure every child is healthy, educated, protected and respected. Each element of the […]

Free – $23
Event Series Third Ward Unity in Faith: Backbone of Our Souls

Third Ward Unity in Faith: Backbone of Our Souls

Community Artists' Collective 4101 San Jacinto Ste. 116, Houston, TX, United States

Early African American settlers in Houston’s Third Ward area established small worship places, reminiscent of the praise houses attended during slavery in the Jim Crow era. The intimate and personal size of the congregations created bonds in the community that would last for more than 90 years. Images of the still-standing small houses of worship, […]

Free
Event Series REELpoetry Film Festival

REELpoetry Film Festival

Daley Sports Club 922 Holman St Suite A, Houston, TX, United States
Hybrid Hybrid Event

This week-long hybrid festival of poetry & film showcases 100+ screenings under 6 minutes from 20 different countries. Connect with international curators and presenters in real time online, and in-person on the weekend; watch world premieres from Houston creatives; experience ASL poetry and performances; and join us for two fabulous after parties. In-person events will […]

$35 – $110

Carya String Quartet: Prototypes

Hope Clinic Alief 13930 Bellaire Blvd, Houston, TX, United States

Beethoven quartets have become a staple of the quartet repertoire since they were written almost 200 years ago. In their sixth season, the Carya String Quartet explores some of their favorites from Beethoven’s oeuvre while exploring the influences that Beethoven has had throughout the centuries. Beethoven’s Quartet in B-flat Major Op. 18 No. 6 lays […]

Event Series UHCL Art School for Children and Young Adults Family Art Night!

UHCL Art School for Children and Young Adults Family Art Night!

UHCL Art School for Children and Young Adults Arbor Building 1315, 2700 Bay Area Blvd, Houston, TX, United States

The UHCL Art School for Children and Young Adults is excited to bring back our family art nights! These art workshops provide a place for you and your family to bond over the creative process of art making. We can't wait to see you!

$10.00

Amanda Ekery: ‘Árabe’

Asia Society Texas Center 1370 Southmore Blvd., Houston, TX, United States

The upcoming album Árabe is vocalist and composer Amanda Ekery’s ongoing research project focusing on Syrian immigration to El Paso/Mexico and drawing on her family history and these mixed cultures’ influences on film, food, economy, and music. During a week-long residency at the University of Houston, Ekery will work with participants to write songs and […]

Free

Restorations & Revivals: Chinatown

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

Introduced by artist Brad Temkin, whose work is featured in the FotoFest Biennial 2024 central exhibition: Critical Geography. In one of the best American films of the 1970s, a private detective (Jack Nicholson)—hired by a woman (Faye Dunaway) to expose an adulterer in 1930s Los Angeles—finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, […]

$7 – $9