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 […]
INSTRUCTOR: Scott Repass TIME: Six Sundays, January 14, 21, 28, February 4, 11, 18, 11:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. CST PRICE: Early bird price: $210 for members, $240 for nonmembers. The deadline for early bird pricing is Monday, January 8. After Monday, January 8: $240 for members, $270 for nonmembers. Become a member here. Apply […]
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 Kinsey African American Art & History Collection" celebrates the achievements and contributions of Black Americans from 1595 to present day. Considered one of the most comprehensive surveys of African American history and culture outside the Smithsonian Institution, the exhibition of the same name features the shared treasures amassed by Shirley and Bernard Kinsey during […]
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 […]
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 […]
Celebrate the winter weather with this Storybook Opera adaptation of the classic children’s book by Ezra Jack Keats. Join the story's hero, Peter, as he experiences snow with childlike wonder.
Allen's Landing is sometimes called "Houston's Plymouth Rock," and with good reason: It is the spot where the city's founders, Augustus and John Kirby Allen, are said to have set foot on the land that would become Houston. Allen's Landing became the original site of the Port of Houston in 1840 and for many years […]
Travel kindles creativity and self-discovery, and when composer Felix Mendelssohn toured Scotland at the age of 20, his experiences inspired a shining jewel of a memento in the joyful and invigorating Scottish Symphony. One of the great concertos of the 20th century, Bartók’s Violin Concerto No. 2 dances with the irresistible vitality and verve of Hungarian folk […]
INSTRUCTOR: Joyce Boatright TIME: Sunday, January 14, 3:00–6:00 p.m.. CST PRICE: Early bird price: $45 for members, $60 for nonmembers. The deadline for early bird pricing is Monday, January 8. After Monday, January 8: $55 for members, $70 for nonmembers. Become a member : $55 for members, $70 for nonmembers. Become a member here. Apply […]
INSTRUCTOR: Joyce Boatright TIME: Sunday, January 14, 3:00–6:00 p.m.. CST PRICE: Early bird price: $45 for members, $60 for nonmembers. The deadline for early bird pricing is Monday, January 8. After Monday, January 8: $55 for members, $70 for nonmembers. Become a member : $55 for members, $70 for nonmembers. Become a member here. Apply […]
TOPIC: Indie Publications TIME: Saturday, January 14, 4:00–6:00 p.m. CST PRICE: Free for members, Pay what you can for nonmembers. Become a member here. LOCATION: Melange Creperie, 711 Heights Blvd Suite B Houston TX 77007 (map) An email address with a string of digits and a PO Box, with little online presence and a website […]
