Xu Bing: Word Alchemy

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

'Xu Bing: Word Alchemy' assembles more than 50 of Xu Bing’s most important woodcut prints, videos, drawings, installations, and other ephemera representing almost 50 years of the artist’s creative output. Starting with Xu’s early engagements with social realism and Western art historical traditions alike, the exhibition charts the evolution of the artist’s linguistic experiments which […]

$8

COLORS IN BLOOM

Color Factory 3303 Kirby Dr, Houston, TX, United States

Spring into COLORS IN BLOOM at Color Factory! Leave your winter blues behind and take a stroll through its newly refreshed, blossoming Confetti Accumulation. Houstonians will be immersed in larger-than-life bluebonnets inspired by Houston’s iconic first sign of spring. And, of course, Color Factory will have a few surprises budding, too! Tickets are available for […]

$29

Stuart Little

MATCH Houston (Midtown Arts and Theater Center Houston) 3400 Main St., Houston, TX, United States

Stuart Little Based on the book by E.B. White Adapted by Joseph Robinette The endearing classic about a mouse named Stuart Little who is born into an ordinary New York family. All the charm, wisdom and joy of the E.B. White original come to life on stage with the marvelous maneuverings of a mild-mannered mouse who […]

MANUAL (Ed Hill & Suzanne Bloom) | BEECH // BOOK ; An Emblematic Pairing

Moody Gallery 2815 Colquitt, Houston, TX, United States

MANUAL (Ed Hill / Suzanne Bloom) BEECH // BOOK ; An Emblematic Pairing March 9 – April 20, 2024 Reception for the Artists: Saturday, March 9, 3-5 pm, Artist Conversation with Juliette Bianco 4 pm, Director, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC Moody Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new photographs by MANUAL (Ed […]

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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 […]

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 […]

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(of) Everything Island

Katrina Moorhead’s (of) Everything Island is an assembly of evocative sculptural objects interacting with one another in the main gallery. Building off Moorhead’s sensitivity to materials’ potential for expansive storytelling, these objects explore places where the veil between the real and the otherworldly is thin and porous. The works reimagine aspects of the natural world, […]

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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 […]

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 […]

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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