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 […]
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 […]
This exhibition presents more than one hundred portraits made over the past twenty years by Houston-based artist Nestor Topchy (b. 1963). The small paintings, with their gold backgrounds, resemble Byzantine icons; however, rather than representing religious figures, Topchy depicts friends and colleagues in the art community.
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 […]
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 […]
A journey through time Wagnerites from around the world will descend upon Houston when HGO presents Parsifal, the composer’s final opera, full of shimmeringly beautiful music and spiritual and philosophical exploration. The revered masterpiece takes audiences on a mystical journey through a realm where time has no meaning and a group of knights are trying to […]
Friday, Jan 19 7 – 8:30 pm Dive into the extraordinary world of Georges Méliès in a silent film with live music from French violinist Kami Ghavi Helm. The director’s “A Trip to the Moon” (1902, 13 min) will be followed by a selection of his short films introduced by Charles Dove, Director of Rice […]
In their award-winning documentary Sara Nodjoumi and Till Schauder delve into the mystery surrounding the disappearance of more than 100 paintings by Sara’s father, seminal Iranian modern artist and activist Nicky Nodjoumi. In 1980, he fled Iran following the protest of his solo exhibition, Report on the Revolution, and its subsequent shutdown at the Tehran […]
Supporting new multi-genre works by the artists of our city, New/Now is an evening alive with dreams made real—a mixtape of influences, backgrounds, and Houston stories waiting to be heard.
Aurora Picture Show presents this special film program celebrating the centenary of one of the most colorful and revered figures in world cinema, Sergei Parajanov. Despite repeated censorship and persecution, Parajanov’s unique cinematic language, featured in masterpieces like The Color of Pomegranates (1969), has earned him worldwide recognition. This program will feature Parajanov’s rarely seen […]
Isabella Vik unveils a new evening length work with their latest artistic endeavor, Aufheben Ensemble. Cuidado No God is an ambitious and visceral contemporary dance and body performance piece largely influenced by the death drive theory and the literary works of George Batallie. This performance displays high energy, stamina and raw emotional vigor inside the […]
