Beautiful City—Empty City showcases the architectural photography by Leonid Furmansky shot in downtown Houston during the pandemic. Selected from a portfolio titled Oil Towers, these images depict the city we know so well as a mostly empty and evocative canvas for exploration. The isolation experienced due to COVID-19 is visible in the vacant, frozen quality of the […]
Histories and lives embedded in the land – and particularly the waterways that have alternately built and destroyed Houston over time – will be the subject of a newly commissioned, multi-disciplinary work by Mexican artist Tania Candiani. In her past work, Candiani has worked across a spectrum of media and practices to explore the intersections […]
In his exhibition as the Art League Houston (ALH), 2023 Texas Artist of the Year, Vincent Valdez examines memory and remembrance from both personal and cultural perspectives. His installation piece, Siete Dias/Seven Days, features an installation of twenty-one banners suspended from the gallery's ceiling that showcase a handful of the over 150,000 individuals who have […]
Ming Smith: Feeling the Future explores artist Ming Smith’s unparalleled career and is Smith’s first solo exhibition at a major institution to survey her work from the early 1970s through the present. The exhibition encompasses a multitude of artistic expressions to represent Smith’s vibrant and multi-layered practice, which is grounded in portraiture, and amplifies the […]
Both perversely pleasurable and pleasurably perverse, Jordan Strafer’s videos are absurd, fantastical, humorous, and, at times, violent meditations on power and the uniquely human capacity to inflict violence, be it physical, psychological, or both. The artist’s first solo museum exhibition, Jordan Strafer: Trilogy presents Strafer’s recent trilogy of videos PEP (Process Entanglement Procedure) (2019), SOS […]
Join the Community for Conscious Aging for wine, snacks, and conversation. We've seen each other in Zoom squares for years, and now it's time to meet in-person! Come share stories, connect with friends new and old, and feel a warmth that can carry us through the chillier months.
There's no shortage of stressors in difficult times. This six-session series provides an introduction to mindfulness meditation and mindful awareness practices, with a view to taking the edge off. In the first three weeks, you will learn and experience grounding (focusing) your mind in your body – through breath, sound, and body sensations, while in […]
Book reading with Houston Poet Laureate Emeritus Leslie Contreras Schwartz and writers Saborna Roychowdhury and Stalina Villarreal. Through intimate lyrical prose and fractured, nonlinear snapshots, From the Womb of Sky and Earth recounts a poet’s coming-of-age through a maze of abusive relationships and mental illness, woven through with glimmers of fierce love and ferocity. Punctuated by meditations […]
Estimated runtime of 1 hour and 30 minutes with no intermission. Peter returns to his twenty-year high-school reunion with dreams of winning back Kari, the girl he left behind after an unexpected pregnancy ended their relationship. Standing in Peter's way is Kari's bitter-as-ever resentment, her husband and the fact that Peter still hasn't grown up. […]
Diabelli 200 Explorer is the interactive website accompanying Anthony Brandt’s February 24-25 premiere of Diabelli 200, commissioned by Performing Arts Houston for their New/Now performance series. This virtual component explores the historic and neuroscience inspiration behind this new work, which was developed in collaboration with University of Houston neuroscientist Dr. Jose Luis Contreras-Vidal. In 1819, […]
Opening Reception for “Window Dressings” from Joe Baraban will be Saturday, June 3 from 4-7pm. Photographer, Joe Baraban, will be in attendance during the reception. The exhibit, which includes three images in the permanent photography collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, will remain available for viewing in person and online through September 30. "Joe Baraban is a legend […]
