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Friday, May 10

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Shared Experiences: Patrick Martinez at Dallas Contemporary

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The Road to Dallas is Paved with Trees, Plants and Neon

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People First: ROCO Celebrates 20 Years of Fostering a Culture of Connection

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Let’s do the numbers. Houston’s premiere chamber orchestra ROCO will have reached a staggering 150 world premieres by the end of its 20th season.

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Texas New Music Festival Celebrates New Works

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Texas New Music Festival (TNMF) is the brainchild of Chad Robinson, Founder and Artistic Director of the Texas New Music Ensemble (TNME).

Monday, Apr 29

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Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

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Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Lost and Found: Justin Parr at the Center of the World

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The tagline for Justin Parr’s latest venture, sanantoniozone.com, a celebration of the artists he’s exhibited at Fl!ght Gallery over the past 23 years, is “San Antonio is the center of the world.”

Friday, Apr 19

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Clay into Flora: Rebecca Manson at The Modern

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Rebecca Manson transforms clay into charged flora in her immersive installation, Barbecue, at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth from May 25 through Aug. 25.

Sunday, Apr 14

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Listen, Touch and Learn: Marie Watt at the Blanton

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Think back to your first museum visit. For many of us, it was probably as a child during a school field trip or on a summer afternoon with a parent, and we probably received stern instructions to keep our voices down and to not touch…

Soy de Tejas: Traveling exhibition unites the Lone Star State in Fort Worth with Latinx art

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In a state as vast as Texas, how do you go about building a survey that encompasses the Latinx population’s art?

Beyond East West Opposition: Raqib Shaw at the MFAH

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Raqib Shaw: Ballads of East and West, on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston June 9 through Sept. 2, features works like the one described above, each painting ornately blending Eastern and Western influences, depicting hope and…

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Consumed by Love: Houston Grand Opera’s New Season of Romance and Passion

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“What is it about opera that keeps everybody thinking in a romantic frame of mind?” That’s a question Khori Dastoor, General Director and CEO of Houston Grand Opera (HGO), pondered while deciding the theme for HGO’s 2024-25 season.

Unique and Determined: ISHIDA Dance brings ‘Mutability’ to the Asia Society and The Long Center

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Austin-based choreographer Brett Ishida boasts a whirlwind June with performances of her company ISHIDA Dance in “Mutability” on June 7-9 at Asia Society Texas Center in Houston and June 12-14, 2024 at The Long Center in Austin.

Love, Power and Gold: Dallas Symphony Orchestra Performs Wagner’s Epic Ring Cycle

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If you take it at face value, it’s an epic tale of gods and gnomes, fighting over a gold ring that confers supreme power over the world. But there’s a more compelling way to look at The Ring of the Nibelung, Richard Wagner’s four-opera…

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Space Signal: Dario Robleto’s Quest to Know the Human Heart Unfolds at a new exhibition at The Carter

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Life, love, and death. Each of these states of being is intrinsically tied to a process of transformation, molecular to ethereal, scientific to spiritual.

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A Lifelong Exploration: Director Sasha Maya Ada navigates a new path for DFW theater

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Listen to how she says “pecans,” and you’ll know immediately that Sasha Maya Ada is not a native Texan.

Monday, Apr 8

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Canyon Dancing: Open Dance Project’s Annie Arnoult takes us inside a Georgia O’Keeffe painting

I’ve come to the Open Dance Project’s Houston-based studio to watch an early rehearsal of company artistic director and founder, Annie Arnoult’s latest creation Red Landscape: Georgia O'Keeffe in Texas 1912-1918, and the dancers have put…

TX Studio: Megan Harrison Looks for the Defining Moments

San Antonio-based artist Megan Harrison knows about change. “I spend a lot of time outdoors, in nature. I’m drawn to the natural world because it’s more complicated than I can really understand,” she tells me during our recent conversation…

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Texas Studio: Evita Tezeno on collaging Black joy

“I came out of the womb and knew I wanted to be an artist. It’s all I know.” Growing up in Port Arthur, Texas, Evita Tezeno was surrounded by female relatives who were quilters and seamstresses.

Houston Symphony Expands for the Strauss Festival

The Houston Symphony will end its season with a splash: a two-weekend festival devoted to Richard Strauss, whose name is practically synonymous with sonic spectacle.

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Drawing as a daily process: Ruth Asawa at the Menil

Ruth Asawa Through Line is the first exhibition to focus on Ruth Asawa’s lifelong drawing practice.

Saturday, Mar 30

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The Collaborative Spirit: Houston Ballet Offers a Lively Season Ahead

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Julie Kent and Stanton Welch haven’t reached the point of finishing one another’s sentences. Nevertheless, just a few months after Kent joined Welch at the helm of Houston Ballet, they show clear signs of being in sync.

Fire Music: Loop38 makes an impact with new music for our times

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As the largest wildfire in Texas history raged across the Panhandle in March of this year, Loop38, the Houston-based new music ensemble, was set to begin a multi-day residency at Stephen F. Austin State University (SFA) centered on the…

Friday, Mar 22

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In Good Company: Alley Theatre’s New Season offers plays for Houston Audiences and the resident actors

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In the United States, the Alley Theatre is the last theater standing with a year-round, full-time, salaried resident acting company and that makes all the difference when building a new season.

Houston’s Rec Room Arts Wants to Bring Us Together

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Rec Room Art’s Artistic Director Matt Hune says that building a theater season is like creating an album: each play makes up a story that flows through the year.

Thursday, Mar 21

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Invited to Learn: Bishop Arts Theatre Center ends its 30th season with groundbreaking plays about history-making women

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The Bishop Arts neighborhood of Dallas has enjoyed a surge in popularity these past few years, but many of its diners, drinkers, and shoppers probably aren’t aware that just a mile away sits the area’s namesake theater company.

Taking Flight: Zeke Williams and his feathered friends nest at Galveston Arts Center

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Dallas-based artist Zeke Williams is addicted to making work.

Sunday, Mar 10

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Classical Gems: Dallas Opera will stage landmark works for its first time

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The Dallas Opera will treat its audiences next season to two of opera’s all-time favorites, but the real news belongs to the season’s other two slots: They’ll hold a pair of landmark works the company has never staged.

Wednesday, Feb 21

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Love, Time & Aging: Alan Cumming Tours Texas

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Along with some very fashionable real ones, multi-hyphenated artist Alan Cumming wears a lot of figurative hats.

Saturday, Feb 10

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Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

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A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries in San Antonio, Houton, Dallas and Autin

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Realer than Real: Sarah Sze at the Nasher Sculpture Center

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The distinctions between what’s real and what’s virtual are growing fuzzier with each new day, not to mention each new tech gadget.

Building a Global Network: The Fusebox Universe at 20

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The planets will align this spring for Fusebox Festival’s 20th anniversary.