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Don’t expect a formal, highly structured program at the Voices Breaking Boundaries’ What’s Color Got to Do With It? That’s not VBB’s style. Instead, the group presents an idea and then opens the floor for discussion. In this case, they asked five artists and...
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East End
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Literary Events, Performing Arts, Arts |
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We have to admit, the title of Rosie Trump’s film If she needs a third eye she grows it is intriguing. Third eye, shot in an intimate setting with minimal lighting, is just one of the films being featured during Motion Captured: An Evening of Dance on Film. Local filmmaker Ashley Horn...
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Outer Loop - SW
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Film - Repertory & Special Screenings, Dance, Arts |
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“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and to be loved in return,” says Ewan McGregor, in the film Moulin Rouge. McGregor plays a penniless writer who moves to Paris and quickly falls in love with a beautiful courtesan of the Moulin Rouge, played by Nicole...
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Outer Loop - SW
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Film - Repertory & Special Screenings, Arts |
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It was back in 1960 when astronomer Frank Drake used a radio telescope to listen to two nearby stars. He didn’t hear much, but that was the birth of our modern search for life beyond earth. It’s been more than 50 years since Drake’s experiment, and we haven’t found any...
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Kirby-West U
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Film, Arts |
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Lawndale Art Center :
Daily from Thu., August 18 until Sat., June 30
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Daniel Anguilu is quickly becoming Houston’s go-to guy for big outdoor murals. Just drive around the East End and Midtown, and you’ll recognize the angular, sometimes abstract, signature of his work, particularly on Midtown’s vacant MHMRA building, which Anguilu has been steadily...
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Downtown/ Midtown
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Visual Art, Arts, Art - Galleries |
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Museum of Fine Arts, Houston :
Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Sun., October 16 until Sun., April 15
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King Tutankhamun is the Elvis of Ancient Egypt. Even 3,000 years after his death at the age of 19, thousands of fans flock wherever he or the fabulous relics left in his tomb land in their world tours. Houstonians will have a once-in-a-lifetime chance to see some of those artifacts, if not the...
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Kirby-West U
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Museum Exhibits & Events, History, Arts, Art - Museums |
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Museum of Fine Arts, Houston :
Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., December 30 until Sun., March 18
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A scant nine select prints and drawings of saints from the 16th through the 18th centuries make up “Visions of the Saints,” currently on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The focus of the small grouping is the recently acquired chalk drawing called The Head of a Young Woman...
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Kirby-West U
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Arts, Art - Museums |
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Houston Center for Photography :
Every week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., January 20 until Thu., February 23
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All you Jackie O fans, be sure to catch the "2012 HCP Print Auction Exhibition." Among the pieces is Jackie Summer, a wonderful shot of the then-Mrs. Kennedy by Jacques Lowe. The 1960 color image shows a young, elegant Jackie in a simple sleeveless dress, her hair blowing in the wind. She's...
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Montrose
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Arts |
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National Museum of Funeral History :
Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Mon., January 23 until Sat., March 31
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Rodeo time is almost upon us, and everyone in Houston is getting into the spirit, even the National Museum of Funeral History. For the next two months, the museum will be presenting its yearly revolving mini-exhibit "The Last Tip of My Hat," featuring a cowboy/cowgirl classic-style pine coffin...
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Outer Loop - NW
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Museum Exhibits & Events, Arts |
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Ensemble Theatre :
Every week Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Thu., February 2 until Sun., February 26
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In 1955, energetic 14-year-old Emmett Till was visiting Mississippi from Chicago. After allegedly whistling at a white woman, he was taken by a group of white men, tortured, murdered and then discarded in the river with a weight tied around his neck for his “crime.” Till became an...
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Downtown/ Midtown
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Theater, Black History Month, Arts |
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The Music Box Theater :
Every week Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., January 20 until Sat., April 28
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Music Box Theater, Houston's freshest musical troupe, looks ahead to the awards season with Oscar in the Box. The talented quintet — all former members of Masquerade Theatre — includes Rebekah Dahl, Brad Scarborough, Luke Wrobel, Cay Taylor and Colton Berry. Joined by musical...
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Lower Shepherd-Kirby
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Theater, Music, Arts |
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Theater Lab Houston :
Daily from Wed., February 8 until Sun., February 12
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Steven Fales is blond, built and gay. He was also raised Mormon, a religion that doesn’t accept homosexuality. His award-winning Confessions of a Mormon Boy is a one-man show written by and starring the goodlooking and very hunky Fales, who tells the story of his long, often painful...
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Heights
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Theater, Arts |
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Museum of Fine Arts, Houston :
Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Sun., November 13 until Sun., February 12
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Wander among a collection of some of the greatest works by the Old Masters at the “Dutch and Flemish Masterworks from the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection” exhibition. The show features works by Rembrandt, Hals, Gerrit Dou, Jan Steen and others. The colors and light...
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Kirby-West U
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Museum Exhibits & Events, Arts |
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A major figure in 20th-century American art gets a retrospective in “Revelation: Major Paintings by Jules Olitski,” currently at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Born in the Ukraine, he came to the United States at the age of four, and it was here that he created his paintings,...
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Kirby-West U
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Visual Art, Arts |
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Texas Repertory Theatre Company :
Every week Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., January 27 until Sun., February 19
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C. S. Lewis is most famous for his Narnia Chronicles, but he’s also the central character in William Nicholson’s bighearted, very sad Shadowlands, onstage now at Texas Repertory Theatre.
The story focuses on Lewis’s tender love affair with poet Joy Gresham. The two met when...
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Jersey Village
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Theater, Arts |
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Alley Theatre :
Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., February 3 until Sun., March 4
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Houston audiences will revel in Josie de Guzman, James Black and the rest of the ensemble cast performing in The Seagull at the Alley Theatre. The 1895 classic by playwright Anton Chekhov deals with the emotional and romantic tangle a group of artists find themselves in on a Russian estate....
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Downtown/ Midtown
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Theater, Arts |
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Stages Repertory Theatre :
Every week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Wed., January 25 until Sun., February 19
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For the entire 90 minutes of the comedy Mistakes Were Made, actor David Matranga is alone onstage. He plays Felix Artifex, a producer wrapped up in working a deal involving a Hollywood star, a Broadway playwright and a problem with a truckload of sheep. He talks to other people by phone, but we...
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River Oaks
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Theater, Arts |
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Museum of Fine Arts, Houston :
Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Wed., February 1 until Sun., May 6
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Over the years, the staff at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston has received thousands of photos with notes scribbled on them. Some were just a few words long; others were full-length letters. Some were correspondence about upcoming exhibits, others just friendly notes. One untitled image, by...
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Kirby-West U
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Visual Art, Arts |
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Art Car Museum :
Every week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Thu., November 17 until Fri., March 2
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The rules were simple for the show Seventh Annual Open Call Exhibition: Reconstruction (Featuring Artist Sherry Sullivan). One piece per artist would be accepted, and only the first 125 pieces would be shown. The concept meant that, for this show at least, timing was almost as important as...
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Heights
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Visual Art, Arts |
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Domy Books :
Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Sat., February 4 until Thu., March 15
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Ah, Domy Books. It’s where you go to have the boring burned out of your soul. The latest exhibit Domy will be showcasing on its walls is ''Hate Expo,'' courtesy of Mushroom Necklace, a collaboration between Dusty Peterman and William Keihn. Haven’t seen work by Mushroom Necklace?...
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Montrose
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Visual Art, Arts |
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Holocaust Museum Houston :
Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Mon., December 26 until Sun., July 22
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Recognizing the importance of keeping history from repeating itself, The Holocaust Museum Houston’s newest exhibition, “The Impact of Racist Ideologies: Jim Crow and the Nuremberg Laws,” examines the segregationist past of the U.S. and Germany. While Nazi Germany had the...
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Third Ward
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Visual Art, Photography, Museum Exhibits & Events, Arts |
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The Menil Collection :
Every week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., October 21 until Sun., March 18
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The Menil Collection has opened up its impressive collection of Eastern Orthodox religious icons for the exhibit Imprinting the Divine: Byzantine and Russian Icons from The Menil Collection. Some 600 years of Eastern Orthodox faith are represented, with more than 60 religious icons from Russia,...
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Montrose
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Visual Art, Religion & Spirituality, History, Arts |
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Rice Gallery :
Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Thu., February 2 until Sun., March 18
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The Rice University Art Gallery is filled with large floating planks and rectangular boxes for “Joel Shapiro: New Installation.” But the brightly colored objects aren’t meant to deceive viewers into thinking the artist has defied gravity; instead, the point is to create an...
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Kirby-West U
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Visual Art, Arts |
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With apologies to the History Channel, watching re-enactments and talking heads on television won’t bring the Civil War to life in the way that seeing a soldier’s prayer book with a bullet hole in it will. “Discovering the Civil War,” currently at the Houston Museum of...
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Kirby-West U
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Museum Exhibits & Events, History, Arts |
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Houston Center for Contemporary Craft :
Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Sat., February 4 until Sun., April 8
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Susie J. Silbert, curatorial fellow at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, has some high praise for the work in ''Alyssa Salomon: The Handmade Print'' ''I think the way she composes her photographs and titles them is poetry. I think of poetry as these few words that are supposed to evoke an...
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Downtown/ Midtown
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Visual Art, Photography, Arts |
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