Photographer Logan Sebastian Beck pays homage to the author of one of the most beloved road-trip stories in American literature in his exhibit “Following Huck Finn.” Marking the 175th anniversary of Mark Twain’s birth and the 100th anniversary of his death, Beck made the trek... More >>

For their double show, "If We Only Knew Now What They Knew Then," artists Katy Heinlein and Melanie Crader have kept it simple and open to interpretation. "Melanie and I have some similarities formally," says Heinlein. "We're both really interested in color and a neo-minimal aesthetic. And... More >>

From Galileo to Hubble, a long line of scientists and astronomers has sought to get an ever-closer look at the stars. In Hubble 3D, currently screening at the Houston Museum of Natural Science Wortham IMAX¨ Theatre, you can see some of the amazing Hubble images captured by the Atlantis... More >>

Quick! Someone put Gypsyhawk and Valient Thorr in a bus together to decimate the Americas and the rest of the world. The Pasadena, California band rocks tenderly and lustily like Thin Lizzy and has moments of mass hysteria like Deep Purple. Gypsyhawk has a healthy modern metal lineage as well... More >>

Labor Day weekend usually involves copious amounts of beer, but this holiday you can say it's an educational endeavor at the 1st Annual Brewmasters International Beer Festival. Held at Moody Gardens, the four-day fest will feature the BrewTopia Beer Garden with live music, food and beer from... More >>

We could go on and on naming the circles that form in the natural world (whirlpools, tree rings, planets...), those that are essential in industry (wheels, gears...) and those that are cultural symbols (the yin and yang, the Olympic rings...), but we don't have to because the Children's Museum... More >>

Julia Vizcarra's photo exhibition "The Charreria, Mexican Pride and Tradition" presents a different kind of rodeo from the one Houstonians are used to. A charreria is a competition/rodeo/horse show rolled into one that's popular in Mexico. Vizcarra's black-and-white photography depicts the... More >>

See the first-ever exhibit by Will Bryant and Rand Renfrow, two self-described easygoing guys who happen to be artists, in "Summer City: New Work by Will Bryant and Rand Renfrow." Feel-good cartoon characters (including a cell phone wearing a baseball cap and a pear wearing a fanny pack) are... More >>

Animation has evolved far beyond the 2-D, hand-drawn princesses of Disney's Golden Age, but even with help from computers, it still requires a lot of brainpower - from both the left and right sides. This is the central theme of the Health Museum's "Animation" exhibit, which, with help from the... More >>

The intersection of ethics, politics and medicine is seen in the exhibit "How Healing Becomes Killing: Eugenics, Euthanasia and Extermination." The exhibit, which focuses on six killing centers active during the Third Reich, includes photos of smoke rising from a crematorium, the inside of gas... More >>

The Houston Museum of Natural Science is hosting a show full of hocus-pocus - the new exhibit "Magic: The Science of Wonder." "It's no accident that magic's greatest innovators are often inventors or scientists first," says guest curator and magician Scott Cervine. "It's science that gives us... More >>

Beginning in 138 B.C., the legendary Silk Road linking Xian, China, to cities west of Asia, including Rome and Baghdad, was a route of transport for people, trade goods (including silk, of course) and ideas for almost 1,500 years. The route and its impact on commerce and culture are explored in... More >>

Tobiah Mundt isn't here to make friends. "I don't want to make cutesy things. I don't want to make toys," says the artist behind the exhibition "Being." This statement may seem a little strange, considering that her wool menagerie includes bunnies, pigs, monkeys, bears and camels. But Mundt... More >>

Borrowing the stylistic use of light seen in Renaissance paintings, NASA engineer and photographer Vladimir Frumin has put together a series of work for “Beyond the Frames,” currently on display at the Russian Cultural Center. The exhibit takes a look at the female form through... More >>

A gazebo made of recycled license plates? A steel tree that rains? Guy Hagstette, Discovery Green Conservancy’s president and park director, explains it all on the downloadable Discovery Green Audio Tour. Fire up the half-hour audio on your iPod and take a self-guided tour that includes... More >>

For "Las Comadres Recycled: Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition," Talento Bilingüe de Houston has assembled a total of eight life-size sculptures made from repurposed, found materials. The figures, created by several emerging Houston artists, including Liz Conces Spencer and Regina Agu, have... More >>

French artist Bernar Venet has transformed Hermann Park from a green space into an outdoor gallery with the exhibit "The Monumental Sculpture of Bernar Venet." More than a dozen of his signature steel sculptures dot the park; the works are enormous, some standing 30 feet high and weighing 12... More >>

The stark black-and-white linocut prints are striking: hungry people in the street, barefoot boys with livestock juxtaposed with a man driving a new automobile, faces fraught with despair but not with capitulation. This is the work of artist Rahul Mitra based on his own experiences in India, in... More >>

Hundreds of vibrant, multicolored butterflies will surround visitors at "Amazing Butterflies," the newest exhibit at Moody Gardens. Both an exhibit and a maze, "Amazing Butterflies" features a caterpillar tunnel entry, interactive games, puzzles and other hands-on activities. Along with the... More >>

One perfectly fossilized feather led 19th-century scientists to a stunning evolutionary find - Archaeopteryx - a feather-covered lizard who lived 150 million years ago. Considered to be from the world's earliest bird, this fossil will be displayed during "Archaeopteryx: Icon of Evolution," an... More >>

Anyone who's visited the Houston Police Department headquarters during the last few months has seen bits and pieces of the new Houston Police Museum peeking out from behind partitions during its construction. Now it's finished and open for viewing. A scaled replica of an HPD helicopter is hung... More >>

The Houston Zoo will have a few unusual visitors this summer at the "Dinosaurs! At the Houston Zoo" exhibit, visitors that haven't walked the earth for millions of years. The display is populated by ten animatronic re-creations. There's a nest of tiny Parasaurolophus dinosaurs (well, as tiny as... More >>

Dreaming of crystal clear blue water and white sand? Get your fill, visually at least, at The Ultimate Wave Tahiti 3D at Moody Gardens' IMAX theater. Packed with action sequences of world-class surfers, Ultimate Wave lets viewers experience the excitement and rush of racing atop a wall of water... More >>

The Space Center Houston is making the most of its relationship with famed filmmaker George Lucas, who's a longtime fan of NASA. Last year, the center hosted "The Cinema of George Lucas," which featured dozens of Star Wars-related items from Lucas's personal collection of props and movie... More >>

For 80 years, fans of the 1927 film Metropolis have seen only parts of Fritz Lang’s classic science fiction tale (bits and pieces had been lost over time). But two years ago, an almost complete copy of the film was discovered in Argentina, with some 25 minutes worth of scenes that... More >>