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 >>

"Barbara Jones: Her Life in Paint" reveals one of Houston’s hardest-working, yet rarely showcased, painters. "[In] her 25-year-or-so career she only had one solo show," says curator Jim Hatchett. Jones, who died from cancer in 2009, was a part of the illustrious group of artists out of the... More >>

In between recording their newest as-yet-untitled album, Denton pop-punkers Bowling For Soup escape the studio for few headlining dates. Come hear what the band is working tonight, and also stick around for their older hits like "Girl All the Bad Guys Want" and "Punk Rock 101." More >>

Used to fighting your hunger by eating? During Houston Restaurant Week, you can fight other people's hunger, too. At more than 100 restaurants in and around the city, diners can get high-end cuisine at decidedly low-end costs. A typical dinner at Mark's (seared Hudson foie gras, fire-roasted... More >>

Everything's coming up roses at the Island ETC theater company. The group's production of the Broadway musical Gypsy launches its new season and features some of the most famous songs ever performed on the Great White Way. There's "Let Me Entertain You," "Together Wherever We Go" and, of... More >>

Some new artists are hanging around the Aerosol Warfare Gallery. “We kind of wanted to open the doors and see who wanted to walk through it,” says co-founder/curator GONZO247. The predominantly graffiti- and street-based art space branched out to include a number of other mediums in... More >>

In the last few years, legendary Japanese printmaker Katsushika Hokusai has joined Salvador Dalí and M.C. Escher on the list of artists whose work is most likely to adorn college dorm rooms. His highly energized prints of rampant waves have that kind of instant coolness. Houston artist... 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 >>

Jennifer West has some interesting editing techniques. The filmmaker/multimedia artist’s movies are stepped on, skated over and sprayed with everything from whiskey to hardboiled eggs before seeing screen time. But these beatings random -- West carefully chooses her torturous methods to... More >>

Los Angeles-based artist Sarah Cain usually doesn't include much personal subject matter in her work, but that's not the case for the exhibit "Little by Little." The exhibit takes its title from the Chuck Klosterman quote "Living is dying, little by little." During the time Cain was working on... More >>

Thirtysomethings will know - or should know - who Gerard Baldwin is. He's the man who brought them their Saturday-morning cartoons. "Well, thank you very much. I appreciate that," says the man partially behind The Smurfs, George of the Jungle and Rocky and Bullwinkle (to name a few). "Sixty... 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 Robert C. Williams Paper Museum, on the Atlanta campus of Georgia Tech, stores more knowledge of paper and papermaking than the head of The Office's tenaciously obsessed paper salesman Dwight Schrute. (The museum has more than 2,000 books and countless watermarks, papers, tools, machines... More >>

The beauty of the Houston Center for Photography's "28th Annual Juried Membership Exhibition" is that a viewer with even the most particular tastes should find something to inspire in the works of the 36 artists, selected from 200 by Hannah Frieser, director of the Syracuse-based arts nonprofit... 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 >>

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is already the only museum in the southern U.S. with a gallery devoted entirely to Islamic art; this week, the museum heightens its commitment to the genre with "Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam," focused entirely on art related to Sufism. The... More >>

With "The Masterworks of Charles M. Russell: A Retrospective of Paintings and Sculpture," part of the ongoing "American Season" collection of exhibitions, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is showing that it can balance an appreciation for fine art with a taste for whimsy. Russell did not paint... More >>

Spare-yet-inviting teahouses. Refined paper screens. Elegant bamboo fencing. This is the global ideal of classic Japanese architecture, and it is exemplified in the 17th-century Katsura Imperial Villa, in Kyoto. But in the black-and-white photographs of Ishimoto Yasuhiro, which he took in 1953... More >>

Some books are more than just words on a page. The eight books on display at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston's "The Interactive Book: Works from the Hirsch Library" are also artistic objects. On view through September 19. 1001 Bissonnet. For information, call 713-639-7325 or visit... More >>

A stroll through the steamy streets of Houston in mid-July is definitely made more attractive with the promise of 30 local art galleries offering refreshments, tons of fine art and air conditioning. ArtHouston 2010, organized by the Houston Art Dealers Association, will include galleries... More >>

The exhibit "Linhas Iluminadas/Illuminated Lines: Works by Rosane Volchan O'Conor" is on view in the Rebecca Cole Gallery of the Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Art. For "Linhas," the Brazilian-born, now Houston-based O'Conor has created an on-site wall installation which incorporates neon, as... More >>

Growing up in Romania, Andrea Dezso was enraptured by space exploration and the astronauts who were venturing into outer space. All these years later, those experiences have inspired the art exhibit "Sometimes in My Dreams I Fly," currently at Rice Gallery. "Our imagination was really captured... More >>

A pictorial history of Houston, from streets filled with horse-drawn carts in the early 1900s to luxury downtown hotels in the 1950s, is captured in “Greetings from Houston: Vintage Postcard Views of the City.” The exhibit shows not only Houston’s changing skyline but the... 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 >>

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 >>