Do something real about hunger at the 8th Annual Empty Bowls Houston. For a mere $25, you get a simple lunch and your choice of bowls created by local artisans, with proceeds benefiting the Houston Food Bank. More than 1,200 handcrafted bowls were donated last year, and this year the turnout is... More >>

There are lots of firsts in Houston Ballet’s spring repertory program, Made in America. There’s the company premiere of Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes by Mark Morris. There’s a reprise of Theme and Variations by George Balanchine, one of the first works by the choreographer... More >>

She’s already made a name for herself as an award-winning actor, and now with Catastrophic Theatre’s world premiere of American Falls, Miki Johnson adds playwright to her résumé. American Falls begins with the line “Let me tell you a story,” and each of the... More >>

It’s a small collection of new works that make up “STUCK UP,” the exhibit that, as its tag line indicates, is a poster show for the poster movie that’s about the poster scene, in Houston. The film in question is Alex Luster’s Stick ’Em Up!, now available on... More >>

Winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize, nominated for 11 Tony awards and winner of three — best score, orchestration and leading actress — the rock musical Next to Normal arrives at Stages Repertory Theatre, telling what its director Melissa Anderson calls “a story about finding... More >>

''Dirk Rathke: Endearing the Line'' is the third solo exhibit for the Berlin-based artist at Gallery Sonja Roesch. Rathke works in what Roesch calls the geometric-abstract tradition. Translation: He focuses on the relationship between line, space and movement, often with startling results.... More >>

Photographer Scott Frances deals in what he calls architectural porn. That is, photographs of beautiful homes set in world-class locations with stunning views, or commercial buildings, such as museums or performance halls, that are as much works of art as what they contain. The images seen in... More >>

All of the artists represented in ''Modern and Contemporary Masterworks from Malba - Fundación Costantini'' are famous in Latin America, but some of them aren’t very well known here in the States. ''Modern and Contemporary'' intends to change that. Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera are... More >>

The bright and witty Art garnered just about every theater award there is to…uh, garn when it opened on Broadway in 1998. Written by Yasmina Reza, the playwright behind God of Carnage and Unexpected Man, Art gleams and sparkles, and makes you laugh out loud. This production by Texas... More >>

It’s disillusioning for Eliza when she realizes the glass ceiling is still firmly in place at the architectural firm where she works. “Why is it still like this?” she groans. Playwright and Pulitzer Prize nominee Theresa Rebeck’s black comedy What We’re Up Against,... More >>

Larry Shue’s The Foreigner is full of mild-mannered sweetness. The story takes place in a fishing lodge in rural Georgia. A very shy guy named Charlie has come to visit a friend, but the friend has to leave for a few days for business. Charlie is undone at the idea of having to talk to... More >>

You can say that Japanese artist Yasuaki Onishi focuses on the negative — negative space, that is. His new installation, “Yasuaki Onishi: reverse of volume RG,” commissioned by the Rice University Art Gallery, is the latest addition to his reverse of volume series. Onishi... More >>

The Rockerfeller family is associated not only with extreme wealth, but also with some of the finest art collections in America — in the case of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller III, an especially impressive collection of traditional Asian works. The Houston exhibition “Treasures of... More >>

Though he’s best known for his oil paintings including portraiture, historical scenes and the occasional Jesus, 17th-century Dutch painting master Rembrandt van Rijn also worked in chalk and ink. It’s those works that will be on view in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston exhibit... More >>

The exhibit “Egyptomania,” currently at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, focuses not on the ancient Egyptian artifacts that have long fascinated us, but instead on the way those artifacts influenced Western culture, especially design, architecture and literature. The perfect... More >>

''Paradoxe Poétique'' might seem to be a change of pace for Wade Wilson Art, which usually features concrete painters. But actually, guest curator Laure Parise selected French painter Jean-Baptiste Lyonnet and photographer Antoine Grospiron-Jaccoux precisely because their work closely... More >>

Most artists study techniques and styles; Felipe Lopez studies neurology. The Houston-based artist is showing new work examining the brain at the exhibit “Uncorked and Uncovered: Felipe Lopez.” The works, in several mediums, feature repeated screened images of a brain. “I... More >>

You can see three life-size representations of Erica Van Pelt’s hand in the exhibit ''Gemstone Carvings: The Masterworks of Harold Van Pelt.'' Both husband and wife are photographers who have traveled around the world on assignment. During those travels, the couple picked up quartz and... More >>

August Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle, a series of ten plays that tell the story of an African-American neighborhood in Pittsburgh over the ten decades of the twentieth century, is an extraordinary achievement. King Hedley II, which covers the 1980s, is one of the cycle’s darkest... More >>

Houston is getting a visit from contemporary Chinese artist, architect and social activist Ai Weiwei’s “Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads,” a large-scale outdoor art project. Weiwei’s works are monumental bronze sculptures set on pedestals (each weighs 1,000 pounds and... More >>

There’s one image that neatly sums up the idea behind ''Utopia/Dystopia: Construction and Destruction in Photography and Collage,'' the newly opened exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. It’s Patio View, by American artist Martha Rosler. The montage, from Rosler’s... More >>

The blues, according to visual artist Martin Miglioretti, aren’t just blue. They’re a rainbow of reds, purples, yellows and greens, too. Miglioretti’s series of tribute posters to local blues musicians is part of the exhibit “Blues in All Its Colors,” currently on... More >>

For those of you who missed the Houston Museum of Natural Science’s esteemed “Terra Cotta Warriors: Guardians of China’s First Emperor” exhibition in 2009, you’re in luck. Due to the overwhelming response to the previous exhibition, which garnered an audience of... 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 >>

Cinema enters the contemporary art world in the new exhibition ''Perspectives 178: CINEPLEX,'' opening this week at CAMH, whose Zilkha Gallery will transform into a unique cinematheque space for a whole season. Expect projections, screenings and events, featuring a variety of experimental... More >>