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Pivoting Because of COVID-19, Fresh Arts Cancels Its Ball and Opens an Auction

Pivoting Because of COVID-19, Fresh Arts Cancels Its Ball and Opens an Auction

The Art of Travel Isn't the Only Art At Houston's Airports

The Art of Travel Isn't the Only Art At Houston's Airports

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When Ramses II Ruled the World

By D. L. Groover
Nov 22, 2021

Throughout history, saints and sinners, czars and generals have been called “great,” from Alexander of Macedonia, Catherine of Russia, Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, to Charlemagne of France, Alfred of England, and Kamehameha of Hawaii. But the first to be called so, even during his own lifetime, was Ramses II, pharaoh of...
MFAH is the Only U.S. Stop for Impressive Impressionist Exhibit

By Bob Ruggiero
Nov 15, 2021

When the pandemic caused borders to close, travel restrictions to rise, and venues to close, open, and then close again, it left a lot of folks stranded in places far from their homes. That included a group of guys with last names like Van Gogh, Renoir, Monet, Degas, Cézanne and...
Graham Nash's Life Through the Lens

By Bob Ruggiero
Nov 5, 2021

Graham Nash has been making music for more than 60 years. First with friend Allan Clarke, then as the pair co-founded the English Invasion group the Hollies, and later as a member of Crosby, Stills and Nash (and sometimes Young). He also had a consistent and intertwining solo career. But...
H-Town Is Immersed in Van Gogh

By Sam Byrd
Oct 21, 2021

The freshly launched Immersive Van Gogh Exhibit provides a 360-degree experience that plops them right into the mind of the decorated painter. Audiences get whisked away with Van Gogh’s paintbrush in a swirl of color, brought to life with over 90,000,000 pixels of animation and approximately 100 state-of-the-art projectors.
The Museum For Black Girls Pop-up Opens in Uptown Saturday

By Houston Press
Oct 15, 2021

A museum dedicated to celebrating the experiences of Black girls and women opens this Saturday in Houston's Uptown, following a similar pop-up exhibit in Denver. The Museum for Black Girls will highlight and promote ten female artists of color who will present their own work, performances and events. According to...
Mind-Bending Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience Adapts the Troubled Artist for the Digital Age

By Bob Ruggiero
Sep 18, 2021

Of all the Impressionist painters, Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) is likely the genre’s Biggest Rock Star. An artist whose name and work is recognizable even among the general non-art loving public, and whose rudimentary life sketch only burnishes his image (the madness, the poverty, the suicide and that auditory appendage...
French Impressionism Stars in the MFAH Exhibit From Monet to Matisse

By Bob Ruggiero
Jul 6, 2021

Though he was of German-Argentinian descent and educated in the United States at Harvard, author philanthropist Georges Bemberg (1915-2011) had a passion for France, French culture, and in particular Impressionist art cultivated during his many years of residency there. Before he died, he created The Bemberg Foundation that oversees the...
Houston Ballet Dances to A Little Night Music at MFAH's Kinder Building

By Margaret Downing
Jun 16, 2021

Among all the unexpected side effects of the prolonged pandemic, was the swing from live shows to filmed productions for many of the performance groups in Houston. For Daniel Rivera, Houston Ballet’s Associate Director of Audio and Visual Services, it meant a rather sizeable leap from making in-house and short promotional...
The Art Car Parade Rolls In Differently This Year

By Gladys Fuentes
May 5, 2021

The Houston Art Car Parade has been a yearly tradition since 1988 and one of the city's most festive and eclectic celebrations of artists in the community. Every year the much anticipated event is sandwiched into a fun weekend where art cars can be seen cruising all around Houston’s busy...
UH Opens New Interactive Art Display to Talk About the Police

By Jef Rouner
Apr 21, 2021

In the aftermath of Derek Chauvin's conviction for murdering Houstonian George Floyd, the subject of what it means to interact with the cops has never been timelier. Enter Brooklyn artist Shaun Leonardo, who will be presenting a piece called “Your First Interaction With Police” at the University of Houston main campus...
Houston's Largest Mural Brings Attention To Food Insecurity

By Sam Byrd
Apr 14, 2021

A mural, curated by Street Art for Mankind, is now on full display at Hampton Inn by Hilton’s 5-story, 250-foot wall, located on the back of the property situated on Crawford Street between Rusk Street and Capitol Street. It’s the largest mural in the city, and it has an even larger story behind it.
Find A "Confluence" of Art and Nature on Bayou Greenway Trail

By Natalie de la Garza
Apr 9, 2021

Artist Jane Kim contributes a new mural, "Confluence," to Houston's public art scene.
Musical Comic Matt Griffo Leads a Night of Tunes, Visual Art and Humor at Studio Regina

By Vic Shuttee
Apr 7, 2021

Whether it’s Second City or other groups... seeing how people persevere in improv, where they’re still saying ‘we’re gonna make stuff!’ To see them persevering, I think has been really great.
Superheroes (and Their Creators) Battle for Truth, Justice, and Cold Hard Cash

By Bob Ruggiero
Mar 29, 2021

Empire of the Superheroes: America’s Comic Book Creators and the Making of a Billion Dollar Industry By Mark Cotta Vaz 488 pp. $34.95 University of Texas Press Pop culture and comic book fandom have been abuzz recently with the release of Zack Snyder’s Justice League. It’s an extended (way extended)...
Collect It For The Culture Re-energizes Downtown

By DeVaughn Douglas
Feb 17, 2021

The corner of Main and Dallas is empty late on a Sunday evening. Its eerily silent aside from the occasional person whirring by on a rented scooter and piercing the soundless night. The corner is occupied by a building that use to house the two story Forever 21 but, since...
Nature Boys Hockney and Van Gogh Star in Centuries-Spanning Dual Exhibit

By Bob Ruggiero
Feb 16, 2021

Though he was born nearly a half century after Vincent Van Gogh died, and has achieved a level of fame and acclaim in his lifetime that The Starry Night painter only did posthumously, multimedia artist David Hockney (b. 1937) has always had an affinity for the works of Van Gogh...
Houston Symphony Pushes Artistic Boundaries With Music Illustrated

By Sam Byrd
Feb 12, 2021

Houston Symphony's Music Illustrated: Virtual Reality in Concert, taking place on February 13 and 14, will push the threshold of the listening experience to the next level in a groundbreaking, first-of-its-kind event featuring Google’s amazing virtual reality technology. As the orchestra performs favorites like "Clair de Lune" and "Carnival of the Animals", artist Topher Sipes will dream up mesmerizing, life-sized art that responds to the music in real time and takes on a life of its own.
Seismique Brings Mind-Bending Art Experience To Houston

By Sam Byrd
Dec 28, 2020

Seismique, a 40,000-square-foot art-fueled experiential museum located in Houston’s west side, will feature 40-plus exhibits with dazzling displays of lights generated by 9 million LEDs, color, sound, and natural elements. The multi-dimensional immersive concept is located at 2306 South Highway 6.
MFAH Opens Doors (Free Weekend!) of the New Kinder Building for Modern and Contemporary Art

By Bob Ruggiero
Nov 17, 2020

The culmination of events more than a decade in the making — the Kinder Building for Modern and Contemporary Art — was celebrated Monday at a gathering of media, VIPS and donors at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Everyone in attendance was properly masked and seated in socially distanced...
Bob Gruen's Life Through the Lens of Rock and Roll

By Bob Ruggiero
Oct 22, 2020

While their names are often known only to music nerds and credit line readers, the iconic images taken by A-list Classic Rock and Roll Photographers are familiar from hundreds of record covers, T-shirts, posters, and prints which now can be seen in high-end galleries. This small club includes shutterbugs like...

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