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Houston's Orange Show For Visionary Art has organized Daytime and Nighttime Experiences for visitors will all events taking place at The Orange Show Monument from May 14-16.

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...

Visitors can have their stories of interactions with the police printed and displayed anonymously.

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...

The five-story mural brings attention to the fight against food insecurity.

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.

"Confluence" nears completion along the Bayou Greenway trail.

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.

Matt Griffo is getting off the couch - and back on the stage

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.

In 1941, Captain America was socking it to Hitler months before the U.S. entered World War II. Co-creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby spent decades fighting unsuccessfully for ownership rights to the All-American hero.

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)...

Robert Hodge and India Lovejoy join forces to bring Collect It For The Culture to downtown.

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...

"Woldgate Vista" by David Hockney, 2005, oil on canvas.

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...

Music Illustrated: Virtual Reality in Concert with Houston Symphony pushes the limits of what art is and what it could be.

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.

Flare is one of the many mind-bending exhibits taking over a former Bed, Bath & Beyond which is now home to Seismique

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.

The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building from above certainly makes a mark on the Houston skyline.

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...

Mick Jagger, John Lennon, and Yoko Ono at the Record Plant in New York City, 1972.

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...

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame groundbreaking ceremony in Cleveland on June 7, 1993.

New Book Tells How Rock and Roll Came Home to Cleveland

By Bob Ruggiero

Oct 8, 2020

The House That Rock Built: How It Took Time, Money, Music Moguls, Corporate Types, Politicians, Media, Artists, and Fans to Bring the Rock Hall to ClevelandBy Norm N. Nite with Tom Feran 176 pp. $28 Kent State University Press For those who’ve never made the pilgrimage to the great glass...

A calm professor (Stefano Accorsi) and a hotheaded soccer player (Andrea Carpenzano) form an unlikely bond in the Italian film "Il Campione (The Champion)."

Italian Cultural Center's Film Series Returns with Il Campione

By Bob Ruggiero

Sep 11, 2020

Sometimes, stereotypes exist for a reason. Among the Europeans, the Italian culture is very much a touchy-feely one. There are a lot of hugs and kisses and embraces and talking loudly and closely with operatic hand gestures. So in the Age of Coronavirus with its masking and social distancing and...

House of Cards, pictured here in Baltimore, has traveled across the world and makes a pit stop in Houston late August through early October.

Discovery Green's House Of Cards Lights Up Public Art Scene (UPDATED]

By Sam Byrd

Aug 25, 2020

Discovery Green will unveil a public art display, House of Cards, starting Friday and running through October 11 in the park’s Sarofim Picnic Lawn. The piece is an astonishing structure consisting of 126 playing cards stacked to dizzying height of 18 feet. During the day, the cards’ crisp white lines and colorful images will dazzle; at night, the structure will be animated to create the illusion of the house of cards rising and falling.

A scene from Cane River, a nearly lost work by the late filmmaker Horace B. Jenkins

Catching Up With the Arts in Houston: A Lost Masterwork, the Irrepressible Tamarie Cooper & More

By Margaret Downing

Jul 23, 2020

A forgotten film of note being aired by The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Catastrophic Theatre's Tamarie Cooper's Quarantine Edition. A new participatory public arts project through the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. While visual and performing arts venues are dealing carefully with the coronavirus, there is still plenty to see and do right now.

Timely "Soul of a Nation" Finally Reaches the MFAH. But See It, Quick!

By Bob Ruggiero

Jun 29, 2020

Sparked by a spate of high-profile killings of African-Americans by law enforcement and private citizens – and the worldwide George Floyd/Black Lives Matter protests that have ensued and continue – we are seeing unprecedented dialogue about, attention to, and action against long simmering issues of racial prejudice, inequality, and social...

A modern day problem brought to animated life.

Video Premiere: Houston Artist Hannah Wolf Brings To Life The Lewd Dudes In "Pay Him"

By Gladys Fuentes

Jun 8, 2020

The Lewd Dudes, "Your favorite band in Austin," are premiering an animated video created by Houston artist Hannah Wolf for their song “Pay Him” off their latest release Malbec. The song explores the complicated dynamic between making art to live, and making a living from your art begging the question,...

Waiting, waiting — detail from Woman with a Fan by Berthe Morisot — and now finally open.

Catching Up With the Arts in Houston, 06.01.20

By Houston Press

Jun 1, 2020

As Gov. Abbott has been opening up the state in phases, museums and art galleries are slowly opening up — while still maintaining an online presence, while performing arts in Houston continue to reach out with virtual programming. This Wednesday, Asia Society Texas Center will re-open to the public with...

By this October, Opera in the Heights hopes to be back up on stage and singing. Shown here: its 2020 world premiere of Yeltsin in Texas.

Catching up With the Arts in Houston With Online and Re-Opening News

By Houston Press

May 20, 2020

As Texas begins to open up again while the coronavirus is still very much with us, some arts groups are staying online while others are carefully opening up while keeping to the governor's guidelines of no more than 25 percent of listed occupancy at any time. And if you've ever...

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