Visual Art
Texas’ Only Performance Art Festival Takes Place In Houston
Posted on · The Experimental Action Festival hopes to open minds and create a sense of community through a genre that is often less understood than traditional art.
Visual Art
Houston Matters
Rothko Chapel Closes In March For Major Renovations
Posted on · Updates to lighting in the chapel are in store -- along with new programming and administrative facilities.
Houston Matters
How A Scuba Diving Trip Inspired This Year’s Houston Marathon Artwork
Posted on · Local artist Janavi M. Folmsbee talks about her painting, which will be emblazoned on medals and shirts at this weekend's Chevron Houston Marathon.
Arts & Culture
Art Is Coming To Houston’s Freeways And Skies
Posted on · This spring, commercial ads on some billboards will be replaced by designs of local artists through the Sky Art project.
Arts & Culture
WATCH: This Fort Bend County Neighborhood Is A Popular Destination for Holiday Lights
Posted on · Pecan Grove Plantation residents go all-out to celebrate the season.
Arts & Culture
WATCH: The Bufkins’ Christmas Light Tour
Posted on · This year, we take the family behind Pasadena's famed Bufkin's Christmas Wonderland to see the lights!
Arts InSight
WATCH: Tour The Innovative, Intimate Menil Drawing Institute
Posted on · The sleek, natural-light-filled building blends institutional and domestic design.
Houston Matters
How Postcards From WWI Made Their Way From A Battlefield To Houston
Posted on · Dr. Irene Guenther discusses her book, a collection of postcards hand-painted by artist Otto Schubert while fighting The Great War.
Visual Art
Sneak Peek: Menil Drawing Institute Opens This Weekend
Posted on · It’s one of the only buildings in the U.S. dedicated entirely to drawings.
Houston Matters
Mystery Science Theater 3000 Creator Joel Hodgson Gets Back Into Riffing Shape
Posted on · Hodgson celebrates the show's 30th anniversary by dusting off the old red jumpsuit and live-riffing a movie in Houston Saturday.
Houston Matters
Check, Please! How a Web Comic About Hockey and Baking Went Viral
Posted on · Ngozi Ukazu, who grew up in Houston, tells us about her popular hockey-themed web comic, which has now become a graphic novel.
Arts InSight
WATCH: Pay Phones Re-Appear As Third-Ward Time Capsules
Posted on · The nearly obsolete devices have been re-purposed as interactive historical markers.
Arts & Culture
South Houston Gallery Hopes to Become Cultural Hub
Posted on · The San Jacinto College South Campus Gallery hopes to become a cultural destination between the Museum District and Galveston. And they’re going about it in unique ways.
Arts InSight
WATCH: Interactive Exhibition Explores The History Of Human Knowledge at Rice’s Moody Center
Posted on · Artist Matthew Ritchie conceptualizes human history using multimedia and virtual reality.
Houston Matters
How Do You Perform Music That Doesn’t Look Like Music?
Posted on · In a new series of performances, Houston collective Loop38 interprets visual art as music.