Arts and Culture Texas magazine

Sci-fi Surrealist: Mexican-American artist Francisco Moreno levels up with an epic survey at Dallas Contemporary

Kendall Morgan — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 20:09:50 +0000

It’s been 11 years since painter Francisco Moreno took the local art world by storm with a hot-rod performance in an empty warehouse.

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An Artful Camaraderie: Member-owned and operated Archway Gallery celebrates its fiftieth anniversary

Donna Tennant — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 18:48:33 +0000

Fifty years ago, on April 1, 1976, Dada artist Max Ernst passed away; Steve Jobs launched Apple Computer; and in Houston, 12 artists opened Archway Gallery in the Jung Center.

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The Decade-Long Journey Home: Inside Kitchen Dog Theater’s 35th Season at Its New Dallas Home

Brett Grega — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 18:33:59 +0000

On Tim Johnson’s very first day as managing director of Kitchen Dog Theater (KDT) in 2014, he found out the company would have to leave its home of two decades at the McKinney Avenue Contemporary (MAC).

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Happening Here: Austin Inspires Artists for Fusebox Festival’s Return

Tarra Gaines — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 18:00:39 +0000

Though one of Texas’ biggest multidisciplinary arts events, Austin’s Fusebox Festival, moved from an annual to biennial schedule in 2024, that doesn’t mean the Fusebox organization took a year off to relax.

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An Icon in Motion: Annabelle Lopez Ochoa explores Frida Kahlo’s legacy at Houston Ballet

Tarra Gaines — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 17:06:51 +0000

When the English National Ballet first commissioned international superstar choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa to create the ballet that would become Broken Wings, the original concept was to create a dance about “a woman from literature or history that was damned and doomed.”

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Shaping the Future: When Texas Theater Kids Grow Up

Tarra Gaines — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 20:56:05 +0000

Whether used as a compliment, insult, meme, or pseudo psychological term to explain a politician’s antics, the phrase “theater kid,” (or “theatre kid” for the British, Canadian, and pretentious) has become something of a catch-all description for anyone enthusiastic about the performing arts or who holds a “pick me” mentality of life.

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Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Nancy Zastudil — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 20:13:00 +0000

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

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What the Eye Can’t Settle: Rubén Guerrero at the Meadows Museum

MICHAEL MCFADDEN — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 23:25:41 +0000

The canvas can be a site where architecture tries to remember itself and fails on purpose.

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Photography as a Question: Wendy Watriss Curates at The Menil Collection

MICHAEL MCFADDEN — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 23:03:43 +0000

A documentary photograph can make a promise and then break it.

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A Prayer in Gold: Holy treasures make the pilgrimage to Fort Worth’s Kimbell Art Museum

Lindsey Wilson — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 21:56:34 +0000

If there’s one thing Louis XIV was known for, it was opulence.

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Global Visions, Local Ground: FotoFest at 40

MICHAEL MCFADDEN — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 15:00:43 +0000

Houston has a way of turning scale into a language.

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Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Nancy Zastudil — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 20:41:47 +0000

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

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Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

Nancy Wozny — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 19:46:21 +0000

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

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Homecoming: Jaime Castañeda returns to lead Dallas Theater Center

Lindsey Wilson — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 17:45:01 +0000

Since its founding in 1959, Dallas Theater Center has been led by only five artistic directors: Paul Baker, Adrian Hall, Ken Bryant, Richard Hamburger, and Kevin Moriarty. Now the Tony Award-winning regional theater can add one more name to the list: Jaime Castañeda, who officially assumes the position in July 2026.

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Dancing with Bob, Breaking the Waves, a Set of Angels, a Breakout Hamlet, a Mountain and More!: The 2025 Season Wrap up

Nancy Wozny — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 00:30:01 +0000

It’s that time of year again, when we gather on the page to consider all the shows that we have seen, what stood out, who wowed us, and more in 2025.

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Dancing in Between the Spaces of Life: Karen Stokes Premieres ‘4 Corners’ at the Match

ADAM CASTAÑEDA — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 14:28:36 +0000

Time is a precious commodity, and as we move further away from the standstill of the pandemic years, many of us are finding that we have far less than we would like.

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Big and Bold: Waco’s {254}DANCEFEST Expands its Reach

ADAM CASTAÑEDA — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 14:13:46 +0000

Making dances can be an unrelenting cycle of creative ideation, talent management, and administrative multitasking; finding a platform to show the work once it is complete can be just as unforgiving.

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The Stories We Carry: Angelica Raquel: Mystic Threads at the McNay Art Museum

MICHAEL MCFADDEN — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 13:57:39 +0000

Stories first live in the body. They prickle across the skin as goosebumps, catch in the throat as a gasp, and move along a family line, changing slightly with each retelling. A good story lingers, reshaping memory and place so that a river, a vacant lot, or a patch of brush never feels quite the same again.

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Dreaming Frida: Brooklyn Rider premieres a new work by Gabriela Lena Frank at DACAMERA

Steven Brown — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 12:54:29 +0000

Frank—who earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music in the 1990s—will return to Houston for the world premiere of Frida’s Dreams, a multimedia spinoff of El último sueño.

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All The World’s Their Stage: Teatro Dallas celebrates 40 years

Lindsey Wilson — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 12:41:30 +0000

In 1985, Jeff Hurst and Cora Cardona founded Teatro Dallas, the city’s first Latinx stage company.

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