Arts and Culture Texas magazine

Glorious Sound: Threads of History Come to Life in Harmonia Stellarum Houston’s Season Five

Sherry Cheng — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 20:39:19 +0000

The Harmonia Stellarum concert experience is completely unique.

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Timeless and Immediate: For 2026-27, Stage West plans a season where audiences feel safe to be provoked

Lindsey Wilson — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 04:40:17 +0000

An East German punk rocker, a Black female gunslinger, a pair of impressionable teens, a gold-digging pool boy, a riled-up school board, singing World War I soldiers, and William Shakespeare walk into a theater in Fort Worth…

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Cor Mundi: Music of the Spirit in the Heart of the World

Sherry Cheng — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:44:57 +0000

A truly unique performing arts organization has arrived on Houston’s vibrant classical music scene, a group dedicated to illuminating the sacred through music.

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Milestones & Superstar Soloists: Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s Bold New Season

Steven Brown — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:16:21 +0000

It will be Luisi’s first time to conduct—and the orchestra’s first time to play—J.S. Bach’s St. John Passion.

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Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

Nancy Wozny — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:02:35 +0000

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

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The Stories that Hair Can Tell: Rosemary Meza-DesPlas at the Martin Museum of Art

James Russell — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 23:09:18 +0000

Rosemary Meza-DesPlas is among the godmothers of her craft. Since the early 2000s, the Garland, Texas native has set the standard for how to integrate human specimens in art. All she’s using is hair.

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Collecting as a Cultural Practice: Picasso–Klee–Matisse: Masterpieces from the Museum Berggruen at the MFAH

Jonathan Hopson — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:41:30 +0000

Heinz Berggruen bought his first Klee in 1940 for reasons that had nothing to do with investment.

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History and Community Come Together at Houston’s Stages Theater

Tarra Gaines — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:26:43 +0000

Artistic directors of Texas theaters don’t usually program theme seasons, but talking to Stages Artistic Director Derek Livingston reveals certain patterns in the work he’s excited to bring to Houston audiences.

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Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Nancy Zastudil — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:30:05 +0000

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries for July - August 2026

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Multi-disciplinary Artist Nic Nicosia looks back at five decades of Everyday Surreal

Kendall Morgan — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:29:29 +0000

Nic Nicosia’s new Nasher Sculpture Center exhibition is the artist’s first survey since 1999.

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New and Now: Jaime Castañeda’s inaugural Dallas Theater Center season is packed with premieres

Lindsey Wilson — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 01:57:33 +0000

Jaime Castañeda is on the phone again.

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Aimed Dance Fest Ignites Contemporary Dance in Southeast Texas

ADAM CASTAÑEDA — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 01:43:57 +0000

Speaking with Amy Elizabeth, Associate Professor of Dance at Lamar University, it occurred to me that I’ve been writing about her work since 2012.

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A Summer Spoof: The Gilbert & Sullivan Society of Houston Serves up ‘The Gondoliers’

Steven Brown — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 01:21:30 +0000

Surely this could only happen in opera—or, to be exact, in an opera by Gilbert and Sullivan, comic masters of far-fetched situations.

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Data, Dirty Talk, & Dissent: Mary Ellen Carroll at CAMH

MICHAEL MCFADDEN — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:59:41 +0000

The house turns before anything else does.

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A Wonderland Awaits: Houston Ballet’s new season offers something for every ballet lover

Tarra Gaines — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:42:17 +0000

Balance, an ability vital for a dancer en pointe or leaping from earth to air, is equally necessary for an artistic director programming a new ballet season. And this is especially true for a company as large as the Houston Ballet with its rarity of two artistic directors, Stanton Welch and Julie Kent.

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Awesome Analog: Performing Arts Houston brings its biggest season yet for 60th Anniversary

Tarra Gaines — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:36:22 +0000

In a digital culture transforming into AI (artificial isolation), live performing arts still allows us an analog world of experiences.

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ROCO’s Virtual Cycle of Access to Music

Steven Brown — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:01:53 +0000

If you jotted down a list of snappy names, you probably wouldn’t include this: ROCO, Houston’s Chamber Orchestra.

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Broadway Across Texas

Tarra Gaines — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:30:37 +0000

Texas is alive with the sound of Broadway musicals headed our way.

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The Sea, the Crown, and the Mess of History: Hew Locke’s Passages at the MFAH

MICHAEL MCFADDEN — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:08:17 +0000

Salt-crusted hulls drift through the galleries of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

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Reading the Rhythm: Deep Vellum Music & Literature Festival

MICHAEL MCFADDEN — Thu, 28 May 2026 18:57:46 +0000

This July, Deep Ellum, the historic Dallas neighborhood where blues once spilled from clubs into the street and where artists still gather in stubborn defiance of cultural amnesia, will become the setting for a new experiment in collective listening.

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