Via Colori Festival
Nov 19–20 | Hermann Square and Downtown
Image: Via Colori/Sandy Grimm
Artists paint the town red, and a kaleidoscope of other colors, as Via Colori celebrates its 11th year of creating colorful concrete canvases on downtown streets and sidewalks. Come for art; stay for the food trucks, beer gardens and live music from American Idol contestant Jessica Meuse.
Free. Hermann Square, 900 Smith St. 713-523-3633. centerhearingandspeech.org/via-colori
Holy Barbarians: Beat Culture on the West Coast
Nov 18–March 12 | Menil Collection
Jay DeFeo’s “After Image” (1970)
Opening this Friday, the Menil Collection spotlights relatively unknown artists from the Beat Generation. (Sorry, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg—you’ve had your turn.) From George Herms to Jay DeFeo, see works by these West Coast “Beatniks” in a variety of mediums, including assemblage art, sculptures and paintings.
Free. Menil Collection, 1533 Sul Ross St. 713-525-9400. menil.org
The Surface of Things
Nov 18–Jan 15 | Houston Center for Photography
A collection of photograms—a silhouette created by preventing light from reaching light-sensitive paper—go on exhibit this weekend as the Houston Center for Photography presents The Surface of Things. “The works in the exhibition gesture past the image surface toward bigger concepts and questions,” says curator Keliy Anderson-Staley. “The photographs invite us to examine how objects carry meaning and cultural and political weight and the ways in which they become metaphors for other things. In this sense a thing, or its surface, is never all there is.”
Free. 1441 W. Alabama St. 713-529-4755. hcponline.org
Amy Schumer
Nov 20 | Houston Toyota Center
The funniest woman in comedy, known for her Emmy Award-winning series Inside Amy Schumer and breakout movie Trainwreck, stops by Houston to perform spot-on bits about relationships, pop culture and, no doubt, the election.
From $48. Toyota Center, 1510 Polk St. 713-758-7200. houstontoyotacenter.com
The First Noel
Nov 17–Dec 30 | The Ensemble Theatre
Image: The Ensemble Theatre
With Christmas around the corner, get into the spirit of the season at Houston’s premiere of Lelund Durond Thompson and Jason Michael Webb’s 2015 holiday musical, The First Noel.
From $30. 3535 Main St. 713-520-0055. ensemblehouston.com
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