Visual Art

Photography

Elliott Erwitt: Master Class

Career retrospective exhibit of photographs by Elliott Erwitt opens Saturday

04/25/2013 By Eric Harrison

Family

Happy Birthday, Discovery Green

Discovery Green to celebrate its fifth birthday with a series of events, starting Monday with unveiling of a walk-in art installation

04/24/2013 By Eric Harrison

Picks

Top Things to Do This Weekend: April 26-28

Where to go, who to see, and what to do

04/24/2013 By Eric Harrison

Art Festival

For the Love of Frida

Celebrating the birth, life, and legacy of Frida Kahlo

04/22/2013 By Paloma Lenz

Slideshow

For the Love of Frida

Celebrating the birth, life, and legacy of Frida Kahlo

04/20/2013

Astrodome

A Modest Proposal for the Astrodome

Here is an idea for the Eighth Wonder of the World that no one has thought of yet

04/18/2013 By Terry Doody

Picks

Top Things to Do This Weekend: April 19-21

Where to go, who to see, and what to do

04/17/2013 By Eric Harrison

Art and Design

Thoroughly Modern

All things modern are being celebrated all week with lectures, films, markets and book-signings

04/16/2013

Visual Arts

Boxes for Freedom

Winter Street and Spring Street open doors tonight for free exhibitions, including a charity box show event

04/12/2013 By Eric Harrison

Art Installation

Playing with Light

A new sculpture installation that explores the interplay of light, color, and geometry opens at the Rice Gallery

04/10/2013 By Eric Harrison

Picks

Top Things to Do This Weekend: April 12-14

Where to go, who to see, and what to do

04/10/2013 By Eric Harrison

Gallery Show

Crazy Like a Fox

Artist Mark Fox transforms words into drawings and drawings into sculptures

04/05/2013 By Michael Hardy

Gallery Show

Crazy Like a Fox

Artist Mark Fox transforms words into drawings and drawings into sculptures.

04/05/2013 By Michael Hardy

Art Festival

A Festival for Frida

The East End Studio Gallery kicks off its eighth annual festival of art inspired by the great Mexican painter Frida Kahlo

04/05/2013 By Paloma Lenz

Picks

Top Things to Do This Weekend: April 5–7

Where to go, who to see, and what to do

04/04/2013 By Michael Hardy

Books

Shooting H-Town

Prolific local photographer Kathy Adams Clark discusses her latest book, Portrait of Houston, at Brazos Bookstore

04/03/2013 By Michael Hardy

Photography

Chopped and Screwed

Photographer Peter Beste shows Houston's grittier side in his exhibition and forthcoming book

04/02/2013 By Michael Hardy

Special Event

College Night at the MFAH

Drawn by low prices and a DJ, university students flock to see Prado and Picasso exhibitions

04/01/2013 By Audris Ponce

Street Art

Stick-Up Artists

Alex Luster's documentary Stick 'em Up explores the daily battle between street artists and police in Houston

03/29/2013 By Paloma Lenz

Forrest Bess

The Van Gogh of Bay City

Thirty-five years after his death, a visionary Gulf Coast painter gets his Menil retrospective

03/23/2013 By Michael Hardy