Michael Hardy is the arts editor of Houstonia

Architecture

Slideshow: AIA Houston 2013 Home Tour

Check out spectacular photos of the homes on the popular annual tour.

10/25/2013 By Michael Hardy

Picks

Top Things to Do This Weekend: Oct 25–27

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

10/23/2013 By Michael Hardy

Picks

Top Things to Do This Weekend: Oct 18–20

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

10/16/2013 By Michael Hardy

Guide

The Five People You See at an Exhibition Opening

Can you spot them all?

10/15/2013 By Michael Hardy

Visual Art

SLIDESHOW: New IAH Art

Check out some of the new artwork currently on display throughout Bush Intercontinental Airport

10/10/2013 By Michael Hardy

Picks

Top Things to Do This Weekend: Oct 11–13

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

10/09/2013 By Michael Hardy

Bizarrechitecture

Five Of Houston's Weirdest And Wackiest Buildings

Derelict Dairy Ashford-area orb palaces, exuberantly neo-classical freeway churches, and more.

10/07/2013 By Michael Hardy and John Nova Lomax

Review

Review: The Pine

New play by Mickle Maher is set at an alternate-reality hotel where nothing is what it seems.

10/07/2013 By Michael Hardy

Interview

Arts Insider: Perryn Leech

The Houston Grand Opera's managing director opens up about his career, his management style, and why he left England for Texas.

10/03/2013 By Michael Hardy

Picks

Top Things to Do This Weekend: Oct 4–6

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

10/02/2013 By Michael Hardy

Best of Houstonia

Fall Arts Preview 2013

Featuring a musical about an axe murderer, an opera about a golden ring, and a play about an imagined dialogue between Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis.

09/30/2013 With Catherine Matusow, Kerry H., and Katharine Shilcutt By Michael Hardy

New Mexico

Sands of Enchantment

From desert art installations to chic Santa Fe galleries, New Mexico is a culture-lover’s paradise.

09/30/2013 By Michael Hardy

Theater

A Room With a View to a Kill

Veronica’s Room: underappreciated, rarely mounted, and edge-of-your-seat

09/30/2013 By Michael Hardy

Visual Arts

Sprawl Is Beautiful

The foreclosure as art

09/30/2013 By Michael Hardy

Review

Review: Nice: Luc Tuymans

New Menil Collection exhibition reveals the banality of Belgian painter Luc Tuymans.

09/27/2013 By Michael Hardy

Picks

Top Things to Do This Weekend: Sep 27–29

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

09/25/2013 By Michael Hardy

Books

Ban This!

Brazos Bookstore celebrates Banned Books Week by letting customers pull their own print of a banned book.

09/24/2013 By Michael Hardy

Opinion

Mall Art

Holding exhibition receptions at the Galleria is the hottest new trend—and also the worst.

09/23/2013 By Michael Hardy

Fine Arts

A Fair to Remember

The third annual Houston Fine Art Fair features galleries from San Francisco to South Korea.

09/20/2013 By Michael Hardy

Picks

Top Things to Do This Weekend: Sep 20–22

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

09/18/2013 By Michael Hardy