Classical Music

Ars Lyrica, Vita Brevis

Early music ensemble announces a 2013-2014 season filled with rarely-heard works

05/09/2013 By Michael Hardy

Picks

Top Things to Do This Weekend: May 10–12

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

05/07/2013 By Michael Hardy

Conference

Illuminating Turrell

Rice hosts symposium dedicated to James Turrell's spectacular "Twilight Epiphany" skyspace

05/03/2013 By Michael Hardy

Festival

Dance Like an Egyptian

The Houston Museum of Natural Science celebrates Egypt with a cultural festival tonight

05/03/2013 By Michael Hardy

Exhibition

Sailing to Byzantium

New Menil Collection exhibition explores connections between Byzantine and modern art

05/03/2013 By Michael Hardy

Documentary

As You Sow, So Shall You Reap

New documentary examines the role of US foreign policy in causing mass immigration

05/02/2013 By Michael Hardy

Exhibition

Seduction by Subduction

Local artist Bob Russell turns the ordinary into the extraordinary in his new Jung Center show

05/01/2013 By Michael Hardy

Picks

Top Things to Do This Weekend: May 3–5

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

05/01/2013 By Michael Hardy

On the Town

The King’s Reach

Cyrus the Great’s 2,600-year-old declaration of human rights goes on display at the MFAH.

04/25/2013 By Michael Hardy

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

Theater

The Plays Are the Thing

The Alley Theatre announces its 2013-2014 season

04/08/2013 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

Gallery Show

Crazy Like a Fox

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

04/05/2013 By Michael Hardy

Performance

Dance Dance Revolution

For its 11th annual festival, Dance Houston showcases the city's diverse performance styles

04/05/2013 By Michael Hardy

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

Academia

Teaching for Peanuts

UH creative writing graduate students stage a sit-in to protest 20 years without a pay raise

04/03/2013 By Michael Hardy

Books

Shooting H-Town

Prolific local photographer Kathy Adams Clark discusses her latest book 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

Theater on Film

Expect Great Things

Houston audiences get a chance to see the Great Expectations adaptation currently thrilling London's West End

04/01/2013 By Michael Hardy

Television

Exit Roth

Having announced his retirement, novelist Philip Roth takes center stage in a new PBS documentary airing tonight

03/29/2013 By Michael Hardy