The Year in Review

12 Outstanding Houston Arts Events of 2019

A look back at the shows, performances, and creations that rocked our world this year.

12/31/2019 By Olivia Flores Alvarez

Get Visual

Sculpture Month Houston Will Take You Out of This World

Outta Space delights as it questions our relationship to Earth and the cosmos.

11/19/2019 By Marley Foster

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Beatriz González Reveals the Politics and Painting of Colombia

The artist's first United States retrospective arrives at the MFAH with a pop of color.

10/29/2019 By Olivia Flores Alvarez

Keep Houston Weird

Bill Davenport Is a Houston Art Legend

For three decades, the artist has carried the torch with his warm, wacky pop art creations.

10/03/2019 By Schaefer Edwards

A Night for the Arts

An Eclectic Celebration Brings Art Community and City Leaders Together at the Glasscock School

Mayor Turner served as honorary chair of the Community Artists' Collective's "FestEve!" this month.

09/27/2019 By Abby Ledoux

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Amie Siegel’s Medium Cool Operates at a Slow Burn

The Blaffer Art Museum’s current exhibit asks viewers to question how (and why) we value our obsessions.

09/25/2019 By Marley Foster

Eternal 30

Watch Flatland Gallery Evolve Throughout September

A coterie of artists will unfurl an interconnected, shifting exhibition at the Montrose gallery this month.

09/04/2019 By Olivia Flores Alvarez

Visual Art

How the Menil Collection Preserves Its Artwork

Plus, six exhibits to enrich your mind and soul.

08/26/2019 By Morgan Kinney

Hiding In Plain Sight

UH's Incredible Public Art Collection Celebrates 50 Years

The collection includes more than 700 works over five campuses.

08/26/2019 By Gwendolyn Knapp

Perfect Party

September's Perfect Party: Who-Wants-Pickle-Cupcakes Edition

Have you heard? We're getting a pickle festival this month. And the third Democratic primary debate.

08/26/2019 By Catherine Matusow

Fall Arts

Curtain Call: The 2019 Fall Arts Guide

Everything you need to know about the season’s must-score tickets. Plus, the ovation-deserving professionals who make it all possible.

08/26/2019 By Morgan Kinney and Chris Gray

Gallery Shows

Are You Actually Buying a Peter Max at Off the Wall?

The Galleria art outpost assures us that its artwork is 100 percent authentic.

08/20/2019 By Brittanie Shey

Visual Arts

Buddhist Monks, Sand Paintings, and the Ephemerality of Now

Tibetan Buddhist monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery in southern India return to Asia Society Texas for a week of painting and dance.

08/09/2019 By Holly Beretto

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Justin Favela Finds Himself in a Plate of Nachos

Witness the artist explore his Latinx roots through food sculpture at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft.

07/25/2019 By Brittanie Shey

Public Art

360 Degrees Vanishing Finally Appears In Montrose

The long-delayed Art League Houston installation at last makes its debut.

06/28/2019 By Morgan Kinney

Strike a Pose

At the MFAH, Meet the Icons of Style

A thrilling new exhibition walks visitors through a century of fashion photography—and reveals Houston's prominent role in that evolution.

06/24/2019 By Schaefer Edwards

Visual Art

Motherward, 1985 Is a Requiem to Freedmen's Town

At the Houston Center for Photography, one man's photo crusade to preserve a vanishing neighborhood.

05/24/2019 By Chris Gray

Memorial Day

5 Things You Must Do This Weekend, May 24–27

Or: What to do other than go to the beach.

05/23/2019 By Morgan Kinney

Stonewall 50

This CAMH Exhibit Shows the Enduring Legacy of the Stonewall Uprising

Stonewall 50 explores a half-century of gay liberation in Houston and beyond.

05/15/2019 By Brittanie Shey

Exit Interview

Glasstire Founder Rainey Knudson Explains Why She's Stepping Down

Don't worry: She still really loves Texas art, and boy, oh boy does she hate Facebook.

04/25/2019 By Brittanie Shey