Houston has always answered to more than one name. Bayou City, Space City, H-Town, Screwston: each nickname captures a real part of its character, but none can contain the whole of it.
In Run the Code: Data-Driven Art Decoded by Thoma Foundation X Blanton Museum of Art, code does not sit invisibly in the background. It becomes the medium itself: elastic, unstable, and strangely luminous.
The black box theater at DiverseWorks' MATCHBOX 1 is dark except for four massive video projections—twelve feet tall, twenty feet wide—filling each wall.
When the English National Ballet first commissioned international superstar choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa to create the ballet that would become Broken Wings, the original concept was to create a dance about “a woman from literature or history that was damned and doomed.”
Time is a precious commodity, and as we move further away from the standstill of the pandemic years, many of us are finding that we have far less than we would like.
On Tim Johnson’s very first day as managing director of Kitchen Dog Theater (KDT) in 2014, he found out the company would have to leave its home of two decades at the McKinney Avenue Contemporary (MAC).
Though one of Texas’ biggest multidisciplinary arts events, Austin’s Fusebox Festival, moved from an annual to biennial schedule in 2024, that doesn’t mean the Fusebox organization took a year off to relax.
