An Interactive Holiday Event: "Unsilent Night"

Sabine to Bagby Promenade

12.11.14

The Mitchell Center collaborates once again with Buffalo Bayou Partnership for this free, interactive holiday event. New York composer Phil Kline created this 43-minute piece, written specifically

Illustrated Lecture with Artist Dario Robleto: The Boundary of Life is Quietly Crossed

09.12.14

Dario Robleto has explored love, loss, grief and other universal aspects of the human condition throughout his career, often distilling these complex states into meditations on fragility and change

Menil Collection art opening reception: Dario Robleto: The Boundary of Life is Quietly Crossed

The Menil Collection

09.11.14

Dario Robleto: The Boundary of Life is Quietly Crossed weaves together a diverse collection of sounds, ideas, personal narratives and scientific and technological research to link two remarkable un

Second Annual Mitchell Artist Lecture: Laurie Anderson

09.10.14

The University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts brings back the Mitchell Artist Lecture, which features a leading artist discussing the power and potential of interdisciplinary

Choose your own adventure

New digital project offers explorers the opportunity to create their own story

By Joel Luks

04.13.14 | 11:30 am

If you choose to go down this tunnel and into the dark alley, will you discover something extraordinary or will you encounter an assassin who's on a paid mission to erase your existence from hi ...

Are you listening?

When the earth talks: Ground-breaking Hermann Park project brings the sounds of the planet to the surface

By Joel Luks

04.12.14 | 10:32 am

What if you could hear the temperature of the air? What if you could perceive what may be happening below the soil underneath your feet? What if the environment could talk? Writer, architect an ...

Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts CounterCurrent Festival Installations: Piano Concerto-Houston by Byron Au Yong and Susie J. Lee and Uncanny Sensing (Texas Prototype) by Steve Rowell

04.08.14

Commissioned by the Mitchell Center, Piano Concerto-Houston draws together a diverse group of 11 local pianists whose performances have been recorded, creating the audio and visual experience of an

Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts CounterCurrent Festival: Antena

Blaffer Art Museum

04.12.14 - 04.13.14

Antena is a language justice and language experimentation collaborative founded in 2010 by Jen Hofer and John Pluecker, both of whom are writers, artists, literary translators, bookmakers and activ

Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts CounterCurrent Festival: Miwa Matreyek presents This World Made Itself and Myth and Infrastructure

Aurora Picture Show

04.09.14 - 04.09.14

This World Made Itself is a multimedia live performance work combining projected animation and the artist's own shadow silhouette as she interacts with the fantastical world of the video, mergi

Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts CounterCurrent Festival: Abinadi Meza presents Vein of Sky

Hermann Park

04.09.14

Vein of Sky is a multichannel sound art installation based on environmental data such as air temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, light and other dynamic features of the local climate. These