Menil Drawing Institute Preview

Preview of Menil Drawing Institute offers vision of beautiful fall Preview of Menil Drawing Institute offers vision of beautiful fall By Tarra Gaines

4.13.17  |  12:30 pm

We’ve only just sprung spring, yet Houston is well on our way through another major year of arts and ...

Best New Venues

The best new Houston arts and entertainment venues opening in 2017 The best new Houston arts and entertainment venues opening in 2017 By Tarra Gaines

1.5.17  |  11:11 am

In the last two years, Houston has seen tremendous growth in visual and performing arts venues, with new spaces built ...

Rudy in the Sky With Diamonds

Memory of HGO's Rudy Avelar celebrated in a night he would have loved Memory of HGO's Rudy Avelar celebrated in a night he would have loved By Shelby Hodge

9.25.16  |  1:43 pm

We didn't get to say goodbye to Rudy Avelar, director of Houston Grand Opera patron services for 40 years ...

Aug 23 3:00 PM

Asia Society Texas Center presents The Mystical Arts of Tibet featuring the Tibetan Monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery

Tibetan Buddhist monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery will construct a mandala sand painting and perform special ceremonies in Asia Society Texas Center’s Louisa Stude Sarofim Gallery. During this ritual ...

Groundbreaking Menil

Dream project: Menil Drawing Institute finds ways to tame the light Dream project: Menil Drawing Institute finds ways to tame the light By Joel Luks

3.27.15  |  5:34 pm

When Menil Collection director Josef Helfenstein first placed a phone call to Los Angeles-based architecture firm Johnston Marklee's founders ...

Lounging With Luks

British hipsters invade Houston: And you won't believe these chicks British hipsters invade Houston: And you won't believe these chicks By Joel Luks

5.31.14  |  8:22 am

With psychedelic lighting projections, Courrège lunettes and a canopy of polychromatic umbrellas, there was no mistaking the modernist zeitgeist ...

Aug 25 8:30 AM

Meditation in the Gallery

Asia Society Texas Center hosts a series of meditation sessions led by teachers from the Houston Zen Center and inspired by Universe Is Flux: The Art of Tawara Yūsaku. Each ...

Editors' Pick

Fasten your seatbelts!

Fast cars, fun crowd rev up CultureMap Close-Up Music Series Fast cars, fun crowd rev up CultureMap Close-Up Music Series By Shelby Hodge

3.10.13  |  4:42 pm

From the red carpet entrance at Asia Society Texas Center where two hot ATS Cadillacs welcomed guests to the rockin ...

Shelby's Social Diary

Yo-Yo Ma wows at intimate black-tie concert celebrating the Menil's 25th anniversary Yo-Yo Ma wows at intimate black-tie concert celebrating the Menil's 25th anniversary By Shelby Hodge

9.13.12  |  5:56 am

Oh, to have been among the 136 lucky souls who were first in line to sign on for Yo-Yo Ma ...

New building, new programs

With stunning new Asia Society Texas Center, Houston's future looks to the Far ... With stunning new Asia Society Texas Center, Houston's future looks to the Far East and beyond By Martha Blackwelder

1.30.12  |  11:40 am

Editor's Note: In celebration of Houston's 175th anniversary, we asked leaders to imagine the city's future. In ...