Building "Bridges" Across the Bayou City!
When the spring Bayou City Art Festival, traditionally held in Memorial Park, was cancelled due to COVID-19 only weeks before its March 29 scheduled opening, (its sponsor) the Art Colony Association (ACA) began planning for the fall festival which typi…
Read MoreWhen Dallas Art Fair director Kelly Cornell emailed late this week with big news, it was an announcement we’d sensed was coming, a decision that could only be summed up as sage. As Texas continues to lead the nightly news and serve as a coronavi…
Read More“Who knew we could work this hard without doing any theater?” So muses Houston’s Alley Theatre artistic director Rob Melrose during a recent conversation with PaperCity. But we’d lay odds the sentiment has been echoed by most music, dance and theater c…
Read MoreWith cancelation of the Houston Ballet season and with Houston Symphony concerts relegated to virtual experiences, Gina and Dr. Devinder Bhatia are among those performing arts patrons lamenting the devastating effects of COVID-19 on their favorite arts…
Read MoreGeorge Floyd was one of the countless Black Americans who have lost their lives due to racial discrimination and police brutality. But the senseless murder of the Houston Third Ward native, former high school athlete and member of DJ Screw’s Scre…
Read MoreAs the world came to an abrupt halt in mid March, arts events and programs large and small around Houston had to cancel, as well. One community arts program likely only missed by a few, at first, was a writing workshop for Houston Methodist employees c…
Read MoreWe had hoped against hope that COVID-19 would be waning as we approached the Fall Season of 2020 to let maestros lift their batons on concerts, see curtain rises on plays and have charitable fundraising kick into high gear. No such luck. With Texas inf…
Read MoreThis is one artist-meets-collector story that boasts a very sweet ending. Bryn Larsen, Houston arts advocate, and co-founder of Foto Relevance, recently commissioned Houston-based artist Diane Gelman to transform her butler’s pantry into Patisserie Lar…
Read MoreEven more theater nights in Houston will be dark this fall as the ongoing coronavirus pandemic wreaks havoc with budgets and performance schedules. Houston Ballet joins the chorus of the city’s performing arts groups announcing major cancellation…
Read MoreOne of the most positive art stories arriving in our inbox during COVID-19 looks forward to the fall — a new show that shares with college students and the public alike buoyant sculptures dialoguing with Mother Nature, all spun around the democratic co…
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