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event - 4 Shows
presenter - Lawndale Art Center
opens - May. 9, 6:00pm
info - Drawing in Space Curated by J Hill. Featuring work by John Adelman, Daniel Adame, Annette Lawrence, The Art Guys & Cory Wagner.
Joshua Smith's The Suburbs of the Emerald City consists of handmade geodes with Monopoly houses in the formation of housing developments inside each.
what we want is too late, features residents for the second year of the Lawndale Artist Studio Program, interdisciplinary artist Danny Kerschen, performance/video artist Lynne McCabe, and installation artist Teresa O'Connor.
3 Months and 90 Days, featuring work by artist Catherine Colangelo.
event - Kara Hearn: A Problem of Courage and Stephen Vitiello: Four Color Sound
presenter - DiverseWorks Art Space
opens - May. 9, 6:00pm
info - A Problem of Courage is an installation of video and other works by Kara Hearn that takes a look at the way travesties large and small, imagined and real, mediated and lived hang about.
Sound pioneer Stephen Vitiello is known for creating powerful, beautiful and immersive installations that transform incidental atmospheric noises in to mesmerizing soundscapes.
Vitiello's latest project, Four Color Sound, combines modulated light and audio tracks that morph and shift in subtle ways, transforming the gallery space into a virtual meditation chamber.
1117 East Freeway
Houston, TX 77002
713.335.3445
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event - It Took the Night to Believe: New Work by Patrick Phipps
presenter - Domy Books
opens - May. 9, 7:00pm
info - An avowed painter/draughtsman, Patrick Phipps presents a series of sculptures where the challenge was to avoid direct figurative representation, in opposition to his normal mode of working.
These intuitive sculptures are about form, color and texture. For some of the sculptures, representation, or the semblance of representation may be unavoidable.
1709 Westheimer
Houston, TX 77098
713-523-DOMY
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event - 2008 Houston Area Exhibition
presenter - Blaffer Gallery
opens - May. 9, 7:00pm
info - The Houston Area Exhibition has been a significant component of Blaffer Gallery’s program since 1974. This year's installment will be selected by Blaffer Curator Claudia Schmuckli through careful portfolio review and a series of on-site studio visits.
The University of Houston
Houston, TX 77004
713.743.9530
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event - Houston Palestine Film Festival 2008
presenter - Voices Breaking Boundaries
location name - Various
opens - May. 9, 7:00pm
info - The second annual Houston Palestine Film Festival brings an honest and independent view of Palestine and its diaspora’s society, culture, and political travails through the art of film.
This group of groundbreaking cinematic texts rise above the degrading stereotypes or reductively politicized depictions that are so familiar to Houstonians.
A major goal of the Festival is to directly expose our local community to the perspective of artists as a first step toward circumventing the many government and media filters that pollute our understanding of Palestine and the wider region.
May 9-11 and May 16-18
7:00 pm every night
event - Kids On Stage: The Actor's Nightmare/The Fifteen-Minute Hamlet
presenter - Main Street Theater
opens - May. 9, 7:30pm
info - Houston-area children who are Kids On Stage students at Main Street Theater bring The Actor's Nightmare by Christopher Durang and The Fifteen-Minute Hamlet by Tom Stoppard to life at Main Street Theater - Chelsea Market.
Friday & Saturday at 7:30pm, Sunday at 3:30pm
4617 Montrose Blvd.
Houston, TX 77006
713-524-6706
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event - Rumors
presenter - Upstage Theatre
location name - Lambert Hall
opens - May. 9, 8:00pm
info - Several affluent couples arrive at a party in an highly upper-class house in New York. When they get there, they discover that there are no servants, the hostess is gone, and the host has shot himself through the earlobe.
1703 Heights Blvd.
Houston, TX 77008
713-838-7191
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event - Madame Butterfly
presenter - Houston Ballet
location name - Miller Outdoor Theatre
opens - May. 9, 8:00pm
info - The moving tale of a beautiful geisha's love and loss has never been told more eloquently than in Stanton Welch's exquisite, two-act rendition of Madame Butterfly.
Through 5/11; FREE
100 Concert Drive
Houston, TX 77030
(281) FREE-FUN
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event - The Old, Weird America
presenter - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
opens - May. 9, 9:00pm
info - The Old, Weird America, the first museum exhibition to explore the widespread resurgence of folk imagery and mythic history in recent art from the United States.
Organized by Contemporary Arts Museum Houston senior curator Toby Kamps, the exhibition illustrates the relevance and appeal of folklore to contemporary artists, as well as the genre’s power to illuminate ingrained cultural forces and overlooked
5216 Montrose
Houston, TX 77006
(713) 284-8250
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event - Farouk Hosny: The Energy of Abstraction
presenter - Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
opens - May. 10, 10:00am
info - Hosny (born 1942), who has served as Egypt´s minister of culture for more than 20 years, reveal his country´s landscape through abstract paintings.
As Philippe de Montebello, director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, observes, Hosny´s works "reflect the internationalization of modernist trends, but his pictures are always infused with his innate connections with the light and color of his native land."
Through September 1.
1001 Bissonnet Street
Houston, TX 77005
713-639-7300
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event - Art Car Parade
presenter - Orange Show Center for Visionary Art
location name - Allen Parkway
opens - May. 10, 1:00pm
info - The world’s oldest and largest Art Car Parade & Houston’s signature cultural event!
event - Joseph Haydn's Creation
presenter - Houston Masterworks Chorus
location name - Grace Presbyterian Church
opens - May. 10, 7:30pm
info - Houston Masterworks Chorus and Tallowood Baptist Church proudly present Joseph Haydn’s greatest masterpiece, The Creation.
A 250 voice chorus and outstanding vocal soloists will be joined by a full orchestra for what promises to be a spectacular evening.
10221 Ella Lee Lane
Houston, TX 77042
(713) 529-8900
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event - One Shot
presenter - Society for the Performing Arts
location name - Wortham Theater Center - Cullen Theater
opens - May. 10, 8:00pm
info - Society for the Performing Arts presents One Shot, performed by Evidence, A Dance Company (Ronald K. Brown, Artistic Director).
Internationally heralded choreographer Ronald K. Brown continues to blaze the trail in creating significant works celebrating the universal importance of the African-American experience to world culture.
Inspired by the life and work of African-American photographer Charles "Teenie" Harris, nicknamed "One Shot," Brown's latest, dazzling work offers a stirring meditation on the idea of having one shot in life.
501 Texas Avenue
Houston, TX 77002
713 227 4-SPA
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event - Dueling Divas
presenter - Ars Lyrica
location name - Hobby Center - Zilkha Hall
opens - May. 11, 5:00pm
info - The program, our largest of the season, features two major works from the Baroque era premised on the idea of a singing contest, plus an instrumental concerto likewise conceived as a competition between multiple soloists.
G. F. Handel’s "Il duello amoroso" ("The amorous duel") involves two lovers each of whom claims to be superior at both love and song, while J. S. Bach’s "Dispute between Phoebus and Pan" calls for six mythological characters, who engage in a battle of wits over the best style of music.
event - Young Writers Reading Series
presenter - Writers in the Schools
location name - Menil Collection
opens - May. 12, 7:00pm
info - Young writers will take the stage to read poems, stories, and essays they have written with the guidance of a WITS professional writer.
The children in the Young Writers Reading Series are selected in a juried competition, and they represent schools and community centers from across the city.
1515 Sul Ross
Houston, TX 77006
713-523-3877
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event - Monday Movie Nights: The Public Enemy
presenter - Domy Books
opens - May. 12, 8:30pm
info - You could say that ‘The Public Enemy’ is one of the greatest crime films of American cinema.
Yeah… let's say that.
You could go as far and say It's the first of it's kind, reflecting on the socioeconomic issues of the time, and the ultimate critique of the prohibition era of the 1920's; The era that truly gave birth to the organized American gangster.
Undeniably, simply, A classic in every sense.
1709 Westheimer
Houston, TX 77098
713-523-DOMY
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event - Loaded Chamber
presenter - Foundation for Modern Music
location name - Rice University - Duncan Hall /McMurtry Auditorium
opens - May. 13, 7:30pm
info - Tuesday evening, May 13, Houston's finest and fiercest instrumentalists descend on the Shepherd School at Rice University to present a percussion-heavy, genre-bending blast of unforgettable chamber music by America's most influential composers, including David Lang, Steve Reich, and Lou Harrison.
"It's going to be a borderline freak show," says FMM Artistic Director Adam Tendler, 26, who will also perform as pianist on the concert. "It takes a really committed, but slightly obsessive and masochistic group of musicians to pull off a program of this caliber."
Pun slightly intended.
$20 adults
$15 senior
$1 students
6100 S. Main St.
Houston, TX 77005
713-529-3928
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