Another week, another set of offerings from the Houston arts community. But again, there’s an opportunity to get out of the house responsibly to enjoy a little socially distanced cinema or, if you’d rather, plenty to enjoy from the comforts of your own living room. Keep reading for this week’s best virtual bets.
ROCO concludes their Connections series tonight, March 11, at 7 p.m. with a program titled
Journey to America. The livestreamed concert, presented in partnership with Holocaust Museum Houston, will feature the world premiere of a quintet by Afghan composer Milad Yousufi co-commissioned with Winsor Music Consortium. Yousufi describes the piece,
Arts Picks: Sin Muros theater fest, ‘The Road So Far’ are recommended By Amber Elliott and Andrew Dansby, Staff Writers
1. ‘The Road So Far’
After a pandemic-prompted interruption the Station Museum of Contemporary Art has reopened “The Road So Far,” an exhibition featuring works by beloved Houston artist Jesse Lott and Louisiana artist Travis Whitfield. Whitfield’s “Shotgun House” is an eye-catcher: a full-size domicile with photos, artifacts and other pieces assembled from northern Louisiana. Lott is represented by a variety of pieces including sculpture created from found objects in Fifth Ward and new drawings.
When: 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Wednesdays through Sundays
Pioneer Tower (Fort Worth)
From the Fort Worth Public Art Commission:
“The premiere of the works by Refik Anadol and Quayola will be the centerpiece for a free community event currently scheduled for the last weekend in February 2021.
“The new video artwork produced for the Fort Worth Pioneer Tower commission will be a continuation of Quayola’s ongoing research on the tradition of landscape painting, and more broadly a reflection on man’s tradition of representing nature. This new artwork will be divided into three main chapters, Tree Laser Scanning, Computational Landscape Paintings, and Computational Animal Paintings.
“Honoring the cultural significance and legacy of Fort Worth, Anadol’s piece aims to celebrate the people, places, histories, and dreams of the city that have been woven together over the years.
Featured in kurimanzutto’s ‘TITAN’ Wants You to Look at Art in Plain Sight
Exhibited in defunct phone booths along 6th Avenue, artists including Renée Green, Glenn Ligon, Patti Smith, and Rirkrit Tiravanija ask us to engage with the world around
With its political turmoil and pandemic lockdowns, 2020 has been a banner year for text-based works and street art, to which a partially depopulated and boarded-up Manhattan has provided a stark backdrop. Organized by Damián Ortega and Bree Zucker, kurimanzutto’s ‘TITAN’ – an outdoor exhibition staged in phone booths on Sixth Avenue that are due to be replaced by wi-fi kiosks next year – is well suited to a moment when guards seem to outnumber visitors at the Museum of Modern Art half a block away.