Well I’ll be damned. It's actually blustery. The brisk breeze that causes you to rub your arms for some added warmth isn’t just from the blast freezer at the restaurant you moonlight at. What do you know? Those layers actually work. So it's time to blow off all the dead bugs from that rubbermade container and pull out your polyester and thick knit sweater because you just might need those suckers for a few more weeks! We are past the art fairs and almost past the gala season. Not to worry you have one more you can get your party fix with.
With the better weather and the more regulated mindset it's a bit easier to leave the house after a long day. There is something about being slow roasted in your own skin and losing 5lbs of water weight in one day that kills all of your end of the day ambitions. There are some outstanding exhibitions up currently and some wonderful new openings on the horizon. Button up your old man cardigan or granny shawl and let's get busy with this week's Hidden Agenda.
Tuesday, Nov 10th
Menil Society Conservator’s Choice: Mark Rothko’s The Green Stripe | 6PM - 7:30PM
The Menil Collection | 1533 Sul Ross
Let's go behind the scenes of a years-long restoration of Mark Rothko’s The Green Stripe. A deep dive into the artist and the conservation treatment from Michelle White, Senior Curator, and Sara Kornhauser Nugent, Assistant Paintings Conservator. You have to RSVP but it's worth going to.
Wednesday, Nov 11th
Take the day off and catch up on the Great British Bake Off!
Thursday, Nov 12th
Radiant Geometries: A Conversation | 6PM - 8PM
Moody Center For the Arts | Rice University
Artists-in-Dialogue: Eamon Ore-Giron, Lori Boornazian Diel, Steven Gullberg bring together a solid discourse in partnership with the exhibition Vectors of Knowledge from the Indigenous America. The exhibition features national and international artists, including Nanibah Chacon, Melissa Cody, Jordan Ann Craig, Patricia Domínguez, Sara Flores, Natalia Montoya Lecaros, Patrick Martinez, Cisco Merel, Caroline Monnet, and Eamon Ore-Giron, among others. "Through a framing of North, Central, and South America as interconnected regions, Radiant Geometries: Vectors of Knowledge from the Indigenous Americas brings together contemporary Indigenous and Latin American artists whose practices illuminate knowledge as a living technology, through which the mathematical, metaphysical, and artistic realms converge”. If you haven’t seen it yet stop by for the conversation and stroll through the show beforehand.
Friday, Nov 13th
Texas Tributaries | 6pm - 8PM
Monterosso Gallery | 3911
A Texas based juried exhibition from ClayHouston exploring contemporary ceramics. Part juried exhibition, part award process, and part community minded exhibition. Whatever the dial falls on this looks interesting and you should check it out if you are able.
Texpressionism: The Premiere | 7:30PM
Musikhalle | 1703 Heights Blvd
Debussy, Ravel, and T-Bone Walker walk into a concert. We’re interested already. Houston Music Festival pairs Elijah Fox with string quartet, bass, and piano for a new suite arranged by composer Ben Morris, weaving Fox’s own music—including his viral composition Wyoming—through Impressionist favorites and the blues classic Stormy Monday. Expect lush strings, hypnotic grooves, and some room for Fox to wander. Two nights to catch this one, so plan your gallery hopping accordingly. Tickets here.
Saturday, Nov 14th
Galveston, Texas: Performance | 2pm - 3pm
The Contemporary Art Museum Houston | 5216 Montrose Blvd.
Galveston Texas in Houston! Join the CAMH for a performance by Houston-based artists Eli Greene and Devin T. Mays in coordination with Divination: Beverly Buchanan & Dionne Lee.
A city on the edge of the Gulf. A place shaped by water, memory and history. A site of arrival and departure, of leisure and labor, of catastrophe and reinvention. Galveston, Texas unfolds between performance and pedagogy. It's a big Galveston Day today!
Isela Aguirre \ Jessica Simorte and Max Manning | 6PM - 9PM
Galveston Art Center | 2127 Strand
Got some time for a Galveston trip. Of course you do! Isela Aguirre’s work maps her daily observations as a way to find meaning in the world around her. Combining photography and textiles, Isela describes her work as “finding wonder in the quiet resilience and courage of small things.” Simorte and Manning team up with a series of abstract paintings with an outstanding titled show, Spinning Lobsters. If this title does not reflect an activity or performance of just this I will be upset. However, Dennis Nance and his team consistently produce and curate the best shows and you should free up your Saturday to visit.
Sunday, Nov 15th
Georgia O’Keeffe: The Brightness of Light | 1:30 PM
River Oaks Theatre | 2009 W Gray
We are promoting River Oaks AND they have an artist’s documentary. This looks like the perfect way to spend your lazy Sunday Afternoon. GEORGIA O'KEEFFE: THE BRIGHTNESS OF LIGHT explores the life and art of the most important woman artist of the 20th century. O'Keeffe became famous for her paintings of flowers and bones and emerged as an iconic role model for women. Can't make the Sunday show? It's ok, it's playing again next Thursday.
