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Earlier this month, the Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston opened the year with its Winter Exhibition, highlighting three different artists, each offering a window into their personal worldviews. Two of the exhibits will be on view to the public from now until mid-March. One of them, "The Secrecy of Water" by Leslie Martinez , is a collection of abstract paintings highlighted by colorful ridges of texture. According to Martinez, the work is their attempt to capture the ecological makeup of the southern Texas border. Current-day social justice issues like climate change, extreme drought, and the ecological landscape of Martinez's hometown of McAllen in the Rio Grande Valley provide a peek into their past. "The crunchy fabric, the embeddedness is a lot of what you see coming out of the ground, sort of like clothing or rejected constructed materials or anything sort of submerged with dirt over it and dirts under it," Martinez says. "It's mysterious and strange. … [Read more...] about Ridges, ropes and robots ring in the new year at Houston’s Blaffer Museum

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 6 “Rebecca Morris: The Ache of Bright” will be on exhibit at the Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston starting Friday, Jan. 11. Rebecca Morris is a Los Angeles based abstract painter. This is her first solo U.S. museum show since 2005, and her first show in Texas. “I have always been an artist,” Morris said. “I went through school pretty quickly in the sense that I had my masters at age 25. I knew what I wanted to do.” She noted that she had always been a painter, but decided to work in abstract during graduate school. “Choosing painting felt fluid, it didn’t even feel like a decision … but I had been feeling that working representationally was not for me. It took graduate school to learn and think in the way that felt like it could be mine,” Morris said. The show will feature 10 of Morris’ large-scale paintings, five of them recently completed in … [Read more...] about University of Houston’s Blaffer Art Museum to exhibit Rebecca Morris paintings

0 This post was contributed by a community member. The views expressed here are the author's own. Kids & Family VanGo, a ride service for Irving kids and teens, is helping local families shuttle their children safely to and from school and activities. Wendy Ann Mitchell , Community Contributor Posted | Updated Reply IRVING, TX—You have an important presentation at work, and your husband is out of town on a business trip so he can't pick up your two as planned. You're stressed and scrambling to get a ride to gymnastics for one child and across town to get your other children to their tutoring session and piano lesson. Can you relate? Enter VanGo , a new ride service just for kids and teens. Similar to Uber and Lyft, VanGo allows customers to schedule daily rides, however VanGo offers clients the ability to schedule rides for their child up to one month in advance, giving busy parents peace of mind. Parents are assured … [Read more...] about Irving Moms’ Schedules Get Less Busy with Help from VanGo

Click here to read the full article. After more than 20 years at the company, Sas Metcalfe , Kobalt ‘s first employee and chief creative officer, will be exiting her post effective Feb. 28. “Her creative taste is second to none, from her first signing of Badly Drawn Boy to Andrew Watt. She has built a great spirit in her team because she is happy to share success,” commented Willard Ahdritz, founder and chairman of Kobalt, who hired Metcalfe in 2001. “All our fun moments together are what I will miss the most. I wish her all the best in her next endeavor.” More from Variety Music Industry Moves: Grace Potter Signs With Ten Atoms Management; Premier Music Group Closes Second Funding Round Music Industry Moves: APG Names Brian Nolan President of Global Marketing and Synch; NIVA Taps Stephen Parker as Executive Director Music Industry Moves: Black Music Action Coalition Awards Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis Music Makers Grant; Chris Schuler Joins Capitol Nashville … [Read more...] about Music Industry Moves: Sas Metcalfe Plots Exit as Chief Creative Officer of Kobalt Music

“The older I become, the closer I feel to Russia,” the Siberian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky said recently over tea at a Manhattan hotel. And he seemed surprised to hear himself say it. “If you had talked to me 10 or 15 years ago, I would have said I do not really care about this,” Mr. Hvorostovsky, 45, said. “To become more internationalized was one of my biggest tasks.” What that meant in particular was making his mark in Mozart opera and the Italian repertory, especially Verdi. And his burnished voice, uncanny breath control and Italianate feeling for lyrical lines, as well as his charisma and dashing physique, make it easy to understand why he has been approached by companies worldwide to perform core Verdi baritone roles that are perpetually hard to cast. A defining moment for Mr. Hvorostovsky at the Metropolitan Opera was his elegantly impassioned Germont in “La Traviata,” which opened the season in 2003, with Renée Fleming singing her first Violetta at the house. In … [Read more...] about The Power of a Russian Birthright

FRIDAY COLLEGE BASKETBALL Men 4p Saint Louis at Davidson ESPN2 4p Iona at Siena ESPNU 6p Oakland at Youngstown State ESPN2 6p Buffalo at Kent State ESPNU 7p Air Force at New Mexico CBSSN Women 6p UCLA at Colorado P12Net 7p Oregon at Cal 8p Oregon State at Stanford P12Net EXTREME SPORTS 6:30p X Games ESPN FIGURE SKATING 2p U.S. Championships, at SAP Center USA 8p U.S. Championships, at SAP Center, delayed Channel 11 Channel 3 Channel 8 GOLF Noon PGA: Farmers Insurance Open GOLF 2p PGA: Farmers Insurance Open Channel 5 Channel 13 Channel 46 11p DP World: Dubai Desert Classic GOLF 3a Sat. DP World: Dubai Desert Classic GOLF NBA 4:30p Memphis at Minnesota NBA TV 7p Toronto at Warriors NBCSBA (95.7) 7p G League: Santa Cruz at South Bay NBCS+ … [Read more...] about Bay Area sports calendar, Jan. 27-29