| *** UPDATED CALENDAR *** Thank you to a couple of eagle-eyed readers who reached out with corrections and additions. During this week’s transition to MUSEDHouston.com, a handful of event details and submissions did not make it into the newsletter as intended, and I have added them below. In addition, the location for Saturday’s Through Her Eyes exhibition has been corrected (The Silos at Sawyer Yards; the event link was correct), and the opening reception for Kinetics of Urban Movement takes place next week on June 18, not this week. To address issues during my website migration, you may have noticed that I now require external links with event submissions so readers can confirm details directly with venues. Schedules, locations, and other event information are always subject to change. Thank you for your patience and for helping keep MUSED Houston accurate, current, and community-driven. |
One of the things I love most about Houston is that no single weekend can contain all of its creative energy.
This week alone, artists are transforming galleries, theaters, libraries, hotels, studios, and even the city’s architecture into places for conversation and discovery. Skateboarding becomes a lens for understanding design. Dance reimagines literary classics. Artists explore questions of race, migration, surveillance, identity, and belonging. Musicians, filmmakers, poets, printmakers, and performers invite us to see familiar stories from new perspectives.
As always, I can’t make it to everything, and neither can you. But here are a few exhibitions, performances, screenings, openings, and gatherings that caught my attention this week.
See you out and about.
Melissa Richardson Banks
Founder, Publisher & Editor, MUSED HOUSTON
www.musedhouston.com
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WEDNESDAY 06.10.2026
6:30–7:30 PM MUSIC An Evening of Music With the Lion of Babylon at Asia Society Texas – free admission with registration
7:15–9 PM FILM SCREENING Stephen King’s Pet Sematary at River Oaks Theatre
THURSDAY 06.11.2026
5–7:30 PM MUSIC Pride Month: Ben Chavez and DJ Rosez at the Moody Center for the Arts – complimentary cocktails and explore exhibitions by Masako Miki and Nick Vaughan & Jake Margolin
5:30–7:30 PM ARTIST RECEPTION Multitudes: Omniah Ebeid at The Cloister Gallery at Christ Church Cathedral
6–8 PM OPENING RECEPTION Harris County Juried Exhibition at Silver Street Studios – curated by Hesse McGraw
6–8 PM ART SHOW For the Love of Art & Pets at Rozi Turnbull Gallery – works by member artists, including Kermit Eisenhut and his amazing pet portraiture
6–9 PM ART EVENT Moviemaker & Musician Mixer at The Gite Gallery
6–10 PM MUSIC Global Sounds: DJ Series with Ice House Radio at Hotel Augustine Lounge – El Turko Sonidero & Santo Sounds (Cumbia/Texas & Mexican Border Funk & Soul)
FRIDAY 06.12.2026
10 AM–2 PM ART EVENT Patrick Renner Open Studio at Mystic Lyon
5:30–8:30 PM OPENING RECEPTION Christian Le: Folding Screens at The Techne Gallery @ TXRX Labs
6–8 PM OPENING RECEPTION Hope is a Discipline at Community Artists’ Collective – works by Li(sa E.) Harris, Lovie Olivia, Josie Pickens, Tay Butler, Mich Stevenson and Zsavon Butler trace the realities of Black life shaped by surveillance, control and abandonment.
6–10 PM ART SHOW Viva La Raza: Diaspora & Identity Beyond Borders at MATCH Gallery – works by David Maldonado, We Stay Lost, Sherilyn Guerrero, No Social, Ibram Nascimento, and others
7–9 PM PUBLIC OPENING The Big Show 2026 at Lawndale Art Center – juried by Valerie Cassel Oliver
7–11 PM TWO-DAY ART EVENT Insomnia presents its seventh Near Dark: A Black Light Art Show at Hardy & Nance Studios – also on Saturday 7–10 PM; guests encouraged to wear neon colors
7:30–9 PM PERFORMANCE ISHIDA Dance Company presents waiting / REX at Asia Society Texas – performances also on Thursday and Saturday at 7:30–9 PM and on Sunday at 3–4:30 PM; tickets $25–$120; use SPECIAL30 for 30% discount on tickets
7:30–9 PM CONCERT In a Parisian Salon: French Music for Cello and Piano featuring Louis-Marie Fardet and Dr. Olena Blagulyak at Our Texas Cultural Center – tickets $30
SATURDAY 06.13.2026
1–4 PM ARTIST DEMONSTRATION Dave Clark: Sardonic Short Stories at Redbud Arts Center – drop in any time for a behind-the-scenes look at the artist’s creative process behind his imaginative works
2–3 PM ARTIST TALK Houston Plays the World at Silver Street Studios | East Gallery | Door #1
2–6 PM OPENING RECEPTION Fresh Arts presents AMARA at 2101 Winter Studios, Ste. C105 – a week-long collaboration between multimedia journalist Briana Blueitt and interdisciplinary artist Corey Sherrard Jr. leading up to Make Music Day.
3–5 PM OPENING RECEPTION PrintHouston presents Pulled X: 2 at Houston Public Library, Central Library, 1st Floor Lobby – eight papermakers paired with 15 printmakers
5–7 PM OPENING RECEPTION Through Her Eyes at The Silos at Sawyer Yards (Bay 200 Gallery) – curated by Heidi Vaughan
5–7 PM ARTIST RECEPTION Convergence at Winter Street Studios
6–8 PM OPENING RECEPTION David Hardaker: Fifteen by Four and Peter Healy: Modal at Reeves Art & Design – special performance by Axiom String Quartet at 6 PM
7–9 PM RECEPTION Velour: Natalia Filippova at Our Texas Cultural Center
7–9 PM BOOK LAUNCH & READING Cat Love: Tomás Q Morín at Basket Books & Art
7–9 PM OPENING RECEPTION A Beautiful Game: Every Match Leaves a Mark at Mitochondria Gallery
7–9 PM FILM SCREENING Jazz on Film: Short Documentaries at MFAH Brown Auditorium Theater – rarely seen short documentaries from the early 1970s curated by Peter Lucas
SUNDAY 06.14.2026
2–6 PM PERFORMANCE Stages Houston presents Sin Muros: A Latinx Theater Experience at The Gordy – A Plausible History of Xicotencatl II, a poetry reading by Tintero Projects at 2 PM followed by Reposo & Salsa Congress at 4:30–6 PM: don’t miss other theatrical works on June 11–13.
6–8 PM CONCERT Aurora presents Music, She Wrote at Archway Gallery – a flute, cello, and harp trio performs works by Florence Price, Stella Sung, Henriette Renié, and other women composers
| NOTE: Event details may change without notice. Confirm with the venue or event organizer before attending. Missed an opening? Visit exhibits during public hours. |