In “The Shape of Abstraction: Selections from the Ollie Collection,” the Saint Louis Art Museum celebrates a gift of 81 works of art created by black abstractionists.
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The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and music director Stéphane Denève invite audiences to celebrate the holiday season at Powell Hall, 718 N. Grand Blvd., with eight different programs between Thanksgiving weekend and New Year’s Eve.
Four young urban St. Louisans are currently touring with the renowned traveling circus troupe Cirque du Soleil. after learning the trade through Circus Harmony, St. Louis’ only circus school.
Metro Theater Company presents “It’s a Wonderful Life” at the Grandel Theatre in the Grand Center Arts District, Nov. 17 to Dec. 15. The American holiday classic takes to the stage in an adaptation by St. Louis playwright John Wolbers.
The Saint Louis Art Museum’s “Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt” opens a window to the spirit of 16th century Dutch art in an exhibition, arranged in five general categories: people, trade, religious buildings, story-telling and landscape.
The Women’s Hope Chorale opens its 25th season on Sunday, Nov. 10, with a 3 p.m. concert entitled “Illumination,” performed at First Presbyterian Church of Kirkwood, 100 E. Adams Ave.
After months of preparation, the Union Avenue Christian Church (UACC) is exhibiting work from Missouri and Kansas artists who answered the millenia old question, “Who is God?”
Once considered by many a secondary art of simple aesthetics, textiles communicate beauty but also convey strength and innovative concepts. In the Sept. 6 issue of the West End Word, we looked at “Little Cuttings,” the weavings of Fidencio Fifield-Perez at Craft Alliance, one of the the orig…
Union Avenue Opera closes its 25th anniversary season with the St. Louis premiere of Tom Cipullo’s poignant and powerful 2007 opera, “Glory Denied” on Aug. 16 and 17, and Aug. 23 and 24.
The Saint Louis Art Museum exhibition, “Paul Gauguin: The Art of Invention,” is challenging in showing Gauguin from a unique prospective. A map at the entrance pinpoints the artist’s diverse travels and places of residence, forming a timeline of his convoluted life.
Dateline: July, St. Louis — time to celebrate with the big Fair St. Louis Parade and the little open air sculpture park known simply as Citygarden. It’s just two downtown blocks along Market Street, between 8th and 10th, but it packs a wallop.
Union Avenue Opera (UAO) opens its 25th season with Leonard Bernstein’s cherished adaptation of Voltaire’s “Candide.”
Memorial Day weekend offers a delightful chance to share your love of dance with the uninitiated, young or old. Shimmy over to Dance St. Louis’ 12th annual Emerson “Spring to Dance Festival,” a three-evening feast presenting mixed programs that lets audiences try a sampler of dance styles.
The May exhibit in the Gallery at University City Public Library, 6701 Delmar Blvd., will feature watercolor paintings and graphite illustrations by local artist William Curtis.
Moving fast and breaking things sounds contemporary. But, could that be an ancient pattern — an eye-opener for understanding iconic objects as agents of cultural meaning and power in the present day?
Artist Bill Christman, owner of Joe’s Café & Art Gallery in Skinker DeBaliviere and creator of Beatnik Bob’s Museum of Mayhem, Mystery and Mirth at the City Museum, has a vision. On a vacant lot at the corner of Cabanne and Union he hopes to build a sculpture garden. But not just any scu…
Welcome spring by dancing through April with a huge range of dance styles, beginning with two companies this weekend.
A new exhibition at the Saint Louis Art Museum and a new play opening at the Kranzberg Arts Center take us home, a place we can try to recall or choose to forget.
Modern dance, like poetry, communicates feelings and perspectives that go beyond the surface meaning of words or ideas. Two local dance companies hope to transport their audiences to new levels of emotional insight as one explores how dance unites the communities of St. Louis and the other s…
On Saturday, March 9, 45 metro area high school acts competed in the semi-final round of the 9th Annual St. Louis Teen Talent Competition.
The Midnight Company presents the comedy “Popcorn Falls” by James Hindman in its St. Louis premiere March 28-April 13, at the Kranzberg Arts Center’s Black Box Theatre, 501 N. Grand Blvd.
