Chris Becker

Writer and Editor

United States

Over 20 years of experience as a journalist, content writer, copyeditor, and proofreader.

I currently write about music and visual art for Glasstire; Arts & Culture, TX; Houstonia magazine; and my Substack, Night and Day.

I have written about music, art, and literature for Acoustic Guitar magazine, Houston Press, CultureMap Houston, Houston CityBook, AllAboutJazz, The Jazz in M.E.E., and Los Angeles Review of Books, and contributed several news stories to the University of Houston website.

Portfolio
Houstonia Magazine
Does Houston Have a Definitive 'Sound'?

With DJ Screw, Lightnin' Hopkins, and Oceans of Slumber all from Houston, plus big zydeco and Tejano scenes, no one genre can truly define the city.

UH Cullen College of Engineering
06/09/2023
Liao, CougAR Lab exploring the good, the bad, the inevitable of AI

So many things we interact with daily are powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI), but recent developments in general AI - where AI learns and then makes decisions on its own - have prompted a very heated public debate regarding its benefits and dangers to society.

Arts and Culture Texas magazine
04/02/2025
Style & Luminosity: Tamara de Lempicka at the MFAH

Climb the stairs to the second level of the Law Building at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and you encounter two silent, black-and-white films, projected on the wall near the entrance to Tamara de Lempicka, the first major museum retrospective of the Art Deco pioneer and one of the 20th century's most underappreciated artists.

Arts and Culture Texas magazine
02/10/2025
Speaking of Beauty: Six Centuries of Painting from Museo de Arte de Ponce at the Meadows

The Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, whose extensive collection of Spanish art has earned it the nickname "Prado on the Prairie," is the first stop for The Sense of Beauty: Six Centuries of Painting from Museo de Arte de Ponce, an exhibition of over sixty European, American, and Puerto Rican masterworks dating from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first.