Jonah Bokaer Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival August 5, 2012 If I had to label the genre of Jonah Bokaer’s new work, Curtain, premiered at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, I would say it’s a thriller, more in genre of Inception than any garden [...]
A Visit with Paul Taylor dance Michael Apuzzo I first met Michael Apuzzo while working on a Dance Magazine story. Now in his fifth season at Paul Taylor Dance Company, Apuzzo has written a book, Flying Through Yellow to tell his [...]
A+C has a pretty eclectic and busy bunch of writers. They’re musicians and curators, architects and dancers, and even writers for other publications. We follow each of these fancy folks in their other endeavors and we think [...]
MFAH’s Sweeping American Made Spans Centuries, Media and Styles Viewing American art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, as at most institutions, has long been a piecemeal, largely compartmentalized experience. For paintings and sculpture, you visit Beck Building galleries that are currently mostly occupied by the traveling exhibition [...]
Beasts of the Southern Wild is no doubt in my top-10 list for best films of 2012. I know most of you haven't heard of this film, but rest assured, once you see [...]
Spindles and webs of organic shapes span the hallway like an alien garland, interlinking peculiar bulbous nodes. Hard ceramic cages squinch and shape the interlinked tumorous forms. The bone-like lattices that festoon the hallways of the Artists Gallery at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft comprise Systemic Expansion, the latest [...]
at Sicardi Gallery Fire, water, dust, and light. Though modern science has moved well past the classical theory of elements, there remains some category of pure substance [...]
Sandra Bernhard is the engine behind such ground-breaking HGOco/Houston Grand Opera programs such as Song of Houston and Home and Place. She also is the lead on numerous other projects that bring HGO into Houston’s multi-cultural communities in a way that sets the standard for [...]