Cuellar for (Arts District) Mayor
Catherine Cuellar is a familiar name to many in Dallas. Cuellar began her career as a freelance pop...
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State of Summer Arts
Size Matters Lifelike invites a close examination of artworks based on commonplace objects and situations, which are startlingly realistic, but often made of unusual materials in unexpected sizes. Organized by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, this international, multigenerational group exhibition features 75 works from the [...]
Faking It: Manipulated Photography before Photoshop
In photography circles, the decades-long debate continues between darkroom and digital. Purists argue that the richness, warmth and depth of a print brought to life through the marriage of negatives, positives, paper and chemicals still cannot be achieved by even the most drool-worthy of high-tech, archival-quality inkjet [...]
Place Play
Houston Set Designers Conjure Fantastic Worlds In 2008, Jodi Bobrovsky bought a taxidermied dog and began Googling images...
artiFACTS: Summer 2013
Josef Helfenstein, director of the Menil Collection, announced the appointment of Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates (MVVA) to enhance and expand the landscape design of the institution’s 30-acre campus in the heart of Houston. The appointment signals the beginning of implementation of the Menil’s master plan for its urban [...]
Music of the Heart
Some critics have labeled Songs for a New World as an abstract musical, given the fact the show by Tony Award winning composer and lyricist Jason Robert Brown tells its collection of stories in sing-scenes with no over-arching plot and no consistent characters throughout the evening [...]
“Traces” Soars on Stage
You know what I like best about live theater? No CGI. The magic is real, as it...
Direct from London
The Queen is coming to Texas. Helen Mirren reprises her Academy Award-winning role as Queen Elizabeth II...
Review: David Aylsworth
David Aylsworth: Five, nurse Six, Seven, Eight David Aylsworth had me at the title of his show, “Five,...
Review: Steve McCurry
Steve McCurry: The Unguarded Moment One look at his iconic portrait of a 13-year old Afghan girl and...
Bleeding Love
They say love hurts. In playwright Rajiv Joseph’s love story, search Gruesome Playground Injuries, online love indeed leaves...
Mongoose Versus Cobra Concludes Inaugural Reading Series
As our loyal readers know, each month we have a little happy hour party to present the new...