New Music Director for Dallas Opera
General Director and CEO Keith Cerny announced Frenchman Emmanuel Villaume as the 56 year old organization’s 3rd Music...
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CLOSING SOON: Theresa Chong: Drawings
Theresa Chong: Drawings, on view at Holly Johnson Gallery since February, will close May 11. Theresa Chong’s delicate...
500x Gallery Member Application Deadline May 1!
Texas oldest artist-run art space is accepting applications for membership through Wednesday, May 1. Artists applying to become...
Robert Ruello: Open Other Side
Visiting Robert Ruello’s third solo exhibition at Inman Gallery, I was reminded of the term “abstract illusionism,” which critic Barbara Rose coined in the late 1960s to describe painters using trompe-l’oeuil devices to create spatial [...]
Review: Il trovatore
There are two sides to every story, but it’s easy to pick a favorite when the fight is between a sniveling Count and a fiery gypsy. Verdi’s ever-popular Il trovatore, Houston Grand Opera’s last production of the season, shows why revenge is something to savor. First performed in Rome in 1853, the music in this opera is structured very differently from Wagner’s [...]
Review: Falstaff
Send two identical love letters to two married women, and even a lovable scoundrel deserves to be dumped in the brook with the dirty laundry. There may be no honest, civil or sober men in Verdi’s Falstaff, but it makes for a hilarious opera, and Opera in the Heights’ production had the audience [...]
Site Specific
Review: The Vessel The Houston Metropolitan Dance Company takes a giant leap forward with The Vessel, its triptych...
Bold Plays
Life Under Mildred’s Umbrella In the early days of the new millennium, while still a creative writing undergrad at University of Houston, Jennifer Decker fielded an unexpected request from one of her professors. This professor, she was told, was writing a play. And she seemed, just maybe [...]
SMU’s Spanish Art Symposium
On May 1-2, 2013, the Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University will bring together an international panel of...
DMA’s Poetic New Work
The Dallas Museum of Art has recently acquired an early work by the French painter Guillaume Guillon Lethière (1760–1832), one of the first major artists of African descent in the history of European art. The painting, Erminia and the Shepherds, was shown at the Salon of 1795 in Paris [...]
Review: Roger Winter
Venerable artist Roger Winter shows new oil portraits and a decade or more of collage and photomontage works at Kirk Hopper Fine Art this month. His ease working in various media and with various levels of abstraction is demonstrated beautifully. The show contains three large new [...]