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News: TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art

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Cindy and Howard Rachofsky, hosts for the annual TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art, have announced the Event Chair and the Honored Artist for the 14th annual event scheduled for October 20, 2012. Since its inception, TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art has raised more than $34 million [...]
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ARTifacts: February 2012

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Beginning February 5, a set of four recently restored 15th-century tapestries, known as the pastrana tapestries, will be on view at the Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University. Created in the Tournai Workshops in Belgium in the late 1400s, the masterfully woven and [...]
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Review: La Traviata

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It’s rarely a good sign when your ghost appears before your death. So it goes for opera’s most beloved courtesan, Violetta Valery, the heroine/fallen woman of Verdi’s “La Traviata,” brilliantly re-imagined by [...]
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Review: A Crack in Everything

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The intensity of the dancing proved the most striking aspect of Zoe|Juniper’s “A Crack in Everything,” and that’s saying a lot, as the installation, spanning photography and video designed by Juniper Shuey, [...]
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Review: Voyage

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If almost anyone — even a good friend — came up and asked you to sit still while they read aloud nine hours worth of imagined conversations between 19th century Russian intellectuals, nobody would [...]
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Review: RachFest 3 – Rach 2

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It is a rare occasion when the Houston Symphony invites a single artist to perform in residence for three consecutive classical series concerts. The recent festival of music by Sergei Rachmaninoff, dubbed “RachFest,” [...]
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Review: McArthur Binion

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“Perspectives 177: McArthur Binion” is one of two recent exhibitions to open at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston. Organized by senior curator Valerie Cassel Olivier “McArthur Binion” features 12 [...]
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Review: The Toxic Avenger

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Musical theater has, as of late, taken some strange turns. Movies beget musicals that beget musical movies, but none, thus far, have been as surprising as “The Toxic Avenger,” based on the cult classic film [...]
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