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We Are All Folk: The Art of Everyday (Folk) Life

Nancy Zastudil·November 29, 2015

This winter season at MATCH, the Houston Art Alliance’s Folklife + Traditional Arts Program presents Winter Celebrations, a series of installations, live performances and interactive events that promote Houston’s lively cultural traditions.

Houston

VIDEO: Houston Ballet Bids Farewell To Ben Stevenson’s The Nutcracker

Nancy Wozny·November 29, 2015

Ever since our “Team Snow or Team Sugar” video, Joel Luks and I have been looking for a reason to do another Houston Ballet video.

Dance

First-Hand: Shakespeare in Print and Performance at the Harry Ransom Center

Holly Walrath·November 29, 2015

In 1616, William Shakespeare was buried at Holy Trinity church, Stratford-Upon-Avon. A prayer was inscribed on his grave, asking that his bones never be removed from the church and cursing any who might attempt to do so.

Austin Books Editor's Picks Theater

Where You End and I Begin

john zotos·November 25, 2015

Frances Bagley and Ryan Burghard at Cydonia

Visual Art

Lorem Ipsum at SMU ’s Pollock Gallery

Jennifer Smart·November 25, 2015

The brainchild of Pollock Curatorial Fellow Danielle Avram and co-curated by UTA’s Benjamin Lima and New Orleans’ curatorial collective Pelican Bomb, Lorem Ipsum portends to draw back the curtain, in a sense, on the role of the curator by challenging the primacy and permanency of the art exhibition.

Dallas/Ft Worth Reviews Visual Art

The Timelessness of Political Art

casey gregory·November 20, 2015

Ed Blackburn at Rudolph Blume Artscan Gallery

Features Houston Reviews Visual Art

Performania: Drama with or without a Theater

Nancy Wozny·November 20, 2015

I'm always looking for drama, just not necessarily in a theater. It's the burden of a performaniac.

Performania

The Rat King has Spoken: Holiday Foes Pick Faves

Tarra Gaines·November 20, 2015

I was blindfolded, thrown into a car and driven for hours before we reached their secret lair, which I now believe might be a sub, sub basement floor underneath Houston Galleria Macy’s or inside a volcano, whichever.

Dance Theater