Eyes on Texas Performing Arts
IMAGE ABOVE: Houston Grand Opera performs Aida through November 9. Photo by Lynn Lane. Austin Tapestry Dance Company...
Eyes on Texas Visual Arts
Austin personal, political, mysterious This group show features presumably personal, political, and mysterious works by Louise Bourgeois, Ben...
Profiles in Leadership: Selven O’Keef Jarmon
Profiles in Leadership are conversations about cultural influence, aesthetic visions and seizing opportunities. Recently, Sixto Wagan, director of the Center for Arts Leadership at the University of Houston, visited with Selven O’Keef Jarmon, a Houston-based fashion designer/visual artist.
Performania
I've written more Nutcracker stories than should be allowed. Dance writers should have a quota. For a while, disaster stories were all the rage. Tales of a remote control rat going rogue on stage can seriously stir up holiday bluster.
San Antonio’s Grassroots Spread
As Blue Star Gentrifies, viagra Artistic Energy Branches Out Across Town IMAGE ABOVE: Angel Rodriguez-Diaz, American, born 1955,...
Insider Notes
As Dallas Contemporary turns 35, Charissa Terranova surveys the venerable yet agile art space's history, while Dan R. Goddard looks at how San Antonio's art scene is spreading beyond the gentrifying Blue Star Arts Complex.
Beyond Books
When the first Houston Jewish Book Fair was presented to the public four decades ago, it may have been difficult to imagine how large this event would eventually become.
Dark Comedies & Deranged Elves
How many dance devotées first became entranced with ballet as children, watching a swirl of human snowflakes float across the stage? How many regional theater season subscription holders had their first taste of an onstage happy ending when a gleeful Ebenezer Scrooge saves the Cratchit family through the magic of a giant turkey for Tiny Tim?
Looking Back: Under Acceleration
According to the proverbial mission statement, the function of a given city’s contemporary art space is to exhibit the work of young, emerging artists from the area, and to proffer artistic experimentation therein. Let us consider this to be the face of things.
Collaborating in Time
By now, downtown denizens may have noticed that the Clock Tower at Market Square looks and sounds completely different. Jo Ann Fleischhauer has transformed the historic landmark, known as the Louis and Annie Friedman Clock Tower
Invariant Interval
Invariant Interval is a mesmerizing new installation at UT’s Visual Arts Center (VAC) that challenges viewers to observe three-dimensional art in a relativistic context that includes the invisible but ever-present dimension of time.
Making the Leap: Rednerrus Feil offers first Full-length Into-Me-See
Typically people keep their most intimate thoughts to themselves. Pubescent girls with sneaky younger brothers or the particularly paranoid may even keep theirs under lock and key. Artists like Amy Llanes, however, process intimate thoughts through choreography and then share them publicly on stage.