A+C’s Guide to Holiday Performances
The holidays are no excuse to slow down your art-going, especially since this season seems to have a bounty of new productions, along with the old standards.
Renzo Piano: Better in Texas
I’ve had mixed feelings about the upcoming Nov. 27 opening of the Kimbell Art Museum’s Renzo Piano Pavilion.
Peter Brötzmann and Keiji Haino
A few weeks ago I was talking to a friend of mine who is a gifted performer of so-called free improvisation.
Ed Ruscha’s Archives Get “The Home to End All Homes”
The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin has announced a major coup: It’s acquired the archive of renowned artist Edward Ruscha ...
Review: Fixing King John
Before they head to Lincoln Center in New York in January, the Rude Mechs delivered the drunken punch to the face that is Fixing King John, at the Off Center.
Review: Bull Game
DALLAS—Site-specific theater can seem better, more “alternative,” edgier than sitting in those uncomfortable green seats at the Wyly...
Review: Carnival Round the Central Figure
Sometimes when a piece of theater challenges me, I look for answers in the play’s title. So soon after seeing the Mildred’s Umbrella regional premiere of Carnival Round the Central Figure, I sought meaning from carnivals.
Marina Adams at The Modern – Alt
Adams, who splits her time between New York and Parma, Italy, has spent her career instilling passion in viewers with her colorful, abstract paintings, prints and gouaches, linking contemporary life and universal patterns.
Koloman Moser: Designing Modern Vienna, 1897–1907
One of the highlights of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s fall season is a small but highly pleasurable traveling exhibition devoted to the work of Viennese design-guru, Koloman Moser (1868-1918), who was trained as a painter but worked extensively in graphics, ceramics, textiles, furniture, glassware, jewelry, and metal.
Moving/Still: Recent Photography by Texas Artists
Lots of soul searching has been done around questions of it means to be a photographer – or an artist whose practice includes photography – in an image-saturated era when few people are ever without a camera close at hand.
Lance Letscher: Pregunta Numero Uno
For the first time in its history, Conduit Gallery has devoted its entire space —two large rooms and a small project gallery — to the work of a single artist.
Localized Histories: Works from the Linda Pace Foundation Collection
Gazing at Linda Pace’s Orange Crush is like flying over a monochromatic landscape of childhood – stuffed Elmos and other Sesame Street characters, Halloween pumpkins, teddy bears, plastic toys, soda cans, baby angels, and boxes of Tide.