Michael Blair & Angel Fernandez: New Work
Over the years a few things happen when you write about local art— the most basic being that you become familiar with local work (and occasionally with the artists who make it).
Summer Rites at Freneticore
In what other season would you see sparkling fringe, bright pink hoop skirts, and male feet and svelte legs in point shoes skimming across the floor?
Art Show/Model Show
Perhaps it’s the white-walled museum, cult of authorship, or the sublime reverence that we ascribe to art that...
WOLS: Retrospective
The Berlin-born Parisian artist Wols worked during a war-torn era when the art world’s center was shifting to...
The Sweetest Taboo: Colette Copeland, Gabriel Martinez, Angela Fraleigh, Libby Rowe
The last time anyone thought about masculine stereotypes in the art world was when, inspired by the obtuse adjacencies of Time-Life magazine cut-outs on the floor, Richard Prince re-photographed pictures of male models in the late 1970s.
México Inside Out: Themes in Art Since 1990
México Inside Out: Themes in Art Since 1990 is a tour de force of ambiguity. As a show with work by 23 artists connected to Mexico it runs the risk of being a politically-correct art-ghetto based on geographical stereotypes.
TX 13 Group Survey Exhibition
With 13 curators and about 70 artists, the TX 13 Group Survey Exhibition is a cacophony of sounds, images and styles that tries for the first time to jam all the artists selected in a statewide open call for the Texas Biennial into a single space — the Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum.
Review: Book of Mormon
The Book of Mormon is the most over-hyped Broadway musical of the last decade. But no doubt you’ll still be laughing about it to your friends long after the touring musical leaves Texas.
The Real Thing Main Street Theater
“Loving and being loved is unliterary,” says Annie in Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing, on stage right now at Main Street Theater
Matthew Keenan on Hamlet at Classical Theatre Company
Actor Matthew Keenan is deep in rehearsals for Classical Theatre Company’s Hamlet, on Sept. 11-29 at Barnevelder.
Pretend Prison
When Jenji Kohan's Orange is the New Black popped up on my Netflix menu, it just screamed A + N. Based on Piper Kerman's best selling book of the same name, the show chronicles the life of Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling), while she completes a 14-month prison sentence for a decade old crime.
A Decade of Dance
With the 2013-14 season, Stanton Welch moves into his 10th year as artistic director of Houston Ballet, one of the leading companies in the nation.