Place Play
Houston Set Designers Conjure Fantastic Worlds In 2008, Jodi Bobrovsky bought a taxidermied dog and began Googling images...
Time to Ramble On…Home
Houston’s Nomadic Arts Groups Put Down Roots With the onslaught of trendy pop-up galleries, mobile exhibitions, and flash-mob art culture, some Houston’s arts organizations have had their fill of being on the move. Catastrophic, Stark Naked, and Mildred’s Umbrella theater companies, as well as Aurora Picture Show, Dance Source Houston [...]
The Waiting Game
Lillian Warren’s Paintings Play with Time Waiting is an action defined by stagnation, tedium, and boredom – and...
artiFACTS: Summer 2013
Josef Helfenstein, director of the Menil Collection, announced the appointment of Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates (MVVA) to enhance and expand the landscape design of the institution’s 30-acre campus in the heart of Houston. The appointment signals the beginning of implementation of the Menil’s master plan for its urban [...]
European Reunification at MFAH
July Loose Ends: What’s Back, And Making It Available to All Houstonians In a comment below the online...
Travel, Training and Global Exposure
Houston Ballet II Rises to the Challenge. Don’t let the number “II” throw you off, there’s nothing second...
Byzantine Things in the World
No exhibition in recent memory better exemplifies what the Dominican priest Father Marie-Alain Couturier is said to have...
Review: Harvey
ZACH Theatre made the smart choice to celebrate its 80th birthday with Mary Chase’s classic, Harvey, on its...
Call it Street Art, Call it Fine Art, Call it What You Know
Politics are inherent in street art. The fact that the art form sidesteps established museum and gallery circulations...
Music of the Heart
Some critics have labeled Songs for a New World as an abstract musical, given the fact the show by Tony Award winning composer and lyricist Jason Robert Brown tells its collection of stories in sing-scenes with no over-arching plot and no consistent characters throughout the evening [...]
“Traces” Soars on Stage
You know what I like best about live theater? No CGI. The magic is real, as it...