Lords of the Ancient Andes
Between AD 600 and AD 1000, long before the Inca, the Wari forged a complex society widely regarded...
Structural Integrity
I have found it to be the case — usually — that works seeking (whatever) or perfecting (style)...
Cohn Drennan Contemporary
Cohn Drennan Contemporary has mounted a stellar show of three strong Texas artists – each with a unique...
Cowboys & Aliens
In his newest show, Resurrected Dreams: Cowboys, Aliens & Espionage, artist Randall Reid seeks to establish visual windows,...
Art Car Goes Up for Auction to Put a Roof Over Houston Met’s New Home
One man’s treasure is a dance company’s fundraiser. Long-supporters of Houston’s art scene [you may know them from...
MFAH Inflated Attendance Figures for Years
General Admission Visits Are Less Than 19% of Beck, Law Building Tallies Having spent two weeks poring over annual reports and attendance data, I’ve got good news and bad news about the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston [...]
Orchestrating Success
The Conductors of the Texas Music Festival When is a conductor more than a conductor? When he (or...
Close Up Space
When we first meet editor Paul Barrow, the protagonist of Molly Smith Metzler’s Close Up Space, making its regional premiere at Main Street Theater (MST), he’s self-righteously ripping through a series of emails from the headmaster at his rebellious daughter’s boarding school, tearing apart extemporaneous words and phrases [...]
‘Round 7’ at Lawndale Art Center
Why do we copy? Why do we appropriate imagery? Is it inherently different from the source? Perhaps these questions aren’t all asked overtly or even consciously in the Round 7 Lawndale Artist Studio Program Exhibition, but these themes percolate when considering the three artists together. The exhibition features work from [...]
Blue Man, Marshmallows & Possibly Some Blue Trees
A visit with Houston Native Shane Andries First came the trees, as in Konstantin Dimopoulis’ fabulous public art...
Steve Brudniak: The Science of Surrealism
Comte de Lautréamont was a 19th-century poet whose famously cryptic line – “beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on a dissecting table” – was adopted as one of Surrealism’s aesthetic credos. Nearly sixty years later, André Breton, one of the founders [...]