New Texas Talent 2013: Chad Michael
Chad Michael is an emerging metroplex artist whose painting Release the Balloons! III will be included in the...
Cuellar for (Arts District) Mayor
Catherine Cuellar is a familiar name to many in Dallas. Cuellar began her career as a freelance pop...
State of Summer Arts
Size Matters Lifelike invites a close examination of artworks based on commonplace objects and situations, which are startlingly realistic, but often made of unusual materials in unexpected sizes. Organized by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, this international, multigenerational group exhibition features 75 works from the [...]
Faking It: Manipulated Photography before Photoshop
In photography circles, the decades-long debate continues between darkroom and digital. Purists argue that the richness, warmth and depth of a print brought to life through the marriage of negatives, positives, paper and chemicals still cannot be achieved by even the most drool-worthy of high-tech, archival-quality inkjet [...]
Jeff Elrod/Jeremy DePrez: Fantasy Island
Abstract painting has been a significant part of the art world for a century, but the past few...
Adventurous Programing (Re-)Defined
Houston arts organizations embrace risk and reward In the business of classical music, the subject of adventurous concert...
Housing Your Work
Venue Hunting in Houston When Horse Head Theatre Company performed Stephen Belber’s Fault Lines, which takes place entirely...
Dancing in the Dark
NobleMotion Heads Back to the Studio for a Hobby Show While other companies go on hiatus during the...
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 [...]