Dance to the Beat
When Fela! premiered on Broadway four years ago, cure it re-introduced the music of the revolutionary Nigerian composer...
Cliburn Competition
The Fourteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition will be held May 24-June 9, 2013, at Bass Performance Hall,...
Dance Ambassadors Return to Dallas
After a 20-year absence, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returns to North Texas for three performances on the Winspear Opera House stage, May 3-4. Artistic Director Robert Battle continues to surprise and delight audiences with premieres and new productions that expand his vision for the company, adding dynamic choreographic [...]
May Books
The Art of Controversy: Political Cartoons and Their Enduring Power Victor S Navasky Knopf A lavishly illustrated, witty, and original look at the awesome power of the political cartoon throughout history to enrage, provoke, and amuse. As a former editor of The New York Times Magazine [...]
artiFACTS: May 2013
Join moderator, Jeffrey Grove, the Dallas Museum’s Hoffman Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Art for “Take the Lens Cap Off: Trends in Photography”, a panel discussion with perspectives from a group of internationally known experts. The panel discussion will be held in the [...]
Top Honors
Finding a venue to show one’s work is a challenge for any visual artist. Nine young artists at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts recently received such an opportunity from Lola Lott, the CEO and Co-Founder, with Jack Waldrip, of charlieuniformtango, one of the [...]
The Women’s Movement
Galleri Urbane’s current show, order Allie Pohl’s Ideal Woman, mind is more than meets the eye. Upon first...
Exploring an Odyssey
In 1977, thumb Romare Bearden (1911-1988), view one of the most powerful and original artists of the 20th...
Creature Comforts, Indoors and Out
Andy Coolquitt’s Sculptures and Tableaux Use Urban Materials to Evoke Domesticity Andy Coolquitt has a steadfast interest in domestic spaces. So much so that the Austin-based artist, who has a solo exhibition opening soon at the Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston [...]
River Oaks Chamber Orchestra: Big Bang Encore
With the Houston premiere of the Concerto for Orchestra and TwoPercussionists by Jonathan Leshnoff as its centerpiece, the season finale for the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra (ROCO) lived up to the promise of its title and gave the orchestra an opportunity to go out with a “Big Bang” [...]
Review: Diotima Quartet
In acknowledgment their commitment to modern and contemporary music, the Diotima Quartet takes its name from Luigi Nono’s work, “Fragmente-Stille, an Diotima.” The French ensemble’s concert at Houston’s Menil Collection was presented by Da Camera Houston [...]
Life & Laughter
Houston Ballet Brings The Concert Back Wrong seat? Bickering couples in the row in front of you? Enormous...