Loose Ends: April 2013
Stray Tidbits, Blind Items and Unsolicited Advice Welcome to Loose Ends, a new monthly visual-arts column in which...
The Van Cliburn Foundation Names Pres/CEO
The Van Cliburn Foundation announced Wednesday that Jacques Marquis has been named president and CEO for the Cliburn, effective immediately. Marquis joined the Fort Worth-based Cliburn in early September 2012 as interim executive director. With two decades of experience and an extensive network of national and international [...]
My Brother’s Keeper
Bruce Woods Dance Project, cheap Dallas “Between dreams and death, he waited for her homecoming.” This quote from...
We Have Winners!
Winning Plays Headed to Dallas AT+T Performing Arts Center has announced it’s full slate of Broadway shows coming...
YouTube Superstars Play Dallas
With YouTube announcing this week they are now have 1 billion unique monthly users, generic here’s a story...
Art Preview: Kathy Boortz
Kathy Boortz developed her affection for the natural world early in life, spending carefree summers on her parents’...
HCRJ Call for Artists’ Submissions
Houston Congregation for Reform Judaism (HCRJ) looks to acquire artwork for their newly remodeled facility. “The Seven Days...
How the World Dances
New and Familiar artists showcased at Dance Salad Festival For a curator of art or a producer of theatrical work, there’s no denying the affirmative impulses of that eureka moment when they have discovered an artist for their showcase. For Dance Salad Festival Artistic Director Nancy Henderek [...]
Great Gatsby Marathon Reading
Brazos Bookstore is calling all flappers and playboys! On April 13th, medicine Brazos Bookstore celebrates the 88th anniversary of...
Jonathan Leach: Time Does Not Exist Here
An ongoing local parlor game, in which participants try to locate the Houston in Houston art and ask...
Review: Nameless Sound
On Wednesday March 6th, Nameless Sound presented cellist Tristan Honsinger at Spring Street’s Studio 101. Nameless Sound brings creative music performers from all over the world to play in Houston, and provide educational workshops to students in underserved communities all over Houston. I first encountered Honsinger in the wild and wonderful [...]
Strings and Shadows
Getting Behind Houston’s Puppet Scene There is something incredibly uncanny about puppets. As children we are drawn to their whimsical powers; as adults they weird us out. They are inanimate objects that can magically move and talk. We know that there is someone behind them [...]