Review: Hilary Wilder, A Northern Tale
J.M.W. Turner, Caspar David Friedrich and the Hudson River School understandably come up a lot in discussions of...
Review: David Katz, Systemic Expansion
Spindles and webs of organic shapes span the hallway like an alien garland, interlinking peculiar bulbous nodes. Hard ceramic cages squinch and shape the interlinked tumorous forms. The bone-like lattices that festoon the hallways of the Artists Gallery at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft comprise Systemic Expansion, the latest [...]
Review: Oscar Muñoz
at Sicardi Gallery Fire, water, dust, and light. Though modern science has moved well past the classical theory of elements, there remains some category of pure substance [...]
Arts Aid
Houston Arts Alliance Launches the Inaugural Houston Arts Resource Fair Being a professional artist is not for the...
Cultural Warrior: Sandra Bernhard
Sandra Bernhard is the engine behind such ground-breaking HGOco/Houston Grand Opera programs such as Song of Houston and Home and Place. She also is the lead on numerous other projects that bring HGO into Houston’s multi-cultural communities in a way that sets the standard for [...]
A Frame Shop With Curatorial Caché
Ariane Roesch’s UNIT Looks for Print Collectors Online As PrintHouston continues through the summer with its sprawling calendar...
Light – Hold the Pickle Juice
James Turrell on the Trouble With Holograms A month after the unveiling of Twilight Epiphany, James Turrell’s skyspace...
The Conductivity of Collectivity
Houston Artists Find Power in Numbers “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to...
Gray Boxes
Sicardi Gallery’s New Building Extends a 10-Year Trend About ten years ago I was intrigued by the construction...
Dreaming in Words
Liz Duffy Adams Returns to Main Street Theater Liz Duffy Adams first amazed Main Street Theater audiences with her play/poem Or, a delicious period piece all set in rhythm. She’s back with Dog Act, a post-apocalyptic play [...]
Growing an Arts Community
Ashley Clemmer Hoffman in action at Rothko Chapel Growing up in a country store and volunteer fire department...
Light & Lemonade
Hope Stone and NobleMotion Rule Houston’s Dance Stages Houston’s August dance scene belongs to Hope Stone Dance and NobleMotion Dance as they offer brave new works for local dance fans. Jane Weiner plans a deconstruction of Mozart’s Requiem, she calls it WRECK-WE-UMMM, while Andy and Dionne Noble combine forces with lighting [...]