High Altitude Dancing
Aspen Santa Fe Ballet Returns to the SPA stage Imagine a ballet company that exists in two cities,...
Cultural Warrior: John Guess Jr.
Houston Museum of African American Culture’s John Guess Jr. For a guy prone to joking that he’d like...
Last Notes
Tokyo String Quartet’s Final Houston Visit “It’s something like a love affair between the Tokyo String Quartet and the Houston Friends of Chamber Music,” says violinist Kikuei Ikeda. First invited to perform in Houston just seven years after they officially formed at the Julliard School in 1969 [...]
Dressing for Dinner
Pearl Cleage returns to The Ensemble Theatre Pearl Cleage’s The Nacirema Society Requests the Honor of Your Presence...
Portrait of a Writer
Inprint Celebrates 30 Years in Houston As a young writer, I dreamed I’d find a patron. She’d be...
Front and Center
Houston Ballet Celebrates Women Choreographers “Ballet is woman,” Balanchine famously proclaimed. Oh really? Some, women in particular, might think differently. Balanchine refers to the supreme role of the ballerina, which is indeed an exalted position in the field. Things did not work out so well when it came to positions of leadership, though [...]
Back to the Booths
Houston Fine Art Fair Returns, Emphasizes Local Scene Once upon a not-so-distant time – less than two years...
artiFACTS: September 2012
DiverseWorks ArtSpace will relocate to Midtown at 4102 Fannin Street on September 7, 2012. Rachel Cook has been appointed to the newly created post of Assistant Curator. DW also announces two new programs: DWoW [...]
Editor’s Remarks: September 2012
Over a year ago, A + C publisher Ken Villalovos bombed south down I-45 with the idea of...
SaintCecelia
A few weeks ago I got a message from a friend about Cecelia Johnson asking if there was...
Blaffer’s $2 Million Makeover
WORKac’s renovations aim to boost UH museum’s public presence The University of Houston’s Blaffer Art Museum has long...
Beyond the (Arts) Writer: Geoff Smith
I first met A+C writer Geoff Smith at Caroline Collective a few years ago. He was fresh out of...