Review: Alvin Baltrop

Devon Britt-Darby·
The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston prides itself on “exhibitions that exemplify the art of today.” What, then, to make of a CAMH show dominated by black-and-white pre-digital-era photographs taken by a deceased, virtually unknown artist to document a demi-monde that no longer exists? Organized by the museum’s senior [...]
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Review: Museum of Dysfunction V

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Mildred’s Umbrella’s Museum of Dysfunction V August 9-18, 2012 Mildred Umbrella opened their celebrated annual showcase of short plays, Museum of Dysfunction V, on Thursday, August 9. The selection, which is split into two sections, runs through August 18, with alternating performances. Mildred’s Umbrella received [,,,]
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Review: Jonah Bokaer

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Jonah Bokaer Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival August 5, 2012 If I had to label the genre of Jonah Bokaer’s new work, Curtain, premiered at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, I would say it’s a thriller, more in genre of Inception than any garden [...]
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Dancing While Flying

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A Visit with Paul Taylor dance Michael Apuzzo I first met Michael Apuzzo while working on a Dance Magazine story. Now in his fifth season at Paul Taylor Dance Company, Apuzzo has written a book, Flying Through Yellow to tell his [...]
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Beyond the (Arts) Writer: Nancy Wozny

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A+C has a pretty eclectic and busy bunch of writers. They’re musicians and curators, architects and dancers, and even writers for other publications. We follow each of these fancy folks in their other endeavors and we think [...]
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Under One Roof, With Room to Breathe

Devon Britt-Darby·
MFAH’s Sweeping American Made Spans Centuries, Media and Styles Viewing American art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, as at most institutions, has long been a piecemeal, largely compartmentalized experience. For paintings and sculpture, you visit Beck Building galleries that are currently mostly occupied by the traveling exhibition [...]
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