Review: Prospectors at Lawndale Art Center
The Lawndale Art Center’s, Prospectors show features the three latest residents to complete the Artist Studio Program. While...
Review: King Hedley II
We’ve probably all heard some version of Chekhov’s maxim, that if a loaded gun is introduced on stage, it better be used before the play is through. In August, Wilson’s King Hedley II seems to bring a new weapon in each scene [...]
Review: David Aylsworth
David Aylsworth, The Reverses Wiped Away Along with their own considerable merits and pleasures, the paintings of David Aylsworth’s current exhibition at Inman Gallery provide a case study in how some artists can find seemingly infinite room to maneuver within a narrow register. Each of the show’s small-to-medium-size paintings answers to the gallery’s [...]
Review: The Bad Plus On Sacred Ground
May 5, 2012 Da Camera The Bad Plus’s interpretation of Stravinsky’s, The Rite of Spring, presented by Da Camera of Houston, begins with a hazy, ambient prerecorded auditory collage accompanied by foggy visual projections. It’s the typical postmodern art rock concert opening [...]
Editor’s Remarks: June 2012
James Turrell’s Twilight Epiphany makes light a subject, but underneath is a lesson in change, juxtaposition, and perception....
Build it and they will come
Texas Music Festival sets the standard for excellence Never underestimate the power of a cowboy conductor. That very image served as the poster for the first Immanuel and Helen Olshan Texas Music Festival (TMF), now in its 22nd year. “Actually, that poster is kind of iconic [...]
Cultural Warrior: James Nelson
Houston Ballet’s Executive Director James Nelson In February of 2012, James Nelson took over the reigns of the...
Printmaking in Houston: Then and Now
Printmaking is gaining attention in Houston again. June marks the celebration of PrintHouston, a summer-long festival exhibiting printmaking...
Seeing Both Ways
Lacy Johnson on Trespasses: A Memoir According to Lacy M. Johnson’s bio, she worked as “assistant-manager of a Wal-Mart Vision Center, sold steaks door-to-door [...]
Little Big Shot
The Micro-Cinemania of Aurora Picture Show Rewind the past 14 years, and you’ll see Aurora Picture Show – the little micro-cinema-that-could – reelin’ out some of the best moving image art and public programming in the Texas region [...]
Inner Space Travel
Turrell’s New Skyspace Lands in Houston Using light as his main material, James Turrell deftly carves, blends, molds,...
artiFACTS: June 2012
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) has given the 2012 Meredith J. Long Core Program Award to Gabriel Martinez. The $10,000 prize, presented at the Glassell School of Art Benefit and Auction Friday, May 11, was inaugurated [...]