Review: John Adelman, Elixer
Darke Gallery April 13-June 2 www.darkegallery.com Despite getting off to a seemingly unpromising start – gel ink pens...
Review: Mike Beradino, Freq Out
Art Palace April 13-May 19 www.artpalacegallery.com To the naked eye, drug Mike Berandio’s acrylic paintings at Art Palace...
Review: Jasper Johns, Two Flags & Prints
Hiram Butler Gallery April 14-May 19 www.dbhbg.com For some painters, printmaking is merely a means of reproducing their...
Review: Utopia/Dystopia
Review: Utopia/Dystopia: Construction and Destruction in Photography and Collage Museum of Fine Arts, Houston March 11-June 10 www.mfah.org A woman in a white dress her lower half anyway, floats dreamily against the backdrop of a hazy Manhattan skyline; her head and torso eclipsed [...]
Review: The Unexpected Man
After seeing The Unexpected Man, I am at a loss to understand why God of Carnage has received so much more attention. The Unexpected Man has everything to do with the way we live our lives. It is a play about how time eats us [...]
Review: La Cage aux Folles
George Hamilton kissed a guy. OK, so a few other things happened before that in the Theatre Under the Stars production of La Cage aux Folles, starring the ever-bronzed Hamilton as Georges and Broadway veteran [...]
Review: Artifactual Realities
Station Museum Through May 13 I had difficulty grasping the curatorial remit of Artifactual Realities when I first learned of the exhibition. Billed as part of the Fotofest Biennial, the exhibition featuring the work of eleven artists purports to explore the Occupy movement and tenets of [...]
Review: Garth Clark & Mark Del Vecchio Collection
Review: Shifting Paradigms in Contemporary Ceramics: The Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio Collection Museum of Fine Arts, Houston March 4-June 3 www.mfah.org You may know Lucio Fontana as the Italian painter whose slashed canvases echoed the devastation of World War II while violently activating the space behind the surface [...]
Review: Contemporary Asian Art
Contemporary Asian Art: Texas Connections Asia Society Texas Center April 14–September 16 www.asiasociety Considering the fact that the...
Film Review: ‘Tchoupitoulas’
Tchoupitoulas (pronounced CHOP-it-TOO-luhs) is simply brilliant storytelling. It’s something I have not seen done before and it came across vibrantly original [...]
Review: Yasuaki Onishi’s Reverse of Volume RG
Reverse of Volume RG Rice Gallery 13 April- 24 June 2012 Nebulous Mountains hover in space. Yawning caverns...
Review: Don Carlos
What does a choir of red crosses, pyrotechnics, and a wooden cart carrying chained heretics make? In Houston Grand Opera’s version of Giuseppe Verdi’s Don Carlos, it’s the turning point from a mediocre opera to a memorable one. Don [...]