High Art and Low Riders: Art Car Parade at 25
The giant roach car. The one that looks like a dragon. The one with all the fish and lobsters on it. These are just some of the rolling sculptures that cruise through Houston’s [...]
WindSync: Savvy, Smarts, & Sass
There’s nary a music stand in sight when woodwind quintet, WindSync, swaggers street-gang-style to tunes from Bernstein’s West Side Story or adorably masks as woodland denizens for a whimsical rendition of Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf [...]
Made in America and Beyond
Houston Ballet Blurs the Boundaries Does it matter where a ballet is made? Houston Ballet’s trio of works under the banner of Made in America, followed by Giselle and Romeo & Juliet, offer a rich discussion of regionalism in ballet [...]
Unmapping Houston
Artists navigate the city’s geography You hear people say Houston is a hard city to love. But, it’s also a hard city to see. When you imagine Houston, at times [...]
Pump Up the Volume
The Quiet Genius of Harvey Bott and the DoV “All ‘straight’ lines bend through space,” Harvey Bott tells me. That sounds like something having to do with math, and [...]
artiFACTS: May 2012
The Houston Metropolitan Dance Company has been invited to perform on Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival Inside/Out stage on August 25th. This is only the second time a Houston troupe has performed on the prestigious outdoor stage [...]
Editor’s Remarks: May 2012
It’s my seventh issue performing the job of editor, treatment so it’s time to rock the A +...
Film Review: ‘Compliance’
There were rumors surrounding Craig Zobel’s film Compliance--unsettling rumors that piqued my interest. The word on the street was that people were walking out of the film in protest and disgust. After a long day of watching relatively [...]
Filling the Air with Beautiful Music
A trained pianist and radio executive, Sarah B. Colmark has taken over the reigns as the new General Manager of WRR Classical 101.1 FM, North Texas’ classical music station. Prior to Dallas, she was station manager of Classical KHFM-FM (95.5 and 102.9 FM) in the Albuquerque/Santa Fe [...]
Review: Adam McEwen
One of the most intriguing things about the Goss-Michael Foundation — and there are many — is their willingness to ruffle feathers. They stir things up. Because they concentrate on British art, their contemporary shows often allude to Western mythological stories and archetypal [...]
Review: Roberta Harris
Eighteen new paintings by Houston artist Roberta Harris find inspiration in geometric forms in her recent show at Kirk Hopper Fine Art in Deep Ellum. Harris paints bold, textured, edgy, and haphazard paintings. She leaves a trail of her work process — drips, splats, impasto elements [...]
Review: Dream Continuum
There’s a new gallery on Dragon Street in the Design District with a hip twist. Circuit 12 Contemporary owners Dustin and Gina Orlando (she’s a Booker T grad), opened their doors at the end of March with a show Dustin says is a “sampler” of the contemporary artists and the types [...]