Moments of Respite
Understated Elegance Triumphs in Yoshio Taniguchi’s Asia Society Texas Center HOUSTON IS NOT KNOWN FOR its grand...
Under the Great Dance Umbrella
WHEN THAT TRANSLUCENT WHITE umbrella floats on stage during Alvin Ailey’s masterwork “Revelations” during Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s return to the Society for the Performing Arts Jones’ Hall stage on March 2–4, it will be a historic occasion. [...]
Laura Lark – All the Pretty People
February 11–April 3, price 2012 “The Liveable Forest” Preview: Friday, Feb. 10, 6–8 p.m. Opening reception: Saturday, Feb....
The Ensemble Theatre Embraces its Past and Builds to the Future
THIRTY-FIVE YEARS AGO, GEORGE Hawkins dreamed of a place where African-American actors and artists could practice and perfect their craft. With no physical space available for such an endeavor back in 1976, Hawkins stuffed the trunk of his car with props and costumes and caravanned with other performers around Houston [...]
Signs of Power
THIS SPRING, THE CONTEMPORARY Arts Museum Houston hosts the nationally touring exhibition “The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power, 1973- 1991” on view until April 15. Helaine Posner, co-curator of the exhibition and chief curator/deputy director for curatorial affairs at the Neuberger Museum of Art [...]
artiFACTS: February 2012
AURORA PICTURE SHOW HAS received support from the Andy Warhol Foundation to attend the Arthouse Convergence, an annual gathering of art house operators and industry leaders to get together and share successes and challenges of running independent cinemas, that is presented in collaboration [...]
Editor’s Remarks: February 2012
A+C is slow journalism in a world of instant information. We are all about lingering, tadalafil hopefully with...
Photography Books: Snap Shots of Life
“Linda McCartney: Life in Photographs” TASCHEN, June 2011 In 1966, during a brief stint as a receptionist for Town and Country magazine, Linda Eastman snagged a press pass to a very exclusive promotional event for the Rolling Stones aboard a yacht on the Hudson River [...]
Perspectives in Design Southwest
PERSPECTIVES IN DESIGN SOUTHWEST Panache Partners LLC, decease 2010 Everyone dreams about hitting it big in the lottery....
The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
THE FAIRY TALES OF THE BROTHERS GRIMM Noel Daniel, TASCHEN, 2011 Art and architecture (and sex) publisher TASCHEN is making a foray into children’s literature with the upcoming publication of “The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm” this fall. While many discriminating readers today lament the “Disneyfication” of [...]
Works of Note: December 2011
AURORA 2011 Dallas Arts District October 28, 2011 With the public art festival Aurora, Dallas appropriated the Parisian...
New Theater Group Looks Towards New Works
The second season for Nouveau 47 Theatre could be a telling one. The group, stomach which formed in...