The mystery of Texas State’s Pledges of Allegiance Flag
Imagine a project so powerful that it can quietly subvert hegemonic control with a single image.
East Meets West: Kamrooz Aram Confronts Modern Art’s Hierarchies, at The Modern
Past exhibitions by Kamrooz Aram have carried such provocative titles as Unstable Paintings for Anxious Interiors and Ornament for Indifferent Architecture.
A brief survey of experimental music in Houston
This article is a patch, some spackling, experimental music duct tape on the rickety machinery of music web content.
SPA Welcomes Ballet Hispanico With Open Arms
“You are going to love this program,” Eduardo Vilaro told me as we shared a glass of wine last summer while his troupe, Ballet Hispanico was gracing the Jacob's Pillow Stage.
It Happened in Texas: Don Carlos at HemisFair and more at the McNay
For one night, San Antonio just may have been the United States’ operatic capital.
Brahms at the Bar: Dallas’s Open Classical Re-frames Music Experience
It’s a Tuesday night at Buzzbrews Kitchen in Dallas’ Uptown neighborhood, where tattooed waitresses with Bettie Page-inspired hairstyles are ferrying plates of hot pancakes and bacon to their tables.
The Great Playwright Swap: Dallas’s Kitchen Dog Theater Helps Pilot Groundbreaking National Experiment
For the past 20 years, the National New Play Network has connected nonprofit theaters across the U.S. through the cultural importance of new plays and living playwrights.
Conversations in Art, Science & Technology: Moody Center for the Arts
The artist, Josiah McElheny, working with cosmologist David Weinberg, creates a gallery-sized installation, consisting of five hanging chromed-metal, transparent hand-blown glass and light sculptures.
Youth, Talent & Energy: KINETIC concludes its season at the MATCH
KINETIC, the conductorless ensemble directed by Natalie Lin, closes its third season with Musical Madness on May 6 at the MATCH with a program that includes works by Mozart, Carlo Gesualdo, Erkki-Sven Tuur, Osvaldo Golijov, Beethoven and the ensemble’s own Giancarlo Latta. Lin visited with A + C editor Nancy Wozny on all things KINETIC and this season’s big accomplishments.
Music Fit for a Queen or Two—Ars Lyrica’s Regal Offering
Matthew Dirst, artistic director of Ars Lyrica Houston, has an unerring ability to put together programs that are musically rich and varied, framed in fascinating historical context, and vividly brought to life by the finest guest soloists and musicians.
Peacock in the Desert: The Royal Arts of Jodhpur, India at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Peacocks are beautiful, magnificent even, but they have a grating squawk.
Texas Studio: Outspoken Bean
Outspoken Bean is the shortened version of his full stage name, Outspoken Rogers Lee Bean, Jr., after his older brother who was murdered one day before the largest Slam Poetry competition Bean had ever been in.