Reclaiming Self: My week with Anna Halprin
My pelvis tipped forward, my shoulders were tight and closed, my knees ached from around-the-clock bouncing.
Commanding Space: Women Sculptors of Texas at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art
It’s been awhile since an exhibition prompted me to play the “Whither Texas art?” parlor game—to check in on what, if anything, we mean when we use the term and how, if any way, we feel about it.
Christopher Knowles: In a Word at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
While I was viewing this exhibition, a man approached me with an unsolicited opinion.
KINETIC: Painting an English Landscape
Thoughtful, incisive programming has been KINETIC's strong suit since its inception in 2015.
Persona Euphonia: A Messaging Makeover for Public Art of UHS
So what’s a fitting shape for public art to take, especially in Texas, on the urban campuses of a public institution?
Eclipsed No More: DMA Shines Light on Rare Edward Steichen Murals
In 1913, Agnes Ernst Meyer, the wife of financier Eugene Meyer, Jr., and pregnant with her second child, was out of sorts and unable to make her rounds to the art galleries, where, as a former New York Post reporter on the art beat, she had been dubbed “the Sun Girl” by photographer-gallerists Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen. Writing to Stieglitz, a brooding Meyer quipped, “I am now your Eclipsed Sun-girl.”
A Spring of Firsts at Texas Ballet Theater
After 15 years at the helm of Texas Ballet Theater, Ben Stevenson appears to be catching his second wind.
Art Aglow: Light Charmer Electrifies Houston Center for Contemporary Craft
A shop owner flips a switch, sending a few thousand volts through glass tubes bent into the shape of the letters O-P-E-N.
Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen: A Countertenor to Encounter
The Ivy Leaguer tore up his career plan. For his first two years at Princeton University, Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen had majored in public policy, figuring he’d go to law school and work in public affairs. Then a summer project stirred his love for singing, which went all the way back to his childhood.
Abstract Horizons: David Aylsworth at Holly Johnson Gallery
“I don’t really have a fixed idea when I start a painting,” says Houston painter David Alysworth.
Dream Fest: Stages Repertory Theater Launches Sin Muros: A Latina/o Theatre Festival
If good playwrights tend to have discerning ears for the language and voices around them, then perhaps those wanting to produce a new kind of theater festival need to become the most sensitive of auditory aficionado as well. Kenn McLaughlin, artistic director of Stages Repertory Theatre in Houston, seems to subscribe to this theory because when the company began organizing their new play-reading event that would become Sin Muros: A Latina/o Theatre Festival, he knew the first act of creation was to be quiet and listen.
First Sculpture: Handaxe to Figure Stone at the Nasher
Extraordinary examples of handmade stone tools, some of the first aesthetically-conceived objects known to humankind, will be included in the exhibition First Sculpture: Handaxe to Figure Stone which opens Jan. 27 at the Nasher Sculpture Center.