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Who Will Win at Cliburn?
The Cliburn announces today the 30 competitors selected to participate in the Fourteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition,...
Conversations in Movement
Lucinda Cobley and Teresa Chapman Team Up at Wade Wilson Art A casual chat between painter Lucinda Cobley and choreographer Teresa Chapman at a Galveston party prompted a collaboration, Shifting Spaces, an excerpt of which will be performed on March 28 at Wade Wilson [...]
Ceramics in Concert
Annual Conference Prepares to Cover Houston in All Things Clay Fresh on the heels of the NBA All-Star...
Bodies in Motion
CAMH’s Parallel Practices Spotlights Joan Jonas and Gina Pane Curator Dean Daderko muses that firsthand interaction with a human body may be something that people are missing today, adding that, in an age in which signing petitions online counts as a form of activism, people sometimes [...]
Buy Art! Yes, You!
Why We Should Take a Seattle Critic’s Manifesto to Heart In December, Seattle critic Jen Graves unleashed a startling manifesto titled Buy Art! If You Have Never Bought a Piece of Original Art, You Are Doing Life Wrong. It raised points most critics in most cities have heard in their [...]
Sixteen Strings
Anatomy of a String Quartet Playing in a string quartet is probably about as difficult as performing neurosurgery....
Playing with Speed
Annabelle Lopez Ochoa Returns to Dance Salad Annabelle Lopez Ochoa is part of a rising crop of freelance choreographers making their marks all over the world. Ochoa has created works for Ballet Austin, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet [...]
Nutrition for a Dancer’s Soul
New Works at Houston Ballet A pensive Mireille Hassenboehler sits in the corner waving her hands in quick patterns while counting and glancing down at her notes. Completely absorbed in the process, Hassenboehler navigates her way though the new passages she has just learned from [...]
Review: Man of La Mancha
Some musicals are based on B-movies, others have even less sturdy beginnings. In contrast, Man of La Mancha is based on Cervantes’ 1605 seminal masterpiece Don Quixote, considered the very first novel. It doesn’t get much better than that when it comes to source material. The Theatre [...]
Review: Jason Flowers’ “Critique Machine”
While some works are made with a wide audience in mind, others are addressed toward smaller communities, like fellow artists. And for both better and worse the content and presentation of Jason Flowers’ “Critique Machine,” in the Project Room at Conduit Gallery [...]
Dallas International Film Festival
With over 1,300 submissions this year from as many as 30 different countries and an Italian theme that...