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Casting a Wide Net

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Ernesto Neto is a contemporary Brazilian artist widely known for spectacularly huge sculptures that invoke adjectives like “seductive” and “glorious” — they’re meant to awaken our primal selves by inviting interaction. “Cuddle on the Tightrope,” currently on view at the Nasher [...]
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Build it and they will come

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Texas Music Festival sets the standard for excellence Never underestimate the power of a cowboy conductor. That very image served as the poster for the first Immanuel and Helen Olshan Texas Music Festival (TMF), now in its 22nd year. “Actually, that poster is kind of iconic [...]
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Seeing Both Ways

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Lacy Johnson on Trespasses: A Memoir According to Lacy M. Johnson’s bio, she worked as “assistant-manager of a Wal-Mart Vision Center, sold steaks door-to-door [...]
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Little Big Shot

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The Micro-Cinemania of Aurora Picture Show Rewind the past 14 years, and you’ll see Aurora Picture Show – the little micro-cinema-that-could – reelin’ out some of the best moving image art and public programming in the Texas region [...]
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The New Crop

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The Ecology of Houston’s Emerging Choreographers In the decade since I first came ashore on Houston’s dance scene, I’ve experienced how rapidly this particular dance performance landscape and its inhabitants evolve and regenerate. Where artists have pruned or redirected their energies, new growth is [...]
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