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Casting a Wide Net
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 [...]
Build it and they will come
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 [...]
Cultural Warrior: James Nelson
Houston Ballet’s Executive Director James Nelson In February of 2012, James Nelson took over the reigns of the...
Printmaking in Houston: Then and Now
Printmaking is gaining attention in Houston again. June marks the celebration of PrintHouston, a summer-long festival exhibiting printmaking...
Seeing Both Ways
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 [...]
Little Big Shot
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 [...]
Inner Space Travel
Turrell’s New Skyspace Lands in Houston Using light as his main material, James Turrell deftly carves, blends, molds,...
A Gallery With Gravitas
MFAH Reinstallation Gets Ab Ex Right I used to have to drag myself to the Museum of Fine...
The New Crop
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 [...]
Readymade or not
New CAMH curator riffs on Duchamp’s legacy Marking the 99th anniversary of Marcel Duchamp’s first readymade sculpture –...