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MFAH Inflated Attendance Figures for Years
General Admission Visits Are Less Than 19% of Beck, Law Building Tallies Having spent two weeks poring over annual reports and attendance data, I’ve got good news and bad news about the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston [...]
Orchestrating Success
The Conductors of the Texas Music Festival When is a conductor more than a conductor? When he (or...
‘Round 7’ at Lawndale Art Center
Why do we copy? Why do we appropriate imagery? Is it inherently different from the source? Perhaps these questions aren’t all asked overtly or even consciously in the Round 7 Lawndale Artist Studio Program Exhibition, but these themes percolate when considering the three artists together. The exhibition features work from [...]
Blue Man, Marshmallows & Possibly Some Blue Trees
A visit with Houston Native Shane Andries First came the trees, as in Konstantin Dimopoulis’ fabulous public art...
No Paint at Gallery Sonja Roesch
In the 1970s and 80s modern land art was in its infancy, the steel industry was at its peak, and holograms were stunningly cool. No Paint at Gallery Sonja Roesch features a group of six artists whose art practices stem from this era with surprising relevancy and impeccable curation [...]
Priscilla Queen of the Desert The Musical
It doesn’t matter that the plot is minimal, that the music is loud, or that the acting is...
Kristen Cochran
Kristen Cochran wants to speak in tongues. This might not be apparent at first, health but as you...
Review: Fela!
Raucous and defiant, electrifying and exhilarating, Fela! is a very different musical, blending a wide variety of attitudes and moods, sometimes angry, sometimes coy, sometimes soothing, sometimes sexy, sometimes groping for the mysterious and spiritual. Sprouting from the hybrid Afrobeat songs (jazz, funk, highlife, traditional Yoruban chants [...]
Film Review: Renoir
Set on the French Riviera in the summer of 1915, “Renoir” (based on a book, “Le Tableau Amoureux,”...
Review: Henry Finkelstein
Explosions of color and expression are de rigueur for the work of painter Henry Finkelstein. His fifth solo...