Five Days In the Dark
In its fifth year, Houston Cinema Arts Festival takes over movie theaters and various other venues throughout the heart of the city for five days in November.
Film
Francis Alÿs & the Poetics of Politics
In Francis Alÿs’s video installation Rehearsal 1 (1999-2001), a red VW Beetle drives up a hill in a rundown neighborhood of Tijuana.
Eerie Does It
Click. A key turns, unexpectedly. Locked in? Panic rises as the clock keeps time. Alone and defenseless, the mind runs wild with what horrific end one might meet;
Eyes on Texas: Performing Arts
IMAGE ABOVE: Diavolo dancers performing Trajectoire. Photo by Angela weiss. AUSTIN The Agony and the Ecstasy of...
Pretend Prison
When Jenji Kohan's Orange is the New Black popped up on my Netflix menu, it just screamed A + N. Based on Piper Kerman's best selling book of the same name, the show chronicles the life of Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling), while she completes a 14-month prison sentence for a decade old crime.
Open Season
Some people say ideas are a dime a dozen.
The Idea Fund says they are $3,500 each and, with help from a special initiative of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, it is putting that money directly into the hands of Texas artists. As a result, some of the state's most provocative or otherwise unexpected imaginings are being made real.
Eyes on Texas: Performing Arts (Sep 2013)
Art show/Model Show is a multi-media, interactive, collaborative performance experiment from Kelli Bland, Meghan Adriel Dwyer, Michelle Keffer, Jorge Sermini and Elizabeth Doss based on their experiences as art models.
Abby + Nancy Skip Gatsby for House of Cards
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Summer Screens
French Toons The French animator Jean-François Laguionie stocks his latest animated film with characters who know they’re living inside a painting, in Le Tableau (The Painting). In this wryly inventive parable, a kingdom within a painting is divided into three castes: the impeccably colored Alldunns, the incomplete Halfies, and the barely [...]
Texas Indies
For the second year lights, camera, and action is coming to south Dallas as the Oak Cliff Film...
Kon-Tiki
Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl’s 8,000-kilometer voyage across the Pacific Ocean on the balsa raft Kon-Tiki in 1947 stands as one of the greatest post-World War II feats of exploration, and cemented his standing as a legendary adventurer. Heyerdahl’s book about his experience became a bestseller. It was published in 1948 [...]