Leaving the Silo: Artists on Seeing Other Disciplines
BEING AN ARTIST IS AN ALL ENCOMPASSING job, illness with time and money often in short supply. Yet,...
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Stanton Welch: Houston Ballet’s Fast and Furious Choreographer
HOUSTON BALLET’S ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, Stanton Welch wasted no time ascending to world renown as a choreographer. Once he got started, that is. Most dancers expect to spend years in the studio and on the stage before moving on to a choreographic career. [...]
Cultural Warrior: Inprint’s Executive Director Rich Levy
Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series February 27 Rae Armantrout & Christian Wiman March 26 Téa Obreht &...
Making Music: Making a Career
SO YOU HAVE TRAINING AT A major music school, does that guarantee you a career? Not necessarily. That’s where professional development programs come in. As the number of highly trained musicians graduating from [...]
John Sonsini Men at Work
THE PHRASE “PAINTING FROM life” can bring to mind a host of images produced by the working artist...
A Timely Chekhov
THERE ARE 32 KNOWN ENGLISH translations of Anton Chekhov’s 1895 play “The Seagull,” and when deciding to add the title to the Alley Theatre’s 2011– 12 season, Gregory Boyd and his team read every one of them. After all [...]
Moments of Respite
Understated Elegance Triumphs in Yoshio Taniguchi’s Asia Society Texas Center HOUSTON IS NOT KNOWN FOR its grand...
Under the Great Dance Umbrella
WHEN THAT TRANSLUCENT WHITE umbrella floats on stage during Alvin Ailey’s masterwork “Revelations” during Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s return to the Society for the Performing Arts Jones’ Hall stage on March 2–4, it will be a historic occasion. [...]
Laura Lark – All the Pretty People
February 11–April 3, price 2012 “The Liveable Forest” Preview: Friday, Feb. 10, 6–8 p.m. Opening reception: Saturday, Feb....
The Ensemble Theatre Embraces its Past and Builds to the Future
THIRTY-FIVE YEARS AGO, GEORGE Hawkins dreamed of a place where African-American actors and artists could practice and perfect their craft. With no physical space available for such an endeavor back in 1976, Hawkins stuffed the trunk of his car with props and costumes and caravanned with other performers around Houston [...]
Signs of Power
THIS SPRING, THE CONTEMPORARY Arts Museum Houston hosts the nationally touring exhibition “The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power, 1973- 1991” on view until April 15. Helaine Posner, co-curator of the exhibition and chief curator/deputy director for curatorial affairs at the Neuberger Museum of Art [...]
artiFACTS: February 2012
AURORA PICTURE SHOW HAS received support from the Andy Warhol Foundation to attend the Arthouse Convergence, an annual gathering of art house operators and industry leaders to get together and share successes and challenges of running independent cinemas, that is presented in collaboration [...]