Powerful Presence: CORE Presents Dance from Israel at Miller
If movement can reveal a national identity and specific cultural context, then the dance work of Israel is defined by a heightened sense of immediacy.
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Comfortable Heat Wave: Owen Drysdale at Barbara Davis Gallery
The floating mirages of Owen Drysdale’s Hot Summer Deadly Day are lovely, but bloodless.
Design in Texas: Ryan McGettigan
Set designer Ryan McGettigan’s bold designs have graced the stages of many of the theater companies in Houston.
flow: Jae Ko at CAMH
Downstairs at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, the Zilkha Gallery is a cold space. When it’s empty, the bare white walls and concrete floor can make it feel like an icy cavern buried deep in the Tundra. It’s a suitable place for flow, the latest in a series of site-specific installations by Jae Ko called Force of Nature, on view through September 18, 2016.
Meditations on Love, Art, and Life: Yayoi Kusama at the MFAH
The name Yayoi Kusama often conjures images of polka-dots spreading out into the infinite, and the odd pumpkin.
When Worlds Collide: Houston Ballet’s new Giselle overlaps the worldly and the ethereal
In traditional versions of Giselle, the worlds of the living and the dead are separated by an intermission, each confined to its own act. In Houston Ballet’s brand new version, at Wortham Theater Center by Artistic Director Stanton Welch, the worldly and the ethereal overlap to come full circle.
Hilary Lloyd at Blaffer Art Museum
“Casual elegance” is a phrase too often bandied about by women’s clothiers and wine marketers, who would have you believe that it is something that can be purchased or assumed as a posture. For something to be “casually elegant” its level of refinement must be so high that it has become habitual, and only appears casual.
SHEILA PEPE invites SONDRA PERRY—Put me down Gently: A Cooler Place + I’m Afraid I Can’t Do That
“It’s very much like a drawing,” Sheila Pepe began. “Things are drawn, laid down, erased, moved. It’s all influenced by the architecture of the space.”
Travel Music: Harmony in the Air Delights Houston’s Airport Passengers
Air travelers nationwide were grumbling about lengthening lines at security checks. A federal transportation official was getting the boot over it that very day. But in the atrium near William P. Hobby Airport’s departure gates, nobody looked stressed.
Summer Premieres at Lone Star Lyric
When Kelli Estes planned her first season for Houston’s Lone Star Lyric Theater, the company she founded back in 2006, she was actually in living New York City and not Houston.
Bringing Music to the People: ROCO’s New Season
The River Oaks Chamber Orchestra isn’t planning a Fourth of July concert, but maybe it should. The tradition-busting group has declared its independence -- from the classical hit parade. Scan the group’s programs for 2016-17, and you’ll see nothing that rank-and-file concertgoers would find familiar.
Reinventing Place: Art Blocks Awaken Main Street Square
The blocks between 900 and 1100 Main Street are traveled by many Houstonians on their daily commute, but they constitute an inconspicuous corner of Houston.