What’s the Matter with Rice?
IMAGE: Reconstruction of Vladimir Tatlin’s model for the Monument to the Third International, 1967-68, in the courtyard of...
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Houston Ballet Soars in a Welch Wonderland
Houston Ballet celebrated its leader's tenth year at the helm by performing three of his works in one evening, a perfect Stanton Welch wonderland and a great way to examine this choreographer's gifts to ballet.
Braque, Magritte and Brown
Are artists in Houston paying attention to Braque and Magritte, given the abundance of their work currently on view in the city?
MFAH Moving From “Top-Down” to Participatory Pedagogy
Upon learning that the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston has hired Caroline Goeser as W.T. and Louise J. Moran Chair of the Department of Learning and Interpretation, and that this department is the new name for the education department, two obvious questions come to mind:
Trouble Puppet Theatre
The Salvage Vanguard Theatre hosted a special double feature on March 1, with Trouble Puppet Theatre’s Crapstall Street Boys and Bootown's The Curio Show.
The Corcoran’s Houston Connections
Tyler Green has a long, thoughtful Modern Art Notes entry on what the National Gallery of Art might...
A Backdrop for Braque at the MFAH
The second-floor gallery of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston's Law Building is one of the largest exhibition spaces in the country--so large that the Georges Braque retrospective only takes up half of it.
Layover Art
It’s not unusual for a gallery to show renderings, models or other materials related to public artworks. When...
Shakespeare En Pointe
In celebration of Shakespeare's 450th birthday, Houston Ballet has anchored their new season with three ballets based on Shakespeare's timeless tales, including the company premiere of John Neumeier's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Stanton Welch's world premiere of Romeo and Juliet and John Cranko's The Taming of the Shrew.
Texas Twofer: Sargent and Sorolla
There are a few oil paintings in John Singer Sargent: The Watercolors, which opens Sunday at the Museum...
Are We World Class Yet?
If a few more logistical details come together, I may be in New York next week in time...
Picturing Change
Houston’s origins as an international photography mecca date back to the early 1980s, when Frederick Baldwin, Wendy Watriss, and Petra Benteler founded FotoFest, an international non-profit photographic arts and education organization.