Deep Listening
Before there was such a thing as Nameless Sound, Dave Dove had the idea of starting a creative music workshop for children in Houston.
Houston
River of Light
HGOco turns seven years old this year. A scrappy, energetic initiative dedicated to making an opera company relevant to the city it serves, it has taken opera out of the Big House downtown and planted it in unexpected places all over the city:
Melanie Smith’s Seduction
Melanie Smith doesn’t offer answers. Instead, she seeks reverberation.
$argent and Binge Viewing
IMAGE: John Singer Sargent, Simplon Pass: Reading (detail), c. 1911, opaque and translucent watercolor and wax resist with...
What’s the Matter with Rice? Part 2
IMAGE: A view of James Turrell’s Twilight Epiphany (2012) on the Rice University campus. Photo by Ned Dodington...
A Tale of Two Festivals
A woman weaves on a loom while fifty amateur violinists and an accordionist surround her with music. The aftermath of a young man’s suicide unfolds on a large screen through social media.
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...
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...