Movement and Color
Modern dance has a history of its choreographers being in conversation with visual artists. Two of the more famous examples would be Martha Graham with Isamu Noguchi and Merce Cunningham with Robert Rauschenberg.
Houston
Two to Watch: Laura Edson & Sidra Bell Create New Works for The Houston Met’s 2|2
Houston Metropolitan Dance Company’s artistic director, Marlana Doyle, clearly has a mission in bringing freelance choreographersfrom all over the US to work with her dancers.
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.
Venus in Fur
Taking my seat at the Alley Theatre’s production of David Ives’ Venus in Fur, I didn’t imagine that the play might be appropriate for Halloween.
All Girls
It’s always a pleasure to see a company present a regional premiere. It’s the sort of thing that makes you feel the people you’re watching take seriously their commitment as artists, that they’re paying attention to what’s happening on the scene.
Unpacking ‘Wolfe’ and ‘Watson’
MFAH Examines West’s and Copley’s Masterpieces from Every Angle IMAGE ABOVE: Benjamin West, doctor The Death of General...
Rachel Hecker: Group Show
According to Rachel Hecker, her latest exhibition at the Art League Houston is a “show of anomalies.”
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;
“Every Art Lover’s Gateway Drug”
The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston is marking its 65th anniversary with Outside the Lines, a six-part exhibition presented in two rounds that will fill both of CAMH’s floors
Michael Crowder: Retro-spectacle
Houston artist Michael Crowder’s Retro-spectacle transports viewers from 2013 to 1913. Crowder transforms Wade Wilson Art into a velvet-lined cabinet of curiosities, facilitating a perspective into the past that calls into question what contemporary art can be.
Cash, Gas or Ideas: Artists Ride for Free
Art Residency on Wheels Aims to be a “Distribution Center for Ideas” IMAGE ABOVE: The Cargo Space bus. ...
Priscilla Queen of the Desert
I arrived in my Hobby Center seat feeling listless, in a major mid-week slump, with a pesky bout of melancholy tinged with despair. Then, three fabulous and feathered divas descended from the ceiling bellowing “It's Raining Men” in the opening number of Theatre Under the Stars presentation of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, and suddenly the world kicked it up a few notches.