Suspended Animation
The Bridge Club Heads to Currents New Media Festival If the medium is the message, as philosopher and...
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A Plethora of Prints
PrintHouston Returns, Leaving Its Mark on Spaces Large and Small Although it’s only in its third year, PrintHouston,...
artiFACTS: June 2013
Robert Simpson, artistic director of the Houston Chamber Choir announced the Choir’s 18th season, Where Class Meets Cool. The 2013-2014 season includes masterpieces by Brahms, Handel, Palestrina, and Duruflé, along with works by today’s leading composers including a newly commissioned piece by Jocelyn Hagan, recent winner of the [...]
Editor’s Remarks: June 2013
I met Jeffrey Dell a year ago in Arturo Palacios’ office, and have been looking forward to his...
8 Kids, 2 Punk Rock Fans, a Probation Officer & a Dream
Ben Tecumseh DeSoto’s Whole Mind Workshop Brings Art Where It’s Needed Most Having signed an agreement with the Harris County Juvenile Probation Department not to photograph the kids or use their real names in this story, I ask the three 16-year-olds at the Raul Yzaguirre School for Success’s high-school campus on [...]
Art Car Goes Up for Auction to Put a Roof Over Houston Met’s New Home
One man’s treasure is a dance company’s fundraiser. Long-supporters of Houston’s art scene [you may know them from...
MFAH Inflated Attendance Figures for Years
General Admission Visits Are Less Than 19% of Beck, Law Building Tallies Having spent two weeks poring over annual reports and attendance data, I’ve got good news and bad news about the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston [...]
Orchestrating Success
The Conductors of the Texas Music Festival When is a conductor more than a conductor? When he (or...
Close Up Space
When we first meet editor Paul Barrow, the protagonist of Molly Smith Metzler’s Close Up Space, making its regional premiere at Main Street Theater (MST), he’s self-righteously ripping through a series of emails from the headmaster at his rebellious daughter’s boarding school, tearing apart extemporaneous words and phrases [...]
‘Round 7’ at Lawndale Art Center
Why do we copy? Why do we appropriate imagery? Is it inherently different from the source? Perhaps these questions aren’t all asked overtly or even consciously in the Round 7 Lawndale Artist Studio Program Exhibition, but these themes percolate when considering the three artists together. The exhibition features work from [...]
Blue Man, Marshmallows & Possibly Some Blue Trees
A visit with Houston Native Shane Andries First came the trees, as in Konstantin Dimopoulis’ fabulous public art...