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...
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Steve Brudniak: The Science of Surrealism
Comte de Lautréamont was a 19th-century poet whose famously cryptic line – “beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on a dissecting table” – was adopted as one of Surrealism’s aesthetic credos. Nearly sixty years later, André Breton, one of the founders [...]
Clarissa Tossin at Window into Houston & Sicardi Gallery
A common undergraduate exercise for architecture and design students tasks them with going out and taking pictures of “things used as other things.” Jack Lemmon’s character in The Apartment famously used a tennis racket to strain pasta, and I not so famously use an old sewing table [...]
No Paint at Gallery Sonja Roesch
In the 1970s and 80s modern land art was in its infancy, the steel industry was at its peak, and holograms were stunningly cool. No Paint at Gallery Sonja Roesch features a group of six artists whose art practices stem from this era with surprising relevancy and impeccable curation [...]
Mid-Century Melancholia
Abby & Nancy Dish on Mid-Season Mad Men The Abby and Nancy Show (the one in my head)...
Recked Productions Takes to the Pool
Recked Productions Up For Air Imagine you are strolling around Hermann Park and you notice a gaggle of...
Creature Comforts, Indoors and Out
Andy Coolquitt’s Sculptures and Tableaux Use Urban Materials to Evoke Domesticity Andy Coolquitt has a steadfast interest in domestic spaces. So much so that the Austin-based artist, who has a solo exhibition opening soon at the Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston [...]
River Oaks Chamber Orchestra: Big Bang Encore
With the Houston premiere of the Concerto for Orchestra and TwoPercussionists by Jonathan Leshnoff as its centerpiece, the season finale for the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra (ROCO) lived up to the promise of its title and gave the orchestra an opportunity to go out with a “Big Bang” [...]
Review: Diotima Quartet
In acknowledgment their commitment to modern and contemporary music, the Diotima Quartet takes its name from Luigi Nono’s work, “Fragmente-Stille, an Diotima.” The French ensemble’s concert at Houston’s Menil Collection was presented by Da Camera Houston [...]
Life & Laughter
Houston Ballet Brings The Concert Back Wrong seat? Bickering couples in the row in front of you? Enormous...
artiFACTS: May 2013
After a successful run in Houston, Henry V, a joint production of Main Street Theater and Prague Shakespeare Company, heads to Prague for an October run. Main Street also launched the public phase of its capital [...]