Briefly Noted
There’s always more art out there than we can fit into A+C, but we couldn’t let 2012 end...
Houston
Transatlantic Love Triangle
Triple-venue Exhibition Puts Amore Through Its Paces “Love is a many-splendored thing,” says the novel, the film, the...
Review: Houston Cinema Arts Festival
November 8-12, 2012 Film festivals are overwhelming. I always think I’m going to pick the good ones, but...
Portraiture Now: Asian American Portraits of Encounter
The latest exhibition to grace the Louisa Stude Sarofim Gallery at Asia Society Texas Center introduces an ensemble of Asian and Asian-American artists exploring such themes as personal growth, home, and broader social complexities of Asian and American cultural confluence. Organized by the [...]
Review: Love Goes To Press
Main Street Theater November 23-December 23, 2012 This just in: the battle of the sexes meets the front in Main Street Theater’s rediscovered mid-40’s wartime romance Loves Goes To Press by Martha Gellhorn and Virginia Cowles. Despite the welcome presence of pre-feminist leading women [...]
Review: Bellini’s I Capuleti e i Monecchi
Opera in the Heights Is love only sweet when it’s forbidden? In the Opera in the Heights (a.k.a. Oh!) production of Vincenzo Bellini’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi, there is no aphrodisiac like danger for the young lovers, Romeo and Giulietta. Loosely based on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet [...]
Expanding the canon, combating ‘myopia’
Radical Presence curator decries view that CAMH shows too many black, gay artists Contemporary Arts Museum Houston senior...
Review: Houston Cinema Arts Festival 2012
Another Houston Cinema Arts Festival (HCAF) has come and gone, which for me meant another five days in the dark. As with all festivals, you see a lot and you miss a lot. Three things stood out for me: Andrew Garrison’s charming Trash Dance, Phil Solomon’s epic American Falls [...]
Playing It Forward
Instruments Land in Young Musicians’ Hands There are three rules in a guitar lesson with Daren Hightower: 1)...
Holiday Gems
There’s a bounty of holiday art activity every year, from the mainstays like A Christmas Carol and The...
Editor’s Remarks: November 2012
The poetry of numbers surfaces this month. World War I ended on the 11th hour of the 11th...