artiFACTS: November 2012
Theater LaB Houston bids farewell to its Alamo venue on December 2, 2012. Bayou City Concert Musicals will present the 2012 Kim Hupp Award to Gerald Blaise LaBita, founder and producing director of Theater LaB Houston [...]
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Cultural Warrior: Elizabeth Dunbar
DiverseWorks’s Elizabeth Dunbar It has been a busy year for Elizabeth Dunbar, sale who became executive director at...
Battle Lessons
War on Film at MFAH In conjunction with its exhibit, WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents War on Film, a series of five films chronicling armed conflict in the 20th century. Given the extensive catalog [...]
“Not What They Saw in the Movies”
MFAH’s WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY Surveys Combat, from Advent to Aftermath Standing over a model of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s Upper Brown Foundation Gallery, MFAH photography curator Anne Wilkes Tucker reaches into one of the dollhouse-sized rooms to pluck out one of hundreds of miniature copies of war-related photographs [...]
Short Story Dances
Karen Stokes on Vine Leaf Dances Choreographer Karen Stokes switches to short form in Vine Leaf Dances, which...
Houston Contemporary Dance Squared
Preview: Hope Stone and Houston Met Present squared dancer No, The Stoners and The Metronics are not emerging indie-rock bands. These handles are how Hope Stone and Houston Metropolitan Dance Company members have been referring to themselves as they merge for their joint performance, squared dancer [...]
The Society of Cinema
Houston Cinema Arts Festival Brings It All Together The art of film is a major focus this month as the Houston Cinema Arts Society presents its fourth annual Houston [...]
Stormy Weather, a Celebration of Lena Horne, at Miller Outdoor Theatre
Legendary Supremes superstar Mary Wilson brings her glorious voice and charisma to honor the great American icon, ambulance Lena...
Review: Body Awareness
It might sound a bit risqué when you first hear that a theatre company called Stark Naked is putting on a play called Body Awareness. But despite its title, Annie Baker’s 2008 one-act play has much more to do with the mind and with psychological evasiveness than with [...]
Worth the Trip: Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
I didn’t get around to making the pilgrimage to the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art – the...
Review: The Italian Girl in Algiers
The Italian Girl in Algiers Giant hats, a suspended cage, growing sand castles and balloons in the shape of Italy are just a few of the comic objects blown wonderfully out of proportion in Houston Grand Opera’s production of The Italian Girl in Algiers by Gioacchino [...]
Review: Floyd Newsum
At Wade Wilson Art, Floyd Newsum presents his latest body of richly-hued, heavily-worked, densely-layered paintings. Many of the paintings are influenced by Newsum’s ongoing interest in the arts of Sirigu, a village in northern Ghana. Throughout the exhibition, collaged elements [...]