Holding High the Musical Flame
Theatre Under the Stars Strives Forward There is a song in the musical Jekyll & Hyde that describes...
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Up a Wall
SPA brings Deborah Colker’s Mix to Houston Society for Performing Arts brings Companhia de Dança Deborah Colker performing their signature work, Mix, on October 12 at Jones Hall. In Mix, an enormous wall becomes a second floor as her über-strong dancer/athletes carry out Colker’s imaginative movement on the vertical plane. Houston audiences [...]
At Home in the World
The Everyday Innovation of Craft As I write, a large-scale international art and technology symposium is taking place in the Southwest region: organizations in Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas are hosting conferences, festivals, exhibitions, workshops, educational programs, and more. All this technology has me thinking about craft [...]
Editor’s Remarks: October 2012
Last month, A + C Houston celebrated its first birthday, but October marks a year that I’ve been...
artiFACTS: October 2012
Glen Bailey is the new director for FotoFest’s Student Education Program, an in-school student visual literacy program now in its 22nd year in Houston’s schools. Bailey came to Houston from the John F. Kennedy Center [...]
Review: Beauty & The Beast
What’s not to love in a story about a bookworm? Belle, one of Disney’s most cherished heroines, loves literature, libraries and a furry guy with a tail and some anger management problems. Beauty & the Beast took over the Gexa [...]
Taking a Bow and Sharing the Stage
Artist of the Year Aaron Parazette Presents New Work – His and Others’ A confluence of fortune has brought together two related painting exhibitions this fall: the 2012 Texas Artist of the Year exhibition at Art League Houston, FLYAWAY: New Work by Aaron Parazette [...]
Review: 10 Decades at Architecture Center Houston
On the occasion of the centenary of the Rice School of Architecture, a fascinating exhibition documenting its history is currently on display at the Architecture Center Houston downtown. It is rare to see an architectural exhibition in Houston that is open to the public [...]
Frame Dance Productions’ The Black Space
Fresh Arts Coalition’s claustrophobic Spacetaker Gallery made a perfect setting for Frame Dance Productions’ The Black Space, a dance/film/installation work about sorrow and forgiveness choreographed by Lydia Hance. With mascara-dripping eyes, Hance, Kristen Frankiewicz and Jacquelyne Boe each took to the corners [...]
Review: Danny Rolph at Barbara Davis Gallery
There’s a classic look and feel to London artist Danny Rolph’s new paintings. With shards of color that jostle alongside sinewy curves and biomorphic forms in a whirlwind of shattered rhythms, they look like something James Rosenquist might paint if he gave up popular-culture source [...]
Review: Mike Beradino at Emergency Room
As sculpture physically occupying Emergency Room, a snack-sized exhibition space at Rice University, Mike Beradino’s Lode Runner is more of a curiosity than a feast for the eyes. It looks like what it is: a DIY computer, assembled from salvaged parts, whirring and humming atop a similarly [...]
Review: In Appropriation at HCP
In Appropriation at the Houston Center for Photography is one of the strongest exhibitions currently showing in the city. Curated by SeeSaw Magazine founder and editor Aaron Schuman, it includes the work of seven artists who incorporate appropriation methodologies into their practices [...]