Cultural Warrior: Elizabeth Dunbar
DiverseWorks’s Elizabeth Dunbar It has been a busy year for Elizabeth Dunbar, sale who became executive director at...
Houston
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 [...]
Review: Strange Eggs
What lies inside of an egg? The shape of a chicken’s egg does not itself give us a...