Worth the Trip
Lucian Freud and Omer Fast in North Texas I didn’t exactly want to drive four-and-a-half hours to see...
Houston
Under One Roof, With Room to Breathe
MFAH’s Sweeping American Made Spans Centuries, Media and Styles Viewing American art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, as at most institutions, has long been a piecemeal, largely compartmentalized experience. For paintings and sculpture, you visit Beck Building galleries that are currently mostly occupied by the traveling exhibition [...]
Film Review: ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’
Beasts of the Southern Wild is no doubt in my top-10 list for best films of 2012. I know most of you haven't heard of this film, but rest assured, once you see [...]
Review: Next to Normal
Stages Repertory Theatre May 16-June 24 If someone told me that the minute the curtain came down after...
Review: Hilary Wilder, A Northern Tale
J.M.W. Turner, Caspar David Friedrich and the Hudson River School understandably come up a lot in discussions of...
Review: David Katz, Systemic Expansion
Spindles and webs of organic shapes span the hallway like an alien garland, interlinking peculiar bulbous nodes. Hard ceramic cages squinch and shape the interlinked tumorous forms. The bone-like lattices that festoon the hallways of the Artists Gallery at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft comprise Systemic Expansion, the latest [...]
Review: Oscar Muñoz
at Sicardi Gallery Fire, water, dust, and light. Though modern science has moved well past the classical theory of elements, there remains some category of pure substance [...]
Arts Aid
Houston Arts Alliance Launches the Inaugural Houston Arts Resource Fair Being a professional artist is not for the...
Cultural Warrior: Sandra Bernhard
Sandra Bernhard is the engine behind such ground-breaking HGOco/Houston Grand Opera programs such as Song of Houston and Home and Place. She also is the lead on numerous other projects that bring HGO into Houston’s multi-cultural communities in a way that sets the standard for [...]
A Frame Shop With Curatorial Caché
Ariane Roesch’s UNIT Looks for Print Collectors Online As PrintHouston continues through the summer with its sprawling calendar...
Light – Hold the Pickle Juice
James Turrell on the Trouble With Holograms A month after the unveiling of Twilight Epiphany, James Turrell’s skyspace...
The Conductivity of Collectivity
Houston Artists Find Power in Numbers “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to...