Review: Silence
The Menil Collection Robert Rauschenberg’s 1951 work White Painting (Two Panel) — two side-by-side canvases coated in white...
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A week at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival
There’s a happily revolving door at Jacob’s Pillow every summer, as dancers and dance companies come and go and audiences have the chance to sample from hundreds of performances. The dance festival in Western [...]
Dancing While Flying
A Visit with Paul Taylor dance Michael Apuzzo I first met Michael Apuzzo while working on a Dance Magazine story. Now in his fifth season at Paul Taylor Dance Company, Apuzzo has written a book, Flying Through Yellow to tell his [...]
Beyond the (Arts) Writer: Nancy Wozny
A+C has a pretty eclectic and busy bunch of writers. They’re musicians and curators, architects and dancers, and even writers for other publications. We follow each of these fancy folks in their other endeavors and we think [...]
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...
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 [...]