Review: Jasper Johns, Two Flags & Prints
Hiram Butler Gallery April 14-May 19 www.dbhbg.com For some painters, printmaking is merely a means of reproducing their...
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Review: Utopia/Dystopia
Review: Utopia/Dystopia: Construction and Destruction in Photography and Collage Museum of Fine Arts, Houston March 11-June 10 www.mfah.org A woman in a white dress her lower half anyway, floats dreamily against the backdrop of a hazy Manhattan skyline; her head and torso eclipsed [...]
Review: The Unexpected Man
After seeing The Unexpected Man, I am at a loss to understand why God of Carnage has received so much more attention. The Unexpected Man has everything to do with the way we live our lives. It is a play about how time eats us [...]
Review: La Cage aux Folles
George Hamilton kissed a guy. OK, so a few other things happened before that in the Theatre Under the Stars production of La Cage aux Folles, starring the ever-bronzed Hamilton as Georges and Broadway veteran [...]
Review: Artifactual Realities
Station Museum Through May 13 I had difficulty grasping the curatorial remit of Artifactual Realities when I first learned of the exhibition. Billed as part of the Fotofest Biennial, the exhibition featuring the work of eleven artists purports to explore the Occupy movement and tenets of [...]
Review: Garth Clark & Mark Del Vecchio Collection
Review: Shifting Paradigms in Contemporary Ceramics: The Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio Collection Museum of Fine Arts, Houston March 4-June 3 www.mfah.org You may know Lucio Fontana as the Italian painter whose slashed canvases echoed the devastation of World War II while violently activating the space behind the surface [...]
Review: Contemporary Asian Art
Contemporary Asian Art: Texas Connections Asia Society Texas Center April 14–September 16 www.asiasociety Considering the fact that the...
Review: Yasuaki Onishi’s Reverse of Volume RG
Reverse of Volume RG Rice Gallery 13 April- 24 June 2012 Nebulous Mountains hover in space. Yawning caverns...
Review: Don Carlos
What does a choir of red crosses, pyrotechnics, and a wooden cart carrying chained heretics make? In Houston Grand Opera’s version of Giuseppe Verdi’s Don Carlos, it’s the turning point from a mediocre opera to a memorable one. Don [...]
Review: Houston Grand Opera’s Mary Stuart
The tragedy of Geatano Donizetti’s Mary Stuart, which had its Houston Grand Opera premiere last month, is that there’s so much drama, intrigue and passion in the real story behind rival queens Elizabeth I of England and Mary, Queen of Scots [...]
Cultural Warrior: Mercury’s Antoine Plante
One of the city’s leading early music organizations, Mercury Baroque, has recently re-branded itself as Mercury-the Orchestra Redefined. Antoine Plante, conductor and artistic director, left Montreal to attend Rice University’s [...]
Worth the Trip
Currents: The Santa Fe International New Media Festival New Mexico is known for artists and scientists, not just...