Editor’s Remarks: April 2012
Art sometimes points the way. Take Ai Weiwei’s “Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads, order ” now guarding McGovern Lake...
Houston
Review: Improbable Words
“Improbable Worlds, recipe an Anthology of Texas and Louisiana Poets” Edited by Martha Serpas Mutabilis Press www.mutabilispress.org My...
Review: John Webb “Pile”
John Webb: “Pile” Sculpture Peel Gallery March 2–April 30, 2012 www.peelgallery.org Tendrils, tentacles and vesicles writhe in absolute...
Review: “Happy Happy”
“Happy Happy” 14 Pews March 23, clinic 2012 www.14pews.org “Happy Happy, price ” a cruel and satirical comedy...
Review: Priya Kambli “Color Falls Down”
Priya Kambli’s “Color Falls Down” is one of three new exhibitions to open at the Houston Center for Photography. Part of the FotoFest Biennial 2012, the individual exhibitions by the three photographers all explore the domestic [...]
Review: Amy Blakemore “New Pictures”
Looking at a distant hillside, we see the colors of the landscape fade to the palette of the sky. We know, of course, that should we travel there, we would not find shadowless blue dirt, shadowless blue trees. Those seemingly [...]
Review: Glassell School of Art
At first glance, the Glassell School of Art’s “2012 Core Exhibition” seems disjointed and aimless, the exhibited work like nomadic strangers that have gathered only accidentally under the same roof. This is not surprising [...]
Review: FotoFest 2012 Biennial
There was a chasm, according to the curatorial statement, a trench clawed into the cultural memory that separates the young Russian artists, who started making work in the last decade, from any sense of national continuity [...]
Review: La Resurrezione
After hearing Ars Lyrica’s rendition of Handel’s oratorio “La Resurrezione,” one must wonder why this little-known work about the story of Jesus’ resurrection is not performed more often. With gifted musicians on period instruments [...]
Review: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s recent Society for the Performing Arts three-day engagement had a monumental feel to it. Yes, it was sold out. Yes, Ailey new artistic director Robert Battle is obviously at the top of his game [...]
Review: Debussy’s Paris
Long known for its inventive and contextualized programs, Da Camera Houston did what it does best with its recent presentation of “Debussy’s Paris.” “Lisle Joyeuse,” the Debussy favorite for solo piano was paired with the Sonata [...]
Review: Apocalypse Town
Sure, the word ‘apocalypse’ might bring to mind a scorched-earth wasteland, an image of a world abandoned, forsaken — an image which a project concerned with life in post-conflict Kosovo might want to conjure [...]