Worth the Trip
Currents: The Santa Fe International New Media Festival New Mexico is known for artists and scientists, not just...
Houston
Disappearing Acts
Jonah Bokaer responds to Lee Ufan For some, dance’s ephemeral quality is a problem. For Jonah Bokaer, it’s a choreographic challenge that drives the engine of his work, and often poses questions of time, space, objects [...]
High Art and Low Riders: Art Car Parade at 25
The giant roach car. The one that looks like a dragon. The one with all the fish and lobsters on it. These are just some of the rolling sculptures that cruise through Houston’s [...]
WindSync: Savvy, Smarts, & Sass
There’s nary a music stand in sight when woodwind quintet, WindSync, swaggers street-gang-style to tunes from Bernstein’s West Side Story or adorably masks as woodland denizens for a whimsical rendition of Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf [...]
Made in America and Beyond
Houston Ballet Blurs the Boundaries Does it matter where a ballet is made? Houston Ballet’s trio of works under the banner of Made in America, followed by Giselle and Romeo & Juliet, offer a rich discussion of regionalism in ballet [...]
Unmapping Houston
Artists navigate the city’s geography You hear people say Houston is a hard city to love. But, it’s also a hard city to see. When you imagine Houston, at times [...]
Pump Up the Volume
The Quiet Genius of Harvey Bott and the DoV “All ‘straight’ lines bend through space,” Harvey Bott tells me. That sounds like something having to do with math, and [...]
artiFACTS: May 2012
The Houston Metropolitan Dance Company has been invited to perform on Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival Inside/Out stage on August 25th. This is only the second time a Houston troupe has performed on the prestigious outdoor stage [...]
Editor’s Remarks: May 2012
It’s my seventh issue performing the job of editor, treatment so it’s time to rock the A +...
Editor’s Remarks: April 2012
Art sometimes points the way. Take Ai Weiwei’s “Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads, order ” now guarding McGovern Lake...
Review: Improbable Words
“Improbable Worlds, recipe an Anthology of Texas and Louisiana Poets” Edited by Martha Serpas Mutabilis Press www.mutabilispress.org My...