All Is Fair In Art?
The Dallas Art Fair (DAF) makes two unspoken promises that, prima facie, seem at odds — untenable in the coupling of the radically new and the easily recognizable. The DAF proposes to be the most hip, happening [...]
Houston
Angels in Houston
The celebrated American Ballet Theatre principal Angel Corella is one of the world’s greatest ballet dancers. His passion is now evident in his company, Corella Ballet, making its Houston debut, presented by Society for Performing Arts [...]
New Notes: Composers in Houston
Anthony Brandt thinks Houston is a composer’s city. Brandt, a professor of composition at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music and Artistic Director of Musiqa, a collective of five composers, knows what he is talking about. [...]
The Life of Documentary Filmmakers In Houston
“We made a little money off of T-shirt and sticker sales and a screening last year,” says Alex...
What’s Old is New Again
John Johnson, known throughout Houston’s tight-knit stage community as “JJ,” is happy enough sharing the official motto of the troupe he founded, for which (as with his name) Classical Theatre Company [...]
Drawing with Gravity: Richard Serra at The Menil
Over 35 years and 1000 square feet of black pigment fill the contemporary galleries of Houston’s Menil Collection. Organized by Me-nil curators Bernice Rose and Michelle White, “Richard Serra [...]
Look Here: Liliana Porter’s Situational Portraits
Liliana Porter is a gatekeeper of emotional capacity, whose artwork is heavily informed by the psychological perception of objects in the physical world — which is to say that it relies on our [...]
artiFACTS: April 2012
With the addition of the tagline, “the orchestra redefined,” Mercury Baroque is changing its name to Mercury. The orchestra’s repertoire has expanded in recent seasons to include works outside of the Baroque era [...]
Editor’s Remarks: March 2012
March is coming in a like a lion alright, buy and from Russia, viagra with the opening of...
Review: Cinderella
You know right away you are in fresh take on a classic fairy tale when you find out that Cinderella’s mother leads a group of zomberinas. Stanton Welch’s “Cinderella” is a triumph on several levels. From the first few notes of [...]
Review: “Dinner With Friends”
The company’s latest production, Donald Margulies’ 2000 Pulitzer-winning drama “Dinner With Friends,” marks the inaugural show of the new Studio 101 collective theater space [...]
Review: “A Separation”
“A Separation,” Asghar Farhadi’s latest moral drama, is a painful, compassionate, and powerful film. Farhadi dissolves the traditional notions of good and evil, and dives into the complicated and messy subjectivity of truth and morality [...]