Drama in Dallas
Dallas struggles with its identity. If the three big cities of Texas were familial stereotypes, Dallas would be the middle child, stuck between its classy older sibling, Houston, and the cool, do-no-wrong youngest sibling, Austin.
Bold Steps
On Houston dance stages, this season has been a virtual feast of American dance thanks to Society for the Performing Arts’ focus on great American Dance Companies.
Bigger Than Tut
Meadows Museum Revisits Sorolla’s Fleeting American Fame
Charles Long: CATALIN & Pet Sounds
Los Angeles-based conceptual artist Charles Long’s CATALIN and Pet Sounds are the two newest sculptural installations on view at the Contemporary Austin’s two venues, the Jones Center and Laguna Gloria.
The Jade Wave
If SXSW were to showcase a classical pianist, it would have to be Jade Simmons, and it is, as she has been invited to play at the storied festival, which takes over Austin, March 7-16th.
Visualizing Theater
It’s not quite right to use the term “hidden gem” to describe the Tobin Theatre Arts Collection, housed in gallery space at San Antonio’s McNay Art Museum—mostly because the collection is far from hidden.
In The Next Room or the vibrator play
The ZACH Theatre's production of Sarah Ruhl's In The Next Room or the vibrator play is an exquisitely designed and cleanly executed investigation into sexuality in the dawn of automation.
Focus: Fred Tomaselli
The art of Fred Tomaselli is refreshing in its clean, clear, unreconstructed negotiation of technology.
Dana Nicolay’s New Company Reacquaints Houston With Past Works
If you’ve been watching dance in Houston for less than a decade, it is possible the name Dana Nicolay won’t ring a bell.
Reconsidering a Pop Outlier
Robert Indiana’s totemic sculptures and hard edge paintings filled with enigmatic numbers and text were lionized by New York art critics in the early 1960s, who listed him with Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and James Rosenquist as one of young Turks taking on the rule of abstract expressionism.
Magic and Mayhem Come Together in Aladdin
A magic lantern, a flying carpet, an evil monster, love at first sight and a blend of trickery and triumph sounds like all the right ingredients for a juicy story ballet.