Artifacts: November 2013
Houston Ballet's Ian Casady and Jessica Collado in Stanton Welch's Sons deL'âme a new work set to piano pieces by Frédéric Chopin that will be performed by Lang Lang this Month Theatre des Champs Elysees in Paris.
No Fear, No Discovery
Houston artist (and A+C contributor) Debra Barrera has work in two group shows in San Antonio this month — one large, one small. She’s been included in the TX 13 Group Survey Exhibition, on view through Nov. 9 at Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum
Music to Honor a President
This month across Texas, performing arts organizations are offering new works and classic favorites to commemorate the 50th anniversary of JFK assassination, and celebrate the life of the young president from Massachusetts who so captivated the country.
Eyes on Texas Performing Arts
IMAGE ABOVE: Houston Grand Opera performs Aida through November 9. Photo by Lynn Lane. Austin Tapestry Dance Company...
Eyes on Texas Visual Arts
Austin personal, political, mysterious This group show features presumably personal, political, and mysterious works by Louise Bourgeois, Ben...
Profiles in Leadership: Selven O’Keef Jarmon
Profiles in Leadership are conversations about cultural influence, aesthetic visions and seizing opportunities. Recently, Sixto Wagan, director of the Center for Arts Leadership at the University of Houston, visited with Selven O’Keef Jarmon, a Houston-based fashion designer/visual artist.
Performania
I've written more Nutcracker stories than should be allowed. Dance writers should have a quota. For a while, disaster stories were all the rage. Tales of a remote control rat going rogue on stage can seriously stir up holiday bluster.
San Antonio’s Grassroots Spread
As Blue Star Gentrifies, viagra Artistic Energy Branches Out Across Town IMAGE ABOVE: Angel Rodriguez-Diaz, American, born 1955,...
Insider Notes
As Dallas Contemporary turns 35, Charissa Terranova surveys the venerable yet agile art space's history, while Dan R. Goddard looks at how San Antonio's art scene is spreading beyond the gentrifying Blue Star Arts Complex.
Beyond Books
When the first Houston Jewish Book Fair was presented to the public four decades ago, it may have been difficult to imagine how large this event would eventually become.
Dark Comedies & Deranged Elves
How many dance devotées first became entranced with ballet as children, watching a swirl of human snowflakes float across the stage? How many regional theater season subscription holders had their first taste of an onstage happy ending when a gleeful Ebenezer Scrooge saves the Cratchit family through the magic of a giant turkey for Tiny Tim?
Looking Back: Under Acceleration
According to the proverbial mission statement, the function of a given city’s contemporary art space is to exhibit the work of young, emerging artists from the area, and to proffer artistic experimentation therein. Let us consider this to be the face of things.