In doing some early research on the history of ballet in Texas, I emailed my favorite grad school ballet teacher, Shelly Berg, now a Professor in the Dance Division at Southern Methodist University.
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.
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.
It's February, the love month. As much as I would like to regale you with tales of how love has affected the cultural landscape of Texas, that will have to wait until I leave the State.
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.
