Playful Challenges Ahead: Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company’s Austin Season
Kathy Dunn Hamrick begins with a really clean slate.
The ACTX Top Ten: November 2018
Our top ten picks for arts and culture events across the Lone Star State in November 2018.
REVIEW: Jessica Stockholder, Relational Aesthetics and Robert Davidson, U and Eye at The Contemporary Austin
Stockholder titled the Davidson exhibition U and Eye (through March 3, 2019), taking the title from one of his prints, but with a nod to both artists' interests in relationships.
Boundless Quantum and Galactic Space: ‘The Demon in the Diagram’ at the Moody Center
Millennia before mapping the universe became the purview of the scientist, the first artists scratched marks, lines and shapes onto cave walls, perhaps to make some sense of the world around them through pictorial representation.
Texas Studio: Preetika Rajgariah
Preetika Rajgariah will spend much of the remainder of 2018 travelling so I was lucky to catch her at her home studio in Houston that she shares with her partner, Lovie Olivia.
REVIEW: New Cartographies at Asia Society Texas Center
Cartography is a fascinating practice.
REVIEW: Margaret Meehan, Hope is the Thing with Feathers and Eric Zimmerman, A Few Things for the World’s End at Conduit Gallery
As you come around the entrance to Margaret Meehan's Conduit Gallery exhibition, Hope is the Thing with Feathers (through Nov. 24), a concrete cast of a tree stump sits facing the pink parachute installation in the center of the room.
Death and Redemptive Love: ‘The Flying Dutchman’ at Dallas Opera
The Dallas Opera's production of The Flying Dutchman, beautifully conducted by Emmanuel Villaume and under the direction of chorus master Alexander Rom and stage director Christopher Alden, takes 1930s-era Germany as its visual and conceptual stage.
EAST Shifts
The East Austin Studio Tour is arguably the city’s largest art event when you add up the number of participating artists, the audience and the footprint of the two-weekend self-guided free tour.
Zine Fest Houston Returns to Lawndale
Zines aren’t new, and neither are zinefests, but many people haven’t heard of either. Zines are self published “magazines” and can be about literally any subject and in any medium.
Houston Cinema Arts Festival at Ten
Consider the Houston Cinema Arts Festival (HCAF), this year celebrating its tenth anniversary, and Richard Herskowitz, its artistic director.
Sculpture Month Houston Spreads Out Beyond the Silos
In 46 venues, sculpture at its most expansive will be on view through Dec. 1.