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Review: Context
Frame Dance Productions May 13, 2012 Critics get only so many chances to use the “you should have been there” card, but really, when it comes to Lydia Hance’s Context, recently performed by Frame Dance Productions at Winter Street Studios, this is one of them. Billed as an “event” rather than a show, Context has [...]
Read MoreReview: Jasper Johns, Two Flags & Prints
For some painters, printmaking is merely a means of reproducing their images so they can make them available to collectors who can’t afford their paintings. Not so Jasper Johns, whose endless experimentation has transformed his images of what he famously called “things the mind already knows” [...]
Read MoreReview: The Unexpected Man
After seeing The Unexpected Man, I am at a loss to understand why God of Carnage has received so much more attention. The Unexpected Man has everything to do with the way we live our lives. It is a play about how time eats us – how our lovers age and die, how people who were once our friends and fans and great supporters grow to find us repetitive and dull [...]
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Editor’s Remarks: May 2012
It’s my seventh issue performing the job of editor, so it’s time to rock the A + C ship. Starting next month, Devon Britt-Darby, former Houston Chronicle art critic, assumes the role of visual arts editor, allowing me to focus on the performing arts/literature/film and have a lot more fun at openings. His byline generously [...]
Editor’s Remarks: April 2012
Art sometimes points the way. Take Ai Weiwei’s “Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads,” now guarding McGovern Lake in Hermann Park. They seem to be telling us to look to the lake and beyond, once you figure out what animal you are, of course. (I’m a sheep.) In our Cultural Warrior interview, Matthew Lennon, Houston Arts Alliance [...]
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