artiFACTS: May 2013
After a successful run in Houston, Henry V, a joint production of Main Street Theater and Prague Shakespeare Company, heads to Prague for an October run. Main Street also launched the public phase of its capital campaign to purchase and renovate its Rice Village facility, where the theater has been creating nationally recognized productions for [...]
Loose Ends
Stray Tidbits, Blind Items and Unsolicited Advice Last year’s salutary exhibition American Made: 250 Years of American Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston played to the MFAH’s strengths, telling a convincing story of American art across media while giving the works room to breathe. It also begged the question: How would the MFAH [...]
artiFACTS: April 2013
Dance Source Houston has assumed management of the Barnevelder Movement/Arts Complex. Formerly managed by Suchu Inc, Barnevelder provides space for rehearsals and dance classes for dance companies [...]
artiFACTS: February 2013
Houston Symphony President Robert A. Peiser and Executive Director and CEO Mark C. Hanson announced that the Orchestra has selected Colombian-born, Vienna-trained conductor Andrés Orozco-Estrada as its next [...]
artiFACTS: December 2012
Several Houston dancers appeared in the book Dancers Among Us, including Houston Ballet’s Connor Walsh, Charles Charles-Louis Yoshiyama, Melody Mennite and Noble Motion Dance Company members Jesus Acosta [...]
artiFACTS: November 2012
Theater LaB Houston bids farewell to its Alamo venue on December 2, 2012. Bayou City Concert Musicals will present the 2012 Kim Hupp Award to Gerald Blaise LaBita, founder and producing director of Theater LaB Houston [...]
artiFACTS: October 2012
Glen Bailey is the new director for FotoFest’s Student Education Program, an in-school student visual literacy program now in its 22nd year in Houston’s schools. Bailey came to Houston from the John F. Kennedy Center [...]
artiFACTS: September 2012
DiverseWorks ArtSpace will relocate to Midtown at 4102 Fannin Street on September 7, 2012. Rachel Cook has been appointed to the newly created post of Assistant Curator. DW also announces two new programs: DWoW [...]
artiFACTS: July/August 2012
Houston Art Dealers Association announces the ArtHouston 2012 summer event with 35 participating fine art galleries, opening on July 14th in a day-long event. Participating galleries include those along Colquitt, in the Museum [...]
artiFACTS: June 2012
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) has given the 2012 Meredith J. Long Core Program Award to Gabriel Martinez. The $10,000 prize, presented at the Glassell School of Art Benefit and Auction Friday, May 11, was inaugurated [...]
artiFACTS: May 2012
The Houston Metropolitan Dance Company has been invited to perform on Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival Inside/Out stage on August 25th. This is only the second time a Houston troupe has performed on the prestigious outdoor stage [...]
artiFACTS: April 2012
With the addition of the tagline, “the orchestra redefined,” Mercury Baroque is changing its name to Mercury. The orchestra’s repertoire has expanded in recent seasons to include works outside of the Baroque era [...]
