Review: James Brown
James Brown: The Distinct Connection Texas Gallery September 20-November 3 Ivory and dense– black forms dance across the walls at Texas Gallery. Vibrating with stillness, James Brown’s painting series Planets: The Distinct Connection offers us a meditation on the cosmic and metaphysical. Brown creates a rhythm of hundreds of spots that [...]
Review: There is no archive in which nothing gets lost
When nothing becomes something, things get interesting. Such is the situation in There is no archive in which nothing gets lost, a video exhibition curated by Sally Frater, a critic-in-residence at the Glassell School of Art and an A+C contributor. The show consists of three video works, installed in separate areas of the gallery, that [...]
Review: Dance Gallery Festival
Lots to Look at: The Dance Gallery Festival at Sam Houston State University The Dance Gallery Festival is aptly named; it’s a gallery of sorts where we can observe choreographers from Houston and New York and, this year, even Italy. Started by Astrid von Ussar, the Festival has found a home at Sam Houston State [...]
Review: Jekyll & Hyde
Guys can be so moody. Just in time for Halloween, Theatre Under the Stars (TUTS) returns to Jekyll & Hyde, with a newly conceived production, and the beginning of a long national tour that will end again on Broadway. Houston’s most famous homegrown musical premiered at the Alley Theatre in 1990, and went on to [...]
Review: Miss Julie
Classical Theatre Company September 26-October 14, 2012 Swedish playwright August Strindberg, whose death marks its one-hundredth anniversary this year, is remembered both for his hand in shepherding drama away from overelaborate plotting towards a pared down naturalism [...]
Incredible India!
Following only a week after the latest Bollywood Blast programming, Samskriti’s Incredible India! event at Miller Outdoor Theatre on September 8 showcased two energetic dance troupes from India, one traditional, one contemporary: NADAM (Nathan Academy for Dance and Music), and Stem Dance Kampni. The operative word of the night [...]
Review: Otello at Opera in the Heights
Gold medallions, dapper suits, and a man snorting heroin set the new scene of Gioachino Rossini’s Otello. Though still a tragic tale of a father’s prejudice and a daughter’s sense of duty, it is opera’s Scarface. Rossini’s Otello is the first of two Houston opera premieres in Oh!’s [...]
Review: Life Is a Dream
Main Street Theater September 20 – October 21 Main Street Theater opened its 38th Season with Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s poetic masterpiece, Life Is a Dream. Written in the 17th century, the work questions what it means to be fully awake and if it is only in our dreams [...]
Review: 10 Decades at Architecture Center Houston
On the occasion of the centenary of the Rice School of Architecture, a fascinating exhibition documenting its history is currently on display at the Architecture Center Houston downtown. It is rare to see an architectural exhibition in Houston that is open to the public [...]
Review: Danny Rolph at Barbara Davis Gallery
There’s a classic look and feel to London artist Danny Rolph’s new paintings. With shards of color that jostle alongside sinewy curves and biomorphic forms in a whirlwind of shattered rhythms, they look like something James Rosenquist might paint if he gave up popular-culture source [...]
Review: Mike Beradino at Emergency Room
As sculpture physically occupying Emergency Room, a snack-sized exhibition space at Rice University, Mike Beradino’s Lode Runner is more of a curiosity than a feast for the eyes. It looks like what it is: a DIY computer, assembled from salvaged parts, whirring and humming atop a similarly [...]
Review: In Appropriation at HCP
In Appropriation at the Houston Center for Photography is one of the strongest exhibitions currently showing in the city. Curated by SeeSaw Magazine founder and editor Aaron Schuman, it includes the work of seven artists who incorporate appropriation methodologies into their practices [...]
