Something has been pestering me about the news coverage of Uriel Landeros, the alleged “artist†who last year defaced Picasso’s Woman in a Red Armchair at The Menil Collection....
https://www.artsjournal.com/texas/2013/05/vandal-in-a-red-armchair/
As thrilling as the Houston Symphony Orchestra’s final concert with Hans Graf was last Friday night – everything came together perfectly for a stunning Mahler 2nd – itâ�...
https://www.artsjournal.com/texas/2013/05/the-sound-of-the-wild-wild-west/
When I lived in Boston, I met and worked with many press agents. I remember one of them saying once, “you know, there’s good news and there’s bad news. And then, there i...
https://www.artsjournal.com/texas/2013/05/thats-right-youre-not-from-austin/
Editor’s note: My partner Joseph Campana and I discovered Marina Zukow’s work when it was presented in Houston by Diverseworks (see below). One of the most important American artists of her g...
https://www.artsjournal.com/texas/2013/04/hydrocarbons-theyre-whats-for-dinner/
Liminal Space Contemporary Music Ensemble is a recently-formed, Houston-based new music group I’ve decided to follow. Regrettably, I missed their first concert last year, devoted to ...
https://www.artsjournal.com/texas/2013/03/living-room-for-the-performers/
It was, without doubt, the frightening photo of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Evelyn Lear on the Deutsche Grammophon boxed vinyl recording of Alban Berg’s Wozzeck that first attracted me to...
https://www.artsjournal.com/texas/2013/03/only-a-red-glow-in-the-west/
The weeks preceding Christmas might seem like a strange time for musical performances with a political and/or military flavor. Maybe not. In 1969, of course, John Lennon and Yoko Ono chose Decemb...
https://www.artsjournal.com/texas/2012/12/coming-together-in-december/
The last time I spoke with Houston artist and lighting designer Jeremy Choate, he was planning an installation for the exterior building of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, a project about w...
Just before I moved to Texas, people warned me Houston was a kind of dance wasteland. Even a local critic told me there was “nothing here†in terms of dance, saying in a scolding t...
https://www.artsjournal.com/texas/2012/06/the-choreographer-vanishes/
The “iPhone Marimba Man†accused of ruining the New York Philharmonic’s recent Mahler 9th was stoned to death this past weekend in a secluded alley of the city’s meat-pa...
https://www.artsjournal.com/texas/2012/01/dial-m-for-mahler/