RECORDING | march 2010
The rapper formerly known as Dat Boy Grace grew up as a member of the late DJ Screw’s seminal Screwed Up Click, breaking out with From Crumbs to Bricks in 1999 and continuing to appear on Screw’s mixtapes until an unfortunate prison sentence put him on lock for the better part of the last decade. [...]
FOR ART’S SAKE | march 2010
The Curious Case of
Photographer David A. Brown
THE CURIOUS CASE OF PHOTOGRAPHER DAVID A. BROWN
When I walked into Catalina Coffee to meet David A. Brown on a Monday in January, I couldn’t reconcile the fact that the guy staring right at me was the same bespectacled man I’d seen in pictures. With a gruff beard [...]
MUSEUM DISTRICT | march 2010
1. The Menil Collection www.menil.org
Leaps into the Void: Documents of Nouveau Réalist Performance, opening March 19, draws from the Menil’s strong holdings of work and material from the archives and collection that document through film, photographs and works of art the movement’s ephemeral and performance-based projects, perhaps most famously epitomized by Yves Klein’s “Leap into [...]
GISH AT THE MOVIES | march 2010
COMMUNITY AND JEWISH FILMS
So many movies, so little time! March is just blooming with film screenings and activity, so get your calendar out and start marking these dates. A Prophet opens 3.12 at the River Oaks Theatre (www.landmarktheatres.com). Be sure to catch all the happenings at MOVIES! The Store, owned by RO marketing man Rob [...]
EXHIBITS+MUSEUMS+ART HOUSE LISTINGS | march 2010
EXHIBITS+MUSEUMS+ART HOUSE LISTINGS
museums
1940 AIR TERMINAL MUSEUM
8325 Travelair Rd. 713.454.1940
www.1940airterminal.org
ART CAR MUSEUM
140 Heights Blvd. 713.861.5526
www.artcarmuseum.com
BLAFFER GALLERY
UH Main Campus, Ent. 16, 713.743.9530
www.class.uh.edu/blaffer
GALVESTON ARTS CENTER
2127 Strand St. 409.763.2403
www.galveston.com
HERITAGE SOCIETY
1100 Bagby 713.655.1912
www.heritagesociety.org
HOUSTON FIRE MUSEUM
2403 Milam 713.524.2526
www.houstonfiremuseum.org
MUSEUM OF PRINTING HISTORY
1324 W. Clay St. 713.522.4652
www.printingmuseum.org
MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN HISTORY
7502 Fondren Rd. 281.649.3997
www.hbu.edu
ORANGE SHOW
2401 Munger 713.926.6368
www.orangeshow.org
PROJECT ROW HOUSES
2521 Holman 713.526.7662
www.projectrowhouses.org
UNIVERSITY MUSEUM
3100 Cleburne [...]
SPACETAKER ARTSCENE | march 2010
Three months into the new year and we’re ready for another vacation. Spring breaks are upon us and not a moment too soon. Whether the family is piling into the car for a road trip to Wally World or flying the friendly skies to an adventure abroad, the key to a successful vacation is a [...]
SPACETAKER ARTSCENE | february 2010
Love! Valour! Compassion! Another Valentine’s Day is upon us… are you anxious? Fear not, fair ladies and gallant gentlemen – face February 14 with faith! Faith that you won’t score a dinner reservation at your first choice, that a shaky economy won’t preclude price gouging on roses, and that Hugh Grant will probably get [...]
GISH AT THE MOVIES | february 2010
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS and RICE CINEMA
The Museum of Fine Arts (mfah.org) has a very exciting program this month, the annual “Festival of Preservation” organized by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. The archive is one of several national ones dedicated to the preservation and exhibition of film history and culture; this Festival showcases those [...]
RECORDING | february 2010
HENRY DARRAGH
www.henrydarragh.com
How do you strike the balance between your originals and the standards? I mean, when you’re thinking about recording in advance, do you think about doing a record that’s half and half or do you try and write as much original material as you can?
I don’t think I wrote those specifically for a record; [...]
FOR ART’S SAKE | february 2010
THE STARCK CHAIR PROJECT
www.starckchairproject.blogspot.com
Starting in 2008, native Houstonians Wendy Brown, Alexandra Gaisbauer and Stephanie Webb launched The Starck Chair Project, an art endeavor wherein they photographed three clear Philippe Starck chairs in various locales, including Menil Park and Jones Hall Plaza, with a large format style camera. The ladies themselves also appear in the photographs. [...]
