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Wendy Wagner Art Opening

2011-05-05T20:29:17Z

Opening: May 13th 5:30 to 9:00pm

On display from May 19 - June 10 and continuing upstairs until July 9th

Location: Darke Gallery
320 B Detering @ Feagan
Houston, TX 77007

www.darkegallery.com

Dominic Walsh Dance Theatre

2011-05-03T20:40:40Z

Dominic Walsh Dance Theatre Presents: Third Course featuring a piece set to Debussy's Clair de Lune

May 5, 6 & 7, 2011 at 7:30 PM

Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, Zilkha Hall, 800 Bagby St., Houston, TX 77002

Walsh says: “After my creation of The Afternoon of a Faun set to Debussy’s L'après-midi d'un faune, I became more interested in the composer’s other work, notably his Clair de Lune, and I thought it would make for a fascinating subject to interpret.”

Clair de Lune is considered to be the most adventurous movement of Debussy’s Suite Bergamasque for piano—the rest of the suite is clearly in the Baroque style—and even the composer said that he did not like what he composed in the rest of the suite because of its strict adherence to the style. Debussy’s L'après-midi d'un faune is considered a symphonic poem, a piece of music that evokes the content of some type of literary or visual piece of art. Clair de Lune, taken from a poem by French Symbolist poet Paul Verlaine, is engaged with a similar dialogue between art and music which Walsh finds compelling. Verlaine’s poem uses abstract imagery to embody the themes of melancholy hidden beneath the flamboyant disguises of bergamasques, or French masqueraders. “I am looking forward to creating movement that reframes this piece of music that we, as a culture, have such a familiar relationship with,” says Walsh. Walsh’s revisualization of this iconic work will be created for DWDT Company Member Domenico Luciano.

Ticket prices range from $25 to $52 however, there is a special $5 discount for TFAA associates. Visit www.dwdt.org for tickets and enter Promotion Code TFAA or call 713-315-2525 and mention the TFAA code. (No minimum number needed. Offer not valid on VIP Opening Night Package or Casting Couch.)

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Arielle Masson

2011-04-13T15:06:07Z

The Future is Not What it Used to Be
March 26th- April 23rd

2627 Colquitt
Houston, TX 77098
713.520.7053

Gallery Hours: Tuesday- Saturday 11AM- 5PM & by appontment

Mexican born French artist Arielle Masson has lived and worked in Houston for the past 25 years. She received her M.F.A. from The University of Houston and was one of the first local artists accepted into the CORE Fellowship at the Glassell School, MFAH.

For the past twenty years, Arielle has been developing her own unique form of Quantum Surrealism. Her paintings employ a multi-layered geometric structure with ecological overtures along with elements of Latin American magic realism.

Arielle Masson has exhibited in Houston and throughout the world over the last 20 years including six exhibitions at New Gallery. Her show opens Saturday March 26^th 2011, with a reception for the artist from 6pm to 8pm at New Gallery: 2627 Colquitt, Houston, TX 77098.

MFAH French Fête

2011-03-29T03:50:37Z

French Fête! at the MFAH
Saturday, April 2
9:00 pm - Midnight

Party with the Impressionists!

The MFAH and CultureMap celebrate the exhibition

Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art

An evening of music, cocktails, culture, and more!

Treat yourself to an after-hours look at the exclusive exhibition Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art before these national treasures by Van Gogh, Cézanne, Degas, Monet, Renoir, and others head back to Washington, D.C., forever.

• Mix and mingle on the porte cochere to music by Collide
• Indulge in French bites: crepes, cookies, coffee, and other delights
• Tour the second-floor galleries to the sounds of a string quartet, and enjoy a glass of champagne

Admission
Tickets available only at the door.
$20 Adults
$15 Students with ID
$10 MFAH Members
Cash bar.
Participants must be at least 18 years of age to enter; please present a photo ID for admission. An event entrance fee applies to each guest and provides admission to the event and the exhibition. Free exhibition tickets for MFAH Members and previously purchased untimed tickets may only be used during regular museum hours and cannot be used for this special event. This event has a limited capacity; admission is first-come, first-served.

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2011-02-18T00:44:44Z

Compagnie La Baraka at Wortham Center's Cullen Theater

Saturday, February 26, 2011: 8pm

Abou Lagraa, Artistic Director

IW Marks Dance Series

Direct from Lyon, France, Compagnie La Baraka, led by Artistic Director Abou Lagraa, will perform A World in Itself, a new work choreographed by Lagraa featuring seven dancers and live music played by the Debussy Quartet. French-born, but of Algerian descent, Lagraa founded his tr uly multicultural Compagnie La Barak in 1997 with many his dancers originating from countries and cultures other than France. The Debussy Quartet is well known for its passionate devotion to the French repertoire. Formed in 1990 by a group of young musicians studying at the Conservatoire de Lyon, France, the Debussy Quartet has established its reputation as one of the finest quartets touring and recording today.

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DA CAMERA JAZZ SERIES BRINGS W. AFRICAN GUITARIST LIONEL LOUEKE TO HOUSTON FOR 1st TIME, FEB. 5

2011-02-04T17:11:56Z

Da Camera of Houston presents the first Houston appearance by the Lionel Loueke Trio on Saturday, February 5 at 8:00 PM at the Cullen Theater, Wortham Center. Originally from the West African nation of Benin, guitarist Lionel Loueke has enjoyed a meteoric rise over the past several years. Time called Loueke's first album "a jamboree of sprung rhythms, splashed with African and Brazilian flavors, in which Loueke scat-sings, drums on his guitar, mouth-clicks and plays some wicked jazz." In 2008 and 2009, Loueke was picked as Rising Star guitarist in Down Beat magazine's annual Critics Poll. Loueke combines harmonic sophistication, soaring melody, a deep knowledge of African music, and conventional and extended guitar techniques to create a warm and evocative sound of his own. JazzTimes wrote "Loueke's lines are smartly formed and deftly executed. His ear-friendly melodicism draws both from traditional African sources and a lifetime of closely studying the likes of Jim Hall and George Benson, and his rhythmic shifts come quickly and packed with surprises."

For tickets, call 713-524-5050 or go to dacamera.com <http://dacamera.com/> .

German Impressionist exhibitions at the MFAH Sept 12—Dec 5, 2010.

2010-08-30T22:53:02Z

Artdaily. HOUSTON, TX.- Max Liebermann, celebrated as "the German Manet," was the leader of a generation of German painters who were inspired by the stylistic developments in France. With colleagues Lovis Corinth and Max Slevogt, he forged the way for Impressionism in Germany. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, will be the first American museum to devote a major exhibition to German Impressionism with German Impressionist Landscape Painting: Liebermann—Corinth—Slevogt, on view September 12—December 5, 2010. While the artists were not exclusively devoted to landscape painting, the development of German Impressionism can be most clearly traced through these light-dappled, plein-air works. Eighty paintings, most on loan from German institutions, offer a rare opportunity for audiences to discover Impressionism´s little-known German chapter. Co-organized by the MFAH and the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud, Cologne, the exhibition travels from Cologne to Houston. An accompanying exhibition of forty graphic works, Drawing from Nature: Landscapes by Liebermann, Corinth, and Slevogt, will also be on view, illustrating the full range of their approach to landscapes.

"While Impressionism is considered a fundamentally French development, it naturally spread to neighboring countries, and German Impressionist Landscape Painting focuses on the greatest works by these leading German visionaries," said Dr. Peter C. Marzio, MFAH director. "Liebermann, Corinth, and Slevogt are rarely exhibited in the United States, as their works are generally not in American museum collections, and the MFAH exhibition will be the first time that works by the so-called ´Triumvirate of German Impressionism´ will be shown together."

"German Impressionist Landscape Painting presents a wonderful opportunity to explore why it took nearly 20 years for Impressionism to make its way from Paris to Germany," added Dr. Helga Aurisch, MFAH associate curator of European art and co-organizer of the exhibition. "By looking at the greatest German Impressionist painters—presenting their works to the American public for the first time—we are able to better understand an important chapter of art history and the complex relationship between the art world and world events."

DWDT: Sept. 10 & 11 at MOT

2010-08-23T15:47:28Z

"DINE" WITH DWDT THIS SEASON

Join Dominic Walsh Dance Theater for a season of cultural dining and sample the finest in contemporary ballet with four mixed repertoire programs. With an entertaining mix of dance, theater, visual art, literature, and live music, our innovative performances stimulate all of your senses.

To whet your appetite….
Fall for Dominic Walsh Dance Theater
September 10 & 11, 2010 at 8:00 PM
FREE at Miller Outdoor Theatre

For more information: www.dwdt.org/

IGE*TIMER

2010-07-23T16:19:56Z

September 27, at 8 PM

AvantGarden, Houston

Margherita Young-Zellweger, Honorary Consul of Switzerland, is happy to announce that the group IGE*TIMER will be playing in Houston on September 27, at 8 PM, at the AvantGarden.
The music of IGE*TIMER is an interplay between acoustic, electroacoustic and electronic sound creation and manipulation: Klaus Janek's doublebass playing generates acoustic analog sounds, Simon Berz' manipulated instruments produce and amplify electroacoustic sounds and the sound of the doublebass is manipulated electronically.

Simon Berz is a native of Zuerich, and the group is sponsored by Pro Helvetia.

Please check out the website:
IGE*TIMER: http://www.myspace.com/igetimer
and send this e-mail to other possible interested friends.

Artful Thursday - Paintings in Proust (April 8)

2010-04-12T04:48:09Z

Thursday, April 8, 2010
6:30 p.m.
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Brown Auditorium Theater

Presented by artist Eric Karpeles, author of Paintings in Proust

In the introduction to his book, Paintings in Proust, Eric Karpeles points out that most readers who come across allusions to obscure artworks in Proust´s masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time, probably empathize with Princess de Parme, who responds to Madame de Guermantes´s reference to a canvas by Gustave Moreau with the sort of enthusiastic smile that comes of not having a clue what a person is talking about.

From Botticelli´s angels and Manet´s courtesans to Carpaccio´s saints, Karpeles has identified and located all of the paintings mentioned in the novel, adding insightful commentary that explains their relationship to the novel´s central theme: time and memory.

At the April Artful Thursday, Karpeles discusses how the paintings in the novel serve both as markers along the narrator´s journey of self-discovery and as models of memory, the power of the imagination to redeem lost time. Mr. Karpeles will sign copies of his book during the reception; only copies purchased at the MFAH will be signed.

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