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Two Alike: The Cogent and Irrational Dance of Jack Ferver
I had never seen Jack Ferver dance, but I remembered him as Jimmy Tickles in Strangers With Candy, still my favorite program ever aired on Comedy Central, when he appeared last week in Texas. Well-known in New York, his works with titles such as Death is Certain, Rumble Ghost, and When We Were Young and…
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Have You Been Too Busy to Think About Your Life?
In the past weeks, on either side of Bissonnet Street in Houston’s museum district, there’s been a striking contrast in human presence and absence. The joyous Stan VanDerBeek retrospective at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, co-curated by Bill Arning and João Ribas, is full of images of people. The Charles LeDray show at the Museum of…
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Language taxed by war: Gittoes, Glass and Ginsberg
“Now and then, from the deep, hidden river of life, great spirits in human form are thrown up,†Henry Miller wrote in 1956. “Like semaphores in the night they warn of danger ahead,†he continues. The phrase is from The Time of Assassins and refers to the French poet Arthur Rimbaud. On a hot Sunday afternoon…