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chapel listing in Gallery Guide West, pg. 65, artinfo.com

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Scope and Contents Survived the weekend? I barely made it through the week. In between talks of basketball, golf, outdoor festivals and trailer trash galas, Houston proved itself to be a hospitable city with something for everyone. And CultureMap was there to guide you through it all.The Lawndale Art Center Design Fair came and went, as quickly as I dispensed of cash. An eye-opening lecture by Sotheby's James Zemaitis illustrated the volatile world of design valuation. Rarity and...

Scope and Contents With state schools facing ruin from the Legi-slature’s upcoming budget cuts, it helps to remember that Texas liberals have a history of saving the bacon of public education. In the case of Gertrude Barnstone, it’s a living history. At 86, Barnstone remains one of Houston’s premier freedom fighters—and sculptors. Her bungalow, in the city’s Montrose neighborhood, is a temple to politics and art—rafter-packed with evidence of decades of progressive battles, and the mammoth steel sculptures she...

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Scope and Contents IT’S fitting that Esther Jin Kim and Joseph Rosenwald Varet met because of their support of Performa, an organization in New York that promotes the work of performing artists. After all, these are two people who approach life as a kind of experiential art form.For them, even the most mundane activity is an opportunity for artistic expression. Mr. Varet, 35, has been known to drive from farm stand to farm stand to find just the right produce for a picturesque beach picnic. And Ms....

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Houston Chronicle obituary for Robert Willima Tarrant

Scope and Contents It is an endeavor both exhilarating and confounding in its scope. When the Houston Grand Opera presents its world premiere of Your Name Means the Sea, it will be putting together U.S. opera performers whose every note and word tend to be scripted with "mugam" musicians from Azerbaijan whose music is by its very definition: Improvisational.Making it even more interesting, the musicians and singers have been practicing in their home countries and are only now rehearsing together in...

Scope and Contents Composer Franghiz Alizadeh could be described as "musically bilingual." At the music conservatory in her native Azerbaijan she studied Bach, Beethoven and Brahms. And at home she absorbed traditionalmugammusic, played by her father on a lutelike instrument called thetar. Who better to write an opera about the meeting of Eastern and Western cultures? "My idea was a love story between a mugam singer from Azerbaijan and an American artist," says the...