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Joseph CampanaArts/EntertainmentJoseph Campana is a poet, arts writer, and scholar. He is the author of a collection of poems, The Book of Faces, and has received grants from the NEA and the Houston Arts Alliance. You can find his poems, essays, and reviews of books, dance, theater, and visual arts writing in Slate, Poetry, Guernica, Dance International, Culture Vulture, Explore Dance, BigRed&Shiny, and the Kenyon Review. He teaches at Rice University. He teaches Renaissance literature and creative writing at Rice University. |
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Virgin queen vs. queen of Scots
The real Game of Thrones: Houston Grand Opera's reign of terror continues with Mary Stuart
By Joseph Campana
04.20.12 | 10:01 am
Hell hath no fury like a sovereign scorned. Or so it would seem in the world of Gaetano Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda, or Mary Stuart, which the Houston Grand Opera ...
How much can you stomach?
A burning opera: Don Carlos makes Houston Grand Opera fans confront their appetite for violence
By Joseph Campana
04.12.12 | 5:55 pm
If you're like me, there's a chance that neither the cruelty of Torquemada nor the epic proportions of Giuseppe Verdi's Don Carlos come to mind when you ...
A Writer's Life
Picking the perfect cover for your book: When you know you're going to be judged
By Joseph Campana
04.09.12 | 1:50 pm
I know I shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but I can’t help it. Of course, the book in question is mine. As for the cover, I ...
Fotofest 2012
Photographs merge truth and illusion in Station Museum's Artifactuality
By Joseph Campana
04.06.12 | 4:30 pm
Is the art in artifice the same as the art in artifact? It seems they are, at least as far as the Station Museum's latest exhibition, Artifactual Realities, is ...
At DiverseWorks through April 21
Black gold: Petroleum by-products fuel Marina Zurkow's provocative Necrocracy FotoFest show
By Joseph Campana
03.29.12 | 1:23 pm
Who rules the planet — the living or the dead? If you were to ask artist Marina Zurkow, whose provocative Necrocracy appears at DiverseWorks in association with FotoFest 2012 and runs ...
Tragedies of Sex
The Rape of Lucretia throws a challenging, controversial test at the Houston Grand Opera
By Joseph Campana
02.03.12 | 5:34 am
We love to watch a fallen woman fall. What about a rape? A suicide? Challenges abound with Houston Grand Opera's ambitious new production of Benjamin Britten's 1946 The ...
No Free Love
Opera's greatest fallen women: HGO's La Traviata enjoys its place among the wicked seductresses
By Joseph Campana
01.27.12 | 12:25 am
Falling in love or just plain fallen? Many argue about the true subject of opera. Is it love, sex, death, nation, history, or the grandeur of music itself? Love is ...
Aftershocks
The dumbest things said on reality TV (it's a long read)
By Joseph Campana, Theodore Bale
01.03.12 | 11:10 am
If reality television were a Chinese restaurant, every fortune cookie would read, "Let reality be reality." Make sense? Of course not, but that seems to be the point. Here at ...
The Year in Culture
War and art: The year in Houston culture, from untimely departures to major acquisitions
By Joseph Campana
12.30.11 | 3:00 pm
In with a bang, out with a whimper? I was thinking about that phrase the other day after I saw a headline in The New York Times announcing the end ...
Hidden Treasures
Behind closed doors at MFAH: When the art needs its beauty rest
By Joseph Campana
12.07.11 | 10:36 am
Editor's Note: From time to time, CultureMap contributor Joseph Campana takes a peek behind closed doors of some of Houston's great arts institutions. Imagine you're in limbo ...
Black Gold
Andrei Molodkin's oily heart of darkness pulses in Crude at Station Museum
By Joseph Campana
12.03.11 | 11:30 am
Oil and water may not mix, but what about oil and blood? Andre Molodkin’s deceptively simple but brilliantly lucid exhibition Crude, on view at the Station Museum of Contemporary ...
Aftershocks
Reality TV is obsessed with making fun of Texas: Everything from Top Chef to Big Rich Texas draws groans
By Joseph Campana, Theodore Bale
12.02.11 | 11:59 am
The eyes of Texas may be upon you, but right now all eyes are on Texas. So it seems in the vast world of reality television. Here at Aftershocks, we ...
The Road to Doha
Gifts that keep on giving: Middle Eastern treasures beckon at MFAH's Gifts of the Sultan exhibiit
By Joseph Campana
11.20.11 | 2:15 pm
Next stop: Doha. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston recently opened its latest show, Gifts of the Sultan: The Art of Giving at the Islamic Courts, which runs through January ...
Windows to Divinity
Imprinting the Divine: Menil exhibition of icons spans the secular present to the sacred past
By Joseph Campana
11.06.11 | 2:00 pm
Anything can be an image, but can anything be an icon? It's one of many religious mysteries to puzzle over for the next few months at Imprinting the Divine ...
Is opera political?
Houston Grand Opera tackles politics, love & devotion in Beethoven's operatic masterpiece, Fidelio
By Joseph Campana
10.27.11 | 7:05 pm
Illegal detention, political prisoners and the unpunished crimes of the powerful: Sound familiar? I’m not talking about contemporary politics, but rather Beethoven’s operatic masterpiece Fidelio. Houston Grand Opera ...
HGO season opener
Hunky Nathan Gunn & all-star cast poised to make classic Barber of Seville look easy
By Joseph Campana
10.20.11 | 11:53 am
Everyone needs a good stylist. But being a barber is no easy thing: just ask Figaro. This week the Houston Grand Opera opens its 57th season with Gioachino Rossini's ...
X-ray this
Adventure, archaeology & new technology mix as King Tut makes what may be last Houston visit
By Joseph Campana
10.16.11 | 6:00 am
Anubis, protector of the dead, guards the entrance to the underworld. From today to April 15, 2012, he guards the door to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston while King ...
Aftershocks
A strip club car wash fight: It's feud overdrive on Real Housewives as Teresa bolts for The Donald
By Joseph Campana, Theodore Bale
10.10.11 | 12:03 pm
Guccis ‘n’ gore — oh, my! It’s a bloody mess on The Real Housewives of New Jersey. We were naïve to think that a trip to the Dominican Republic ...
Perfect Decay
Walter de Maria's Trilogies at The Menil perfectly explores the tension between perfection and decay
By Joseph Campana
10.09.11 | 1:00 pm
Things come in threes, especially for artists. Just as red, blue, and yellow are fundamental colors, so, too, are the circle, square, and triangle fundamental shapes. Throw in three pristine ...
Hidden Treasures
Behind closed doors at the Menil: A sole Dali, Andy Warhol's corner, totems, masks & so much more
By Joseph Campana
10.03.11 | 9:30 am
Editor's Note: From time to time, CultureMap contributor Joseph Campana takes a peek behind closed doors of some of Houston's great arts institutions. First up: The hidden treasures ...
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