Perestroika at the Fotofest Biennial
Let’s talk Deadwood. David Milch’s superlative television show was quite good at putting his audience just outside of a given situation. The characters often spoke and behaved in ways that were perfectly crystal within their world, but may have seemed murky to the audience. That is, until the code was broken. It’s an [...]
Fotofest Program Announced: Contemporary Russian Photography 1950–2012
Every other March, swarms of photographers and photo-related exhibitions swamp Houston’s art scene, and 2012 is one of those years: Fotofest’s 2012 Biennial focuses on Contemporary Russian Photography, blanketing the city with 200 Russian artists in seventy exhibitions. Globe-trotting FotoFest founders Wendy Watriss and Frederick Baldwin are collaborating with Russian curatorial team of Evgeny Berezner [...]