Photographer Nan Goldin revisits the deeply personal narratives of her work with her career-spanning Stories Retold exhibition at Houston's Museum of Fine Arts. In an updated version of The Ballad of Sexual Dependency — her landmark slide-projection set to music — edgy, color-saturated photographs depict the private dramas of Goldin and her friends and lovers. In her new series, Goldin montages her old photos into grid compositions, recontextualizing her oeuvre into intimate fragments that explore youth, sex, family, and loss. Sisters, Saints, and Sibyls , a three-screen video installation with narration and music, links the story of the martyred St. Barbara to her sister's suicide and her own struggle with addiction. By elaborating upon her stories, Goldin invests her work with a new breadth of reference.

-Lisa L. Powell