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Now You Can See 'What Jane Saw'

Two hundred years ago today, Jane Austen visited a museum for a retrospective of portraitist Joshua Reynolds. And now, you can see it too. Read More | Comment »

3:30PM Fri. May. 24, Monica Riese

After the Battle

When photojournalist Erin Trieb traveled to Afghanistan to embed with U.S. troops, she wasn’t expecting to find her calling. Over the course of three years, from 2009-2012, she traveled three times to Afghanistan, most extensively with the 3rd Brigade Combat Team of the 10th Mountain Division based in Ft. Drum, N.Y. Read More | Comment »

11:00AM Sat. May. 18, Natalie Zeldin

East Austin Arts Puts It Into a FRAME This Weekend

Four venues, twelve hours, a few hundred more stories in this nacred city. Read More | Comment »

12:59PM Wed. May. 15, Wayne Alan Brenner

Nothing's Obscure: Five Local Art Treasures You May Have Overlooked

Some of these things are current and fleeting. Read More | Comment »

3:00PM Thu. May. 9, Wayne Alan Brenner

Exclusive Peek: Mike Mitchell Heads For Mondo

Mondo Gallery and artist Mike Mitchell have brewed up something gourmet. Let's just say, it ain't some freeze-dried Taster's Choice, and we have an exclusive first sip for you. Read More | Comment »

9:10AM Wed. Apr. 24, Richard Whittaker

Rooftop Architecture Goes Parkour

Sometimes, when I'm sitting in really bad traffic – like on 71 after a Circuit of the Americas event lets out or on Congress at rush hour or on I-35 at precisely any moment ever on days ending in "Y" – I daydream about being Inspector Gadget. Read More | Comment »

3:06PM Tue. Apr. 23, Monica Riese

Is the Third 'Graphic Canon' a Decent End to the Ambitious Project?

Verdict: Russ Kick brings it on home – to the home library – with style. Read More | Comment »

1:30PM Mon. Apr. 22, Wayne Alan Brenner

The Q&A Hole: What Color Would You Change the Sky To?

Permanently, we mean. Read More | Comment »

2:43PM Mon. Apr. 15, Wayne Alan Brenner

Doug Jaques: In Memoriam

Doug Jaques, the gifted painter who created the signature underwater scene for the interior of Esther's Follies – twice! – as well as murals adorning the walls of Liberty Lunch, Vreeland Graphics, the Austin Community College Eastview Campus, the building on 24th at Guadalupe, and many others, has died. He was 67. Read More | Comment »

3:49PM Fri. Apr. 12, Robert Faires

Nobelity Project Hosts Book Drive

Books can take you places you'd only dream. But somehow the books have to get to those places too, right? The Nobelity Project – activist Turk Pipkin's pet project – is hosting a book drive and needs your help. Read More | Comment »

12:00PM Tue. Apr. 2, Monica Riese

AMOA-Arthouse Kicks Off Rooftop Architecture Film Series

What better place than a Downtown rooftop to absorb films about architecture? Read More | Comment »

11:00AM Thu. Mar. 21, Monica Riese

Scenes from Flatstock

All week, local production house Arts+Labor has been posting webisodes of their adventures at South by Southwest. Read More | Comment »

4:45PM Fri. Mar. 15, Monica Riese

Guzu Don't Fear the Reaper

What's your favorite piece of music about Godzilla? The theme from the show? "Biotech is Godzilla" by Sepultura? Looking at Guzu Gallery's new Deep Cuts show, and it looks like the old gorilla-whale is big on some Blue Oyster Cult. Read More | Comment »

5:58PM Thu. Mar. 7, Richard Whittaker

This Weekend's Your Last Chance to See the Human/Animal Hybrids

Malcolm Bucknall's falling dog is on the Jesus Lizard t-shirt I inherited from my ex-wife. Read More | Comment »

8:28PM Fri. Feb. 22, Wayne Alan Brenner

Rain, Rain, Come Today

Sometimes there's nothing better than a rainy day. All that water falling from the sky makes you turn inward, find someplace cozy and dry. That goes for It Rained All Day, a book/music collaboration between Austin band ((SOUNDER)) and Los Angeles artist Mel Kadel, which gets a release party at Okay Mountain tonight at 6pm. Read More | Comment »

3:00PM Thu. Jan. 24, Robert Faires

Wayne White's Big Art Adventure Arrives on TV Tonight

An in-depth look at the weird world of Wayne White, Beauty Is Embarrassing bounces along the emotional spectrum from hilarity to poignancy as director Neil Berkeley makes plotted pit-stops in White's native rural Tennessee, NYC, and L.A. Read More | Comment »

2:45PM Mon. Jan. 21, Jessi Cape

More Things in 'Heaven and Earth'

Welcome back, Fidencio Duran. The artist whose nine-panel painting The Visit sends travelers at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport on their way, was away himself for three months, enjoying an artist residency at the Santa Fe Art Institute. But he's home again and ready to show some new work in a solo exhibition opening Saturday. Read More | Comment »

12:45PM Sat. Jan. 19, Robert Faires

Hunger Games

Your tummy may be rumbling as you watch the Lauren Kelley videos in "True Falsetto" at Women & Their Work. Or maybe not. For while both pack the frame with food – meats, pies, cheeses, oysters, deviled eggs, pancakes, snack cakes, more! – it's all bogus: sculpted props. Read More | Comment »

5:10PM Sat. Jan. 12, Robert Faires

What (Roy) Moore Could You Want?

How does Roy Moore capture the color and texture of Austin, Texas? "It's just," he says, "a matter of going out and finding it." Read More | Comment »

2:00PM Thu. Jan. 3, Wayne Alan Brenner

Holy Hoops

"The umpire shall be the judge of the men."

This line leapt out from James Naismith's original rules for basketball like a center going for a jump ball. Its curiously biblical ring called to mind Jesus seated at the right hand of the Father to judge the living and the dead – which proved quite fitting for this Blanton Museum of Art exhibit focused on hoops. Read More | Comment »

10:00AM Sat. Dec. 29, 2012, Robert Faires

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