This evening talk offers a special visit with renowned Buddhist teacher and NKT-IKBU Deputy Spiritual Director Gen-la Kelsang Jampa. Gen-la will share Buddhist advice on developing our love as a way to protect our self from suffering and learn to become truly happy. Our life then becomes immensely meaningful in benefiting others with our mind of unconditional love.
Affordable Art Fair Austin will launch in May 2024, showcasing original contemporary artworks ranging between $100 to $10,000. Welcoming a whole host of local, national and international exhibitors, their spectacular first edition is set to be unmissable!
Burnt out and uninspired, Tim Showalter was almost done before members of My Morning Jacket pulled him into the studio to record Eraserland, Strand of Oaks’ seventh LP in the past decade. The result is the Philly-based songwriter’s best output since 2014 breakout Heal, a stunning midlife crisis with poignant lyrics and adventurously brittle arrangements tilting on the breaking point.
Ah, here it comes again – the final weekend of the annual competition that brings all the ATX funny to one stage, at least sequentially, in order to determine who's gonna wear the cape and crown. Oh! Who's gonna be the winnah? Who's gonna be the champeen? This is the last weekend of semifinals, followed by Monday night's ultimate battle for stand-up supremacy. We've been ranting at you for the last several issues to make your reservations, citizen! WHERE ARE YOU NOW?
Mad Max Morrison hosts the Boiz of Austin’s Hollywood Tribute with Jack Rabid, Channing Ate’Em, Rowdy Rory, Kelsey Hammer, Studly DoRight, and Alexander the Great. Plus special guests from San Antonio (SirGio, Mustang Ryder) and San Marcos (Friday Le Eighth). 18 and up to play.
The Cohen New Works Festival is a biennial, weeklong showcase of new work created by students at UT Austin, held in various locations in and around campus. Featuring more than 30 new works across multiple disciplines, the festival represents the spirit of creativity, innovation, and community – especially as embodied by the university's Department of Theatre and Dance. See our latest report on the festival right here.
Michigan native and longtime Austinite Jad Fair, 64, remains extraordinarily prolific at plainspoken yet wildly idiosyncratic indie rock. February saw the arrival of Invincible, the 18th studio LP by his landmark act Half Japanese, who this month reissue 1988’s Charmed Life, which this show ostensibly marks. Fair’s 40-strong catalog of solo work counts 2017’s The History of Crying as another lo-fi trophy.
The Hotel Ella’s excellent Goodall Restaurant is the location for this series of art talks, the latest featuring Katie Robinson Edwards discussing Mid-Century Modern Art. Bonus: Attendees receive a complimentary day pass to the Umlauf gardens and museum.
During 2018, Medearis – known to millions as The Kitchen Diva – donated several books, manuscripts, photographs, awards, and research papers to the Carver Museum. Now, they’ve been curated and presented as this new exhibition.
This show unites the work of Austin art educators Kiley Grantges and Jennifer Schroeder. Grantges elevates drinking straws and office copy paper into bas-relief arrays; Schroeder reconstitutes the exuberant mess resulting from her young students’ art explorations into paper mosaics.
Terror Tuesday: A horror film masquerading as a deeply disturbing meditation on the war between the sexes, Audition tells the story of a lonely Japanese film producer and widower who stages an audition, ostensibly to cast a new film, but really to find a new wife.
Austin Bat Cave, a nonprofit organization that offers free creative writing programs to local youth ages 6 to 18, is holding a school supplies drive through April. If you would like to donate pencils, pens, paper, tape, composition notebooks, or any other classroom supplies, email heather@austinbatcave.org to learn how and where to drop off your items.
Gray’s graphite drawings combine traditional Japanese calligraphy with Western drawing practices and aesthetic; Schmader’s abstract collages explore the connection between tactile traces of a physical environment and the historic system of landscape semiotics.
Founding members of the Austin-based Black Mountain Project – Adrian Aguilera, Betelhem Makonnen, and Tammie Rubin – debut a new body of work in sculpture, photography, text, and video. Also on display at the Carver: "Re-Membering Is the Responsibility of the Living," an installation by Taja Lindley.