Day Trips & Beyond: Amon Carter Art Museum

This Fort Worth museum is one of the coolest in Texas

"...with my girlfriend to hang out in the Amon Carter Museum of American Art’s air-conditioned bliss during Fort Worth’s..."

Nov. 20, 2015 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Austin Street Art Enters Into a New Era

With the city cracking down on graffiti and Hope Outdoor Gallery set to close, artists look for permission to paint

"...even a felony carrying a prison sentence. So street artists painting illegally will often get out at night. But..."

July 27, 2018 News Feature by Kate Groetzinger

Earthen Works at the Austin Museum of Art Revolution in Clay

"...hands. As a potter, she harnessed the elements -- earth, fire, and water -- to do her bidding. When..."

Nov. 24, 1995 Arts Feature

The Arts Alive Institute: Reaching all learners with art

VSA Arts' Arts Alive Institute brings together artists and educators from across the state to discuss best practices for using the arts to reach everyone in the classroom

"...or bilingual just by registering for and attending the Arts Alive Institute: A Bi-Lingual Inclusive Arts Exchange on Tuesday,..."

June 15, 2007 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

The Art Is Formally Known as Prints

A somewhat kaleidoscopic glimpse of Austin's screen-printing scene

"...I first moved to town, I worked at Asel Art Supply on MLK, and they had a small Speedball..."

Nov. 6, 2009 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Visual Art Review: Carl Cheng’s “Nature Never Loses”

The Contemporary's exhibit showcases the artist's fearlessness in the face of extinction

"...Who decides the everlasting artistic canon? Is it only traditional works shown in traditional..."

Sept. 13, 2024 Arts Feature by Cat McCarrey

Art Seen

Three Austin artists – Sean Perry, Warren Cullar, and Jay McMahan – have had their artwork recognized on a national level

"...of seven sculptures purchased by the Loveland High Plains Arts Council this year for addition to the city's sculpture..."

May 28, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Art School Confidential

This follow-up to Terry Zwigoff and Daniel Clowes’ transcendent Ghost World is too scattershot to be truly great, but their smarty-pants campus yarn is on fire with satire.

"...scattershot to cohere into something really great, but this smarty-pants campus yarn is on fire with satire. Perhaps it’s..."

May 12, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The Art of Being Dagoberto Gilb

What's a successful writer like Dagoberto Gilb got against the establishment?

"...of those days when Dagoberto Gilb was about to start a scandal, and he needed some advice. Anyone could..."

March 23, 2001 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Art City Austin: Everything old is new again

The annual art fair once known as Fiesta and the Austin Fine Arts Festival makes its debut after reinventing itself

"...The city's oldest art fair is about to become its newest art fair...."

April 11, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Art for Days

Can you handle two weeks' worth of the East Austin Studio Tour?

"...annual excursion into the native habitat of Eastside visual artists has been growing steadily since its debut in 2003..."

Nov. 13, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Art City Austin: A new kind of art fair

Art Alliance Austin is calling on artists and architects to make work that will reinvent its annual art fair

"...What had been the Austin Fine Arts Festival is now Art City Austin, and one way..."

Dec. 28, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Art Alliance Austin: At 50, a rejuvenated mission and new name

After five decades, Austin Fine Arts Alliance has renamed itself Art Alliance Austin

"...As names go, Austin Fine Arts Alliance was serviceable enough for 50 years. But with..."

Oct. 19, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Five Recommended Art Events This Weekend

How can you lose with a sweet list to use before it's time to choose?

"...defeating Thanos? Instead, engage with the real world of artistic creation and science and their consequences in our current..."

Jan. 26, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Paper Art: Still Obsessed

Papercut, Part. 2

"...A reader sent in a link to Cuban multi-media artist Elsa Mora's papercut blog. Inspired largely by her childhood..."

Aug. 11, 2009 Design Post by Anne Harris

Art + Activism Intertwined

Steps on a path

"...Bridgforth starts writing poetry...."

Jan. 9, 2009 Arts Feature

Ransom Acquires Ruscha

Influential artist who made art of words sends archives to UT

"...was seeing what he could do with them for art. He did plenty. This West Coast painter and photographer..."

Nov. 14, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Larger Than Life

The late Luis Jiménez created art on a grand scale – and lived life that way, too

"...associated with Luis Jiménez. The El Paso native created art on a grand scale, constructing vibrantly colored fiberglass sculptures..."

March 30, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Lit-urday: 'Some Dead Genius'

Lenny Kleinfeld paints a vivid portrait of murder in Chi-town

"...shortage of rough-and-tumble cops, corpses, and corruption in the art scene...."

July 12, 2014 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The First Monday in May

The Met's annual ball thrown by its Costume Institute gets its close-up

"...The basement placement of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute of New York makes for a pretty..."

April 15, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

My Architect: A Son's Journey

Compelling, luminous, and poignant, this documentary about legendary American architect Louis Kahn, made by his illegitimate son, is surprisingly revelatory.

"...in a New York City morgue for the better part of three days. Similar curious doings peppered Kahn’s peculiar..."

Feb. 13, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Articulations

The passing of Texas regionalist pioneer painter Everett Spruce

"...of the "Dallas Nine," a group of Lone Star artists who rejected impressionism, abstractionism, and other European trends for..."

Oct. 25, 2002 Arts Column by Robert Faires

El Corazón de Santa Barraza

"...Santa Contreras Barraza grew up in South Texas --..."

Feb. 5, 1999 Arts Feature by Mary Jane Garza

A Shared Vision

MM Pack reports on the combination of generosity and hard work that built the Institute of Hospitality & Culinary Arts at Travis High School.

"...During the last week in October, the brand-new Institute of Hospitality & Culinary Arts at Travis High School..."

Oct. 11, 2002 Food Feature by MM Pack

Energy Forward

Sofia Resnick gets her kee-op! on at Master Yi Martial Arts Academy

"...a stop at the side entrance of Master Yi Martial Arts Academy on North Burnet Road, I could see..."

Jan. 11, 2008 Screens Feature by Sofia Resnick

Homecoming Queen

Many actors leave Austin seeking a career on the stage and are never heard from by the folks in their old hometown. But Austin native Starla Benford has come home as the star of a national tour. She talks about starting out at Harvard, making her mark as a professional, and nine months on the road with The Vagina Monologues.

"...a blip on the celebrity radar deep in the heart of Texas. It's only once in a blue moon..."

June 8, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

A Mysteriously Happy Atmosphere

"...aren't too grown up to go looking for a party on a Saturday night have probably at least caught..."

Oct. 23, 1998 Arts Feature by John Spong

Old Friends John Doe and Michael Mogavero Combine Paintings and Poetry to Reach the "Promised Land"

The exhibition at Bale Creek Allen Gallery celebrates a 47-year-old friendship

"...separate ways – the guitarist to L.A., where he starts a punk band; the drummer to NYC, where he..."

Dec. 11, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Ray Manzarek: Trying to Set the World on Fire

The late Doors keyboardist at the Garden of Eden

"...films; jazz clubs and museums were there too. The Art Institute was within walking distance – the Field Museum,..."

May 23, 2013 Music Post by Danielle Zelisko

Sueños Latinos

The Culinary Institute of America's San Antonio campus raises awareness of Latin American cuisine

"...a genuine tourist mecca. The campus of the Culinary Institute of America at the restored Pearl Brewery site is..."

Jan. 23, 2009 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

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