Battle-Ready

This fall, history nerds will have cause to rejoice when the History Channel presents First Invasion: The War of 1812, a collaboration with local post-production facility Match Frame.

"...Consider the History Channel. Has there ever been, in the entire panoply..."

June 13, 2003 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Day Trips

"...Culture in Dallas preserves the rich heritage of African-Americans' artistic contributions to our society. Many of the museum's collections..."

June 16, 1995 Column

Backbeat

"...by: Iain Softley. Starring: Stephen Dorff, Sheryl Lee, Ian Hart, Gary Bakewell, Chris O'Neill, Scot Williams and Kai Weisinger...."

May 6, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Decay, Preserve, Observe: The Experimental Memories of Bill Morrison

The cinematic pioneer discusses his career and filmography before his Austin retrospective

"...that will connect the Austin Film Society, UT's Visual Arts Center, and the Bass Concert Hall. [inset-1-right]..."

Jan. 21, 2022 Screens Feature by Joe Gross

Geometry Test

Artist Emily Roysdon queers art's white cube

"...The language we choose for the arts creates strict geometries. We frame oils or display objets..."

Sept. 21, 2012 Features Feature by Brandon Watson

Miles and Miles of Canvas

For 2011, the Texas Biennial lives up to its name by spreading across the state

"...the contrary. "I love Austin," insists the New York-based art historian and attorney. "I identify with Austin as being..."

April 8, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Kelly Fearing

At 91, this Austin artist keeps making and showing art, including a new exhibit at UT

"...view in "Kelly Fearing: Selections From a Life in Art" in the University of Texas' Bass Concert Hall...."

Nov. 27, 2009 Arts Feature by Madeline Irvine

Dirt Road to Psychedelia

This documentary traces the changeover of Austin's youth culture from beatniks to hippies, folkies to rockers, and potheads to day-trippers – with side trips into all the music along the way.

"...Scott Conn. Conn's vital documentary contribution to Austin cultural history weaves oral history from informed sources with a wealth..."

Feb. 15, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Are You Experienced?

In a new ad campaign, the Blanton redefines 'art,' raising questions about what it means

"...The Blanton Museum of Art's new "Art is Experience" PR campaign is canvassing Austin,..."

June 30, 2006 Arts Feature by Nikki Moore

"Twister: Moving Through Color, 1965-1976"

"Twister: Moving Through Color, 1965-1976" looks at artists of that era who took the road less traveled, continuing to investigate painting with spatial illusions and other perceptual tricks

"...Moving Through Color, 1965-1976" Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art..."

Dec. 24, 2004 Arts Review by Jacqueline May

Untrained Wonders

UT's Exhibition of Self-Taught Artists Features Miracles

"...essence of this exhibition of work by self-taught Texas artists, each of them unique, many possessed of visions from..."

Sept. 12, 1997 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

Qmmunity: The Puzzle of Pride

Putting together all the pieces of queer history with Pride Month events

"...Queer history makes for an interesting puzzle: Every piece represents both..."

June 2, 2023 Column by James Scott

Day Trips & Beyond: June Events Roundup

Summer travel opportunities and news from all over Texas

"...and do across the state, from seeing ancient Roman art to finding Aunt Rosie’s missing teeth...."

June 2, 2022 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

The Designs That Defined the LGBTQ Movement

50 years of Queer X Design from former Chron contributor Andy Campbell

"...to how lustrous and layered a perfume the actual history of queer design is. Of course, being lustrous and..."

July 26, 2019 Qmmunity Post by James Scott

Don't Think I've Forgotten: Cambodia's Lost Rock and Roll

A doc not just for music aficionados, but a transcendent reminder that art matters

"...achieves a much loftier goal of cataloging the cultural history of a country fraught with conflict and genocide, with..."

June 19, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Setting the Table

New director Ned Rifkin wants to bring more people to the feast that is the Blanton

"...What's a former undersecretary of art for the Smithsonian Institution doing running the Blanton Museum..."

Oct. 2, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Che: Part Two

Steven Soderbergh concludes his two-part biopic with Che's Bolivian endgame.

"...Joaquim de Almeida and Lou Diamond Phillips. At the start of Steven Soderbergh’s two-part epic about the life of..."

Jan. 30, 2009 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

What Can a Century Tell Us?

Looking at two art exhibitions that both survey 100 years of imagery, the more things change ...

"...Thus, when two separate art exhibitions arrive in town boasting a century's worth of..."

July 13, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Next Diegos

Mexic-Arte's 'YLA No. 10' showcases the work of tomorrow's great Latino artists

"...from Spain and sought to identify its culture through art, the government commissioned three young artists to paint murals..."

July 8, 2005 Arts Feature by Patti Hadad

The Killing Fields, Kind Of

A culinary history of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre farmhouse

"...The house was the heart of a working family farm until 1971, when Robert..."

Oct. 31, 2003 Food Feature by MM Pack

Women's Work Is Never Done

Started in 1978 as a grassroots feminist arts collaborative, Women & Their Work has evolved into an Austin institution, which has survived collapsing economies and shifts in location and mission to become one of the city's premier visual arts spaces.

"...& Their Work for a secretarial service; now, a quarter-century after its inception, people mistake Women & Their Work..."

March 7, 2003 Arts Feature by Sarah Hepola

The Smell of Success

Austin's poster art scene is back, and it's better than ever.

"...posters from all over the world, Texas has been particularly good to us. Why is that?..."

Nov. 22, 2002 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

The Last Emperor: Director's Cut

"...and Bertolucci and his brilliant cinematographer Vittorio Storaro and art director Fernando Scarfiotti, given permission to shoot within these..."

Dec. 25, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Identifying the Impulse

"...Art Blakey In their search for neat, storybook tales, Hollywood..."

Dec. 18, 1998 Music Feature by Jeff Mccord

Mulan

"...an engrossing story, and a winning protagonist. Mulan is smart, brave, beautiful, and (it's about time!) not the least..."

June 19, 1998 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

The Substance of Fire

"...believe just to survive. That may be why Isaac Geldhart, the publisher protagonist of this drama by Jon Robin..."

April 25, 1997 Movie Review by Robert Faires

2 Kool 2 Be 4gotten

"...Juke Joint: They'll never know how beautiful they are,..."

Nov. 29, 1996 Books Feature by Margaret Moser

Cultural Evolution

New Directions for Mexic-Arte Museum

"...Pio Pulido were struggling to establish a place for Mexic-Arte Museum among Austin's arts organizations, Herlinda Zamora was still..."

July 7, 1995 Arts Feature

GenEnCo's The Mikado: Reclaimed

In this newly devised work, Asian-American artists grapple with the complicated legacy of Gilbert & Sullivan's opera

"...imagine it because you live it.) You have a history that you're proud of, a culture you're proud of,..."

Feb. 12, 2016 Arts Feature by Rosalind Faires

Kelly Fearing

Remembering the pioneering and influential visual artist and teacher

"...One of Austin's greatest artistic explorers has gone on to explore the undiscovered country...."

March 25, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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