Austin Arts Happenings Online: A Chronicle Round-up for Your Quarantined Exploration

Live and creative diversions – from your talented friends & neighbors

"...So many Austinites doing live shows (or even something resembling what we’d..."

March 23, 2020 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Austin Arts Hall of Fame Class of 2005

The Austin Critics Table has named six inductees for the 2005 class of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame

"...The Austin Critics Table has named the fourth group of individuals..."

April 15, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Arts Hall of Fame: Class of '05

"...The Austin Critics Table has named the fourth group of individuals..."

May 27, 2005 Arts Feature

Old Faves Resurrected, New Expansions, and More Arts News

Keep up with Austin culture

"...Roll Rentals is reopening its second location in North Austin. After shuttering during the pandemic, the longtime Austin Music..."

Aug. 2, 2024 Music Column by Carys Anderson

Austin Arts at Real Risk

"...Dear Editor, Recent changes to Austin’s arts funding grants don’t just “disrupt the city’s cultural..."

Oct. 27, 2024 Postmarks

Austin Arts Get Going in 1995 Forward Motion

"...In arts circles, 1995 may be best remembered as the year..."

Jan. 5, 1996 Arts Feature

Crosstalk: Arts Grants Open, KOKE-FM DJs Change Stations, and More Austin Culture News

The new Texas Touring Roster arrives

"...of artists. Organized by the Texas Commission on the Arts, the roster connects statewide nonprofits with artists of all..."

July 5, 2024 Music Column by Carys Anderson

Linklater's Latest, Reality TV Taps Locals, and More Austin Film News

"...Bernadette) but there are more than a few familiar Austin names still involved, including Linklater's longtime editor Sandra Adair,..."

July 26, 2019 Screens Column by Richard Whittaker

Austin Film News: From A(nimation) to Z(ombies)

Production updates from around town and just beyond city limits

"...board member Mindy Raymond Benson called the allocation "great news" and noted that there is a possibility that figure..."

June 21, 2019 Screens Column by Richard Whittaker

Austin Film News: Linklater, Rodriguez, and a Case of Millennium Bugs

Production updates, new releases, and job opportunities

"...and Michael Lovato (Graves) that recently wrapped shooting in Austin – including at Vulcan Video. Writer/director Alejandro Montoya Marín..."

Sept. 13, 2019 Screens Column by Richard Whittaker

Is Austin’s New Arts Umbrella Organization Just in Time or Too Little, Too Late?

After two decades of treating culture and creativity as an afterthought, the city of Austin finally has a real arts department

"...city that’s supposed to care a lot about the arts, it’s always been an oddity that there’s no unified..."

April 25, 2025 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

Van Ryzin Launches Online Arts Magazine

Nonprofit Sightlines to offer cultural journalism, criticism

"...Twelve months ago, the buzz around the Austin arts scene was that Jeanne Claire van Ryzin was..."

Nov. 13, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Big Medium Closes, Leaving a Void in Austin’s Art Scene

Loss of nonprofit puts future of Austin Studio Tours in question

"...Austin's creative community has been dealt another devastating blow with..."

Feb. 25, 2025 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

With a New Executive Director, Dormant Art Alliance Austin Rebrands as A3

Fundraising nonprofit debuts next month at Canopy

"...the onset of the pandemic, long-running nonprofit Art Alliance Austin is prepping a re-emergence under new name A3. Led..."

Aug. 16, 2024 Arts Post by Carys Anderson

Top 10 Arts Stories You Cared About the Most

From racist comedy to new books, returning theatre, and new textile joy, the most read stories about the Austin arts scene in 2021

"...post-Emancipation Proclamation Georgia, made the 2021 Booker Longlist. Chronicle Arts Editor Robert Faires talked with the author about his..."

Dec. 17, 2021 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

Texas Institute of Letters Honors Chronicle Arts Editor Robert Faires

Longtime writer and critic one of 17 inducted in TIL

"...and elegance is a most apt description for Chronicle Arts & Culture Editor Robert Faires. How fitting, then, that..."

Jan. 30, 2019 Arts Post by Kimberley Jones

Mayor's Omnibus Resolution: Arts Commission Special Meeting

Commission seeks creatives' input on city staff's recommendations

"...4, and you may recall the early fireworks in Austin's live music and creative communities in the form of..."

Aug. 2, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Crosstalk: The UT Torchy’s Is Closing, DAWA Is Hiring, and More Local Culture News

This week’s arts news in brief

"...manager for its headquarters at 916 Springdale. The BIPOC arts organization, founded by Jonathan “Chaka” Mahone, seeks someone with..."

Nov. 8, 2024 Music Column by Carys Anderson

Council Recap: Undoing Austin’s White Supremacist Legacy

A Juneteenth holiday, renamings, alcohol rules among changes

"...legacy of white supremacy that haunts every American city, Austin included...."

July 31, 2020 News Post by Austin Sanders

The Threat to NEA Funding and Austin

How would the proposed cuts to the National Endowment for the Arts hit Austin? Hard.

"...its founding in 1965, the National Endowment for the Arts has supplied money to artists and organizations all over..."

April 28, 2017 Arts Feature by Katarina Brown

The Arts Funding Matrix: Reloaded

Arts Commission's FY 19 funding adjustments head to Council

"...to deep cuts in funding for FY 19, the Arts Commission had a working group reconsider the matrix by..."

Oct. 2, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Arts Groups Lose Promised Grant Money in Friday Night NEA Massacre

Leading Austin cultural institutions face slashed finances

"...An out-of-the-blue email from the National Endowment for the Arts has blown a massive hole in the finances and..."

May 5, 2025 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Restaurant Weeks, Texas French Bread’s Secret Garden, Hyde Park Bar & Grill’s Partial Departure, MASS Gallery’s New Food Trailer, the Diner Bar’s Austin Family Kitchen, and More, More, More…

All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

"...Here’s some of what's happening in Austin's culinary scene – as wrangled from numerous PR releases,..."

Aug. 30, 2023 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

UT: Major Arts Commissions Announced

Landmarks will get new mural, CoFA a Spanish-language opera

"...University of Texas concerns the football team, but the arts may generate some chatter this week with the news..."

Aug. 4, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Statesman Cuts Arts Staff

Arts critic Jeanne Claire van Ryzin terminated after 17 years

"...The voice of informed and experienced arts criticism in this city is about to get a..."

Nov. 30, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Austin Creative Classroom Fund

The Arts in Austin ISD get a million-dollar boost

"...Somebody believes that the arts belong in Austin's schools. Just who that is we..."

May 11, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Good News!

Pro Arts Collective Pro Arts Collective celebrates the season with a gospel sound in the Austin premiere of Langston Hughes' Black Nativity.

"...Pro Arts Collective, Austin's only theatre company focusing exclusively on African-American..."

Dec. 12, 2003 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Federal Funds for Local Arts, Latinapalooza, and More

Music news you need to know

"...The city of Austin will receive $75,000 from the National Endowment for the..."

May 24, 2024 Music Column by Carys Anderson

Austin Creative Alliance

After a decade of leading the arts service organization, Latifah Taormina retires

"...but as for the first? Well, running the former Austin Circle of Theaters wasn't anywhere close to being just..."

April 29, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin @ Large: Music Minus Wynn

In front of screaming fans, the mayor smashes a guitar over his own head

"...afford to spend our civic time fussing over the Austin Music Network? We should be proud. But wait, you..."

March 5, 2004 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

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