Blue Genie Art Industries Is Moving

And you’re invited to the farewell party, citizen!


"...Blue Genie Art Industries is moving...."

March 29, 2016 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Blue Genie Art Bazaar: The Movening

Blue Genie Art Bazaar shifts its longtime holiday gift emporium to a new space across from ACC Highland

"...As I write these words, the interior of Blue Genie's new Art Bazaar space looks like an abandoned..."

Nov. 25, 2016 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Blue Genie Danger Derby

November 23, 2013. 23 photos.

"...In conjunction with the East Austin Studio Tour, Blue Genie Art Industries hosted on Saturday, Nov. 23 its..."

Nov. 25, 2013 Photo Gallery

Genie, Light That Fuse

Get the early scoop on Fusebox 2013 at Blue Genie tonight

"...veggie chili being cooked up by the imagineers at Blue Genie Art Industries, who are offering a sneak peek..."

Jan. 4, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Blue Theatre

Despite fire damage, the Eastside venue's managers say the show will go on

"...So when news spread of a fire at the Blue Theatre on July 27, many feared that the 10-year-old..."

Aug. 6, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Art in Their Stockings

Giving the gift of art this season and don't know where to start? Try the Blue Genie Art Bazaar and the Gallery Lombardi 'Xmas Expo.'

"...and stimulate her/him for years to come. I'm talking art, of course – specifically Austin-made art. You'd be astonished..."

Dec. 10, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Top 10 Visual Art Things of 2006 (in chronological order)

"...1) First Night Austin Big art, live music, all ages, free, all day and half..."

Jan. 5, 2007 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

Where the Art Is

The Eastside is home to more than 70 artists and studios, and they're opening their doors to you on May 1

"...to know where in Austin the newest hotbed for art is, where clusters of studios are taking root and..."

April 30, 2004 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

Northward, Ho!

Why we're headed to the Blue Genie Art Bazaar's new home

"...Road to attend events at the large warehouse that Blue Genie Art Industries calls home. This is behind the..."

Dec. 7, 2007 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

They're History

The Blue Genie boys -- those whimsical artists responsible for the armadillo-festooned entrance to Threadgill's World Headquarters, the guitar gal atop Fran's Hamburgers, and other mini-landmarks around Austin -- have been fun for the people who see them and fun for the people who made them. Making giant panels for the new Texas State History Museum, though, was a bit more than just that.

"...Bullock Texas State History Museum at the corner of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and North Congress. Six panels..."

April 27, 2001 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

EMERGE: The Four Elements of Hip Hop – Right Here, Right Now!

Annual celebration of graffiti culture goes bigger this Saturday

"...– will wreak a vibrant alchemy this Saturday at Blue Genie Art Industries as Rachel Koper and Nate Nordstrom..."

April 22, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

'The Last Waltz'

Michael Schliefke's final art show in Austin prompts reflections on the art scene here

"...When Michael Schliefke arrived in Austin in 2002, the art scene was, he says, "a wild frontier" with artists..."

May 30, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Covert Stories

Wally Workman Gallery presents the transgressive art of Ian Shults

"...The artist Ian Shults, a disarmingly young man working out of..."

July 23, 2010 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Studio Practice

Canopy tenants love the Eastside artist studio complex, even if they aren't from the Eastside ... or artists

"...the new Eastside studio complex run by the ubiquitous arts organization Big Medium...."

May 3, 2013 Arts Feature by Matthew Irwin

Stitching Up a Storm

Textile art is alive and well in the Camp Fig exhibition "Pins & Needles"

"...Perkins rocks like a Flying V. Style blends with art when Perkins uses fashion as a means for describing..."

Aug. 6, 2004 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

11th Hour Holiday Shopping?

Homegrown art makes a good fit for every stocking

"...want to spare you anything that will shrink your heart two sizes to Grinchy proportions. So check these local..."

Dec. 21, 2012 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Table Banquet

The nominees for the 2013-2014 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...poring over the hundreds of stage productions, concerts, and art exhibitions mounted locally between May 1, 2013, and April..."

May 8, 2014 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Collective Strength

The 2014 class of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame

"...the lesson from this year's inductees into the Austin Arts Hall of Fame. In the honor's 13-year history, the..."

May 23, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Welcome to My Studio

The East Austin Studio Tour offers a rare chance to see where artists work and live

"...whole lot more about her, very quickly. Visiting an artist's studio works the same way – especially if it's..."

Nov. 21, 2008 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

Six Degrees of Ron Berry

With another acting job in a new play, his own new theatre about to open, his own stage company that champions theatre as something fun as well as substantive, and a lot of friends to help him make "good stuff" onstage, is Ron Berry the Happiest Man in Austin?

"...and now he's even built a theatre -- the Blue Theatre -- which opens this week. He clearly wants..."

June 16, 2000 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

EAST-tastic

Six stops to make the 2012 East Austin Studio Tour extra special

"...Man With a Gun Lives Here held dozens of art lovers transfixed. The set was such a hit that..."

Nov. 16, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Azul Gets Solid

The Blue Genie Art guys have taken it upon themselves to bring outdoor artwork back to Azul with a show that's 'Solid' in aesthetic and material forms as well as in name

"...Tindall hosted an outdoor sculpture show there. Now, the Blue Genie Art Industries guys have taken it upon themselves..."

May 27, 2005 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

East Austin Studio Tour, Fall 2004 Map Guide

A guide to the participating stu-dios in the fall 2004 East Austin Studio Tour

"...1. Art Amici 78 San Marcos, 457-0171..."

Nov. 19, 2004 Arts Feature

Rebuild the Guild

Michael Yates and his fellow artisans bring new life to Austin's cadre of craft

"...Michael Yates of the Guild of Austin Artisans is building a coffin for his grandmother. She's the..."

Oct. 7, 2011 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Consummate Artistry

The 2013-14 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...each receiving four prizes from the informal affiliation of arts writers...."

June 6, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Mouthing Off

Lowell Bartholomee has a lot to say, and he says it in plays that blaze like a Klieg instrument throwing gritty metrosphere of modern life into stark relief -- stark comic relief.

"...Lowell Bartholomee ... yeah, the name's a bit of a mouthful..."

July 26, 2002 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...the Austin American-Statesman's coverage of the investigation into police department misconduct, etc. Theirs was a very thin and unprofessional..."

March 2, 2001 Column

“Dana Younger: Contemporary Figurative Works” at the Elisabet Ney Museum

This show of new clay-based sculptures contrasts smartly with Elisabet Ney’s marble statuary, and its breadth of style is stunning

"...Ney – or, as we tag her 'round these parts, Elisabet Ney – was a celebrated German-American sculptor who..."

Sept. 15, 2017 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

After a Fashion

What do Osama Bin Laden, Aretha Franklin, and Blue Genie Art Industries have in common? Absolutely nothing, but go ahead and read about them anyway.

"...just get on with this war so we can start wearing red outfits. Nobody looks good in orange. Then..."

Feb. 28, 2003 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Austin Critics Table Awards 2014

Nominees announced, with top honors to a 'Vibrator,' a fixed 'John,' and a merry 'Roll'

"...Those ink-stained wretches of the arts beat have made their call. After poring over the..."

May 9, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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