But Is It Art?

Austin Kleon gets creative with poetry in his new collection, Newspaper Blackout

"...my best to treat this newspaper as a blank canvas. Well, not necessarily a blank canvas – I like..."

April 9, 2010 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

Not Too Tight at All

The disciplined abstracts of Helmut Barnett

"...of color is his many works rendered on stretched canvas and fine thick paper: posed on easels, stacked in..."

Feb. 5, 2010 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

After a Fashion

Your Style Avatar celebrates 10 years of telling you what's what

"...about this friend of hers who paints masterpieces on canvas shoes. "What kinds of things does he paint?" "Anything,"..."

Aug. 21, 2009 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Ghostsongs

Two makers of narrative figurative art grapple with death in a striking show

"...crossed over the chest. Shroud, the large pair of canvases, is a striking and brave diptych by Sorne. It's..."

June 12, 2009 Arts Review by Rachel Koper

The Living

Three painters show work that will have you thinking about what it means to be alive

"...her past mastery of living flora and bring, in canvas after canvas, a splendor of photo-real foliage most often..."

Nov. 21, 2008 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Unforeseen

Executive-produced by Robert Redford and Terrence Malick, Dunn's award-winning documentary looks at the history of Barton Springs, Gary Bradley's role in development issues, and the relationship of Austin's environmental activism to the world at large.

"...last – control. He imagined Austin as a “clean canvas” upon which he would paint his masterpiece, using maps..."

March 28, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Teeth

Austin-shot horror pic about a girl who discovers that her naughty bits are bitey.

"...and pointedly sexualized imagery of his father's famed Whaam! canvas several seriocomic steps further into the realm of cinematic..."

Jan. 25, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

My Kid Could Paint That

This truly perplexing documentary begins as a fascinating cultural investigation of a child prodigy, but gradually devolves into an unintentionally creepy and exploitative document.

"...who, at the age of 4, was painting abstract canvases, allegedly by herself, that were commanding top-dollar purses and..."

Nov. 2, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Beside the Point

Just one word: canvas

"...plastics education will likely advance the use of reusable canvas bags (especially if the city teams with grocers to..."

April 20, 2007 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Rising Stars 3

Studio 107's "Rising Stars 3" features uniquely sculptural prints by Adreon Henry, appealing photos of rust by Fernando Lafuente, and powerfully honest portraits by Alonso Rey

"...brightly silk-screened vinyl strips, then stretches them like a canvas. The final surface, while bricklike from the side, is..."

Feb. 9, 2007 Arts Review by Rachel Koper

Tag – You're It!

Celebrating urban scrawl with Gallery Lombardi's exhibition 'Austin Graffiti Art: From Birth to Present'

"...The transition from mural-sized tags to smaller paintings on canvas has been a rocky one for many artists in..."

Sept. 1, 2006 Arts Feature by Amanda Douberley

The Celestine Prophecy

The New Age metaphysics-cum-pulp thriller novel is now a movie.

"...rainforest, he seems ill at ease with a broader canvas. One of his previous gigs was TV’s Touched by..."

May 12, 2006 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Friends With Money

Forget friends with money – how about friends with husbands, kids, mortgages, and so-called life plans? That’s the short list of differences between the depressed, single stoner, played by Jennifer Aniston, and her circle of female friends.

"...a signpost for Jane’s ballooning depression. Considering Holofcener’s expanded canvas and the film’s relatively short running time, it’s a..."

April 21, 2006 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

To Marfa, on a Tuesday in December

When high art and hipness move in, what happens to a tiny Texas town?

"...The middle of nowhere is not an entirely blank canvas. When the artists Ingar Dragset and Michael Elmgreen flew..."

Dec. 23, 2005 Arts Feature by Dan Keane

EAST: Now With More!

The 2005 East Austin Studio Tour boasts 40% more paintings, sculpture, photography, ceramics, jewelry, prints ...

"...from among 34 locations showing your basic oil on canvas, acrylic on canvas, and 2-D design. That still leaves..."

Nov. 18, 2005 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

See You at the Fair

In his new show 'Funicular,' painter Joseph Phillips renders images of cable cars and Ferris wheels that cut across the canvas with geometric force

"...rendered in thick, dark shapes that cut across the canvas with geometric force. The great expanses of space that..."

Sept. 10, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Master of the Speedy Stroke

Gordon Fowler wastes no time when it comes to making his mark in watercolor.

"...artist imparting warm smiles and beautiful settings to the canvas. Long shadows cascade through Parisian streets, shaded family picnics..."

Oct. 17, 2003 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

Day Trips

"...design three life-sized cows to be used as three-dimensional canvases. The results were the models for three all-white heifers..."

Jan. 31, 2003 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?

"...innate knowledge of the capacties offered by the widescreen canvas, no doubt the result of his earlier years as..."

May 28, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Andre Carriere does feel that the play is a canvas upon which he can paint whatever he likes ......"

May 3, 2002 Column

What Lies Beneath

Sydney Yeager's new paintings at D Berman Gallery represent a departure in the artist's work, a potential turning point from the figurative images that made Yeager's work recognizable for nearly a decade to what has always been the real strength of her paintings: the abstraction beneath.

"...Ordered Suspension, little golden, glowing squiggly forms cover the canvas in an organic mesh. The marks generate from the..."

Feb. 15, 2002 Arts Feature by Madeline Irvine

Graffiti on the Superhighway

The digital age has ushered a new era in visual art, with the Internet offering artists a new medium for the creation of art, an infinite space to display their work, and a marketing tool. But with this expansion of creative opportunities come sticky questions of ownership and the communal experience of art.

"...easily. I used the mouse to draw on the canvas, deciding not to experiment with the painting options. After..."

Dec. 28, 2001 Arts Feature by Rob Curran

Heyd in Plain Sight

Austin painter Heyd Fontenot exposes more than himself in his new exhibition.

"...The abstracts he layers (often with gold leaf) on canvas and wood look like huge swatches of wallpaper from..."

Dec. 14, 2001 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Galleries in Bloom

The times being what they are, you don't exactly expect to see new galleries sprouting across Austin's cultural landscape, but two just did: Oswald Gallery, showing fine art photography, and Jean-Marc Fray, displaying paintings by French artist Robert Bourasseau.

"...dense, thick layers of paint that sit on the canvas like stucco on a wall. Bourasseau's coffee cups --..."

Nov. 16, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Bride of the Wind

"...ball gown standing out like a splash on a canvas, and steps through a door into a scene of..."

Aug. 10, 2001 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Won't You Come In?

For four years, playwright Lisa D'Amour and director Katie Pearl have forged an uncommon bond with audiences through the welcoming, intimate quality of their theatre work. They've also forged an uncommon bond with each other, a mutually fulfilling creative partnership that will continue for the rest of their lives.

"...Blue, Window Me Sky. It's dominated by a giant canvas eye, one of several visual aids that a shy,..."

May 11, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Pollock

"...commissioned by Guggenheim: He stands eyeing the massive, empty canvas, which is set against a wall, and then begins..."

March 9, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Sin Fronteras

Most observers would agree that Austin has a Latino visual arts community, but within that community are many voices, many points of view, many styles -- and no borders.

"...on each candle. Eyes accustomed to seeing detail on canvas will stand on stalks to see classic portraits on..."

Feb. 16, 2001 Arts Feature by Rob Curran

The Fantasticks

Deep in your heart, you should "follow." Released just a few years ago, this film version of the Off Broadway workhorse captures the feeling of the innocent and bygone era of movie musicals. But it differs from the original work's romantic minimalism as it opens up the play cinematically.

"...and a fantastically extravagant carnival, complete with lurid sideshow canvases hawking exotic performers, as well as a mysterious rogue..."

Nov. 10, 2000 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Price of Glory

"...of Glory's storyline keeps threatening to topple to the canvas and lay there, inert and bloody. When it finally..."

March 31, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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