"Deborah Roberts: I'm" at the Contemporary Austin

In Deborah Roberts' solo exhibition at the Contemporary Austin, we learn what it is to be seen and not seen

"...her gaze or his, and you'll see why the Contemporary Austin is giving this hometown artist a major exhibition,..."

Feb. 19, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Contemporary Austin Wants to Celebrate You

Membership hath its privileges, and right now they’re even better

"...Yes, the Contemporary Austin is this city’s only museum focused solely on..."

Feb. 16, 2022 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

"The Sorcerer's Burden: Contemporary Art and the Anthropological Turn"

This ambitious exhibition reveals inquiring anthropologists within today’s artists

"...compacted into an earthenware mold, harkens back to a culture hundreds, if not thousands, of years old...."

Jan. 3, 2020 Arts Review by Robert Faires

'Creativity in the Face of Death: The Contemporary Resonance of Terezín'

UT symposium honors and ponders art created in the Nazi concentration camp

"...heart of "Creativity in the Face of Death: The Contemporary Resonance of Terezín," a symposium to be held in..."

Oct. 5, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Texas Culture Bash

"...by TFR this Sunday (July 23) with the "Texas Culture Bash." Taking place on the grounds of Laguna Gloria,..."

July 21, 1995 Music Feature

Culture Club

Dances inspired by three legendary women cross cultures and generations

"...War, spirituality, desperation, passion, culture: All are forces driving a new collaborative dance work..."

Feb. 27, 2009 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Culture Flash!

The new Whole Foods will be getting some tasty new art, the Blanton just needs another $12 million, and where in the world is the Cultural Arts office

"...to what the company calls the Market District's Art, Culture, and Community Plan, which will ensure public art in..."

Dec. 24, 2004 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Culture Connectors

The 2013 class of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame

"...the city, directing the Aspen Art Museum and the Contemporary Art Center in New Orleans and serving as visual..."

May 31, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Culture Flash!

Art prize finalists, grants for a dancemaker and a new musical, and Mother Ginger

"...Arthouse Executive Director Sue Graze; Bill Arning, director of Contemporary Arts Museum Houston; Gary Carrion-Murayari, senior curatorial assistant at..."

Dec. 17, 2010 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Culture Flash!

A museum show for three shutterbugs, a prize for a canny sculptor, and calling all Young Masters

"...Adam Schreiber on receiving their own exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. With "Perspectives 168: Anna Krachey, Jessica..."

Oct. 30, 2009 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Culture Flash!

Big honors for a local portraitist, a pianist, and two high school seniors, plus Austin Books raises $2K for First Amendment protection

"...• Michelle Schumann won the 2006 Janice K. Hodges Contemporary Piano performance competition at UT-San Antonio on Sunday, Feb...."

March 3, 2006 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Culture Flash!

Pay your respects to the late Boyd Vance, June means green for the Paramount and State, and six Austinites are officially 'New American Talent'

"...Dan Cameron (senior curator at large, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York) speak in the slide show Moving..."

June 17, 2005 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Culture Flash!

Stephen Mills in Montreal, Conspirare in the studio, the Blanton's first Impressionist painting, and party for the Texas Biennial

"...A new celebration of contemporary artists based in Texas is being launched at the..."

Aug. 6, 2004 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Culture Flash!

A Blanton curator goes south, a solo show master goes back to Houston, an area quilter and portraitist go national, and the Long Center and KMFA go to the bank

"...Latin America and considered one of the most important contemporary art events in South America. Pérez-Barreiro will keep his..."

Aug. 25, 2006 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Culture Flash! March 2016

Honors for Dietz, compassion for ASO, and China for the ballet

"...for his script Bloomsday, which was commissioned by A Contemporary Theatre in Seattle and received its world premiere there..."

March 23, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Queer Culture From the 1970s to 70

Three documentaries highlight a generation of gay icons

"...what they can to help define a more holistic contemporary queer politics...."

March 8, 2013 Screens Feature by Andy Campbell

Culture Flash

A dozen NEA grants, an Austinite for State Artist, and Austin High takes state

"...Beaver Animation as the second production in the company's Contemporary Classics Series Telling Project: $20,000 to support Telling: Donaldson State..."

May 27, 2011 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Culture Flash!

Salvage Vanguard scores a prestigious R&D grant, and Jenny Hart goes Gallic

"...seamstress fantastique has embroidered works in deux exhibitions of contemporary needlework in France this month: the group show "Fils..."

Oct. 16, 2009 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Culture Flash!

The Blanton tweaks its schedule, Conspirare's fave composer takes the prize, and Hot September Flurries in June?

"...• Remember Hot September Flurries, that annual celebration of contemporary dance at the Blue Theater the past few autumns?..."

Dec. 28, 2007 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Culture Flash!

The 2005 Texas Medal of Arts Awards have been announced, and the Elisabet Ney Museum snags a Historic Homes grant

"...Lozano Long of Austin (Arts Patron Individual); modern and contemporary sculpture Nasher Foundation/Raymond D. Nasher of Dallas (Arts Patron..."

March 18, 2005 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Culture Flash!

Tapestry can dance this season after all, Austin artists may be the new Marfa lights, Angelina Eberly fires up the Avenue, and 'Cracks in the Pavement' gets national recognition

"...of local artwork to the West Texas outpost of contemporary art. The road trip coincides with Open House, the..."

Oct. 8, 2004 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Get on the Ground!

Bett Williams navigates contemporary culture with a wicked pen and a wrestling mat, and she'll be at BookPeople on Friday.

"...my stories work well in telling a story about culture," Williams says. "I'm trying to tell a vernacular story..."

Jan. 16, 2004 Books Feature by Cindy Widner

Page Two

Persistence of memory

"...The point here, coming soon, will be how all culture is one culture. Whereas distinctions can and must be..."

Nov. 18, 2005 Column by Louis Black

Moscow Now, Here

The New Russian Drama Festival opens a hotline to the culture of Russia today

"...Austin as a way of sharing his love of contemporary Russian theatre with Texas audiences. This year's festival features..."

March 9, 2012 Arts Feature by Dan Solomon

How to Celebrate Austin Museum Day 2020

In person and virtual events abound on the city' annual free museum day

"...Austin Museum Day, citizen, that free celebration of art, culture, history, music, nature, and science – with local bastions..."

Sept. 15, 2020 Arts Post

Contemporary Culture

A show offering a wonderful variety of strong art, but grouped by an unnecessary theme

"...'Contemporary Culture'..."

Oct. 16, 2009 Arts Review by Kate Watson

A Shortlist of the City’s Most Memorable Museums

Gaze upon objets from the weird to the sublime

"...museums. But we are known for embracing our offbeat culture and working to preserve it. While you're Downtown, exhibits,..."

June 16, 2016 Columns Post by Mary Cantrell

Non-Fiction

Olivier Assayas sharpens his teeth for this new attack on the question of art versus commerce

"...this film is a perpetual stream of people debating contemporary issues in a particularly Gallic manner: how we engage..."

May 24, 2019 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Truth and Reconciliation

The assertion of the individual is at the heart of the Austin Museum of Art's new show, "Liberated Voices: Contemporary Art From South Africa," which makes it fresh and full of surprises; it resonates with the hungry energy of a country emerging from oppression and brims with experimentation and unique, original perspectives.

"...vibrant color photograph on the posters for "Liberated Voices: Contemporary Art From South Africa," the new show at the..."

June 2, 2000 Arts Feature by Ben Willcott

Ne Zha

Chinese animated legend tells a recognizable story with gusto

"...kinetic glee, Ne Zha crams in a plethora of contemporary and pop culture references (the opening sequence throws in..."

Aug. 30, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

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