"Drawing Lines: Explorations of Place"

The final exhibit of this public art project shows how every district in Austin has had artists working for it

"...those districts as established by the public art project Drawing Lines. A few years ago, as our growing metropolis..."

April 1, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Seasons Drawing to a Close

"...fourth and fifth British teams to qualify for the European Champions League final 16, as group play ended this..."

Dec. 12, 2007 Sports Post by Nick Barbaro

Renaissance (and Baroque) Man

As a curator for UT's Blanton Museum of Art, Jonathan Bober played a pivotal role in securing the Suida-Manning and Steinberg art collections, thereby giving some of the world's great art a home in Austin.

"...and yet given his position -- curator of prints, drawings, and European paintings at UT-Austin's Blanton Museum of Art..."

April 4, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

1991: The Year Punk Broke

This snarling, loudly exultant record of the 1991 European tour by Sonic Youth, Nirvana, Dinosaur Jr., and other bands, bursts with lunatic concert footage, inspired backstage antics, baffling contract riders, and self-deprecating humor from the groups.

"...a snarling, loudly exultant record of Sonic Youth's 1991 European tour, bursting at the seams with lunatic concert footage,..."

Dec. 4, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

For the Love of the Line

In the exhibitions “Old Master Drawings From the Suida-Manning Collection” at the Blanton Museum of Art and “Selected 20th-Century Master Drawings” at the Norwood Gallery, we can indulge our eyes in samples of art spanning five centuries.

"...Drawing is that simple and that profound. It can be..."

Oct. 8, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Careful

"...Brent Neale and Gosia Dobrowoiska. Set in the mysterious European village of Tolzbad during the 19th century, this third..."

Oct. 15, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Verde Report: Is It Time for Austin FC to Become a Selling Club?

Promising young midfielders Dani Pereira and Owen Wolff drawing interest from abroad

"...candidates for imminent transfers abroad, and both have begun drawing serious interest, according to head coach Josh Wolff...."

June 23, 2023 Sports Column by Eric Goodman

Chronicle Recommends: Vive la France!

In honor of New French Cinema Week, we go Gallic!

"...there would be no such thing as cinema. Our European cousins didn’t just perfect the first iteration of the..."

April 22, 2019 Screens Post by The Screens Staff

Austin Psych Fest Live (Saturday): Wall of Death

Parisian trio heats up under a ‘Thundersky’

"...Texans love to hear complaints about the heat from European bands playing our music festivals. It swells our sun-scorched..."

April 28, 2013 Music Post by Greg Beets

Beanpole

Post-war Russian drama reappraises the position of women veterans through a strange compact

"...an added tension of an under-told story. Unlike most European countries during World War II, Russia conscripted women as..."

April 10, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Take This Waltz

Sarah Polley's sophomore film, starring Michelle Williams and Seth Rogen, is an inquiry into commitment and carnal desire, and the hard choices we make when the two don’t align.

"...in her little-girl's bye-bye wave and her habit of drawing a hand worryingly to her mouth. Married for five..."

Aug. 17, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Flags of Our Fathers

The first half of the film continues Clint Eastwood's ongoing deconstruction of America's hero myths but then detours into some uncharacteristically sentimental mulch.

"...American people were wearying of the war as the European campaign was drawing to a close and the government..."

Oct. 20, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Beyond the Blockbuster

With "Luca Cambiaso, 1527-1585," the Blanton bucks the trend toward superstar exhibitions and spotlights a lost Renaissance master

"...works, however, but also on the exceptional volume of drawings that he and his workshop produced and disseminated. In..."

Oct. 20, 2006 Arts Feature by Nikki Moore

Bride of the Wind

"...biopic begins by backdropping its characters -- hot-tempered, cliquish European intellectuals -- against a whirlwind of sepia stock footage..."

Aug. 10, 2001 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Out of Sight

Soderbergh adapts Elmore Leonard in this caper movie that features great performances, gritty milieus, and clever creative flourishes.

"...storyline feels off-putting at first, as the flashbacks-within-flashbacks begin drawing to a head, Soderbergh's obvious glee at playing with..."

June 26, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Texas by Georgia

How O'Keeffe Adopted the Lone Star State

"...had gathered in Texas in nearly every painting and drawing she produced. Can Texas claim her as its own?..."

March 20, 1998 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

Letters at 3AM

The collapse of the American political process in Election Year 2000 is both an event in itself and a world-class metaphor: The American Century is over.

"...majority opinion that struck down the Indianapolis practice: "Without drawing the line [at such searches] ... the Fourth Amendment..."

Dec. 8, 2000 Column by Michael Ventura

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re playing

"...to the COVID-19 “Checking In” series at austinchronicle.com/daily/music. Exploded Drawing Broadcast..."

May 29, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

SXSW Announces Midnighters, VR And More

Time to get dark and artistic with the latest film wave

"...which a young couple travels to a shabby Eastern European hospital for cheap plastic surgery, but they get stuck..."

Feb. 5, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Making of Austin

Curator Carter Foster on Ellsworth Kelly's art building

"...Director for Curatorial Affairs and Curator of Prints and Drawings. Among his first major assignments: curating an exhibition that..."

Feb. 15, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

The New Brunch Bunch

12 new reasons why everybody's working for the weekend

"...Barely a month old, Sway's Thai-inflected brunch is already drawing crowds. Familiar favorites are completely transformed by chef Martin..."

March 11, 2016 Food Feature by Brandon Watson

Drawn and Quarterly? Fantagraphics? A Few Recent Releases?

Yes: Our new comics-reviewing team gives 'em a look-see

"...smashed distinctions between "high" and ‘low’ modes of art, drawing from the visual language of advertising, cinema, fashion, and..."

May 10, 2013 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

An Arc of Crystal Clarity

Rob chats with Gavin Russom and Viva Ruiz of the Crystal Ark

"...influences. Ethnically, I'm very mixed – all kinds of European people whose musical traditions are pretty lost in terms..."

Jan. 10, 2013 Qmmunity Post by Rob Cohen

Ideas Through Movement

Political and philosophical issues aren't just topics for writers and dramatists. Several Austin choreographers are using themas subjects for dances. Toni Bravo, Jeffery Bullock, Lisa Fehrman, and Andrew Long explain how they see ideas through movement.

"...these issues for ourselves. That's our good old Western European tradition at work. We are the children of Socrates..."

March 3, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Story of an American Music

Hector Galán's Songs of the Homeland

"...original American music. It borrows a lot from the European, Mexican/Spanish traditions. But what has evolved is uniquely American."..."

Sept. 15, 1995 Arts Feature

"The Blessings of the Mystery" Questions the Notion of Preservation and Ownership

A different West Texas at UT's Visual Arts Center

"...on West Texas. By assembling created and found objects, drawings, and video footage – and writing every exhibition label..."

Oct. 29, 2021 Arts Feature by Vivie Behrens

Adult Audio Coloring Book Sampler

A look back at illustrated album covers old and new

"...striking chords of terror, unease, and sexuality. No wonder European proggers like Walpurgis and Magma came knocking at his..."

July 29, 2016 Music Feature by Michael Toland

DVDanger: 'Byzantium,' 'Kiss of the Damned,' 'Nosferatu,' 'Aeon: The Last Vampyre on Earth'

Time for a real vampire weekend

"...Vampire posited that the actor was a real vampire. Drawing on occult obsessions with the power of shadows, he..."

Nov. 17, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Melancholy Play

A funny, charming, truly sweet staging of a play that's not melancholy at all

"...one. So is Lorenzo, a therapist from an unidentified European country who speaks in an unidentifiable European accent. Frank..."

Aug. 6, 2010 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

What Can a Century Tell Us?

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

"...change, tested by the rapid expansion of industrialism and European imperialism, as well as developments in science and social..."

July 13, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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