Update: Fate of UT's Fine Arts Library

Provost OKs recommendations to preserve, upgrade fifth floor

"...For months, the fate of the Fine Arts Library at the University of Texas has been..."

April 11, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Changes at UT’s Fine Arts Library Cause a Rift in the College of Fine Arts

Showdown on the fifth floor

"...has been like that since the E. William Doty Fine Arts Building opened at the University of Texas in..."

March 30, 2018 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

McCallum Fine Arts Academy

The high school theatre crafts a bilingual take on the Webber-Rice musical

"...last point: The theatre department at McCallum High School's Fine Arts Academy, in tackling the Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice..."

March 5, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

UT Fine Arts Library

Using ancient artifacts of the Americas to lure people back to the library

"...collection is found on the first floor of the Fine Arts Library, where it's open to the public during..."

Feb. 19, 2010 Arts Feature by Madeline Irvine

Bob Bursey Takes Over Texas Performing Arts

UT hires the director of Bard College's Fisher Center to run TPA

"...to welcome a new executive director to Texas Performing Arts. Today, the University of Texas at Austin College of..."

Sept. 3, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

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

TFAA Director Sandra Greagor Igniting a Fire for the Arts

"...make it," says Sandra Greagor, Director of the Texas Fine Arts Association (TFAA). "I don't have that compulsion." Needless..."

July 28, 1995 Arts Feature

Arts Critics Poll BIGGEST ARTS STORY OF 1998

"...Marshall - ARGH! I'm stumped. Perhaps getting closer to building the downtown museum?..."

Jan. 8, 1999 Arts Feature

Sketchfest, Shakespeare, and More Arts Events to Fill Your Week

Things are gonna get cheeky, queer, and local

"...the joyful, the soul-crushing. So, you know, our world. Building on traditions from contemporary artists to Harlem Renaissance masters,..."

May 17, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Defend Our Hoodz Gets Mixed Up With Arts District, Presidium, Chronicle

"...Austin Creative Alliance, whose offices are in the same building, and which is partnering with Presidium Holdings to sponsor..."

Feb. 15, 2019 News Feature by Michael King

"Rehab El Sadek: Transient" at Prizer Arts & Letters

The artist’s newest exhibition takes a temporary stand in the place where you are

"...the Middle East, is currently occupying the Eastside's Prizer Arts & Letters Gallery with her creations in a show..."

Dec. 13, 2019 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Vin Gallery

With courage and grace, Vin Gallery has successfully made the transition from its burned home in the Guadalupe Arts Center to a space by Gallery Shoal Creek

"...open their renovated downtown gallery space in the Guadalupe Arts Center this month, they experienced an abrupt change of..."

Feb. 25, 2005 Arts Review by Jacqueline May

Colorblind Arts

"...so when the reappointment of a member of the Arts Commission was challenged because of her stance on funding..."

Oct. 16, 1998 News Column by Jenny Staff

Austin Arts Hall of Fame Class of 2017

Flatbed Press founders Katherine Brimberry and Mark L. Smith, choreographer Kate Warren and theatre / spoken word artist Zell Miller III join the ranks of cultural heroes

"...For the arts and culture to take root in a city, to..."

June 2, 2017 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Andy St. Martin: Selected Works From 1999 to 2007

The animated personality of painter Andy St. Martin shines through all the careful color fields he creates in the abstracts populating his new solo show at 4 walls fine art

"...4 walls fine art, through June 30..."

May 25, 2007 Arts Review by Rachel Koper

Katie Maratta & Owen McAuley

An indoor/outdoor show where vast landscapes an inch high meet extremely eerie interiors

"...a box of blue infinity. You walk into a building, any building, the world comes..."

Nov. 6, 2009 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Five Arts Events in Austin This Weekend

Theatre, graphic glory, steamrollering, coffee, and the ol' brown box

"...familiar cushions of that couch and the pressure gravity imparts upon your sitting asscheeks. Live, we mean, a little!..."

Feb. 9, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Draw

Gallery Lombardi is in its new space on Seventh Street with another group show hanging salon-style, but there's something a little different about "Draw"

"...in stark graphics or soft gradations. Then you have fine artists utilizing certain techniques, such as childlike scribble drawings,..."

March 16, 2007 Arts Review by Salvador Castillo

Where I End, You Begin

Two Austin artists create one hell of a fine show

"...beams and steel plates and ceramic bowls and doll parts, occupying much of the floor that Alesi's paintings surround...."

July 8, 2011 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Fup Duck

Live music by the White Ghost Shivers made this puppet adaptation complete

"...You might think something is missing in this fine adaptation of Jim Dodge's modern, backwoodsy fable Fup, as..."

March 26, 2010 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

'Carol Marine: New Paintings'/'Suzanne Lewis: Dune Shack Summer'/'Lesley Nowlin: Guatemala'

The three exhibitions in two neighboring galleries is like the Neapolitan ice cream of art

"...has three flavors in one, and it is a fine way to keep a group happy. In that spirit,..."

July 31, 2009 Arts Review by Rachel Koper

Susannah

The Butler Opera Center production achieves real magic, most notably a triumphant performance in the title role

"...by a series of trunks that implies trees or building frames depending on the setting, and as the story..."

April 25, 2008 Arts Review by Michael Kellerman

Elephant's Graveyard

In this new play, the infamous tale of a circus elephant that was hanged is recounted in heartbreaking fashion

"...of Texas Department of Theatre & Dance, cracks our hearts without ever showing us a drop of blood, a..."

Nov. 16, 2007 Arts Review by Robert Faires

A Big Word With a Small "A"

Sue Graze leads an organization that works to bring the visual arts to the entire Lone Star State. She talks with Rebecca Cohen about her first year directing the Texas Fine Arts Association.

"...visited with Sue Graze, executive director of the Texas Fine Arts Association (TFAA). We met at the Jones Center..."

Feb. 11, 2000 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

Bass Concert Hall: Park, Pee and Leave (or not)

The musical was great, but the venue is a problem

"...Blonde together. The musical? It was cute, energetic, and fine. Camp and class...."

Feb. 20, 2009 Arts Post by Andy Campbell

First Generation

The 2011 class of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame

"...No opera. None of the scores of small independent arts companies generating original work and none of the ubiquitous..."

June 3, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Talking Art at the Top

The executive directors of the city's museums shed light on the local visual arts scene

"...The fact is, the visual arts community in Austin is having the most vibrant and..."

July 2, 2004 Arts Feature by Sam Martin

Ten Years After

Curator Annette Carlozzi Returns to Austin's Arts Scene

"...Center in New Orleans and then was appointed Visual Arts Producer for the 1996 Olympics Arts Festival. Now Carlozzi..."

Sept. 27, 1996 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

Articulations

Arts Go South?

"...the first step toward getting a major new performing arts center on the southern shores of Town Lake. The..."

March 20, 1998 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Forty Acres of Fresh, Ethnic Eats

Mick Vann teaches you a lesson on UT's campus-area restaurant resurgence.

"...Cafe, nestled in the main lobby of the A.C.E.S. Building at the corner of 24th and Speedway (232-9060). O's..."

Sept. 20, 2002 Food Review by Mick Vann

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