SXSW Music: Hardly Art Showcase

Light, surf, fun – until it got dystopian

"...There’s no way around it, y’all: If you missed Hardly Art’s showcase at Cheer Up Charlies Thursday night, you..."

March 18, 2016 Music Post by Libby Webster

The Art of Getting By

As coming-of-age dramas go, this one is flaccid and endlessly irksome.

"...Marcus Carl Franklin, Sam Robards and Alicia Silverstone. The Art of Getting By premiered at Sundance in January as..."

June 17, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Texas, Art Texas

When it comes to Lone Star art, Rebecca Cohen wrote the book (finally!)

"...the gutters, write a comprehensive guide to all the art museums and galleries in Texas. Now, that last need..."

Oct. 15, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Visions of Light: The Art of Cinematography

"...Directed by: Arnold Glassman, Todd Mccarthy and Stuart Samuels. If you can get past that..."

April 30, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

"One / Sixth" at de stijl

This group show of work by six black graduates of UT's M.F.A. art program shouldn't have to exist, but thankfully it does

"...Sixth" gathers work from six of the seven black artists known to have graduated from the University of Texas..."

June 10, 2016 Arts Review by Sam Anderson-Ramos

Dreaming ART

This year in Austin, autumn brings a Spring Storm, and with it Actors Repertory of Texas, the realization of the city's long-cherished dream of a locally based professional theatre company.

"...an opening-night crowd watches student actors from the UT Department of Theatre & Dance, and Equity actors from both..."

Nov. 5, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Power of Art in Austin’s Overlooked Objects

Defining the city's personality from the moonlight towers to the railroad bridge

"...kind of totemic force as worthy of the name "art." By art, I don't mean the things we look..."

Aug. 5, 2016 Arts Feature by Sam Anderson-Ramos

Art Fights the Power

The Liberating Artwork of Malaquías Montoya

"...Richard Nixon to the U.S. presidency. Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King are assassinated. There are violent civil rights..."

Aug. 28, 1998 Arts Feature by Sam Martin

Earthen Works at the Austin Museum of Art Revolution in Clay

"...hands. As a potter, she harnessed the elements -- earth, fire, and water -- to do her bidding. When..."

Nov. 24, 1995 Arts Feature

Austin Museum of Art: The third way, explained

AMOA's new proposal for a new Downtown home is dramatically smaller than the last, but that's by design

"...When the Austin Museum of Art unveiled its latest plans for a new permanent facility..."

Feb. 29, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Art in the Park: 'American Dream'

It's the day for you to deliver MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech

"...You've no doubt heard Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech. Maybe..."

Oct. 22, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Luv Doc Recommends: Cherrywood Art Fair 10th Anniversary

Maplewood Elementary School, Saturday, December 10, 2011

"...in the proletarian scrum of the Unimportant People Section? Hardly. A rose by any other pretext still smells as..."

Dec. 9, 2011 Column by The Luv Doc

Vertical Helical Scan, We Hardly Knew Ye

You'd better record this on your VCR – it's probably the last time we'll ever mention it

"...all, I have a Netflix subscription bringing the latest arty DVDs to my mailbox regularly. My satellite provides free..."

Dec. 22, 2006 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

Volitant Gallery: Volitant, we hardly knew ye

After 18 months, the Downtown showcase for contemporary art shuts down

"...soon to be missing one more showcase for contemporary art. On Tuesday, Oct. 9, Xochi Solis of Volitant Gallery..."

Oct. 19, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Crumb

"...Starring: Robert Crumb and Aline Kominksy. R. Crumb: master cartoonist of the underground comix world. Even if you're not..."

June 30, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ian Sweet

Shapeshifter (Hardly Art)

"...Boston-turned-New York trio Ian Sweet's first LP with Hardly Art yields a discordant, raw intensity, 10 tracks of..."

March 17, 2017 Music Feature by Libby Webster

California Typewriter

An ode to the analog

"...as those who collect them, repair them, and make art with them. Only a couple of decades ago, the..."

Sept. 22, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Festival in Cannes

"...Jenny Gabrielle and Alex Craig Mann. The intersection of Art and Commerce is sorely in need of a signal..."

March 29, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Raid: Redemption

This Indonesian film truly has a nonstop glut of martial-arts action, so don't worry about the minimalist story and characters.

"...earlier this month). The body count is off the charts; bloody bodies are strewn everywhere in the apartment building..."

March 30, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Thursday Picks & Sleepers

Blurbing SXSW 2010

"...loaded with "Cover Band" awards, Los Texas Wranglers are part Texas legacy, part Austin's future. This tough quintet of..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

The Sixth Man

"...I shoot too high, perhaps. I attempt to view art and art's progress, regardless of the box-office receipts. Less..."

March 28, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Federico Archuleta Has More Murals to Make

The artist who made “‘Til Death Do Us Part” isn’t letting the pandemic stop him from making art

"...No sooner had SXSW been canceled and the CDC started circulating guidelines for keeping COVID-19 at bay than the..."

Nov. 13, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Thermals

SXSW Records

"...The ThermalsMore Parts Per Million (Sub Pop) Everybody loves an indie rock..."

March 14, 2003 Music Review by Greg Beets

Faces Places

Celebrating faces in the crowd

"...duo of filmmaking lion Agnès Varda and outdoor installation artist JR is full of discovery, reflection, invention, and transmogrification...."

Oct. 13, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

SXSW Friday Showcases

Friday night's SX showcases are bar-the-door-Katy good

"...Leonard Cohen, who, in turn, helped produce and provide artwork for her new release, Watching You Think. – Jay..."

March 18, 2011 Music Feature

Gulliver's Travels

In this update of the satiric Jonathan Swift novel, Jack Black plays s travel writer who becomes lost on the island of Lilliput.

"...attention paid to the possibilities of 3-D and other state-of-the-art special effects, and careless direction of the actors, who..."

Dec. 31, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Persepolis

This remarkable animated film tells a contemporary story about an Iranian girl’s coming-of-age while navigating the usual pitfalls of adolescence and the Islamic revolution of the Eighties.

"...is at once a confessional autobiography, historical re-enactment, graphic art object, and deeply involving contemporary story about a girl’s..."

Feb. 1, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet

This Shakespeare rendition is not so much a reconceptualization as a recontextualization of the 400-year-old play. This Romeo + Juliet is a rich visual feast, besotted with the fervor of its acrobatic camerawork and kinetic staging and its mind-bending aggregation of unrelated but resonant fragments of 20th century iconography. It is a Shakespearean work thoroughly conceived for the screen. DiCaprio and Danes again prove that they are two of the best actors of their generation. And William Shakespeare has once more demonstrated that he is a storyteller for all time.

"...positioned to slip one past the Shakespeare purists and art aesthetes while building a base of support among the..."

Nov. 1, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Painted Faces

"...years of his life learning the intricate, physically demanding art of the centuries-old Peking Opera. Unceremoniously dubbed “Little Big..."

Aug. 6, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mac

"...with their lives. As a meditation on the lost art of true craftsmanship and the 1950s Italian-American experience, Mac..."

April 30, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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