New Art in Austin 2008: The 20 to watch

AMOA names the 20 Austin artists for its next 'New Art in Austin' exhibition

"...The Austin Museum of Art has identified which local artists are the "20 to..."

Oct. 19, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Arthouse Texas Prize: Five for Texas (the prize, that is)

Arthouse shows off work by finalists for the 2007 Arthouse Texas Prize

"...It's almost time for Arthouse to bestow another $30,000 check on a lucky..."

Sept. 7, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin's Cultural Makeover: The Next Stage

How much closer we are to getting the cultural wonderland we imagined 10 years ago

"...In the Nineties, Austin's cultural scene could afford to dream big. The city was riding high on..."

Sept. 7, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Arthouse: America's Got Talent!

Curator Anne Ellegood explains her picks for this year's New American Talent exhibit at Arthouse

"...Local juried shows such as Austin Museum of Art's triennial "New Art in Austin," the nonprofit Texas Biennial,..."

July 20, 2007 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

Arthouse: Unveiling a new curator

Elizabeth Dunbar joins Arthouse as its first full-time curator in the organization's 95-year history

"...Arthouse has been serving the visual arts in Texas for..."

Feb. 2, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

E-flux Video Rental Austin: Keep circulating the tapes

E-Flux Video Rental has come to Austin, bringing more than 600 short and feature-length art videos that you can watch at Arthouse or take home to view at no charge

"...your rescue. Well, fear no more, aficionado of the art-world film, E-Flux Video Rental has come to Austin. This..."

Nov. 24, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

From Stuff, Art

The 21st 'New American Talent' exhibition features a whopping 72 works of art, many of them created from everyday objects

"...one of the four modified "Exit" signs by Austin artist Kurt Dominick Mueller, installed in various places high up..."

July 14, 2006 Arts Feature by Amanda Douberley

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Blurbing the pinnacle of SXSW 2006.

"...MICHAEL DOUCET2pm, Town Lake Stage @ Auditorium Shores Since forming in 1975, the Grammy award-winning BeauSoleil has earned its..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature

The Gospel of Lead

Arthouse's Talking Art with Dario Robleto and Jeremy Blake is a good bet for a stimulating afternoon, with two rising art stars who have a history of weirdly personal, spicy commentary

"...conceived of by the young and feisty San Antonio artist Dario Robleto. He'll be in Austin for Talking Art..."

Jan. 20, 2006 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

The Final Four

The artists up for the first Arthouse Texas Prize talk about their work

"...In just two weeks, Arthouse will hand out its first-ever Texas Prize, a historic..."

Oct. 21, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Movin' On Up

With a hotshot New York design team on board, Arthouse makes a long-awaited start on the transformation of its second story

"...In 1995, when Arthouse – then the Texas Fine Arts Association – took..."

July 29, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Oh, Give Me a Home

The 20th 'New American Talent' exhibition reveals a country struggling with isolation and power

"...Arthouse invited the New Museum's senior curator at large, Dan..."

July 1, 2005 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

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'

"...to pay your respects to the late Boyd Vance. ProArts Collective, the company he founded and ran until his..."

June 17, 2005 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Superbadass Web Sites for Everyone!

With the help of Knowbility's AIR-Interactive for the Arts and a team of professional designers, I am going to help reinvent the Internet

"...I received an e-mail from Teresa Ferguson, who works for the Athens Group and who hosts Femme FM on..."

March 4, 2005 Screens Feature by Spike Gillespie

Report From Art Basel

Texans find a place with the art world elite in Art Basel Miami Beach

"...Earlier this month, I made my first trip to Art Basel, a major international art fair that's been held..."

Dec. 24, 2004 Arts Feature by Jacqueline May

Communing in the Air

With 'Lounge!,' Arthouse transforms itself into a space that swings

"...When we look at art or talk about art or even listen to other..."

Dec. 3, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

'Lounge!' Action

"...beginning of the conversation about the community's interaction with art and architecture. The curators have provided a sampling of..."

Dec. 3, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Arts Bullets

Two Austin arts groups go to D.C. for an international arts festival, and another is headed to New York for one

"...Austin makes itself known at the 2004 International VSA arts Festival in Washington, D.C., on Friday, June 11. That's..."

June 11, 2004 Arts Feature

Arts Bullets

Physical Plant Theater's first Garden Party raised more than $8,000, Ann Hume Wilson has been appointed associate director of the Blanton Museum of Art, Blue Lapis Light is exhibiting – and auctioning off – bras and breastplates for angels, and the city unveils a new mural at the Pan Am / A.B. Cantu Recreation Center

"...• Physical Plant Theater's first Garden Party was not only a singularly beautiful and charming affair,..."

June 4, 2004 Arts Feature

Austin's Cultural Makeover

Which arts facilities from the boom years were built, which weren't built, and why

"...how flush we were during the last boom: The arts got a taste of it...."

Feb. 20, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

"New American Talent: The Eighteenth Exhibition"

For the 18th edition of the annual "New American Talent" show at Arthouse, curator Dominic Molon has steered away from choosing what might be the "best" new art today and chosen instead what suits his particular tastes, which means art that is sardonic, humorous, and hip, with lots of brightly surreal color and texture.

"...Arthouse at the Jones Center for Contemporary Art, through Aug...."

Aug. 8, 2003 Arts Review by Molly Beth Brenner

High Plains Chamber

The Harrington String Quartet, which makes its third appearance with the Austin Chamber Music Center's annual summer festival in July, is based in Amarillo, and though that may not seem like a likely spot for a chamber music ensemble, the members of the Harrington Quartet feel quite at home on the range.

"...Amarillo is in that part of Texas that gets overlooked. Not so many people..."

July 11, 2003 Arts Feature by Jerry Young

"Natural Selections: Julie Speed and Bale Creek Allen"

Seeing "Natural Selections," Arthouse's new two-artist show featuring collages by Julie Speed and sculpture by Bale Creek Allen, reveals these two to be excellent examples of Austin cultural affluence, creating work that is rich in artistry and inventiveness, with a touch of weirdness thrown into the mix. .

"...Arthouse at the Jones Center, through May 11..."

May 2, 2003 Arts Review by Molly Beth Brenner

A Piece of Work

In Wash, influential media artist Bill Lundberg projects video loops of hands being washed onto the bowls of three white sinks, calling to mind our culture's fears, now deeper than ever, of dangerous filth that might do us harm.

"...Arthouse, through March 9..."

March 7, 2003 Arts Feature by Molly Beth Brenner

Articulations

Austin Script Works has a changing of the bard, Austin officially becomes a capital of culture, and the Texas Fine Arts Association is renamed Arthouse.

"...see one of the city's most gifted dramatists leave for New York City, which leaves a gap in not..."

Nov. 29, 2002 Arts Column by Robert Faires

A Piece of Work

In the Arthouse exhibition "Glow," Craig Kauffman's Untitled Donut #14 balloons out from the wall like a benign, lopsided pink inner tube, its sensuous shape and gleaming, flesh-toned color beckoning the viewer with the rounded friendliness of Baby's bath toy.

"...Jones Center for Contemporary Art, through Jan. 5..."

Nov. 29, 2002 Arts Feature by Molly Beth Brenner

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...RED DYE #4, THE DISOWNED, THE SNOBS, FORTY SECOND SCANDAL: Over the next few years, look for..."

March 15, 2002 Music Feature

Halfway Home

The Los Angeles County of Art's exhibition "The Road to Aztlan, Art From a Mythic Homeland" includes a wondrous survey of pre-conquest Mesoamerican art, but when it comes to contemporary Chicano works, the "road" doesn't take us all the way home.

"..."No one, no one, no one truly lives on earth."..."

Nov. 23, 2001 Arts Feature by Belinda Acosta

Articulations

The Texas Fine Arts Association's student exhibition "Pop Patriotism" is unexpectedly fascinating and moving, and a long-delayed tribute to operatic legend Jess Walters takes place.

"...One Pop for Pop Patriotism..."

Nov. 16, 2001 Arts Column by Robert Faires

After a Fashion

Our Style Avatar turns Japanese.

"...fact that they had never produced a fashion show before, and that there was a lot of organizational problems..."

Aug. 3, 2001 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

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