Day Trips: The Museum of Illusions, Dallas
A museum that plays tricks on your mind
"...The Museum of Illusions in Dallas encourages you to take your..."
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Dec. 27, 2019 Column by Gerald E. McLeod
A Ball of Illusion
At the Krewe of Illusions Mardi Gras Ball in Lake Charles, just try to figure out where the queens end and the back-pieces begin...
"...The annual ball thrown by Lake Charles' Krewe of Illusions is an elaborate pageant attended by the refined,..."
Feb. 8, 2008 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer
Day Trips & Beyond: December Events Roundup
Plenty of fun still to be had in 2019
"...There’s plenty of holiday cheer to go around as we make plans..."
Nov. 29, 2019 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod
Day Trips: Coming in 2020 Across Texas
What Capt. Day Trips is looking forward to in the new year
"...• Work has begun on a redesign of Alamo Plaza. The city of San Antonio and the..."
Jan. 10, 2020 Column by Gerald E. McLeod
Day Trips & Beyond: Santa Fe, N.M.
Art and food in the enchanting city of Santa Fe
"...has visited or ever thought about exploring the Land of Enchantment. Surrounded by mountains with a mild desert climate..."
Nov. 12, 2019 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod
"Twister: Moving Through Color, 1965-1976"
"Twister: Moving Through Color, 1965-1976" looks at
artists of that era who took the road less traveled,
continuing to investigate painting with spatial illusions
and other perceptual tricks
"..."Twister: Moving Through Color, 1965-1976" Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art..."
Dec. 24, 2004 Arts Review by Jacqueline May
Austin Makes Federal Case Over New Courthouse
Austin leaders try to influence the feds' new U.S. courthouse project.
"...After an eruption of local outrage, the federal General Services Administration has backed..."
Nov. 22, 2002 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
Gentle Disturbances
Creating ripples in public space with large-scale public art
"...Let's say, just for the sake of argument, that you go strolling up the Avenue one..."
March 24, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
They're History
The Blue Genie boys -- those whimsical artists responsible for the armadillo-festooned entrance to Threadgill's World Headquarters, the guitar gal atop Fran's Hamburgers, and other mini-landmarks around Austin -- have been fun for the people who see them and fun for the people who made them. Making giant panels for the new Texas State History Museum, though, was a bit more than just that.
"...There are six enormous panels of reinforced concrete more than halfway up the front face..."
April 27, 2001 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner
From Zero to Infinity: Yayoi Kusama in Context: Orgiastic Color, Fuzzy Haze, and Naked Bodies
She was Pop before Andy silkscreened soup cans or Oldenburg piled up erasers, and the Blanton Museum of Art's new exhibition "From Zero to Infinity: Yayoi Kusama in Context" shows her pioneering influence in a survey of Pop Art that is freakin' amazing.
"...Blanton Museum of Art,..."
June 16, 2000 Arts Review by Skipper Chong Warson
Growth Spurt
Nine Shows That Transported Me
"...Tuna (Charles S. Duggan Presents) Seen as simply another of Joe Sears and Jaston Williams' comedies set in Texas'..."
Jan. 8, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Eye Wide Open on Lance Letscher
With two major solo shows and a new documentary about him, the Austin collage artist readies to be seen in a new way
"...his projects, elaborate found-material collages and sculptures, although many of his pieces are housed in permanent collections at museums..."
March 3, 2017 Arts Feature by Sean L. Malin
Day Trips: Magic’s Theater, Dripping Springs
Old-fashioned magician thrills with timeless illusions and tricks
"...glides across the small stage in a theatre hidden off Fitzhugh Road just west of Austin moving from illusion..."
Oct. 13, 2017 Column by Gerald E. McLeod
After a Fashion
The Style Avatar digs into the subatomic particles of the Atomic Cafe Fashion show and goes on a "Bender"…
"...the Neil Diaz/Atomic Cafe Fashion/Fantasy Production. With so much of the show better than it was last time, it..."
Oct. 27, 2000 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser
The Geometry of Hope
'The Geometry of Hope' at the Blanton Museum of Art provides a survey of abstract art in Latin America over the 20th century, segmented into chapters by cities and decades
"..."The Geometry of Hope: Latin American Abstract Art From the Patricia Phelps..."
April 20, 2007 Arts Review by Salvador Castillo
Facing the Media
Who is Young-Min Kang? That's what he wants to
know.
"...size, due to its form, due to its transmediation of, most often, the human face. Even when there are..."
March 25, 2005 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner
Greyhounds and Other Virtual Ways to Travel
Spank Dance Company's 'Greyhounds and Other Virtual Ways to Travel' may not move you to the next plane of existence, but its force and beauty will make this plane much more satisfying
"...by the experience if you had a working knowledge of what the art comprised: the moves, the timing, the..."
March 17, 2006 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner
Bell(e)
Bell(e), ethos' installation focusing on literary suicides, chucks the adolescent illusion that killing oneself is a meaningful act of passion
"...Many teen girls have dog-eared copies of The Bell Jar or Patriotism because of their romantic..."
Sept. 8, 2006 Arts Review by Patti Hadad
After a Fashion
Always avant Austin retailer By George's new store is alight with style; starting this week, SoCo stays up late on the First Thursday of every month.
"...Sixth and Lamar, was flooded with light for its official opening party last Thursday. With an almost museum-like calmness..."
June 1, 2001 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser
Joshua Jay Tells You How They Died Their Tragic Deaths
Magicians, their assistants, audience members: Killed onstage
"...The NYC-based professional magician – award-winning, book-writing, highly respected – comes to..."
Feb. 18, 2013 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner
The Year in Books
What New Book Brought You the Most Enjoyment in 1997 and Why?
"...1. The passing of Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs...."
Jan. 9, 1998 Books Feature by Phil West
Austin Ain't Boys' Town
Meet the Most Reverend John McCarthy
"...have a bad meal or hear the truth." No offense, but Bishop John McCarthy, who presides over the Catholic..."
