"Look Inside: New Photography Acquisitions"

An image of New Orleans taken by Doug Rickard is emblematic of the quality in this exhibition at UT's Ransom Center

"...A rusted chain-link fence guards an overgrown lot busy with brick ruins and dominated by multiple stone edifices. They..."

March 25, 2016 Arts Review by Sam Anderson-Ramos

Articulations

A bright design firm on the Austin theatre and film scene, Star Costume & Clothiers, falls to earth, and folk artist Brother Jeremias Mysliwiec passes away.

"...the firmament fall to Earth, and so it is with Star Costume & Clothier Inc. The company founded by..."

Sept. 12, 2003 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Postmarks Web Extra

Our readers' letters regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks

"...I have been living with and photographing Muslims in the Balkans for almost 10..."

Oct. 19, 2001 Column

Exhibitionism

"...masterwork Waiting for Godot. In fact, Craving Gravy playwright John Walch professes a good-natured ignorance of Godot, which might..."

April 4, 1997 Arts Review

Qmmunity: More Pride, Less Prejudice

In a way, we're all gay Darcys looking for our gay Elizabeths in the thrush of Pride parties

"...Latin music night Papi Siii; the Voices of Pride with Miguel St. Michael & Mama Duke; a Workout! With..."

June 9, 2023 Column by James Scott

Dialing for Dollar$

Austin radio stations scramble to keep the money flowing in a strange new media world

"...on the air one day and gone the next. With corporate profits slipping, stations are jockeying for position, looking..."

Dec. 17, 2004 News Feature by Kevin Brass

Postmarks

Kudos for the Lost Austin issue, and much environmental ado.

"...of Old Austin that hadn't changed. They reconnected me with the gentle, slow-moving town I'd missed in Starbucks-jolted Seattle...."

Feb. 9, 2001 Column

The Contenders

Place 1

"...photograph by John Anderson Reason for Running: Crow is "opposed to practically..."

March 26, 1999 News Feature

Playback: OBN III's Tuned Up

"...AC: Are you concerned about the musical energy downshifting with the new lineup?..."

June 13, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Atelier 2008: Selections from the Department of Art & Art History Faculty at the University of Texas at Austin

The exhibit has moments of direct correlation that would not have been achieved without guest curator James Elaine

"...I was excited to see artists that I'm familiar with in the sanctified environs of the massive new museum...."

May 30, 2008 Arts Review by Rachel Koper

Culture Flash!

Big honors for a local portraitist, a pianist, and two high school seniors, plus Austin Books raises $2K for First Amendment protection

"...Feb. 5. The Austin pianist, known for her annual John Cage birthday concert and performances with Barbwire Music Project,..."

March 3, 2006 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Letters at 3AM

Even though 2002 was an exceptional year for American cinema, American art has never been more marginalized, ghettoized, and controlled, than it is today.

"...passes it on. That's what it's for. (Art began with the rituals of shamans, after all.) This isn't a..."

Jan. 10, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

PEXO

In PEXO, musicians with the Walter Thompson Orchestra, dancers from Ariel Dance Theatre, and several guest artists coax music from instruments, intentionally mangle lines of speech, and draw from a palette of physical movement at the command of conductor Thompson, creating an improvised yet shaped performance that is a complex, scattered spectacle for the ear and eye.

"...that Ariel Dance Theatre is currently presenting, in collaboration with the Walter Thompson Orchestra, is officially trademarked. Actually, the..."

March 30, 2001 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Sun June's Still-Life "Get Enough" and Four More Songs From Austin Artists

New music picks from Meat Joy, El Combo Oscuro, and more

"..."It's a study for a painting." Dissonant drones pile on by the close of "Get..."

Aug. 25, 2023 Music Column by Laiken Neumann

Page Two: The Path Back to Believing

It only takes a moment for the ordinary to transform

"...song, watching a dance or movie, looking at a painting, reading a novel or poem or comic book –..."

Jan. 6, 2017 Column by Louis Black

Art From the Streets: Taste the rainbow of flavors

What makes the annual "Art From the Streets" exhibition and sale interesting is the way it shows not how different homeless people are from us, but how much we all have in common

"...the Homeless. Each year, volunteers work hard to provide painting supplies, matting materials, frames, photos, and exhibition space so..."

Nov. 10, 2006 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

Entrance to the Scriptorium: Landscape of Epitomes

Local Arts Reviews

"...young Jean-Michel Basquiat standing in front of Picasso's Guernica with his mother -- the wonder, the illumination, the spiritual...."

Feb. 25, 2000 Arts Review by Skipper Chong Warson

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, July 9-15

"...about how one morning he went half-mad and conversed with the sun. At first he called the supreme radiance..."

July 9, 2021 Column by Rob Brezsny

DVDanger: When Fine Actors Attack

Mark Strong seeks "Anna", Landau and Palance hit "Without Warning"

"...the privileged daughter of a wealthy family, but one with more issues than Psychology Today. Fortunately, this is a..."

Aug. 9, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Martinez Corners Cornyn

Martinez queries Cornyn on Sotomayor

"...dome was completely convivial. On July 1, U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, dropped by the Capitol Agricul­tur­al Museum for..."

July 10, 2009 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Conservative Press Conference Could Spell Rift

There's a new PAC in town, and it may have harsh words for Perry and McCain.

"...Just when it looked like Sen. John McCain had the Republican presidential nomination sewn up, the..."

Feb. 16, 2008 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Making the Scene

Looking back at the time when Austin was at the center of the Texas art world

"...the exam (or, perhaps, the museum), where images of paintings loom on a screen (or a white wall), devoid..."

Aug. 24, 2007 Arts Feature by Amanda Douberley

Day Trips

The Painted Churches of Fayette County.

"...are beautiful. The little country churches may not compete with the grand frescoes of Europe, but when combined with..."

March 9, 2001 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Viva la Revolution!

Installation art may be notoriously hard to define, but its role in art history isn't. It helped change the way we look at art, and the Blanton Museum of Art's survey of three decades of installation art, "Blurring the Boundaries," provides a window on the revolution.

"...Reason for the Neutron Bomb, consists of 50,000 nickels with match tips glued to their faces lying in perfectly..."

March 17, 2000 Arts Feature by Ben Willcott

Rock & Roll Books

Any Old Way You Choose It

"...been hotly anticipated would be an understatement on par with saying, "She influenced a lot of people."..."

Dec. 31, 1999 Books Feature by Kate X Messer

They Knew What They Liked

Herbert & Dorothy Vogel's Extraordinary & Personal Art Collection

"...of life's gridlock to quietly arrange times for beauty within the imposed patterns of our lives. Your eyes should..."

Dec. 5, 1997 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

Exhibitionism

The Ravaging: Seeds of a Biting Work

"...a gullywasher that breaks apart this family at odds with their past and future disappointments...."

June 20, 1997 Arts Review

Public Notice

Possessing the Secret

"...College for a Booksigning & Reading to benefit OutYouth, John Henry Reading Express, and Women's Access to Electronic Resources..."

May 2, 1997 Column by Kate X Messer

Public Notice: Wealth, and How to Grow It

The rich are accumulating astounding wealth, while paying shockingly little in taxes

"...and you can accumulate a staggering amount of wealth without ever having much taxable income. Particularly if you borrow..."

June 11, 2021 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Austin Playhouse's The Book of Will

Playwright Lauren Gunderson shows how the Bard’s works came to be collected in a story of devotion and loss

"...staples of theatre companies the world over. In keeping with the playwright's flair for drama, the tale of these..."

June 21, 2019 Arts Review by Trey Gutierrez

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