Businesses Survive by Anticipating Change

"...our own technology well enough to understand how it shapes us, and that, someday not too far off, we..."

Aug. 16, 2009 Postmarks

Letters @ 3AM

Cyberspace is nowhere and everywhere, a place where the articles on www.michaelventura.org hover and hang, nailed to a virtual wall like paintings in a museum

"...An illusion. We are children of the era that shapes us, and the world that shaped me into a..."

May 9, 2008 Column by Michael Ventura

Stitch V: Would You Like Some Glam in Your DIY?

"...still thinking how nice it is to see interesting shapes pieced together in felt, again, not here. When they..."

Nov. 11, 2007 Design Post by Anne Harris

Jennifer Balkan: Her New Work

In her new work, Austin artist Jennifer Balkan takes up certain surrealist painters' penchant for self-portraiture and dense symbolism, with intriguing results

"...woman is framed by a decorative pattern of diamond shapes or fleur-de-lis in gold, light blue, and white, with..."

May 18, 2007 Arts Review by Amanda Douberley

Saturday Showcase Picks

SXSW Music Fest preview guide

"...year's EP, A Lesson in Crime, released stateside on Paper Bag. Omaha, Neb.'s Tilly & the Wall, Cursive, and..."

March 16, 2007 Music Feature

After a Fashion

Something's burning a hole in Stephen's pocket as he carouses a number of Austin retail delights

"...has wrought: free-form bowls and plates in brilliant colors, paperweights that dazzle with embedded shapes that conjure visions of..."

March 9, 2007 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Tag – You're It!

Celebrating urban scrawl with Gallery Lombardi's exhibition 'Austin Graffiti Art: From Birth to Present'

"...of outdoor work, however; they also included works on paper, photographs, and paintings by 15 local graffiti artists, with..."

Sept. 1, 2006 Arts Feature by Amanda Douberley

Candace Briceño: Nevermore

With her solo exhibition Nevermore, Austin artist Candace Briceño continues her sustained inquiry into landscapes while driving her use of color and line into new territory

"...appear similar to plants from a Japanese cartoon. Fantastic shapes with irresistible tactile qualities are patently artificial due not..."

July 7, 2006 Arts Review by Amanda Douberley

Mesa Ranch

"...in a crisp beer batter and served in a paper cone with poblano queso and tequila ranch sauce for..."

July 7, 2006 Food Review by Virginia B. Wood

Summer Reading

"...UT Press, 229 pp., $18.95 (paper)..."

June 9, 2006 Books Feature by Marrit Ingman

'The Bob Schneider Show'

Whatever your ears think of Bob Schneider's music, your eyes will widen in appreciation at his intaglio etchings on view in his new Flatbed Press solo show

"...A tableau of human figures twisted into horrifying shapes, their limbs and digits contorted like maverick putty and..."

March 17, 2006 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Starry Eyes

Roky Erickson's monumental comeback

"...Anthology, music's 58-year-old third eye was everywhere, including this paper's cover (austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2005-03-18/cover_big.jpg)...."

Dec. 30, 2005 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

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

"...thick application of gray paint to form subtle geometric shapes, with a metallic undercoat visible at some junctures to..."

Feb. 25, 2005 Arts Review by Jacqueline May

Day Trips

Choose your own Christmas tree at one of the many tree farms here in Texas.

"...1995. With Evergreen Farms' wide selection of sizes and shapes, the hard part will be finding just the right..."

Dec. 12, 2003 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Born on the Fourth of July

Explosions in the Sky are blowing up. (Sorry, we resisted the pun as long as we could.)

"...into a grandiloquent backdrop that speaks in colors and shapes instead of words...."

Oct. 24, 2003 Music Feature by Michael Chamy

Seeing Through Animation Darkly

On paper, artists Trenton Doyle Hancock, Arturo Herrera, Jeremy Blake, and Ellen Gallagher may share little in common, but in the Blanton Museum of Art's "Cartoon Noir" curator Annette Carlozzi has skillfully grouped works by them to reveal a shared interest in cartoon's darker underside as a means to explore moral complexities in contemporary life.

"...well as a recent drawing by Ellen Gallagher. On paper, these four artists seem to have little, if anything,..."

Nov. 22, 2002 Arts Feature by Erina Duganne

Day Trips

The subterranean magnificence of Carlsbad Caverns

"...most amazing natural wonders of the world. The unusual shapes and creations appear to be the work of a..."

Aug. 10, 2001 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

India Ink

Reality meets fantasy in three new novels set in India.

"...Bloomsbury USA, 192 pp., $14.95 (paper)..."

March 30, 2001 Books Feature by David Garza

India Ink

Reality meets fantasy in three new novels set in India.

"...Disguises by Rajeev Balasubramanyam Bloomsbury USA, 192 pp., $14.95 (paper)..."

March 16, 2001 Books Feature by David Garza

Truth and Reconciliation

The assertion of the individual is at the heart of the Austin Museum of Art's new show, "Liberated Voices: Contemporary Art From South Africa," which makes it fresh and full of surprises; it resonates with the hungry energy of a country emerging from oppression and brims with experimentation and unique, original perspectives.

"...of simultaneous looking back and looking forward assumes numerous shapes in "Liberated Voices." Willie Bester's mixed media work X..."

June 2, 2000 Arts Feature by Ben Willcott

Sunday You Learn How to Box

"...Scribner, 218 pp., $12 (paper)..."

May 12, 2000 Books Review by Dan Oko

Believing in Beauty

Fabric, home altars, and the influence of her mother all figure heavily in the art of Connie Arismendi, and writer Mary Jane Garza opens up the heart from which her remarkable images spring.

"...and prints done on papyrus. The finely woven translucent paper also has a look of fabric and that was..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Arts Feature by Mary Jane Garza

Santa Claus Is dot.Coming

Some off-kilter suggestions for the online shopper interested in more than Amazon.com.

"...disclaimer on the "policies" page: "This page has no paper waste products." Ha! Zome System http://www.zometool.com/ Inspired by Buckminster..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Screens Feature by Jon Lebkowsky

A Waking Dream

Film collective in*situ screens the animation of Harry Smith, avant-garde filmmaker.

"...was a consecrated bishop in the Gnostic church. His paper airplane collection, the largest in the world, is currently..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Screens Feature by Chris Baker

After a Fashion

Austin's boutiques make our style avatar proud at Club DeVille's semi-annual fashion show.

"...eye-popping displays. Therapy opened the show with sleek, modern shapes in luxurious silks with embroidery and border designs. Shown..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Postmarks

The Gotham backlash continues.

"...All classical ordering systems, whether in words, sounds or shapes, are identifiable by the framework of the tripartite --..."

Oct. 15, 1999 Column

"We'll Always Have 807 Congress"

The Raging of the Elements, or Indoor Theatre in Austin -- Al Fresco

"...and has made its presence known repeatedly. From smoky shapes to lost coffee cups to that unmistakable sense that..."

June 25, 1999 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

Tasty Wake-Up Call

The Range Restaurant

"...keep the room comfortable. The floor-to-ceiling window drapes, the linen-paper menus, the classic white porcelain plates, and the occasional..."

May 28, 1999 Food Feature by Ronna N. Welsh

Where Everything Is Music

"...computer-animation that will require the audience to wear those colored-paper glasses, should make Monsters of Grace a true multimedia..."

March 5, 1999 Screens Feature by Louisa C. Brinsmade

Everybody Has a Body

"...the experience by reading the arts listings in this paper and other publications. Check out feature stories about dance..."

Jan. 29, 1999 Arts Feature by Dawn Davis

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