Renaissance (and Baroque) Man

As a curator for UT's Blanton Museum of Art, Jonathan Bober played a pivotal role in securing the Suida-Manning and Steinberg art collections, thereby giving some of the world's great art a home in Austin.

"...drawings from the richest periods of the Renaissance and Baroque eras. The entire floor is luxuriant in portraits of..."

April 4, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Human Touch

Violinist Laurie Young Stevens finds the passion and flash in baroque music

"...composers as much as any classical musician, but this baroque violinist is no priestess of the concert hall, reverently..."

Jan. 16, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Artemisia

"...Artemisia Gentileschi, one of the first women in the Western world to forge a successful career as a professional..."

Nov. 6, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

After a Fashion

Your Style Avatar takes on Jean Paul Gaultier and wins

"...vest and matching chaps from the 1989 men's prêt-à-porter Western Baroque collection is staggeringly luxe with beads on lace..."

Feb. 10, 2012 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Early to Rise

Daniel Johnson loves early music's purity of sound and intimacy, and he's not alone

"...their reign over the concert hall. Early, as in baroque music and its predecessor, Renaissance music, and its predecessor,..."

Dec. 12, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Renaissance Splendour

This enchanting debut proved Ensemble VIII boasts singers of the highest order

"...to mimic the performance standards of the Renaissance and Baroque periods: bass, tenor, countertenor, and soprano. Morrow's mission –..."

May 20, 2011 Arts Review by Michael Kellerman

Summer Schedule Highlights

"...concert, one Classical, one avant-garde, one Romantic, and one Baroque: Attend every one and you'll have experienced a sweep..."

June 4, 2004 Music Feature by Graham Reynolds

The Emperor and the Assassin

"...souls to witness. The movie can be so compellingly baroque (at least to Western senses) and medieval, but then..."

Feb. 18, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Harmonia Ariosa

Texas Early Music Project delivered a magical night of live music and discovery

"...has been Austin's ambassador to lesser-known medieval, Renaissance, and baroque music, celebrating with each performance a spirit of discovery..."

Feb. 5, 2010 Arts Review by Michael Kellerman

Saturday Sleepers

SXSW picks & sleepers

"...You? (Delmore) presents the quintet's acoustic drums, double bass, Minutemen/baroque-influenced violin, languid vocals, and warm guitars. – David LynchTHE..."

March 18, 2005 Music Feature

Sentimental Family Band, Leti Garza, Dorian Electra, and More Crucial Concerts

Plan your week in music

"...The next generation of Western swing is thriving in Austin, and Sentimental Family Band..."

March 1, 2024 Music Feature by Derek Udensi

Graveside at The Death of Stalin

Armando Iannucci on monsters and accents

"...the film re-creates the madness of power rewritten as baroque, high-stakes office politics. The In the Loop and Veep..."

March 23, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Thursday Showcases

International hip-hop, or domestic, Modern Outsider sounds?

"...remains a cute alt-dude with a guitar, but his baroque pop rustles up a lush mélange of soundscapes that..."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature

SXSW Music: Second List

243 + 171 = as many acts as the last two ATX fests combined

"...In addition to baroque pop legends the Zombies, fast becoming a CenTex staple..."

Nov. 18, 2014 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

Estate Sale Roundup: February 14-16

Look for treasures around every corner to capture your heart this week.

"...Pyrex, Corningware, Frankoma, and Russell Wright pottery. Visit the "Western Room" for a rustic dining table with six wrought..."

Feb. 13, 2014 Design Post by Anne Harris

Playback: Screamadelica

Austin Psych Fest 2014 drops its lineup

"...Mono, Acid Mothers Temple, and Tokyo ensemble Kikagaku Moyo. Western Europeans include London's Toy, France's La Femme, Aqua Nebula..."

Dec. 6, 2013 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

We Can't Go Home Again

Piecing through Nicholas Ray's archive at the HRC

"...all Ray's film work is present except, curiously, his baroque Western, Johnny Guitar. However, "The heart of the collection..."

Aug. 5, 2011 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Press Forward

Two exhibitions capture printmaking's experimental drive

"...the changes in artistic styles and subject matter among Western European and American artists as cultural shifts took place..."

Jan. 14, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Naomi Schlinke and Sydney Yeager

The two artists talk painting and the turbulence that's common to their work

"...parts of our complex beings that perhaps, in the Western world, we do not use enough. Beauty, it is..."

Aug. 14, 2009 Arts Feature by Madeline Irvine

Page Two: A Cheating Top 10

An introduction, then a list of lots of cool things, shoved into 10 slots, that are not necessarily related to 2008

"...hunter's two daughters who live together in a bizarre, baroque old house, Karen Arthur's The Mafu Cage, starring Lee..."

Jan. 2, 2009 Column by Louis Black

Naked City

The governor's political, not personal, sleeping arrangements deserve exposure

"...capital city, the state, and indeed most of the Western Hemisphere. The variations are multiple and quite inventive –..."

Feb. 27, 2004 News Feature by Michael King

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...care for our sorts, but I loved the "buxom, baroque" description of our food. Does that mean it's more..."

Nov. 8, 2002 Column

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...care for our sorts, but I loved the "buxom, baroque" description of our food. Does that mean it's more..."

Nov. 1, 2002 Column

Endorsements

"...road extensions and expansions are slated for the booming northwestern fringe of the county, where an awful lot of..."

Oct. 26, 2001 News Feature

Yngwie Malmsteen & Rising Force, Back Room, Wednesday, March 14

Live Shots: South by Southwest 2001

"...the mold of Hendrix and Deep Purple, seasoned with Western classical and baroque flavors, and cooked in the fire..."

March 23, 2001 Music Review by David Lynch

Beyond the Norm

The Impressive Euro-Asian Fare at Bistro 88

"...with silk butterflies (the butterfly is the restaurant's "mascot"), neo-Baroque, and some traditional Asian art as well as a..."

Feb. 18, 2000 Food Feature by Rebecca Chastenet dé Gery

Live Shots

"...Dixieland holds a spot in the jazz world like baroque does in Western classical music: a historical style deeply..."

Jan. 15, 1999 Music Feature

The Myth of Che

The Short Life of Revolutionary Che Guevara

"...ineffectual father and "artistic," self-deceptive mother Celia -- a baroque mater-familias engaged in endless games of solitaire surrounded by..."

July 11, 1997 Books Feature by Tom Aiken