"The Femme Abstract"

Moya McIntyre’s second edition of this group show ushers in the new year with a glorious plenitude of color and imagery

"...resource-stripped days of pandemic, we've come to scarcely expect art exhibitions at all, much less ones that present wide-ranging..."

Jan. 8, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

High Art

"...Bill Sage, Anh Duong, Gabriel Mann and Tammy Grimes. Art, ambition, lesbians, heroin, and ennui all combine into a..."

June 26, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

"Up + Up: 2015 Senior Art Exhibition"

This UT student group show is surprisingly tame

"..."Up + Up" showcases work from a number of artists that are visually punching above their weight, but the..."

March 13, 2015 Arts Review by Seth Orion Schwaiger

Art

Art Openings

"...4); "N-O-N," Terra Children's Gallery (Mar 5); "Texas Film Art," Pro-Jex (Mar 5); "C-21 Expo -- Metamorfosis," Austin Visual..."

March 5, 1999 News Feature

Symposium on Early Texas Art

Texas art isn't an oxymoron, and the members of CASETA will gladly tell you why

"...his due. With his groundbreaking modernist combines, the Port Arthur native got a lot of people to stop thinking..."

May 1, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Work of Art Recap

TV Eye dishes on June 23 episode of Bravo's reality show

"...a look at this mess? This is all that artist Judith could muster on the last episode of Work..."

June 24, 2010 Screens Post by Belinda Acosta

Blanton Museum of Art: Adios, Pérez-Barreiro

Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro, the Blanton's curator of Latin American art, is leaving UT to head the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros

"...Last week the University of Texas' Blanton Museum of Art announced the departure of Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro, curator of Latin..."

Dec. 7, 2007 Arts Feature by Rachel Cook

How a Shed in North Campus Is Growing Austin’s DIY Art Scene

Scrappy art gallery shedshows brings people together to celebrate Austin’s overlooked talent

"...8-by-17-foot shed that shedshows is run out of is part of the property where Snow lives. Snow serendipitously discovered..."

May 17, 2024 Arts Feature by Meher Qazilbash

New Media Art & Sound Summit Weirds Out!

Experimental orgy amplifies the fringe

"...Friendly Ghost demonstrates science is fun: the New Media Art & Sound Summit, Thursday through Saturday at the Salvage..."

June 9, 2015 Music Post by Waylon Cunningham

Ellsworth Kelly's Austin Opens at the Blanton Museum of Art

By building this structure, the Blanton enabled a major modern artist to realize his masterwork

"...and for three decades, while this eminence of the art world continued to make the abstract paintings, sculptures, and..."

Feb. 16, 2018 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Andrew Jeffrey Wright: Making us believers in art

The pop sensibility and humor of this Philadelphia artist feel a lot like Austin

"...online and thought, "This guy feels like an Austin artist." The work is a happy mix of trippy graphic..."

March 20, 2009 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

Plethora of Riches: How Richard Samuel Turned an Art Gallery Into a Community Center

RichesArt launches annual Black History Month exhibit with new philanthropic initiative

"...your distance” line of tape on the floor: Most art galleries present one of life’s greatest pleasures – witnessing..."

Feb. 9, 2024 Arts Feature by Carys Anderson

Talking Art at the Top

The executive directors of the city's museums shed light on the local visual arts scene

"...If you didn't know, the Austin Museum of Art is not going to build its new downtown facility..."

July 2, 2004 Arts Feature by Sam Martin

Art for Days

Can you handle two weeks' worth of the East Austin Studio Tour?

"...annual excursion into the native habitat of Eastside visual artists has been growing steadily since its debut in 2003..."

Nov. 13, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

A First for Austin Art

New City Hall filled with locals' visual artistry

"...Simply titled, "The 2005 Art Exhibition" made its debut in Austin's new City Hall..."

March 4, 2005 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

Black Art Matters Puts Artists of Color in the Spotlight

Austin Justice Coalition's exhibition opens Feb. 17

"...Part of the way through our interview at Rio Rita,..."

Feb. 16, 2018 Arts Post by Amani Newton

A Passage to (the Contemporary Art of) India

Intermission at Bass Concert Hall got a lot more interesting last month when Kala Fine Art filled the building with 80 large pieces of contemporary art from India

"...a lot more interesting last month when Kala Fine Art filled the building with 80 large pieces of contemporary..."

Nov. 19, 2004 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

Earthen Works at the Austin Museum of Art Revolution in Clay

"...hands. As a potter, she harnessed the elements -- earth, fire, and water -- to do her bidding. When..."

Nov. 24, 1995 Arts Feature

Art Prom, Pup Crawl, Eeyore’s Birthday, and More Recommended Events

A smattering of ways to fill your weekend

"...on Springdale, offers a solo exhibition by Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist Dana Robinson this spring, featuring 12 delicate acrylic, ink,..."

April 25, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

Marketplace Art Gallery's Open Studio

In the Marketpace Art Gallery, four women have created a studio where they can develop as artists together

"...the plants are interspersed with white, as though the artist couldn't quite get the background color completely filled in...."

March 17, 2017 Arts Feature by Sam Anderson-Ramos

Art of the State

"...The following is a monthly supplement to the arts section, featuring events and exhibitions from across Texas. Art:..."

Nov. 24, 1995 Arts Feature

Advocacy, Art, and More Recommended Events

What to do this week that isn't SXSW

"...among them that trans people aren’t cruel witches). Training starts at 10am, there’s a rally at noon, and the..."

March 7, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

Please Lick the Art

Keith Kreeger's ceramics get up close and personal

"...At the beginning of Edith Wharton's 1905 novel, The House of Mirth, the tragic heroine..."

Aug. 8, 2014 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

Five Art Exhibitions to Help You Beat the Heat

Come for the A/C, stay for the visual creativity

"...Paper Oasis Opening Party..."

July 14, 2023 Arts Column by Wayne Alan Brenner

Art Gets Its Seasonal Shopping Day: Artists Sunday

Imagine if all that money spent on Black Friday went to purchase art. It could happen: Artists Sunday is here!

"...into the gap in the early Yuletide sales season? Artists...."

Nov. 27, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

"Agree to Disagree: 2015 Studio Art MFA Thesis Exhibition"

The exhibit by UT graduate students is a mix that ranges from impressive to downright disappointing

"...In the UT Visual Arts Center's "Agree to Disagree," there exists an incongruous tone..."

May 15, 2015 Arts Review by Caitlin Greenwood

Art Review: 'Blog Reblog'

Randomly paired photos yield serendipitous imagery

"...by a camera flash sits next to an almost abstract detail of pink foliage. A knot stretched tight over..."

May 28, 2014 Arts Post by Rod Machen

Who Says There’s No Art Openings This Weekend?

Are you kidding, citizen? Are you, what, pulling our cultural leg?

"...But we do keep track of them – here,..."

Sept. 14, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

'Charlie Ferguson: Wasted Expressions'

Austin photographer finds painterly strokes in trash bins' rust and scratches

"...geometric fields suggest the work of a midcentury master abstract expressionist. But rather than paint applied to canvas in..."

Nov. 26, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

My Kid Could Paint That

This truly perplexing documentary begins as a fascinating cultural investigation of a child prodigy, but gradually devolves into an unintentionally creepy and exploitative document.

"...child who, at the age of 4, was painting abstract canvases, allegedly by herself, that were commanding top-dollar purses..."

Nov. 2, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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