What Can a Century Tell Us?

Looking at two art exhibitions that both survey 100 years of imagery, the more things change ...

"...Thus, when two separate art exhibitions arrive in town boasting a century's worth of..."

July 13, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

22 to Think About

Austin Museum of Art shows new local art that engages the mind

"...you make it taste better? The Austin Museum of Art exhibition "New Art in Austin: 22 to Watch" breaks..."

Aug. 26, 2005 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

CAMIBAart Gallery's Troy Campa

Troy Campa left behind a successful career in architecture to develop a new creative life with CAMIBAart Gallery

"...upshot is a new voice in our city's visual arts scene: CAMIBAart Gallery, located at the Flatbed Press complex..."

Nov. 18, 2016 Arts Feature by Madeline Irvine

Get Back

Francisco Matto created bold modern art with the timeless graphic style of the past

"...we recognize it as such. See, once we humans started working out how to represent ourselves in marks, we..."

Aug. 7, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

At Home at the Easel, If Nowhere Else

A new documentary captures Austin's homeless population finding purpose in art

"...around. But while Austin filmmaker Layton Blaylock's directorial debut, Art From the Streets, doesn't shy away from the cold..."

Nov. 7, 2008 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

James Housefield

An appreciation of AMOA's adjunct curator as he leaves Austin for California

"...Housefield has moved to the West Coast, and, as art connoisseur and cultural philanthropist Joe Long puts it, "California's..."

Sept. 5, 2008 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

Sculpting a School

David Deming on the Art of Being a Dean

"...photograph by Kenny Braun..."

Aug. 29, 1997 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Contemporary Austin Goings & Comings

Judith Sims retires, Deming sculpture Mystic Raven returns

"...when the institution changed its name from Laguna Gloria Art Museum to the Austin Museum of Art, and that..."

Dec. 15, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Bort Is Austin's Trans-Feminine, Graffiti Trash Queen

A look into one of ATX's most iconic street artists

"...stickered onto a stop sign. Or perhaps a small, abstract line drawing of a cat...."

Jan. 27, 2017 Qmmunity Post by Courtney Naquin

Mapping Time

El Anatsui charts the geography of Africa from then to now

"...materials, distressed and damaged as they are, that the artist finds Africa, connects to its traditions and cultures dating..."

Dec. 9, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

For the Love of the Line

In the exhibitions “Old Master Drawings From the Suida-Manning Collection” at the Blanton Museum of Art and “Selected 20th-Century Master Drawings” at the Norwood Gallery, we can indulge our eyes in samples of art spanning five centuries.

"...as the fact that the space is blank; it starts with a void. A hand comes to rest there..."

Oct. 8, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Where The Devil Roams

Diabolical art horror rides into a Great Depression carnie hell

"...scene with the microbudget The Deeper You Dig, then unearthed a black magic history of mothers and daughters in..."

Nov. 3, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Austin Studio Tour 2022 Is All Over the Map

The annual celebration of art expands to match its city's size

"...2022 Austin Studio Tour, a free, self-guided celebration of visual art, offering deep looks inside the working areas and showrooms..."

Nov. 11, 2022 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Wayne Alan Brenner’s Top 10 Arts-Related Things I Enjoyed in 2018

Representational and digital art, plus theatre rooted in history proved especially mind-blowing this year

"...if Ian Ingram's stunning painterly skills weren't enough, the artist turned the extreme-close-up visions of his selfward-facing eye into..."

Dec. 28, 2018 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Swoon for 'Dunes at Noons'

Brad Tucker gives young art critics something to chew on

"...Austin-based installation artist Brad Tucker has just released his first book, and..."

Jan. 24, 2014 Arts Feature by Amy Gentry

Culture Flash!

Honors for a Blanton exhibition, Blue Lapis Light, and a Round Rock tuba player, plus a bundle of joy for a local choreographer

"...The Blanton Museum of Art's 2007 exhibition "The Geometry of Hope: Latin American Abstract..."

Jan. 11, 2008 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Movies, Comedians, Theatre, and More Arts Options for the Week

Get out and get art

"...as though your glasses have fallen away, too. The artist’s process, as she puts it, is “a delicate balance..."

April 12, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

EAST, at Ease

The 2006 East Austin Studio Tour reveals 86 studios and one stacked pod art city with a shared alphabet

"...(past 51st and Springdale). Spearheaded by Michael Abelman, they articulated sentiments common to all the artists participating in the..."

Nov. 17, 2006 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

Sharing the Dance

A new generation of Austin choreographers is expanding our concept of dance through the combination of movement styles and traditions from across the globe, and Barbejoy Ponzio talks to them about the part fusion plays in their work.

"...the dances she creates be the same? "I am part Italian, French, Spanish, and Mexican-Indian," says the choreographer who..."

Jan. 21, 2000 Arts Feature by Barbejoy A. Ponzio

Five Things to Do Indoors This New Year's Weekend

From unmissable books to housebound horticulture, fill up your indoor Hogmanay

"...Last week we recommended five things you could do..."

Dec. 31, 2021 Arts Column by Wayne Alan Brenner

Nominees for the 2018-19 Austin Critics Table Awards Announced

The Critics Table's picture-perfect year

"...have considered the hundreds of stage productions, concerts, and art exhibitions mounted locally between May 1, 2018, and April..."

May 13, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Top 10 Arts-Related Program Activities of 2015

The most memorable art of 2015 carved strange and brilliant new spaces out of familiar ones

"...The "Swimming" group exhibition at Phillip Niemeyer's Koenig Lane arts space was sufficient unto itself, but also contained this..."

Jan. 1, 2016 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Spanking the Figurative

A new Austin gallery captures dancers with paint

"...with sketches, with new paintings and old from numerous artists, with hand-lettered posters for music shows and previous AFG..."

Aug. 10, 2007 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Five Gallery Shows for Your Summer Eyes

Indoor visual art brings the light, eschews the heat

"...most vibrant visual examples of reality – whether representational, abstract, or some amalgam thereof – culled from entire worlds..."

June 24, 2022 Arts Column by Wayne Alan Brenner

Day Trips & Beyond: February Events Roundup

Celebrate Chinese New Year, Mardi Gras, Valentine’s, and more in Texas

"...September 1957. The building remains an active school and part of the National Historic Site that includes a wonderful..."

Feb. 4, 2022 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Five Ways to Continue Your Artistic Education

Whether it's gravity-defying exercise or bringing the heat to your glass creations, we're calling you to class

"...career as a stripper. Besides its legitimacy as an art form and sport (think "thin and vertical pommel horse"),..."

Feb. 4, 2022 Arts Column by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Blanton Museum Undertakes a $35 Million Makeover of Its Grounds

With the international architectural firm Snøhetta, the UT museum will add community spaces and art to its outdoor experience

"...sedge! dwarf palmettos! – with spaces for sitting and artworks commissioned by the Blanton enlivening the way. On the..."

Jan. 22, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Uncover the Forgotten Wartime Heroism of Marcel Marceau in Resistance

Jesse Eisenberg and UT student-turned-filmmaker Jonathan Jakubowicz find strength in silence

"...Jewish children across the border into Switzerland, using his art to help distract and calm the children. Jakubowicz said,..."

May 15, 2020 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Melany Jean's Top 10 Fresh Takes in the Arts of 2017

Works of art and shows that were timely, intimate, funny, and awe-inspiring stood out over the year

"...road trip provided a revelatory survey of the visual arts landscape statewide. The culminating exhibition gathered some of the..."

Dec. 29, 2017 Arts Feature by Melany Jean

Day Trips: Project Row Houses, Houston

Former shotgun houses get new life as art galleries

"...along this block are galleries and studios for new artists...."

May 1, 2015 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

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