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"...Pulling from Nigerian mythology, Okosun’s novel Forged by Blood starts a duology “set in a highly atmospheric, complex world..."

April 26, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Meghan Shogan Carves a Career Path Through Solid Rock

With hammer, chisels, and steel brushes in hand, the Austin artist is on a trajectory in stone

"...against rough raw rock: Shogan carves stone for her art and she carves stone to make a living and..."

Sept. 17, 2021 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

How Austin Musician Gina Chavez Became the Subject of the City's Latest Mural

The story of an L.A. muralist creating a 12-foot-tall portrait of a local musical star

"...Latino culture throughout the Bible Belt." The successful L.A.-based artist wanted to create public art celebrating Latinos for communities..."

April 3, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Six Picks From That EAST Beast

Necessary, unless you’re the living embodiment of “indefatigable”

"...But, sure, you know your Austin Chronicle is a..."

Nov. 8, 2017 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Christina Coleman at WEST 2017

The artist gives voice to the blackness in creation stories and personal histories

"...Local artist Christina Coleman has imagined her staffs of braided black..."

May 12, 2017 Arts Feature by Sam Anderson-Ramos

Logan Ganshirt's Arting Your Billboard

Eyes on the road. Eyes on the board. Eyes on the road.

"...itself: Which might work for a basic definition of art in the first place, yes? My first week in..."

Aug. 7, 2012 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Top 10 Favorite Arts-Related, Ah, Things From the Past 12 Months

A surfeit of visual-arts splendors and transcendent theatre elevate 2010

"...jazz and the old-timey pop tunes and the sidecar-making bartenders and the parlor games and the guest performers perfectly..."

Jan. 7, 2011 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Game-Changers

The 2009 class of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame

"...natural aspect of life here, like live oaks or Barton Springs, but all that flourishing activity in the visual..."

May 29, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Annette Lawrence: Free Paper

Artfully crafted stacks of junk mail address time, the environment, and much more

"...the Annette Lawrence solo show presented by Austin Green Art and ForestEthics. In it, this accomplished and nuanced artist..."

Jan. 30, 2009 Arts Review by Rachel Koper

Destruction as Beauty

Profile of local alternative band Trail of Dead; explication of their new album Madonna

"...the Trail of Dead knows their way around the art of breaking apart. The Austin quartet's propensity for destroying..."

Oct. 8, 1999 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Exhibitionism

"...Michael Arthur and Amy L. Washburn are two heartwarming performers going..."

April 4, 1997 Arts Review

Lighten Up at Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center’s Luminations

Santa Claus won’t be there, but nature will

"...fast-paced festivities by connecting visitors with nature, light, and art...."

Nov. 29, 2024 Arts Feature by Amber Williams

"Alex Diamond: Wette" at Not Gallery

An unlikely combination of violence, action, and watercolor stand out in this solo show

"...architectural studies of Venice, and other benign works of art – not so at Not Gallery. In a dramatic..."

Dec. 25, 2015 Arts Review by Seth Orion Schwaiger

"Pillow" Talk

Terri Thomas on what's behind the sex in her Big Medium art show

"...different reasons. That inspired me to speak with the artist about the show. The interview began as informal conversation..."

June 5, 2014 Arts Post by Seth Orion Schwaiger

Do Go On, Mr. Gunn

An extended transcript of our chat with Tim Gunn

"...fixture Tim Gunn in advance of his appearance at Barton Creek Mall on April 21. A shorter version appears..."

April 12, 2012 Screens Post by Andy Campbell

Culture Flash!

An artist turns editor, a play tours Oz, and calls for new work

"...• Artist Eric Zimmerman departed Austin for New York City a..."

Aug. 12, 2011 Arts Column by Robert Faires

'Water in Time'/'The Night Way'

Bill Kennedy's photos and Bob Schneider's prints immerse you in watery goodness

"...Flatbed World Headquarters, 2830 E. MLK, 477-9328..."

Aug. 5, 2011 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Superlatives

The 2008-2009 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...its annual awards for outstanding achievements in the Austin arts in a ceremony at the Cap City Comedy Club...."

June 5, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Politics of War

This show of political art by Robert Levers and Chris Reno is as timely as it gets

"...Artists mollify their fears with their creative processes. They attach..."

Sept. 19, 2008 Arts Review by Rachel Koper

In Memoriam: Robert Ellis Patterson

Robert Ellis Patterson, artist and owner of the Robert Ellis Patterson Gallery in South Austin, died Friday, Nov. 19

"...Robert Ellis Patterson, artist and owner of the Robert Ellis Patterson Gallery in..."

Dec. 3, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

"Manny Farber: About Face"

"Manny Farber: About Face" reveals the critic / artist to be quintessentially American, defining himself and his art through objects – materialism as artistic expression

"..."Manny Farber: About Face"Austin Museum of Art – Downtown, through Aug. 29..."

July 23, 2004 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...they failed to produce a single map, diagram, or artist's rendering of the proposal...."

June 14, 2002 Column

Heyd in Plain Sight

Austin painter Heyd Fontenot exposes more than himself in his new exhibition.

"...and wearing -- nothing at all. They're friends of artist Heyd Fontenot, these people, and even though, okay, they're..."

Dec. 14, 2001 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

At Long Last Love

Love will get you when you least expect it. So it goes in Charles Mee's Big Love, a vigorous update of the ancient Greek drama The Suppliants, and so it went when the Rude Mechanicals theatre company saw the play. They fell unexpectedly and unabashedly head over heels for it and are staging it now in what they describe as "a huge love affair."

"...mess of Rudes, the collective of wily young theatre artists that opens its own production of Big Love this..."

Aug. 31, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

From Here to Eternity

The only punk rock band that mattered, and why they still do

"...a time clock somewhere. Topper Headon's appearance is downright startling; he's shriveled like an old man or someone who..."

May 19, 2000 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Entrance to the Scriptorium: Landscape of Epitomes

Local Arts Reviews

"...Austin Museum of Art -- Downtown,..."

Feb. 25, 2000 Arts Review by Skipper Chong Warson

Waves Coming to Shore

No artist in the last 50 years has combined dance, theatre, music, scenery, and costume into epic spectacles like Pina Bausch, and as this German visionary returns to Austin Dawn Davis explores her work and her impact on the city's Johnson / Long Dance Company.

"...into the underworld, at every portal another mantle of artifice fell away. Many artists believed that only by paring..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Arts Feature by Dawn Davis

Exhibitionism

"...Ahh... a solo exhibition. An all-too-rare chance for an artist to flex her muscles and for us to see..."

March 21, 1997 Arts Review

Local Palette

58th Faculty Exhibition

"...Various Artists..."

Nov. 29, 1996 Arts Feature

A T-Rex, Trivia, and Twilight, in This Week’s Recommended Events

Take those long arms and find a weekday happening

"...and passionate offerings in film history, for the most part criminally underseen by mainstream American audiences, aside from the..."

Sept. 20, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

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