In Search of the Wild Art

'Cracks in the Pavement' leaves art objects in unexpected spaces throughout the city

"...Where does art belong?..."

June 18, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Toast to an Artspace About Art

Pro-Jex's Tunnel of Art on Fifth Street Was More Than a Gallery, Much More

"...Neil Coleman at the original Pro-Jex Gallery photograph by..."

April 3, 1998 Arts Feature by John Spong

It's a Car, It's a Canvas ... It's an Art Car!

Art cars roll through downtown

"...For some time, West Austin News publisher Bart Stephens had been trying to come up with a..."

April 23, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith

The Art of Parenting With Art

Trying to find ways to make art while sustaining a family is no easy road.

"...the trip's landmarks: the 290/MoPac exchange overpass ("Are there cars stopped on it?" she asks, knowing that a "yes"..."

June 22, 2001 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

Day Trips & Beyond: Art Car Parade, Houston

The drive to create produces a rolling art gallery of fun

"...free annual event in Houston is a long block party. Along the route of the Houston Art Car Parade..."

April 6, 2016 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Blue Genie Art Industries Is Moving

And you’re invited to the farewell party, citizen!


"...Blue Genie Art Industries is moving...."

March 29, 2016 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Power of Art in Austin’s Overlooked Objects

Defining the city's personality from the moonlight towers to the railroad bridge

"...kind of totemic force as worthy of the name "art." By art, I don't mean the things we look..."

Aug. 5, 2016 Arts Feature by Sam Anderson-Ramos

A Living in Art

Nathan Jensen Creates New Frontiers

"...and metal hinges, was one of many pieces of art in the room. Judging from his missing legs and..."

Oct. 13, 1995 Arts Feature

Art + Commerce

Marc English Design's DIY Criteria

"...single identity, a brand that not only defines the artist and his art but leaves a lasting, lovely scar..."

Feb. 15, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Art From the Streets: Taste the rainbow of flavors

What makes the annual "Art From the Streets" exhibition and sale interesting is the way it shows not how different homeless people are from us, but how much we all have in common

"...What is an artist? What is the artist's intention? These two short questions..."

Nov. 10, 2006 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

Day Trips: Art Car Parade, Houston

Craziest parade in the world will take you on a joyride

"...The Art Car Parade in Houston will have you laughing, crying,..."

April 8, 2016 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

The Art Is Formally Known as Prints

A somewhat kaleidoscopic glimpse of Austin's screen-printing scene

"...Chronicle. There's a giant crab attacking some modern metropolis, cars rupturing in its massive claws, telephone poles toppling, general..."

Nov. 6, 2009 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

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 Transplant

The Move Toward a Cultural Center in Downtown

"...arrived, yellow badges swinging from their necks, and the parties worked out a two-song alternation, the image remains: a..."

Aug. 30, 1996 Arts Feature by Brett Holloway-Reeves

The Art of Being Dagoberto Gilb

What's a successful writer like Dagoberto Gilb got against the establishment?

"...of those days when Dagoberto Gilb was about to start a scandal, and he needed some advice. Anyone could..."

March 23, 2001 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Deep in the Art

Bob 'Daddy-O' Wade's 40-year road trip through all that is Texas

"...ride is a freewheeling ramble as far north as Dalhart and as far south as McAllen, with stops at..."

Oct. 16, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Leaving Vapid Austin Art Scene; Back to NYC

"...testosterone 'collective,'” bragging about their “amazing firsts” [“Collective Burgeoning,” Arts. Sept. 17]. (Hear gorilla banging on chest.) Scanning through..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Postmarks

Art Aid

In the wake of Katrina, Austin artists do their part to help

"...the critical needs of evacuees from Hurricane Katrina, Austin arts organizations and individual artists, musicians, comedians, puppeteers, drama educators,..."

Sept. 23, 2005 Arts Feature by Heather Barfield Cole

Not Art, but Trash

"...my hardest to look beyond the damage that these "artists" have done. The city spends thousands of our tax..."

Aug. 8, 2016 Postmarks

Cultural Coolness Around Texas This Month

"...Son of Art of the State '98..."

Dec. 18, 1998 Arts Feature

Neil Fest Harvester Alison Mosshart

Kills singer taps into painting, politics, and Le Noise

"...Frontwoman for the Kills, Alison Mosshart is an avid Neil Young fan. Saturday at the..."

Feb. 15, 2017 Music Post by Alejandra Ramirez

Luv Doc Recommends: Artly Fest

Threadgill's World HQ -, Saturday, July 9, 2011

"...to mention: Usually when some hoary old beer-bellied coot starts blathering on about the good old days when Austin..."

July 8, 2011 Column by The Luv Doc

Wild Wheels, Over the Hedge

"...the American love affair with automobiles knows as Car Art (which are various vehicles passionately modified beyond recognition for..."

Feb. 19, 1993 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

The Upside

Remake of a true story of an unlikely friendship is the flattest version yet

"...Directed by: Neil Burger. Starring: Bryan Cranston, Kevin Hart, Nicole Kidman, Julianna Margulies and Aja Naomi King...."

Jan. 18, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Land

Teen skaters get caught up in the drug world

"...Rafi Gavron, Ezri Walker, Kim Coates, Linda Emond, Natalie Martinez, Erykah Badu, Michael Kenneth Williams and Colson Baker...."

Sept. 16, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

World's Best Commercials: Cannes 'ninety-Two

"...on the broadcasting landscape. They relentlessly pitch everything from cars to beer, toothpaste, deodorant, and “the itch that is..."

Jan. 28, 1994 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

The Fearless Freaks

Documentary about the band the Flaming Lips – the crazy/bizarre Oklahoma outfit that, despite itself, rose to national prominence.

"...City Limits during the 2004 season. Their music – part punk rock garage squall, part art-school happening, and, these..."

April 15, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Unfinished Business

The crude humor and cloying sentiment of Vince Vaughn's latest comedy make it a dud

"...reliably motor-mouthed turn in Wedding Crashers would mark the start of a decadelong descent from America’s wild man into..."

March 13, 2015 Movie Review by William Goss

Snowpiercer

This English-language debut from acclaimed South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho is a riveting sci-fi action film entirely set on a speeding train.

"...pinned in like cattle and plundered as a spare parts shop whenever first-class is in want of a classical..."

June 27, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Dark Shadows

Sometimes it might be best to let sleeping vampires lie.

"...Starring: Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Eva Green, Helena Bonham Carter, Jackie Earle Haley, Jonny Lee Miller, Chloë Grace Moretz,..."

May 11, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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