Earthen Works at the Austin Museum of Art Revolution in Clay

"...The minute I saw the invitation, I was hooked. Revolution in..."

Nov. 24, 1995 Arts Feature

The Art of the Business of Art

Gallery owners David Berman, Wally Workman, and Steve Clark talk about their lives promoting artists and selling art

"...Visual artists of all ilk have a thing with money. Most..."

July 30, 2004 Arts Feature by Sam Martin

Checking In: Pa’lante Superfónicos

Afro-Latin fusionist weighs in on the whole arepa

"...From their first notes of self-described Colombian funk in 2014, Superfónicos proved unique in Austin for roots music..."

June 23, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Collecting as Affliction

Art Lover Philip Dempsey Just Can't Shake the Bug

"...Philip Dempsey's most recent art purchase arrives just before I do at his north..."

Aug. 22, 1997 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

A Life in Fragments

The Eloquence of Betye Saar's Art Assemblages

"...filled with beautiful, carefully crafted and crisply presented assemblages, in which the artist recontextualizes found objects and fragments from..."

July 26, 1996 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

The Art of Elections

Guzu Gallery show puts the pop in POPular Vote

"...Cartoon characters. Kaiju monsters. Video games. Guzu Gallery has held..."

May 13, 2016 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Robert Rodriguez Opens Frank Frazetta's Archive for Austin Show

Exclusive first look at special art event during SXSW

"...There are few fantasy artists more influential and yet often overlooked than Frank Frazetta...."

Feb. 19, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Street Art Enters Into a New Era

With the city cracking down on graffiti and Hope Outdoor Gallery set to close, artists look for permission to paint

"...broad daylight, and a young man with a bandanna masking his face is spray-painting letters onto a retaining wall...."

July 27, 2018 News Feature by Kate Groetzinger

Gay Place Goes to Comic Con Austin

What? Gays who like comics, card games, and roleplay? Shut yo' mouth!

"...KISS posters, Star Wars action-figures, Garbage Pail Kids trading cards, I had them all. Heck, I even started..."

Nov. 18, 2010 Qmmunity Post by Nakia

Recommended Austin Events

Highlights for your week in music, arts, community, and more

"...In/visible A: The Building of an Asian American Film Community..."

Jan. 26, 2024 Column

Celebrity, South Austin Style

The Mayor of South Austin

"...When Danny Young talks about his arrival in South Austin from Kingsville 23 years ago, he doesn't..."

Dec. 4, 1998 News Feature

Top 20 Austin Breweries

Gird your liver for our annual Central Texas brewery power rankings

"...the place where they made one brewery template back in 1992 and then cloned it over and over again..."

Nov. 12, 2019 Food Post by Eric Puga

East Austin Studio Tour 2019: Week 2 Recommendations

Looking for something bigger, brighter, wilder than paint on a canvas at this year’s EAST? Do we have some ideas for you

"...The city's fall feast of art, the East Austin Studio Tour, continues this weekend all..."

Nov. 22, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Top 10 Happy Moments of Art Appreciation and Artists Who Found a New Gear This Year

Chronicle Arts writer Rachel Koper remembers 2008 in the visual arts

"...at the Butridge Gallery, a comeback; it was worth waiting for this new group of sculptures...."

Jan. 2, 2009 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

Art Alliance Austin: At 50, a rejuvenated mission and new name

After five decades, Austin Fine Arts Alliance has renamed itself Art Alliance Austin

"...As names go, Austin Fine Arts Alliance was serviceable enough for 50 years...."

Oct. 19, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Believing in Beauty

Fabric, home altars, and the influence of her mother all figure heavily in the art of Connie Arismendi, and writer Mary Jane Garza opens up the heart from which her remarkable images spring.

"...Artist Connie Arismendi remembers as a little girl watching her..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Arts Feature by Mary Jane Garza

Austin’s Popular Gallery of Graffiti Searches for a New Location

Keeping HOPE alive

"...The art at the HOPE Outdoor Gallery was never meant to..."

Aug. 5, 2016 Arts Feature by Robyn Ross

Austin Music Industry Award Winners

Business and non-performer accolades precede the AMAs

"...We winced through the Grammys and slept through the Oscars, but..."

March 7, 2016 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Best of Austin 2001

"We Can Be Heroes, Just for One Day..."

"...David Bowie's song has been strafing my subconscious since that fateful day last month: 9-11...."

Oct. 5, 2001 Best of Austin Feature by Kate X Messer

Five Things to Enjoy Beyond Austin

Get out of town for some entertainment that's a bit less intense than SXSW

"...Well, sure, there's so much going on within this city that's worth attending – at..."

March 18, 2022 Arts Column by Wayne Alan Brenner

Pretty in Pink: A Gabriela Bucio Story

The millennial Midas brings reggaeton and Mexican regional to Sixth Street and beyond

"...In the queendom of Gabriela Bucio, she reigns with a..."

July 8, 2022 Music Feature by Christina Garcia

Austin’s Best Breweries of 2023, Power-Ranked

Top of the Hops VIII, baby!

"...Click here to jump straight to the brewery rankings...."

Oct. 10, 2023 Food Post by Eric Puga

Austin Filmmaking, Ten Years After

Film director Richard Linklater interviews Bob Ray, the director of the new Austin-made movie Rock Opera, about the Austin Film scene over the past 10 years.

"...Ten years ago this summer, in 1989, Richard Linklater and crew took to the streets..."

Sept. 3, 1999 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Art City Austin: Everything old is new again

The annual art fair once known as Fiesta and the Austin Fine Arts Festival makes its debut after reinventing itself

"...The city's oldest art fair is about to become its newest art fair...."

April 11, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Changes at UT’s Fine Arts Library Cause a Rift in the College of Fine Arts

Showdown on the fifth floor

"...two floors: On one, rows and rows of books filling the length and breadth of its 18,000 square feet,..."

March 30, 2018 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Collectors Show Off Their Toys

Lights, camera, action figures!

"...Toys are for kids, right? Think again. Play inspires; it kick-starts the brain and hurls..."

July 29, 2016 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

21c Austin: Mints on your pillow and prints, to boot

The developers of the 21c Museum Hotel in Louisville, Ky., are planning their second such combo of contemporary art and lodging for Downtown Austin

"...It's a hotel! It's an art museum! It's a hotel! It's an art museum!..."

June 22, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Figurative Gallery/Pump Project: Something old, something new

Two gallery events, one focused on past Texas masters and one featuring artists creating new work in real time, show us where we've been and where we're going

"...magically to encapsulate where we've been and where we're going. Such an evening is Saturday, June 2. In one..."

June 1, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Short, Quirky, and Totally in Control

Chicago documentarian discusses the inspiration behind four of his most popular short films, showing at the Alamo Drafthouse as part of the Texas Documentary Tour on Wednesday, Dec. 6.

"...Palazzolo says he's considered "sort of a hippie icon" in his adopted hometown, even though, he points out, at..."

Dec. 1, 2000 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

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,..."

Aug. 8, 2014 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

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