The Art of Dying

"...Peris-Mencheta, Lucía Jiménez, María Esteve, Gustavo Salmerón and Fele Martínez. Slick and intermittently creepy, The Art of Dying is..."

May 24, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Art Par Excellence

The nominees for the 2014-15 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...poring over the hundreds of stage productions, concerts, and art exhibitions mounted locally between May 1, 2014, and April..."

May 20, 2015 Arts Post

Art and the Great Outdoors!

Art, music, fun, oh my!

"...Art Outside is a yearly festival that encourages families and..."

Oct. 23, 2013 Events Post by Josette Chen

Putting the Art into Fart: Peter Strickland Heats Up Flux Gourmet

The filmmaker traces how industrial music informed his new work

"...Strickland wouldn't call himself a fan of seminal British art goths Joy Division, "but I appreciated – pardon the..."

June 24, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Minbo -- Or the Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion

"...Everyman as the stressed-out accountant-turned yakuza fighter. Itami's assured direction lends a healthy dose of black satireto the proceedings,..."

Feb. 24, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Pandemic Production, One Year Later: Yvonne Boudreaux, Art Director, Yellowstone

"No restaurants, no bars. If you were seen out, you were considered fired."

"...episodes. Yvonne Boudreaux, who was working as the show's art director, saw the massive coordination efforts. "Because there are..."

July 9, 2021 Screens Feature by Sofia Tafich

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 To Enchant

The winners of the 2010-11 Austin Critics Table Awards

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

June 10, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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

You Are What You Art

"...but she was right. In my house there is art on the wall, art on the furniture, art on..."

July 11, 1997 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

Watching Art Grow

"...not enough -- at least where the new exhibition "Art in Process" is concerned. The current show at the..."

Sept. 19, 1997 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

Affordable Art, Cine Las Americas, Adult Books, and More Weekend Events

Recommended happenings for your calendar's enjoyment

"...Affordable Art Fair..."

May 16, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

Kenjutsu: The Art of the Sword

The Hideout improvises tales of samurai battle and broken honor

"...Because comedy improv is only one flavor of the artform, and this Kenjutsu series is improv that’s not played..."

March 28, 2014 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Art Top Ten

Hanging the Best of 1995

"...1. Artwork/Installation: Regina Vater's installation "Ita./Ota" (The Austin Museum of Art..."

Jan. 5, 1996 Arts Feature

City Theatre's Art

Macho arguments about taste abound in Yasmina Reza's dramatic comedy

"...The entire plot of Art revolves around a white painting. As we are told..."

Jan. 31, 2020 Arts Review by Cat McCarrey

Austin Jewish Repertory Theater's The Art of Remembering

In Adina L. Ruskin's play, AJRT offers an intimate look at how memories shape us

"...when someone walks by wearing the same perfume my kindergarten teacher wore – and suddenly, instead of focusing on..."

Aug. 18, 2017 Arts Review by T. Lynn Mikeska

Art of the State

Retiring director Rick Hernandez reflects on three decades with the Texas Commission on the Arts

"...When Ricardo Hernandez started working with the Texas Commission on the Arts, Dolph..."

Aug. 17, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Dreaming ART

This year in Austin, autumn brings a Spring Storm, and with it Actors Repertory of Texas, the realization of the city's long-cherished dream of a locally based professional theatre company.

"...an opening-night crowd watches student actors from the UT Department of Theatre & Dance, and Equity actors from both..."

Nov. 5, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Page Two: The Art of Surprise

S.R. Bindler's Surfer, Dude continually pulls off the unexpected

"...the story is about to be pumped full of artificial melodrama, it fools you by veering in a less..."

Aug. 29, 2008 Column by Louis Black

The Art of Conversation

Austin Men's Project encourages young gay men to hone their social -- and safe sex -- skills through communication

"...don't give them lectures about HIV. Rather, they engage participants in a variety of formal and informal discussion groups,..."

Sept. 24, 1999 News Feature by Clay Smith

The Art of 'Green Lantern'

Three local artists quiz DC Comics' Doug Mahnke

"...It's a pretty good time to be artist Doug Mahnke. Not only is his run on DC..."

June 23, 2011 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Art Imitates Chef

British Actor Lenny Henry Cooks in Restaurant Sitcom

"...Henry's family sent him magazines from home which contained articles about all the hot, young British chefs at the..."

April 11, 1997 Screens Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Silent Hill

Eerie but ultimately unengaging film adaptation of Konami's smash series of video games has a pitch-perfect score and unnervingly nightmarish imagery.

"...you'll get a mental image of Silent Hill's impressive art direction and production design. Now imagine it scored by..."

April 28, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Tale of Two Sisters

Dread and mystery are the hallmarks of this South Korean psychological thriller.

"...Marked throughout by an exquisite attention to detail and art direction, Kim’s film is pure gothic horror of the..."

March 11, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Running With Scissors

This film depiction of Augusten Burroughs' hellish childhood is tonally fractured and features a series of performances that pitch and yaw between "normal" and utterly mad.

"...revolves around a wildly out-of-control family in a garishly over-art-directed manse. That Anderson's smart and hopeful film comes off..."

Oct. 27, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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

Terribly Happy

This Danish import is a wonderfully unhinged and a painstakingly constructed meditation on a place where good and evil meet, mate, and make sour times sublime.

"...basis, it's less so to realize you know their hearts – or lack thereof – with the same easy..."

March 12, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Adapted from Patrick Süskind's heretofore unadaptable cult novel about an olfactory vampire in 18th-century France, Perfume is a gorgeous but woefully overlong and ultimately misguided mess.

"...you, you'll also be puzzled as to why on Earth Tykwer didn't take the easy way out and provide..."

Jan. 12, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Three ... Extremes

This lush and horrific anthology film from three of the finest craftsmen working today – Fruit Chan, Chan-wook Park, and Takashi Miike – is an instantly memorable and squirm-inducing assemblage.

"...of zany. Boasting some of the director’s most unique art direction to date (and that’s saying a lot), the..."

Oct. 28, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Tim Burton's Corpse Bride

Burton's best work in ages is eye candy of the highest order and as eminently watchable as a hilltop Halloween pyre or a Día de los Muertos parade run amok.

"...the equally luminous Victoria (Watson) and ends up wedding Carter’s Corpse Bride instead. The understandably flustered groom is immediately..."

Sept. 23, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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