Common Purpose

Insights from Common House arts space

"...William Gaynor, Conner O'leary, and Autumn Spadaro started the arts locale, along with Adam Mendez, who has since moved..."

Feb. 7, 2014 Arts Feature by Seth Orion Schwaiger

All Over Creation: Re: Views

What makes a review a review?

"...it, writer Adam Roberts heaped accolades on Street Corner Arts, which staged the show, for the polished quality of..."

Jan. 20, 2012 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Articulations

More bouquets for Lipstick Traces in The New York Times, and Austin theatre critics continue to take over the world

"...the July 22 edition of The New York Times, arts-critic-at-large Margo Jefferson posed the question that has been nagging..."

Aug. 3, 2001 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Film Flam

Preserving Mondo's archive, Fantastic Fest first wave, farewell to Sherry Mills, and what's happening with lots of local productions

"...Mondo is partnering with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Margaret Herrick Library to preserve Mondo's voluminous..."

July 15, 2011 Screens Column by Kimberley Jones

Naked City

News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere

"...writers in particular, staff News writer Wells Dunbar and Arts Editor Robert Faires, nominated in the News Story Short..."

May 30, 2008 News Feature

Naked City

Farewell to ECB, Return to Tulia, APD Extends Knee, Ramping Up I-35, AAN Awards and Slacker Editor

"...Editor Robert Faires collected a Second Place Award for Arts Criticism, for large circulation newsweeklies, at last week's convention..."

July 20, 2001 News Feature by Michael King

What Food Goes Well With Comedy?

Jim Gaffigan can tell you – and does in this Q&A

"...Jim Gaffigan has a reputation as a "clean" comic,..."

Oct. 17, 2014 Arts Post by Russ Espinoza

‘Austin Chronicle’ Nominated for AAN Awards

Nods for breaking news, public service, and film criticism

"...critic and Managing Editor Kimberley Jones was nominated for Arts Criticism...."

May 22, 2013 News Post

Mark Strand on UT Campus Tonight

Former poet laureate first in MCW spring reading series

"...He's also published translations, written arts criticism, and edited numerous poetry anthologies, one of which..."

Jan. 26, 2012 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Letters at 3AM: Behold The Maslin

The Maslin is not a person but, rather, a function of virtually every book-review staff in the Western world

"...I do so because on page 1 of the artsy section of The New York Times, Jan. 14, Mr...."

Jan. 29, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura

Point Austin: Heat Wave

From Philadelphia to Austin, the air is burning

"...and The San Francisco Bay Guardian to quality fledgling upstarts like the Jackson Free Press (Mississippi) – four small..."

June 13, 2008 News Column by Michael King

Curling Up

Gift guide

"...negative – about the winners in every category, from arts criticism to feature writing to editorial layout, and has..."

Dec. 9, 2005 Books Feature by Nora Ankrum

The Good Woman of Setzuan: Just a Quaint Old Story

Local Arts Reviews

"...drama of the story that they forget the social criticism propping the story up. To this end, Loughran mixes..."

March 3, 2000 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

The Best of Tapestry, Too: Persistent Joy

Local Arts Reviews

"...curiously enough -- sneers out a rebuke, a stinging criticism of her and her art. She stops, clearly deflated..."

Feb. 25, 2000 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Contemporary Art from Cuba: No Need to Be American

Local Arts Reviews

"...my recent experience leading a two-session workshop on art criticism for the Austin Museum of Art proved instructive. Looking..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Arts Review by Sheri Jacobson

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...for a fashion magazine then got a lot of criticism from Chinese historians and common folks, because her dress..."

Dec. 14, 2001 Column

Articulations

Theatre critics have a place to sharpen their craft and learn about their profession, and Robert Faires reports on his stint as a teacher there.

"...Camp Criticism..."

July 25, 2003 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Texas Book Festival 2015: The Mighty 300

Authors for Fest 20 include Lethem, Lemony, Pitts, Diggs, Hart

"...In addition to the heavyweights already announced – Booker..."

Sept. 4, 2015 Arts Post by Robert Faires

The Great Critic Test

How Much Do You Really Know About These Freaks?

"...illustration by Robert Faires No one likes a critic...."

Feb. 27, 1998 Arts Feature by Adrienne Martini

Everyone's a Critic

The theatre community sounds off on critics as artists.

"...co-produced and directed Twelfth Night, is also the Chronicle's Arts editor...."

July 28, 2000 Arts Feature by Ada Calhoun

Hockenyos Gets Creative ... Again

Austin should embrace its identity as a cultural mecca

"...2000s, Hockenyos' firm, TXP, looked separately at music, nonprofit arts, and film. In 2006, TXP tried to mush it..."

March 30, 2012 News Feature by Mike Kanin

Painting Race

Getting Inside Michael Ray Charles' Provocative Images

"...SOMEPLACE, SOMEWHERE, SOMETIME, SOMEDAY. IT COULD HAPPEN, says Michael..."

Oct. 24, 1997 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

A Portrait of the Artist as a Grad Student

Chronicle reviewer David Garza uses Tom Grimes' new history of the Iowa Writers' Workshop to question whether creative writing can be taught.

"...weekly writing workshops and pursued a Master's in Fine Arts (MFA) degree, could she have endured the harsh weekly..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Books Feature by David Garza

The House That PAC Built

"...In the children's rhyme that takes its name from..."

Oct. 2, 1998 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Barbarians at the Box Office

AFS Documentary Tour: 'For the Love of Movies'

"...the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism, back in 2001, Peary says he was just beginning..."

Feb. 4, 2011 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Your Austin Artist

In a changing city, Michael Anthony García embraces the changing roles of the visual art maker

"...endeavor was reviewing exhibitions around town and uploading their criticisms online as parody videos. The artists created characters to..."

June 28, 2013 Arts Feature by Caitlin Greenwood

All Over Creation: When the Truth Hurts

After suffering through a friend's lousy show, is honesty the best policy?

"...us who have friends or loved ones in the arts, anyway: waiting for a relative/BFF/significant other after having just..."

Sept. 28, 2012 Arts Column by Robert Faires

You Should Start a Web Site ...

Though they claim to only answer to their man-on-the-streets tastes, both these Web sites demonstrate how diverse the dialogue on arts becomes when just the right voices cut in.

"...both Web sites demonstrate how diverse the dialogue on arts becomes when just the right voices cut in...."

Sept. 29, 2000 Screens Feature by David Garza

Writing by Degrees

The Unfolding Now

"...revise, and workshop their way to a master of arts degree in screenwriting. (That and two dollars will get..."

Jan. 29, 1999 Screens Feature by Jay Hardwig

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...Palmer Auditorium-City Coliseum site to be developed into an ARTS Center Stage-funded performing arts center and hockey arena/civic center,..."

Aug. 21, 1998 News Feature

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