Michael Kaiser Has Ideas About What's Next for the Arts

The arts management expert spoke to Austin arts groups about the future, and the key word is “community”

"...60 minutes, more than 40 Austinites representing 20 area arts organizations gave their full attention to one man as..."

June 5, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Fall Arts Issue Critics Picks

From the arts harvest, our critics pluck choice treats

"...With the autumn comes the feast, in the arts as well as in the harvest. This season is..."

Sept. 14, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

On the Edges of Gentrification, Planning a Different East Riverside Drive

City’s declared goals for the corridor and those of private developers do not necessarily coincide

"...flying by on the corridor, the East Riverside neighborhood planning area is bounded by Lady Bird Lake on the..."

Feb. 15, 2019 News Feature by Michael King

TFAA Director Sandra Greagor Igniting a Fire for the Arts

"...it," says Sandra Greagor, Director of the Texas Fine Arts Association (TFAA). "I don't have that compulsion." Needless to..."

July 28, 1995 Arts Feature

Public Notice: Planning for Better Plans

What's been going on at the local Planning and Zoning Department?

"...City Auditor on Monday issued an Audit of Neighborhood Planning – all in all, a pretty scathing review of..."

Nov. 18, 2016 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Public Notice: The Planning Stages

Land Use Commissioners, public swing into action on the LDC

"...Some of that is being done at Planning Commission, which laid out some of its own findings..."

Oct. 25, 2019 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Austin Arts Happenings Online: A Chronicle Round-up for Your Quarantined Exploration

Live and creative diversions – from your talented friends & neighbors

"...Note: We’re rounding up a general trove of Arts options for you here – comedy, theatre, classical, visual..."

March 23, 2020 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Austin Arts Hall of Fame Class of 2016

These inductees – Ballet Austin's Cookie Ruiz and Stephen Mills, and the Austin Symphony Orchestra's Peter Bay – are cultural heroes who lead by example

"...to its leaders – those artists, educators, patrons, and arts advocates who made the work and founded the institutions..."

May 6, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Introducing the 2019 Class of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame

The stories behind the art transformers of this year's Hall of Fame inductees

"...static. The work created in the performing and visual arts is always changing, ever evolving. That's because so many..."

May 24, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

UT Performing Arts Center

Modlin Center for the Arts' Kathleen Panoff to University of Richmond: Gone to Texas

"...long renovation in 2007, the University of Texas Performing Arts Center of which it's a part lost its director;..."

Feb. 6, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Kitchen Reno: Inside ACC’s Culinary Arts Expansion

Students get hands-on experience at ACC Highland's 28,000 sq. ft., state-of-the-art kitchen

"...2005, and has been developing the new campus Culinary Arts program since 2007 while also leading the Eastview Campus..."

Aug. 20, 2021 Features Feature by Alexandra Detmar

Want More Arts Space?

Take 10 minutes and fill out the Artspace Market Survey

"...affordably, join the club. Better yet, fill out the Artspace Market Survey, and help developers and nonprofits that can..."

Jan. 7, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Faster Than Sound: Could Austin Arts & Music Finally Get a Cultural Trust?

It's not here yet, but talks are intensifying. Also, bars and a few live music venues reopen.

"...development corporation (EDC) will help find speedy aid for arts and music spaces, with specific plans due by June..."

May 29, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

The Arts-Park Plan

"...top of that, the University of Texas put local performing-arts groups on notice that its facilities would be unavailable..."

Oct. 23, 1998 News Feature

I'll Be Seeing You: A 1940's Christmas Musical

TexARTS' original holiday revue is thrilling when it's not hampered by tentativeness

"...never have I seen a theatrical production company like TexARTS...."

Dec. 12, 2008 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

Petra's Cuento

With Teatro Vivo's enjoyable revival of the bilingual comedy 'Petra's Cuento,' no matter what language the characters are speaking, it's a language you'll understand

"...Dougherty Arts Center, through July 30..."

July 28, 2006 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

The Texas Monkey Project

The Texas Monkey Project: 2005 Art Show and Sale runs Saturday, July 23 through Saturday, Aug. 20, at Progress Coffee. All proceeds benefit the Primarily Primates sanctuary

"...perhaps unintentional showcase of the range of local visual arts talent that is surprising in its breadth and variety...."

July 22, 2005 Arts Review by Cindy Widner

Stanford Kay and Sarah Ferguson

The patterned squares and rectangles rendered here suggest frozen music

"...– at the cumulative beauty, at the amount of planning and work that went into each one. You might..."

Aug. 26, 2011 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

I Love You Because

This funny, naughty musical is the perfect show for a Sunday afternoon

"...Sunday afternoon? Austin (Andrew Cannata) loves Catherine, and they're planning a life together until he walks in on her..."

June 24, 2011 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

'LeWitt x 2'

Austin Museum of Art's exhibit is successful in revealing nuances of LeWitt's work, but less so in showing art by his peers

"...form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is..."

July 11, 2008 Arts Review by Rachel Cook

Carmen

Austin Lyric Opera’s debut in the Long Center serves Bizet’s classic in a clear, uncluttered way that satisfies

"...the coiled-spring energy pent up through the years of planning and waiting was released in an almost euphoric rush...."

April 25, 2008 Arts Review by Robert Faires

On Foreign Soil

Matt Wester's compassionate paintings are drawn from photographs he took as a National Guardsman in Iraq

"...on the base, Wester would edit and Photoshop, already planning this art series. "A lot of the photos were..."

Feb. 29, 2008 Arts Review by Rachel Koper

The Shape of Things

Neil LaBute's 'The Shape of Things,' staged by a chick and a dude productions, destroys the kind of cutesy relationships usually reserved for melodramatic chick flicks

"...tells him outright that he'd look "better if." Adam starts growing his nails, getting rid of his asymmetrical haircut,..."

March 3, 2006 Arts Review by Patti Hadad

DIY, and So Can I

KLRU's 'Arts in Context' mirrors the the collaboration and can-do of the artists it profiles

"...Friday, Dec. 7, the night before the aerial circus arts company makes its debut at the State Theater –..."

Dec. 21, 2012 Screens Feature by Dan Solomon

Shape of Things to Come

What will the arts in Austin look like in 10 years? CreateAustin has a good idea – in fact, it has 10.

"...out how we might reach that place. Cultural infrastructure, arts education, social support for individual artists, tourism, tax districts,..."

March 7, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Thinking thinkEAST

How Fusebox has engaged stakeholders in the planning process

"...Festival embarked on an unprecedented challenge: leading an 18-month planning process for the 24-acre site that once housed a..."

April 3, 2015 Arts Post by Robert Faires

CreateAustin: Mapping our future, artswise

Help determine what Austin's cultural scene will look like in the future by getting involved with CreateAustin

"...you to jump in with your answer. The Cultural Arts Division is spearheading a grand effort to map out..."

Jan. 19, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Bondology

How does one schedule a bond? Very carefully, and with a lot of advance planning.

"...the current 10-1 structure would derail big capital investment planning. When urban rail comes back – and it inevitably..."

Oct. 27, 2017 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Black & White

Two Arts Groups Cross the Color Line Creatively

"...the darkening front parlor, the heads of two performing arts groups sit down to discuss a new work. Two..."

June 21, 1996 Arts Feature

A Big Word With a Small "A"

Sue Graze leads an organization that works to bring the visual arts to the entire Lone Star State. She talks with Rebecca Cohen about her first year directing the Texas Fine Arts Association.

"...with Sue Graze, executive director of the Texas Fine Arts Association (TFAA). We met at the Jones Center for..."

Feb. 11, 2000 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

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