Point Austin: Thoughts After Celebration

Beneath the rockets' red glare, the costs of our Iraq misadventure mount

"...visit to the page (CostOfWar.com) if only as a visual reminder of just how quickly a fading empire of..."

July 8, 2005 News Column by Michael King

Mike Krone at RT Gallery

In his artworks shown at RT Gallery, illustrator Mike Krone seems able to efficiently focus on new possibilities even when things go very wrong

"...Krone, a seasoned illustrator for the Texas Observer, the Austin Business Journal, and Harcourt publishers, is exhibiting his sketchbooks..."

June 24, 2005 Arts Review by Benné Rockett

The Wheeler Brothers: Fresh' / 'The Wheeler Brothers: Now Even Fresher'

In two Austin exhibits, Lubbock's Wheeler brothers offer another tour of burger joints, dry landscapes, girls, advertising signs, and references to famous paintings – mostly of girls – in the Americana narrative of Wheelerville

"...The Wheeler brothers have created a visual lexicon that they toy with humorously. There are happy..."

April 15, 2005 Arts Review by Rachel Koper

Arts Bullets

Physical Plant Theater invites you to share the joys of moonlight croquet and badminton at its garden party fundraiser

"...Physical Plant Theater – that fount of so much visual poetry and theatrical mystery – invites you to share..."

May 21, 2004 Arts Feature

20 Years of Austin Gifts

... And a slew of other local businesses celebrating significant anniversaries

"...In case you hadn't heard, The Austin Chronicle is celebrating 20 years in Austin. We've seen..."

Dec. 7, 2001 Features Feature by Brant Bingamon

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..."

July 2, 2004 Arts Feature by Sam Martin

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

Art's New Address

Uptown Is Home to Austin's Latest Cultural District

"...photograph by Jana Birchum Great cities have great arts districts. Great big cities (such as New York) often..."

July 4, 1997 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

Never Adult Moment

Artist Michael Sieben ollies his skater years into the Visual Arts Center's vaulted elegance

"...for action. The University of Texas graduate is the Visual Arts Center's artist-in-residence for spring 2014, and Sieben is..."

April 25, 2014 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Making It Happen

The 2007 class of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame

"...cultural community must be people whose conviction in the arts, in their deep value to life and society, is..."

June 1, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Supper Club Gives Artists of Color Important Space to Be Seen and Heard

Elia Alba’s multifaceted project at the UT Visual Arts Center

"...of an individual contemporary artist and made employing the visual language and style of fashion photography. (Alba's inspiration was..."

Jan. 25, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Game-Changers

The 2009 class of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame

"...That Austin's creative scene is among the liveliest and most watched..."

May 29, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Articulations

Candidates Talk Arts

"...candidates for city office talk about everything but the arts? Sure, we know those other issues are serious, but..."

March 21, 1997 Arts Column

Engagement

UT's new Visual Arts Center connects its art department with the world

"...find that what's immediately striking about the building's new Visual Arts Center – built from the bones of the..."

Sept. 24, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

More Galleries Going, Going, …

Pump Project, HOPE, Co-Lab DEMO forced to move in 2018

"...The East Austin Studio Tour is intended to be a celebration of..."

Nov. 20, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Sam Coronado: In Memoriam

Remembering the founder of the Serie Project and Austin printmaking legend

"...Austin has lost perhaps its greatest missionary for the art..."

Nov. 22, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Articulations

UT Fine Arts Rates Tops

"...a survey of the nation's grad schools ranks UT Austin's Law, Engineering, or Business Schools among the best in..."

March 14, 1997 Arts Column

Ten Years After

Curator Annette Carlozzi Returns to Austin's Arts Scene

"...Art Center in New Orleans and then was appointed Visual Arts Producer for the 1996 Olympics Arts Festival. Now..."

Sept. 27, 1996 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

Culture Flash!

Forklift Kickstarts Trash 2, and Austin artists get to hit the boards

"...• Want to see your artwork on a billboard? Austin Art Boards, a competition sponsored by Reagan National Advertising..."

April 1, 2011 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Art for Days

Can you handle two weeks' worth of the East Austin Studio Tour?

"...To wrangle this year's East Austin Studio Tour, you're gonna need Noah's frickin' ark...."

Nov. 13, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

One Extreme to the Other

For every creative triumph in the Austin arts community in 2002 -- and they were plentiful -- there seemed to be a corresponding defeat, usually tied to the economic downturn and its problems for the arts community.

"...an existence at extremes pretty well sums up the Austin arts scene in 2002. Austin Lyric Opera proved itself..."

Jan. 3, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Real Estate and Perfect Mates

The year 2000 in the Austin arts, with Top 10 lists by Chronicle Arts critics and their picks for stories and personalities of the year.

"...He might have been writing the story of the Austin arts scene in the year 2000. For our cultural..."

Jan. 5, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Day of the Dead at the ESB-MACC

Sam Coronado remembered as part of this year's festivities

"...believe that it's almost a year since we lost Austin's patron saint of printmaking, Sam Coronado. He died from..."

Oct. 31, 2014 Arts Post by Robert Faires

The Future Is Here

In 2007, that distant tomorrow when Austin's arts dreams would be realized finally arrived

"...in the day when the city gets its own performing-arts center, the day when a Downtown museum gets built,..."

Jan. 4, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Never Say Die!

Austin's arts scene plays 'the comeback kid' in 2004

"...since act one. And that's pretty much where the Austin arts scene was at the end of 2003. Beaten..."

Jan. 7, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Artists' Guide to the Galaxy

Three Austin visual artists -- Steve Schwake, Clare Christie, and Marie Parker -- share their impressions of life in Austin and the development of their work, defining the orbit success for their respective worlds.

"...launch pads for reaching this kind of success go, Austin is a regular Kennedy Space Center. With a breakthrough..."

May 25, 2001 Arts Feature by Rob Curran

Positively Operatic

The Year in Austin Culture

"...itself for big changes to come after December 31, Austin's arts community was already in the thick of them...."

Jan. 7, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

More Than Survived

In dismal 2009, Austin's arts scene fared better than you might think

"...So goes the thinking of most people, in the arts community and outside it, and considering the economic shitstorm..."

Jan. 1, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Kevin McNamee-Tweed: The Exit Interview

As he leaves Austin, curator and artist Kevin McNamee-Tweed reflects on the city's artists and art community

"...To be a part of Austin's nascent art scene is to know Kevin McNamee-Tweed. He..."

March 10, 2017 Arts Feature by Caitlin Greenwood

Outstanding!

Nominations for the 2006-2007 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...the honors to include the rest of the performing arts – i.e., dance and classical music – and the..."

May 18, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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