A Mutual Respect

Russell Lee's documentary photographs of the Great Depression helped fashion our collective visual memory of that era, but his greatest achievement may have been the trust he engendered in his subjects.

"...he taught photography at the University of Texas at Austin, or afterward, when Garry Winogrand took over for him,..."

Aug. 29, 2003 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

Up for Grabs

How a Harlem-born photographer came to capture East Austin at the end of an Era

"...set out to capture -- catalog, even -- East Austin right about the time Sixties-style urban renewal was seguing..."

July 4, 2003 Arts Feature by Cindy Widner

Articulations

The city is hot to find "a creative, energetic, and innovative leader" to head its revamped Cultural Arts Program, now located in the city's Economic Growth and Redevelopment Office, where it will coordinate support and advocacy for Austin's performing arts, visual arts, music, film, and interactive communities.

"...Wanted: Dream Arts Leader..."

July 4, 2003 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Arts Integral to Austin Identity..."

June 27, 2003 Column

Short Cuts

Party on, Barna.

"...for Young Cinema and rechristening themselves the Motion Media Arts Center prior to their impending move from the old..."

June 20, 2003 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Applause! Applause!

The full list of winners for the 2002-2003 Austin Critics Table Awards, recognizing outstanding achievements in local theatre, dance, classical music, and visual art, as presented during its annual ceremony at the Capitol City Comedy Club.

"...On Monday, June 2, the Austin Critics Table handed out its annual awards for outstanding..."

June 6, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Articulations

This year's Austin Critics Table Awards ceremony turned into something of an endurance test, setting a new record for length at three and a half hours.

"...I don't want to say that this year's Austin Critics Table Awards ceremony was long, but hoo-boy, it..."

June 6, 2003 Arts Column by Robert Faires

"Embracing the Present: The UBS Art Collection"

"Embracing the Present: The UBS Art Collection" contains a broad sampling of contemporary sculpture, painting, and photography from the past 40 years, and among the jubilant range of concerns and expressions, the riot of form, scale, color, and style, it reveals again and again the tension that exists between the technological world and the human one.

"..."Embracing the Present: The UBS Art Collection": Connecting the DotsAustin Museum of Art, through Aug. 10..."

May 30, 2003 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Let There Be Light

After a $14 million facelift, UT's Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center is letting the light in, literally, through new windows across the front of the structure, and philosophically, through a new mission to give the public more opportunities to see and enjoy its astonishing accumulation of cultural treasures.

"...welcoming all believers, everyone with an interest in the arts and humanities. It's a new age for Harry Ransom's..."

May 16, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Critics Table Nominations, 2002-2003

The full list of nominations for the 2002-2003 Austin Critics Table Awards, recognizing outstanding achievements in local theatre, dance, classical music, and visual art

"...For the 11th time, Austin Critics Table has found a whole lot to like..."

May 9, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Renaissance (and Baroque) Man

As a curator for UT's Blanton Museum of Art, Jonathan Bober played a pivotal role in securing the Suida-Manning and Steinberg art collections, thereby giving some of the world's great art a home in Austin.

"...the upstairs gallery of the Art Building on the UT-Austin campus. The remark sounds a little incongruous in such..."

April 4, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Articulations

Twelve more friends of the arts have been named to the Austin Arts Hall of Fame, and Austin Lyric Opera loses Managing Director Michael Murphy to a performing arts organization in San Diego, from whence he came.

"...The Austin Critics Table has decided on the second group of..."

March 28, 2003 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Articulations

The stars come out at the Paramount when the Texas Medal of the Arts Awards are given, and the Bastrop Opera House shoots for a national title in the American Association of Community Theatres competition.

"...out its 2003 set of Texas Medal of the Arts Awards. A veritable constellation of distinguished Lone Star artists..."

March 21, 2003 Arts Column by Robert Faires

La Bohème

Giacomo Puccini's La Bohème brings to life a fantastic world through gorgeous music, and Austin Lyric Opera's production treated the audience to rich glimpses of that fantastic world: 1870s Paris bustling with people, ideas, love, and song.

"...his music -- gorgeous music -- and in this Austin Lyric Opera production, the audience was treated to glimpses..."

March 14, 2003 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

SXSW Picks and Sleepers

"...be garage punk and too earnest to be quirky, Austin's the American People are best described by an anonymous..."

March 14, 2003 Music Feature

Women's Work Is Never Done

Started in 1978 as a grassroots feminist arts collaborative, Women & Their Work has evolved into an Austin institution, which has survived collapsing economies and shifts in location and mission to become one of the city's premier visual arts spaces.

"...indeed, neither. Started in 1978 as a grassroots feminist arts collaborative, Women & Their Work has evolved into an..."

March 7, 2003 Arts Feature by Sarah Hepola

Creative Capital?

In the City of Ideas, the people with ideas are dancing with day jobs.

"...hidden fact of economic and psychosocial life here in Austin, the City of Ideas. Many of the people with..."

Feb. 28, 2003 News Feature by Michael Erard

Articulations

Long Center supporters do a funding turnaround by asking the city for $25 million in bond money, another bunch of Lone Stars are being honored by the Texas Cultural Trust Council with Texas Medal of the Arts Awards, and John Walch wins an award from the American Theatre Critics Association.

"...As noted in last week's Chronicle, Arts Center Stage is pulling an about-face in its drive..."

Feb. 14, 2003 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Personals

While the material in Personals, a revue built around the ads placed by men and women desperately seeking soul mates, suffers somewhat from age, Naughty Austin's production makes a fine match with a cast that is exceedingly appealing and extremely adept at musical comedy.

"...It's a clever visual joke and a sign that Naughty Austin is back..."

Feb. 7, 2003 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Letters at 3AM

Even though 2002 was an exceptional year for American cinema, American art has never been more marginalized, ghettoized, and controlled, than it is today.

"...vitality in film underscores the dearth in our other arts. For there is no question that, in general, America's..."

Jan. 10, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

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

Coming Soon

"...city's new cultural epicenter is a veritable discoveryscape of arts and imagination: a splash fountain, a bubble fountain, lily..."

Dec. 20, 2002 Arts Feature

Dancing About Architecture

The new noise ordinance goes to council as Jupiter Records goes round the clock.

"...The public hearing for Austin's new sound ordinance is, as stated here last week,..."

Dec. 6, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

The Caucasian Chalk Circle

Director David Charles Goyette uses an army of actors to stage Brecht's epic of war, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, and his constant movement of them, along with the impressive design work, gives the impression of a huge and hungry populace, but much of the story is lost in the broad acting of much of the UT student cast.

"...Another war play for Austin. How did this come to be? Theatrical organizations usually..."

Nov. 22, 2002 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

Food-o-File

Virginia B. Wood discusses the untimely death of her friend and Austin "pioneer" Patrick Knight in this week's "Food-o-File."

"...coming back? Pat had been a fixture on the Austin restaurant/bar/music scene since the early Seventies, and many of..."

Nov. 8, 2002 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

The 411 on 411

Hidden inside that nondescript complex at 411 Brazos is a wealth of compelling work by provocative artists just waiting to be discovered.

"...a funny and fantastical collection that is part envelope-pushing visuals and part Milton Bradley homage. Remember "You sank my..."

Oct. 25, 2002 Arts Feature by Sarah Hepola

After a Fashion

"...THE GEN ART GENERATION Here in Austin, we certainly seem to be getting our fair share..."

Oct. 18, 2002 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

My Fair Lady

Austin Musical Theatre's production of My Fair Lady serves up the tale of a Cockney flower girl's transformation at the hands of an egotistical phonetics professor with a lavish look and a playful spirit, creating a delightful dance of elegance and frivolity.

"...This gloriously comic moment from Austin Musical Theatre's production of My Fair Lady is little..."

Oct. 4, 2002 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Page Two

Leaving us no time to catch our breaths after the Austin City Limits, Pecan Street, and Cinematexas festivals, our little city is graced next with the Heart of Film Screenwriters Conference and Austin Film Festival, unofficially kicked off by a screening (co-sponsored by the Austin Film Society) of Jonathan Demme's new film, The Truth About Charlie.

"...a week it has been for our little city. Austin City Limits and Pecan Street festivals just finished, Cinematexas..."

Oct. 4, 2002 Column by Louis Black

Erin Cone at the Wally Workman Gallery

"The figurative acrylics and oils of Austin's Erin Cone reveal no specific flow of story; neither are they reproduced as visual elements of what the hipper literati like to call graphic novels. Cone's portraits stand alone," writes Wayne Alan Brenner. See Cone's second annual exhibition at the Wally Workman Gallery during August, and be pleased with your decision.

"...and Daniel Clowes. The figurative acrylics and oils of Austin's Erin Cone, though, reveal no specific flow of story;..."

Aug. 16, 2002 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

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