'New American Talent – The 19th Exhibition'

"New American Talent – The 19th Exhibition" merits repeated visits, for the abundance of energy and originality of vision among its many featured artists

"...York can no longer be considered the hub of modern artistic endeavors. There has been an explosion of creativity..."

Aug. 6, 2004 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Truth and Reconciliation

The assertion of the individual is at the heart of the Austin Museum of Art's new show, "Liberated Voices: Contemporary Art From South Africa," which makes it fresh and full of surprises; it resonates with the hungry energy of a country emerging from oppression and brims with experimentation and unique, original perspectives.

"...lead nowhere. X Roads gives a view of a modern family, but it's really a larger history of a..."

June 2, 2000 Arts Feature by Ben Willcott

Growth Spurt

Nine Shows That Transported Me

"...indeed, with Bay choosing the potentially hard-to-sell work of modern American composers. He should keep Symphony audiences joyfully on..."

Jan. 8, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Happy Camper

Judith Sims on 23 Years with Austin's Art Museum

"...It settled for a wonderful pink-and-putty-colored classroom building with post-modern diamond accents completed in 1984...."

Nov. 15, 1996 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

Austin's Comic Strippers: Part of the Big Picture

Divya Srinivasan

"...to construct it into a children's book. The thoroughly modern elf looks a bit like your fave sensitive teen..."

May 12, 1995 Books Feature

Austin FC Season Kickoff, Black History Month, and More Community Events

Get out and about in Austin while the weather's good

"...at the convention center Downtown will show you, wannabe modern pilgrim, exactly what that means, will get your motor..."

Feb. 23, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

The Chrontourage Guide to Local Business Month

Recommendations for how to get the most out of IBIZ districts in April.

"...talent. Original art ranging from abstract to design heavy, sculpture and photography, the Austin Art Garage is the perfect..."

April 15, 2014 Events Post by Parisa Kosari

SXSW 09 Film Lineup Announced

What's all the ruckus? Why, it's the SXSW Film lineup!

"...1950’s American Sci-Fi Cinema and the role of the Modern Scientist. (World Premiere)..."

Feb. 1, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Day Trips

"...History" through Feb. 9. The museum and the Cullen Sculpture Garden are at 1001 Bissonnet, 713/639-7300, www.mfah.org...."

Dec. 27, 2002 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

El Corazón de Santa Barraza

"...combined with portraits of prominent Hispanic women, ancient and modern. La Llorona, La Virgen, Rigoberta Menchú, and others are..."

Feb. 5, 1999 Arts Feature by Mary Jane Garza

Relays, Rides, and Rasslin' Headline This Week's Community Events

Recommended happenings around town

"...between preserving cultural authenticity and adapting narratives for the modern world.”   – James Scott Fix-It Clinic..."

March 22, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Review: Single Black Female

Lisa B. Thompson's play preaches from a Nineties perch

"...an extra-long grey monochrome couch, and lovingly placed wooden sculpture. (Gary Thornsberry designed the set.) Kilgore’s direction shines when..."

Feb. 26, 2020 Arts Post by Yasmin Zacaria Mikhaiel

"The Impossible Winterbourne: AlphaBots" at Ao5 Gallery

I, for one, welcome our totes adorbs steampunk overlords

"...best known for his robot heads – those three-dimensional sculptures of servomech physiognomy, bright and cartoony and well-crafted, each..."

Jan. 17, 2020 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

East Austin Studio Tour Maximum Tourage Recommendations

These five places will help you get the most EAST

"...Jennifer Conroy (1304 Willow), which also hosts Will Larson's sculptures, Leticia Mosqueda's beautiful figurative paintings, and more; then, go..."

Nov. 22, 2019 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

"Tammie Rubin: Everything You Ever" at Women & Their Work

This sculptural labyrinth of values casts an epiphytic spell

"...Austin's own Tammie Rubin, an assistant professor of sculpture and ceramics at St. Edward's University, is the general..."

Jan. 4, 2019 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Nicole Eisenman Receives Booth/FLAG Art Prize

NYC artist is the first recipient of the $200,000 award

"...has been turning out more three-dimensional work of late, sculptures that also draw on the figurative tradition and play..."

Aug. 6, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

"De La Tierra"

The group exhibition, curated by Michael Anthony García, refreshes the migrant Latino narrative

"...Gerardo Arellano among them. The show incorporates installation work, sculpture, video, and more, and this variety in medium shows..."

Oct. 2, 2015 Arts Review by Caitlin Greenwood

Sold on the Cool

The Blanton's 'Birth of the Cool' is midcentury modernism made sexy

"...which sit an ashtray, a planter, and a small sculpture of a bird as smooth and clean as the..."

March 13, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Top 10 Happy Moments of Art Appreciation and Artists Who Found a New Gear This Year

Chronicle Arts writer Rachel Koper remembers 2008 in the visual arts

"...1) Steve Brudniak Don't call "Noumenon," his solo sculpture show at the Butridge Gallery, a comeback; it was..."

Jan. 2, 2009 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

The Book on Lance Letscher

What lies behind the buzz of Austin's hot collage artist

"...in the Texas art world as meticulous and fragile sculpture. Then, and ever since, Letscher has worked on his..."

June 25, 2004 Arts Feature by Madeline Irvine

Cream, Frost, Mint

In the arresting mélange that is Women & Their Work's annual "Juror's Choice" exhibit, Cream, Frost, Mint stands out as a calm, bright presence.

"...Mint, studded with pearls and spangles like so many modern fashions, echo the creations on present-day runways; many of..."

Dec. 12, 2003 Arts Review by Molly Beth Brenner

Next Edition

For more than 13 years, Flatbed Press has been producing some of the most exquisite collectible prints made by contemporary Texas artists, but these days its owners are starting to plan for a new incarnation of Flatbed that may not include them.

"...up in several major institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Brooklyn Museum of Art (work by..."

June 13, 2003 Arts Feature by Madeline Irvine

The Bullock in the Museum Shop

Supporters say the Bullock History Museum has acted as a catalyst for smaller local museums.

"...of museums -- including the Kimbell Art Museum, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, the Fort Worth Museum..."

Feb. 21, 2003 News Feature

Letters at 3AM

Four meditations on three undefinable words: I love you.

"...terrain of the subtle and the mystic. People speaking modern English invented the Industrial Age and technology, or made..."

July 12, 2002 Column by Michael Ventura

Day Trips

Texas Monthly has called the Old Jail Art Center "the best small town art museum in Texas -- and maybe the nation."

"...The building was abandoned in 1929 for a more modern hoosegow. Robert E. Nail, heir to one of the..."

Dec. 21, 2001 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips

Museum-hopping in Houston.

"...role in leading Mexico to the forefront of 20th-century modern art...."

Oct. 22, 1999 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Polytheism in the Raw

"...have never been on public display (except in the sculpture of far-off places like India). When movies became the..."

Nov. 13, 1998 Column by Michael Ventura

Postmarks

Crisis Controversy

"...short story, the poem, the easel painting, the free-standing sculpture, the art object in general, have all been deconstructed..."

Dec. 27, 1996 Column

Postmarks

Balcones Responds

"...short story, the poem, the easel painting, the free-standing sculpture, the art object in general, have all been deconstructed..."

Dec. 6, 1996 Column

Art Transplant

The Move Toward a Cultural Center in Downtown

"...as a cultural meeting ground, where theatre, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, in short, everything that stimulates the cultural life,..."

Aug. 30, 1996 Arts Feature by Brett Holloway-Reeves

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