SOS to Council: Save Our Spaces

Artists, musicians send message with City Hall march today

"...hunker down over next year's budget, local musicians and artists are assembling to make sure their elected representatives and..."

Sept. 14, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Wednesday Showcases

"...The showcase is sponsored by the Islamabad-based Foundation for Arts Culture and Education (FACE), a U.S. State Department-funded organization..."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature

Fantastic Fest 2014: How It Felt

Artist Amy Everson on trauma and truth

"...in the Fantastic Fest Next wave category for her performance in Felt...."

Sept. 24, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

They Are Not Halle Berry

L.A.'s Hi Fashion are coming to Austin Pride to rock your butoh face paint off

"...effort to bring a roster of unconventional but top-notch artists – including Crystal Waters, Jane Wiedlin of the Go-Go's,..."

Sept. 6, 2013 Features Feature by David Estlund

The To Do List

The twist in this raunchy loss-of-virginity comedy starring Aubrey Plaza is that it comes from a teenage girls' perspective.

"...heat coursing up her body as clearly as a cartoon thermostat. We are witnessing no less than the sexual..."

July 26, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Arts Awards

Area visual artists win support for 2012 projects

"...Four area visual-arts projects have just won grants from the Idea Fund,..."

Dec. 16, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Gay Place

The Gay Place hosts a Fagnetic Fields party!

"...STRANGE POWERS PARTY "What a golden age/what a time of right and..."

Nov. 5, 2010 Column by Kate X Messer

Cult of Personality

Insect Records head and Attack Formation commander Ben Webster has never been photographed with Red River mascot-to-be Butcher Bear

"...like "Sex Clock" and "Misbehaving." Beauty and the beast, performance art with a hip-hop soundtrack...."

June 25, 2010 Music Feature by Austin Powell

No Failure to Communicate

Caroline Koebel grew up without TV. She's been pursuing flickering images ever since.

"...where the tools and media of a traditionally cost-prohibitive art form are now within the reach of literally everyone..."

April 23, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

We Live in Public

The Internet-based social experiments of Josh Harris, the original dot-com visionary kid, are profiled in this cautionary documentary.

"...Timoner. In the early 1980s, Josh Harris, a young, smart, tech-savvy Nerd Yorker, developed an intense – and as..."

Oct. 9, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Who Is Stella Burden, and Why Are They Saying Those Terrible Things About Her?

When the Rude Mechs do a show about acting, they find madness in the Method

"...her; it was what she was – a mythic counterpart to the more stellar Stella, her soap-operatic evil twin,..."

March 28, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

EAST, at Ease

The 2006 East Austin Studio Tour reveals 86 studios and one stacked pod art city with a shared alphabet

"...(past 51st and Springdale). Spearheaded by Michael Abelman, they articulated sentiments common to all the artists participating in the..."

Nov. 17, 2006 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

Left Behind

The Omnibeast – and a sect of video-art zealots at UT – is hungry

"...it's a he – will at some point subsume part of our existence, if not all of it. That..."

Sept. 15, 2006 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

I Hear Dead People

Berkeley's art team ARCHIVE brings recorded seances to the Austin Museum of Art

"...Many artists are reluctant enough to talk about their work when..."

Oct. 29, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

In Person

"Cvetkovich opened by blasting Le Tigre's punk jam 'Keep on Livin'' from the overhead speakers, then led the audience in yogic chanting," writes Abe Louise Young of the UT professor and literary / social critic's April 25 Book Woman appearance. "'Partly this is about survival, and breath is critical to survival,' she said, bringing the audience to a deep, vibratory tonal convergence that reminded me of Annie Sprinkle's 'group energy orgasm' with a literary tilt."

"...overhead speakers, then led the audience in yogic chanting. "Partly this is about survival, and breath is critical to..."

May 2, 2003 Books Feature by Abe Louise Young

Skin-Es-the-si-a

"...cultural codification of the female body through images from performance art and pornography. For more information on the conference..."

March 19, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Public Notice

Free wheelchairs, fan-tasic, and Grrrrrrrrly Action: What a hot summer it's heating up to be in Austin's public-service community.

"...or giggling wee ones cannonballing big splooshy splashes at Barton Springs. We live in the South, and it's hot..."

June 29, 2001 Column by Kate X Messer

Public Notice

Free speech, free thought, free kittens … Ah it's good to be free. It's good to be Public Notice.

"...Women)'s plan to present a li'l crossdressing Pro Choice Performance Art & Press Conference at the Texas state Capitol..."

April 20, 2001 Column by Kate X Messer

Freddy Got Fingered

"...while hungover. Whether you look at it as neo-Dadaist performance art (and a lot of folks do) or not,..."

April 20, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Second Annual Yoko Ono Birthday Tribute Hoot Gaby & Mo's, February 17

"...in question was a tribute to the music and art of Yoko Ono, and not only that, it was..."

Feb. 23, 2001 Music Review by Ken Lieck

Chances Are

"...In 1982, when Sandra Dee Martinez bought the club she would turn into Chances, she..."

Dec. 25, 1998 Features Feature by Spike Gillespie

Picks & Sleepers

Sxsw

"...in every year. If you have time for day parties and in-stores, add four days to those five nights...."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

The Austin Chronic: KOOP’s Sunday Reggae Lives On With Roots Train

After a quarter-century run, Jamaican Gold’s Art Baker passes the torch to Selector Dale

"...aired two hours of tranquil dubs, righteous roots, and open-hearted rocksteady in the early afternoon. It’s a match made..."

Aug. 9, 2024 Column by Kevin Curtin

ACC’s Music Trade School Gets a World-Class Facility

The Music Business Performance Technology department spreads its wings at ACC Highland

"...flush with great music-making facilities, one of the most state-of-the-art recording studios is at – of all places –..."

Aug. 20, 2021 Features Feature by Kevin Curtin

All the Neighborhood's a Stage in the Drive-Through Vortex Odyssey

The Vortex keeps things safe, sacred, and mythically provocative in their newest stage spectacle

"...weekends, Oct. 1-10, the company is presenting a "drive-through performance installation quest" called The Vortex Odyssey, where you and..."

Sept. 25, 2020 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

SXSW Film Review: Narcissister Organ Player

The woman (and the mother) behind the mask

"...At the outset of Narcissister Organ Player, performance artist (and director/subject) Narcissister proclaims she’s only been sure..."

March 10, 2018 SXSW Post by Beth Sullivan

Q&A With Kurt Braunohler

The absurdist comic has a seriously bright future

"...For 15 years of performance, he has opted for antics, gimmicks, and gags, most..."

Sept. 16, 2016 Arts Post by Sean L. Malin

Andrea Ariel Dance Theatre’s Lumen

The site-specific dance inspired by Dan Flavin’s art evoked pure wonder and worked as a study of threes

"...is currently vacant, and designated a rectangle for the performance space, with seating along two sides. In a distillation..."

April 29, 2016 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Top 10 Arts-Related Program Activities of 2015

The most memorable art of 2015 carved strange and brilliant new spaces out of familiar ones

"...The "Swimming" group exhibition at Phillip Niemeyer's Koenig Lane arts space was sufficient unto itself, but also contained this..."

Jan. 1, 2016 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Ink Tank Lab

The art collective take the gloom out of doomsday in 'Armageddon Outta Here'

"...is nigh, and Ink Tank Lab is ready. The artist collective, comprised of 13 floating members, returns to its..."

Dec. 21, 2012 Arts Feature by Caitlin Greenwood

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