The Power of Art in Austin’s Overlooked Objects

Defining the city's personality from the moonlight towers to the railroad bridge

"...kind of totemic force as worthy of the name "art." By art, I don't mean the things we look..."

Aug. 5, 2016 Arts Feature by Sam Anderson-Ramos

Art To Enchant

The winners of the 2010-11 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...its annual awards for outstanding achievements in the Austin arts in a ceremony at Cap City Comedy Club. This..."

June 10, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Home Is Where the Art Is

Time for FronteraFest's 'Mi Casa Es Su Teatro' fun

"...invade peoples' homes all over Austin for one-off site-specific performances. And this year's curator, Adrienne Dawes, has lined up..."

Feb. 8, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Art of the State

"...The following is a monthly supplement to the arts section, featuring events and exhibitions from across Texas. Art:..."

Nov. 24, 1995 Arts Feature

United States Art Authority

A zoning glitch forces the UT campus-area arts space to close down temporarily

"...July has been a rough month for funky Austin arts venues. First, the Enchanted Forest in South Austin shut..."

Aug. 1, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

'Paved Paradise Redux: The Art of Joni Mitchell'

John Kelly brings back his Joni Mitchell tribute before retiring it for good

"...As befits a festival called Fusebox, John Kelly's performance at the interdisciplinary arts fest this year was electric...."

Oct. 1, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Mi Casa Es Su Teatro: Home is where the art is

Time again to get your theatre outside the theatre and inside someone's home, via FronteraFest's one-day, site-specific fiesta, Mi Casa Es Su Teatro

"...and surround-sound speakers. Once a year, it's honest-to-God live performances in people's houses. It's a little tradition we call..."

Feb. 9, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Art City Austin: Everything old is new again

The annual art fair once known as Fiesta and the Austin Fine Arts Festival makes its debut after reinventing itself

"...The city's oldest art fair is about to become its newest art fair...."

April 11, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

AMOA's Symposium on Austin Art: How Deep Is Our Love?

The Austin Museum of Art symposium Self Portrait: Austin Art in Local, National, and International Contexts was a positive day of critical dialog and amazingly open-minded community work

"...With its "New Art in Austin: 22 To Watch" exhibition wrapping up this..."

Oct. 21, 2005 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

Art + Commerce

Marc English Design's DIY Criteria

"...single identity, a brand that not only defines the artist and his art but leaves a lasting, lovely scar..."

Feb. 15, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

"Healing Through Art" Fundraiser Gives Patients and Caregivers the Stage

Moving Beyond Cancer Collaborative gives cancer survivors a frame to share their stories

"...human spirit will be on display. The "Healing Through Art" gallery and fundraiser for the Moving Beyond Cancer Collaborative..."

Oct. 29, 2021 Arts Feature by Cody Song

Art City Austin

Austin's urban core gets more playful with surprise swings and bubble sofas

"...city, and anyone was free to play them. Well, Art Alliance Austin, which sponsored the project for its annual..."

April 13, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Residential Art Gallery Collection Rert Is Creative Austin as It Used to Be

Amanda Jones and Chad Hopper let the Rert ones in

"...Jones and Hopper started Collection Rert, as it exists today, almost two years..."

Feb. 1, 2019 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Andrew Jeffrey Wright: Making us believers in art

The pop sensibility and humor of this Philadelphia artist feel a lot like Austin

"...online and thought, "This guy feels like an Austin artist." The work is a happy mix of trippy graphic..."

March 20, 2009 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

Austin Green Art

The city has said Austin Green Art could transform the 40,000 sq. ft. vacant lot of Block 21 into an art park April 15-22 as part of its major Earth Day celebration

"...estate just north of City Hall, but now the art gang at Austin Green Art can lay claim to..."

April 21, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Art Top Ten

Hanging the Best of 1995

"...1. Artwork/Installation: Regina Vater's installation "Ita./Ota" (The Austin Museum of Art..."

Jan. 5, 1996 Arts Feature

Art:

"...ARLINGTON MUSEUM OF ART features TEXAS REALism... with a twist, a show of..."

Dec. 22, 1995 Arts Feature

Getting Your Head Around (and Hands on) the Art of Abraham Cruzvillegas

Conceptual artist brings "Hi, how are you, Gonzo?" to the Contemporary Austin

"...something more common at a science museum than an art exhibit. It is the rare treat to so openly..."

May 3, 2019 Arts Feature by Barbara Purcell

Marketplace Art Gallery's Open Studio

In the Marketpace Art Gallery, four women have created a studio where they can develop as artists together

"...the plants are interspersed with white, as though the artist couldn't quite get the background color completely filled in...."

March 17, 2017 Arts Feature by Sam Anderson-Ramos

All Over Creation: Home-Cooked Art

You can't beat the taste of a concert or play reading made in your own home

"...not because I was left unfilled by the holiday party food I'd crammed down my gullet; on that score,..."

Dec. 30, 2011 Arts Column by Robert Faires

'New Art in Austin' 2011

AMOA has announced the 15 artists chosen for its triennial show of local art

"...The Austin Museum of Art has figured out who to watch next spring. Every..."

Oct. 15, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Art Transplant

The Move Toward a Cultural Center in Downtown

"...arrived, yellow badges swinging from their necks, and the parties worked out a two-song alternation, the image remains: a..."

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

Art's Eastside Origins The East End by Mike Clark-Madison

"...center, you can find some of the most established artists this town can boast, along with galleries, photography studios,..."

Aug. 25, 1995 News Feature

Austin Art Galleries: Venues in bloom

This is the season when new visual arts galleries seem to sprout up everywhere like bluebonnets, and this spring brings us a bumper crop

"...blooming all across the city. No, not bluebonnets – art galleries. This is the season when new showplaces for..."

March 16, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

SXSW Music Review: Yard Act, Do Nothing, Squid, and the Art of the British Post-Punk Soliloquy

SXSW Music’s bread-n-butter: cutting edge UK rebellion

"...a high standard of the sweaty communion of live performance – to SXSW, where they amassed “you gotta see..."

March 19, 2021 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Spoon's Hot Thoughts Remodels the Locals' Art-Funk

Britt Daniel and Jim Eno talk about the rise of R&B in the band's sound

"...nights' there. But I had this idea when Spoon started that it'd be louder, more aggressive, faster...."

June 2, 2017 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

SXSW Performance Contract Sparks Controversy

More back-and-forth between canceled artist and SXSW director

"...emailed the Chronicle to clarify he mistakenly thought an artist agreement had been altered, when in fact Walworth was..."

March 2, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

'The Art of Listening'

In her new book, choreographer Darla Johnson shares her secrets for making dance

"...By the time I had started collaborating with Darla Johnson, she had already been a..."

Aug. 17, 2012 Arts Feature by Andrew Long

'A Guy Walks Into the United States Art Authority...'

Feral Cinema/Lenny Bruce

"...this evening at 7:30 pm, at the United States Art Authority. A mere $5 admission gets you noneother than..."

July 15, 2010 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Art Aid

In the wake of Katrina, Austin artists do their part to help

"...the critical needs of evacuees from Hurricane Katrina, Austin arts organizations and individual artists, musicians, comedians, puppeteers, drama educators,..."

Sept. 23, 2005 Arts Feature by Heather Barfield Cole

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