Nailing the Market

The next time you go out to eat, keep an eye out for the work of Austin artist Elizabeth Guenthner. She's showing in almost every cafe where it's possible to display art, and her works' precise, distinctly disturbing beauty is simply transcendent.

"...Austin native Elizabeth Guenthner is exhibiting her artwork, throughout the year, in almost every local cafe where..."

July 14, 2000 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

How Austin Musician Gina Chavez Became the Subject of the City's Latest Mural

The story of an L.A. muralist creating a 12-foot-tall portrait of a local musical star

"...Latino culture throughout the Bible Belt." The successful L.A.-based artist wanted to create public art celebrating Latinos for communities..."

April 3, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Cultural Cancellations and Postponements: The Big List

What's not happening around Austin, arts-wise

"...site, Austinites are wasting no time in taking their art online, making sure you have performances to watch and..."

March 24, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Critics Name Cream of the Cultural Crop

The nominees for the 2017-18 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...have considered the hundreds of stage productions, concerts, and art exhibitions mounted locally between May 1, 2017, and April..."

May 14, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Where Live Music is Dead

Welcome to Sixth Street

"...There's a party onstage at Hang 'Em High. Jerry Jeff Walker? Willie..."

Oct. 11, 1996 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Celebration

Long-suppressed documentary of Yves Saint Laurent is style and substance

"...mind. It's the idea that one must suffer for art, one must be constrained by the chains of society..."

Oct. 18, 2019 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Nominees for the 2018-19 Austin Critics Table Awards Announced

The Critics Table's picture-perfect year

"...have considered the hundreds of stage productions, concerts, and art exhibitions mounted locally between May 1, 2018, and April..."

May 13, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl

A madcap animated ramble through Kyoto's drinking district

"...goes everywhere but home. She ditches a boring boozy party to go out for a night in Kyoto's Ponto..."

Aug. 17, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The China Hustle

The next global economic meltdown, in terrifying detail.

"...noticed because it did not take place on Wall Street's back door. In 2008, the U.S. economy was in..."

April 20, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

More Galleries Going, Going, …

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

"...to be a celebration of the city's vibrant visual arts scene. But the second weekend of the 2017 EAST..."

Nov. 20, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

EAST 2016: A Crash Course

Five recommendations for a quick education on the Eastside arts scene and beyond

"...99. Just the Tip: Street Art From El Paso and Juarez Sat., Nov 19,..."

Nov. 18, 2016 Arts Feature by Sam Anderson-Ramos

Hello, Lamp Post, Wha'cha Knowin'?

City art project lets you question lamp posts and get answers

"...by text with all manner of objects on the street, courtesy of an ingenious public art project called Hello..."

Feb. 11, 2015 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Get Your Shovels Out

How a local crew of diggers built the baddest Downtown dirt jumps in the country at the Ninth Street BMX Trails

"...he first rode his shovel down to the Ninth Street BMX trails. This was early 1992, and Lein wanted..."

June 6, 2014 Sports Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Brick Mansions

In one of his last roles, Paul Walker stars in this American remake of Luc Besson's actioner District B13.

"...the decayed urban terrain of Brick Mansions is the art of parkour at its most feline. It’s utterly mesmerizing..."

May 2, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis

American Hustle

It's all about the hair, the performances, and the grift and graft in this unpredictable new offering from David O. Russell.

"...a time capsule of hairdos and hairdon’ts from the Carter era. A dark comedy loosely based on the FBI’s..."

Dec. 20, 2013 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Paranormal Activity

Should you believe the viral marketing hype about this techno-era haunted-house movie that's been playing sold-out midnight runs? Or Marc Savlov?

"...most box-office-friendly way. (On the other hand, Paramount's midnight-screening, street-team hype machine is to be congratulated for pulling such..."

Oct. 9, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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.

"...tall, slender man in the upstairs gallery of the Art Building on the UT-Austin campus. The remark sounds a..."

April 4, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Daredevil

"...adaptation is faithful to the source, nor do I particularly care. All I’m looking for is a good yarn,..."

Feb. 14, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Sin Fronteras

Most observers would agree that Austin has a Latino visual arts community, but within that community are many voices, many points of view, many styles -- and no borders.

"...Is there a Latino visual art movement in Austin? Most observers would nod in the..."

Feb. 16, 2001 Arts Feature by Rob Curran

Head Over Heels

"...This isn't a Disney film; there aren't any pesky cartoon cutouts cracking wise while belting out Elton John showtunes...."

Feb. 2, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Articulations

"...exception; on Saturday, December 6, at the Helm Fine Art Center at St. Stephen's School, the gala is a..."

Dec. 5, 1997 Arts Column

The Public Eye

"...era, the rest of this film isn't nearly so smart. The protagonist may be a Weegeesque character who shoots..."

Oct. 23, 1992 Movie Review by Louis Black

All the Vermeers in New York

"...independent filmmaker, Jon Jost, almost breaks out of his arthouse ghetto and into markedly familiar movie strategies like narrative..."

June 19, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Roxane Gay, Tim O’Brien Join Texas Book Festival Lineup

Full author roster revealed for November fest

"...The 28th annual Texas Book Festival – taking place..."

Sept. 13, 2023 Arts Post by Kimberley Jones

"Premember" Drawings Capture Austin Shops Before They're Gone

Northern-Southern gallery is showing Drew Liverman's art series focused on quirky local businesses that are still here, but maybe not for long

"...honed casualness with its depiction of an East Seventh Street dry-cleaning business that's been family-owned and -operated since 1960...."

Nov. 20, 2020 Arts Feature by Barbara Purcell

Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat

Portrait of the artist as a young man is more a portrait of NYC.

"...period of time, a formative time, in an iconic artist’s life. And that’s not untrue. Yet the film isn’t..."

May 18, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

UT Visual Arts Center

David Ellis creates a 'motion painting' – or is it several? – for the university

"...David Ellis, the New York-based artist currently in residence at the University of Texas' new..."

April 23, 2010 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Page Two: Slave to the 'Rhythms'

Art is afoot, and words only slow it down

"...stands out is the inspired cover of Lennon and McCartney's "Everybody's Got Something to Hide (Except Me and My..."

Oct. 30, 2009 Column by Louis Black

That Was Then; This Is Now

The latest version of 'New Art in Austin' shows how much has changed in three years

"...it became apparent to me that I like cold art. Work that is slick and uses plastic, ink, water,..."

April 11, 2008 Arts Feature by Salvador Castillo

After the 'Watch,' What?

Alumni of AMOA's 'New Art in Austin' talk about the exhibition's impact on their careers

"...marks the third time that the Austin Museum of Art has curated an exhibition of "New Art in Austin"..."

Feb. 15, 2008 Arts Feature by Rachel Cook

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