Council Backs Parkland Preservation in Vote for New Dougherty Arts Center Site

Austin's oldest community arts venue would relocate to new facility in Butler Shores' southeast corner

"...The Dougherty Arts Center's new pad is one step closer to its..."

May 28, 2021 News Feature by Beth Sullivan

UT: Major Arts Commissions Announced

Landmarks will get new mural, CoFA a Spanish-language opera

"...University of Texas concerns the football team, but the arts may generate some chatter this week with the news..."

Aug. 4, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

BAM! Black Arts Movement Festival

ProArts' showcase of film, art, music, theatre, dance, and food packs a punch

"...theatre, music, film, or any other art form than ProArts Collective's BAM!..."

June 4, 2010 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Wayne Alan Brenner's 10 Favorite Arts-Related Things of 2019

Kinetic performances and galleries mounting great show after great show kept the year exciting

"...8) BUTRIDGE GALLERY (Dougherty Arts Center) What we said above goes for this place,..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Texas Biennial, Okay Mountain

The 2007 Texas Biennial exhibition at Okay Mountain generates color and a communal spirit while raising questions about festivalism and appropriating sources

"...reach and spread across four Austin galleries, the Chronicle's visual-arts writers chose to review the exhibit collectively, in a..."

April 6, 2007 Arts Review

2007 Texas Biennial, Butridge Gallery

The Chronicle's visual-arts writers review the second Texas Biennial in dialogue and find the work at the Dougherty Arts Center to be diverse but presented awkwardly

"...Butridge Gallery, Dougherty Arts Center, through April 15..."

March 30, 2007 Arts Review

Parks, Gardens, Pisces, and More Arts Events for the Week

Get out and get arty, away from the SXSW crowds

"...Works by the annual Tito’s Prize Winner for Visual Arts – yes, that’s the Tito’s Handmade Vodka Tito,..."

March 8, 2024 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Arts Events

"...going on for anyone to audience in the local arts scene right now. (It's a new world, suddenly, and..."

March 20, 2020 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Austin Arts at the Armory

Three local art galleries represent at this year's Armory Show in New York City

"...that now orbit the Armory Show and form Armory Arts Week: Lora Reynolds Gallery at Pulse, Art Palace at..."

Feb. 27, 2009 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

Call to Color: Cult of Color

The ballet based on Trenton Doyle Hancock's art may be problematic thematically, but it's still an enthralling experience

"...a panel discussion on the project led by Chronicle Arts Editor Robert Faires at Arthouse (see "Myth Steps," April..."

April 11, 2008 Arts Review by Nikki Moore

Top 10 Favorite Arts Events Across The Disciplines (In No Particular Order)

Chronicle Arts writer Wayne Alan Brenner on his favorite arts events in 2007

"...3) A Thought in Three Parts (Rubber Repertory) Rubber Rep brought Wallace Shawn's previously "untouchable"..."

Jan. 4, 2008 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

2007 Texas Biennial, Bolm Studios

"...reach and spread across four Austin galleries, the Chronicle's visual-arts writers chose to review the exhibit collectively, in a..."

April 13, 2007 Arts Review

Texas Biennial, Site 1808

The 2007 Texas Biennial exhibition at Site 1808 boasts strong outdoor artwork, but the use of PODS didn't quite realize its potential

"...reach and spread across four Austin galleries, the Chronicle's visual-arts writers chose to review the exhibit collectively, in a..."

April 6, 2007 Arts Review

Erotica 2005

If some of the works included in Gallery Lombardi's 'Erotica 2005' dip into the realm of juvenile bad taste, they also reveal that sex is of compelling interest to humans

"...and multicultural perspectives are reflected through our literature, performances, visual arts, and films. For the artists participating in "Erotica..."

Nov. 4, 2005 Arts Review

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"...you believe that Austin doesn't have enough spaces where visual artists, actors, musicians, designers, filmmakers, architects, and other creatives..."

Jan. 7, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow

This group show matches the majesty of the MACC's architecture

"...be a bit more of a problem for the visual-arts gallery at the Mexican American Cultural Center to arrange..."

July 15, 2011 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Rock, Paper, Carbon

This group show exploring organic forms displays work of top quality

"...year, so I'd like you to open an Austin visual-arts venue of your own that's remarkably similar, in its..."

June 10, 2011 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Wheelchair Epidemic

This Gallery Lombardi group show defiantly straddles divisions with singers behind the lens and guitarists behind paintbrushes

"...and Austin art savant Rachel Koper (also a Chronicle visual-arts writer), is a postering session gone wild. Provocative at..."

March 21, 2008 Arts Review by Nikki Moore

Lizzy Wetzel, Bradley Brown & Edward Setina: Agent on the Road

This first part of the artist exchange between Dallas' Road Agent Gallery and Austin's Art Palace brings a stylistically different perspective to our town

June 1, 2007 Arts Review by Salvador Castillo

Andy St. Martin: Selected Works From 1999 to 2007

The animated personality of painter Andy St. Martin shines through all the careful color fields he creates in the abstracts populating his new solo show at 4 walls fine art

"...As the visual-arts scene in Austin continues to expand, viewers are rewarded..."

May 25, 2007 Arts Review by Rachel Koper

Mary Lee Bendolph, Gee's Bend Quilts and Beyond

The Austin Museum of Art's exhibition 'Mary Lee Bendolph, Gee's Bend Quilts, and Beyond' prompts one viewer to piece together a story about postmodernism from patches of art and ethnology

"...Bendolph, Gee's Bend Quilts, and Beyond," "Postmodernism in the visual arts represents an attempt to move beyond the hegemony..."

Sept. 15, 2006 Arts Review by Nikki Moore

The Texas Monkey Project

The Texas Monkey Project: 2005 Art Show and Sale runs Saturday, July 23 through Saturday, Aug. 20, at Progress Coffee. All proceeds benefit the Primarily Primates sanctuary

"...a perhaps unintentional showcase of the range of local visual arts talent that is surprising in its breadth and..."

July 22, 2005 Arts Review by Cindy Widner

"99 Cent War"

Visual arts review

Nov. 19, 2004 Arts Review by Jacqueline May

'Margarita Cabrera: Maquila'

Margarita Cabrera's show at Women & Their Work is filled with soft, stuffed sculptures of everyday household objects rendered in bright, cheerful colors

"...finish we would typically expect from these items. Soft parts are juxtaposed with hard for structure and for textural..."

Nov. 12, 2004 Arts Review by Jacqueline May

Jon Langford in 'Three Britischer Cowboys'

Jon Langford, longtime member of the British band the Mekons, has developed a great nostalgic painting style for rendering his own version of American heroes

"...sure." White text of "Danger" mixes with Indian arrows, hearts, musical notes, and stars over a turquoise background. The..."

Nov. 12, 2004 Arts Review by Rachel Koper

Rising Stars

'Rising Stars' is an apt title for this small but sparkling exhibit of works by Robert Pruitt, Leona Scull-Hons, and Young-Min Kang.

Nov. 5, 2004 Arts Review by Rachel Koper

Ghost Stories: The Disembodied Spirit

The Austin Museum of Art exhibit 'Ghost Stories: The Disembodied Spirit' offers enough engaging evocations of the unearthly to give you a pleasurable shiver

Oct. 29, 2004 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Electricity and Me: Magnets and Unseen Forces

Visual Arts Review

Oct. 29, 2004 Arts Review by Jacqueline May

Plastic Eyes

Visual arts review

Oct. 22, 2004 Arts Review by Jacqueline May

Califa Arts Collaborative

After season's close, ballet dancers join forces in a unique new venture

"...Austin dancer Beth Terwilleger, who last year founded Califa Arts Collaborative, a summer project that formalizes that process. Choreographers..."

June 10, 2011 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

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