Plethora of Riches: How Richard Samuel Turned an Art Gallery Into a Community Center

RichesArt launches annual Black History Month exhibit with new philanthropic initiative

"...the week, it becomes an event space, home to watercolor painting, figure drawing, and collage making classes, as well..."

Feb. 9, 2024 Arts Feature by Carys Anderson

Five Austin Studio Tour Shows

So many artists, so big a city, almost too much beauty and fun

"...looks inside the working areas and showrooms of Austin-based artists and creative collaboratives. It's three weekends of special exhibitions..."

Nov. 3, 2023 Arts Column by Wayne Alan Brenner

Arts Review: "Floriculture"

The impermanence of floristry and the eternal nature of tattoos highlight Pastiche House’s fusion philosophy

"...walls of glass fully decked with Von Lehe's monochrome watercolors of myriad botanicals, the natural beauty of leaves and..."

June 2, 2023 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Austin Studio Tour 2022 Is All Over the Map

The annual celebration of art expands to match its city's size

"...looks inside the working areas and showrooms of Austin-based artists and creative collaboratives, three weekends of special exhibitions and..."

Nov. 11, 2022 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

ACL Interview: Robert Glasper Brings Buoyant Manifesto Black Radio III to Zilker

Grammy-studded Houstonian discusses third jazz installment

"...with Esperanza Spalding’s French wordplay (“Why We Speak”), and watercolor improvisation bleeds into Musiq Soulchild’s R&B (“Everybody Love”) on..."

Oct. 7, 2022 Music Feature by Alejandra Ramirez

Qmmunity: Homoscopes

Don't know what to do this week? Consult the Qmmunity stars for your homoscope of recommended queer events.

"...to navigate queer relationships while working on a guided watercolor painting. Tue., Aug. 30, 6:30-8pm. Virtual. allgo.org. Cancer..."

Aug. 26, 2022 Column by James Scott

Qmmunity: Finding Your Pride

Drip Drop 10 brings urban LGBTQ music to the forefront, plus did you hear it’s Austin Pride this weekend?

"...Drop a safe space for the community and the artists who come to the party...."

Aug. 19, 2022 Column by James Scott

Five Ways to Dress Up Your Bare, Bare Walls

A big weekend of gallery shows gives you plenty of decorating opportunities

"...In which curator Laura Lynn Johnson brings together eight artists – Rory Foster, Shawn Camp, Abi Daniel, Jason Brooks,..."

May 20, 2022 Arts Column by Wayne Alan Brenner

ACL’s Hardest Decision: St. Vincent or Erykah Badu – Reviewed Side-by-Side

A novel persona and a paragon of realness in clashing set times

"...audience – let’s call them “fans of bold, critically-acclaimed artists” – by slotting both Erykah Badu and St. Vincent..."

Oct. 4, 2021 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

SXSW Creates XR Austin for Online Festival

Digital environment will be virtually like being there

"...than a dozen hours of interviews and uses hand-drawn watercolor cel animation and ambisonic sound to visualize an otherwise..."

March 2, 2021 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

"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

"...a universal notion found in the work of many artists Liverman admires, from the French post-impressionist Jean-Édouard Vuillard to..."

Nov. 20, 2020 Arts Feature by Barbara Purcell

David Garza Recounts a Few of the 10,000 Stories Behind Fiona Apple’s Fetch the Bolt Cutters

Texan muse and former Austinite relocated production to El Paso

"...in detention after school – playing Exquisite Corpse, trading watercolors, pre-gig Sharpie tattoos, etc. In late February, out of..."

April 20, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Luv Doc: Being Circumspect

A stupid, irritating, or contemptible person

"...he manages to keep a busy schedule of shitty watercolor painting, funeral trance-dancing with Michelle Obama, and yukking it..."

Oct. 11, 2019 Column by Luv Doc

Shadow

Zhang Yimou's period martial arts drama probes the moral grays of life in a royal court

"...cinematographer Zhao Xiaoding (and a vast team of effects artists) which strips all color away. The effect is to..."

May 17, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

“Katy Horan and Teruko Nimura: Residual” at ICOSA

In their joint show, the two artists use paper crafts as a medium for exploring how traces of the past disrupt the present

"...women are shown in flattened planes of gouache or watercolor paint. Horan's use of glitter in her pieces reminds..."

March 16, 2018 Arts Review by Melany Jean

Six Picks From That EAST Beast

Necessary, unless you’re the living embodiment of “indefatigable”

"...out of a snack-vending machine. The concept and the artists represented here – Colin McIntyre, Terra Goolsby, Laura Latimer,..."

Nov. 8, 2017 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Tillie Walden: Talking Comics

"If it was torture, I’d’ve given up by now.”

"...architectural detail in the opening scenes, and that excellent watercolor work...."

Nov. 1, 2017 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

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ChronEvents Picks for the WEST Austin Studio Tour

Tour stops to help you get the most out of WEST

"...• 6-34 Catch the work of 12 different artists, including Jan Knox, Melanie Lewis, and Jeff Englert at..."

May 15, 2017 Events Post by Thomas Danh

"Meet the Beetles"

This Art.Science.Gallery exhibit celebrating the order Coleoptera in art will have you screaming "Yeah, yeah, yeah!"

"...sorts of beetles. And the works are by 15 artists from the USA and Spain and Italy who are..."

Oct. 21, 2016 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Austin Film Society Presents a Night of Texas Animation

Animation showcase draws artists together

"...the event includes its fair share of Mighty Coconut artists and their work. Laura Skowronski Nattam was animation supervisor..."

July 22, 2016 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

EAST: 'Eclosion'

'Eclosion' portrays the natural glories of insectdom with ingenuity and wonder

"...unveiling its metamorphosed form, features 57 works by 44 artists from across the country and around the world arranged..."

Nov. 22, 2013 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

West Austin Studio Tour

Another weekend in which to go WEST, young man

"...another shot at sampling work by more than 250 artists at 178 stops west of I-35. We wholeheartedly encourage..."

May 3, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Dual Perceptions

Two Blanton Museum exhibitions, two artists, and a conversation about how to look at art

"...JS: For artists that is very, very natural. We are so used..."

July 27, 2012 Arts Feature by Andrew Long

Fiends With Benefits

The art in 'Monster Show 6' celebrates the horrifying, deliciously so

"...perennial celebration of monsters is left to other monsters: artists...."

Nov. 18, 2011 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Small Audiences, Large Souls

At the Fusebox Festival, size matters, but that doesn't always mean 'big'

"...effort that went into its making. Pulling together the artists and projects that comprise Fusebox, Berry is sensitive to..."

April 22, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

'Work by Robert Levers'

Surreal scenes of security resist inattention in these images by the late artist

"...he departed back in '91. But, as with all artists, there are traces of his life left behind in..."

July 9, 2010 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

'Chill'

This group show of D Berman Gallery artists brightens the beginning of 2010

"...documentation of reality, objective or otherwise, as rendered by artists as talented as the ones represented here...."

Jan. 8, 2010 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Tom Molloy: Lucid

Tom Molloy's drawings are delicate but have the power to give you nightmares

"...and pipe bombs in the Seventies and Eighties. Irish artists dealing with issues of violence and human rights look..."

March 20, 2009 Arts Review by Rachel Koper

A Cabinet of Drawings

The Ransom Center reminds us of the power of seeing originals over reproductions

"...textural spectra as rendered by some of the finest artists in history...."

Dec. 19, 2008 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

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