Insider Notes
Texas and the open road go hand-in-hand for artists, who are as prone to roam as anybody. As...
Manuel Álvarez Bravo and México lindo
The Witliff Collections at Texas State University – a hidden gem located on the seventh floor of the Alkek Library – has been collecting the work of Manuel Álvarez Bravo, a leading Mexican modernist photographer, for more than 20 years.
Liam Gillick
Art lovers and artists have long wondered when, if ever, the visual arts in Austin would live up to the city’s creative reputation.
Danny Lyon: The Bikeriders
Danny Lyon photographed members of the Chicago–based motorcycle gang, the Outlaws, in the mid-1960s while attending the University of Chicago.
Radical Transformation: Magnum Photos into the Digital Age
Villagers gather scrap metal atop a crashed spacecraft in Northern Russia’s Altai Territory, while thousands of white butterflies swarm all around them. In a related image, five cows lay dead in a field.
Michael Crowder: Retro-spectacle
Houston artist Michael Crowder’s Retro-spectacle transports viewers from 2013 to 1913. Crowder transforms Wade Wilson Art into a velvet-lined cabinet of curiosities, facilitating a perspective into the past that calls into question what contemporary art can be.
Cash, Gas or Ideas: Artists Ride for Free
Art Residency on Wheels Aims to be a “Distribution Center for Ideas” IMAGE ABOVE: The Cargo Space bus. ...
Priscilla Queen of the Desert
I arrived in my Hobby Center seat feeling listless, in a major mid-week slump, with a pesky bout of melancholy tinged with despair. Then, three fabulous and feathered divas descended from the ceiling bellowing “It's Raining Men” in the opening number of Theatre Under the Stars presentation of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, and suddenly the world kicked it up a few notches.
Walker Lukens, Coming and Going
IMAGE: Walker Lukens. Photo by Lobo Sucio Creative. Walker Lukens is a Houston-born singer-songwriter living in Austin after...
Assassins
IMAGE: L-R: Gregory Lush, stuff Sam Swanson, Daron Cockerell, and Brian Lewis. Photo by Jeffrey Schmidt. Gun control,...
Stephen Lapthisophon: Sphere
In 22 mixed-media works on paper on view at Conduit Gallery in Dallas, Stephen Lapthisophon invites viewers to...
Review: Raisin in the Sun
IMAGE ABOVE: Liz Mikel and Ptosha Storey in Dallas Theater Center’s Raisin in the Sun. Photo by Karen...