With the world premiere of a locally nurtured opera, the debut of a new performance center, and a season that weaves together tradition and contemporary storytelling, Austin Opera is redefining what it means to be a cultural force in Texas.
In Run the Code: Data-Driven Art Decoded by Thoma Foundation X Blanton Museum of Art, code does not sit invisibly in the background. It becomes the medium itself: elastic, unstable, and strangely luminous.
Though one of Texas’ biggest multidisciplinary arts events, Austin’s Fusebox Festival, moved from an annual to biennial schedule in 2024, that doesn’t mean the Fusebox organization took a year off to relax.
Indefatigable Alexa. That’s the only way to describe Austin’s Alexa Capareda, whose professional artistic engagements include dancing, choreography, teaching, film, drawing, arts administration/organization, and now additionally, acting.
“I'm sort of a frustrated writer, in a sense,” Candace Hicks tells me over Zoom. “And so, making artist books is a way of self-publishing. It’s also a way of making things permanent.”