Arts and Culture Texas magazine

Glam Makeover: The Hidden Room’s Henry IV in Austin

Tarra Gaines·September 11, 2017

Shakespeare, politics, glam rock: these are not terms we often put together, if ever, yet this month, Austin’s Hidden Room theater company plans to merge the three into a rocking trio for a production of the Bard’s glorious history play Henry IV, through Oct. 1 at York Rite Masonic Hall.

Austin Theater

Invoke String Quartet Brings “Folky Classical” to Austin

Claire Christine Spera·August 17, 2017

Take one look at Invoke’s website and it’s clear they’re not your typical classical string quartet.

Austin Music

Make Austin Weirder: John Bock’s “Uncanny Musical” Does Its Part

Devon Britt-Darby·August 11, 2017

“Keep Austin weird,” the bumper-sticker admonition goes, but German filmmaker John Bock—the latest of many European artists to take a cinematic crack at Texas, has envisioned a weirder Austin in Dead + Juicy, an exhibition combining an “uncanny musical” with an installation of transformed versions of the film’s props and sets.

Austin Editor's Picks Film Visual Art

Forklift Danceworks Dives into Austin’s Public Pools

Claire Christine Spera·June 25, 2017

It only takes one summer in Texas to feel the heat, and the City of Austin Aquatics Division is feeling it these days in more than one way.

Austin Dance

Shaping the Public Realm: A Look At Austin’s State of Public Art

Jeanne Claire Van Ryzin·June 22, 2017

Ai Weiwei’s Forever Bicycles lit up Austin social media feeds days before the dizzying sculpture had its official June 3rd opening.

Austin Visual Art

A Crisis of Space: Austin Struggles with the Loss of Performance Venues

Jeanne Claire Van Ryzin·May 31, 2017

“We always felt that this was a clubhouse for a group of friends who felt like we were a little bit off,” he said. “We still feel a little off and we still want to be that clubhouse, that space for people like us who feel a little off. We have to find another way to do that now.”

Austin Editor's Picks Theater

Live Data: Clay Odom Represents Austin in UNESCO Media Arts Exhibition

Nancy Zastudil·May 25, 2017

City as the “common denominator” is the main consideration of DATA CITY, an international UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) exhibition of new media installations by artists from members of the organization’s Creative Cities Network (UCCN). Austin artist and designer Clay Odom has been invited to represent the Texas state capital.

Austin Visual Art

On Key and Offbeat: Austin’s Lone-Star Station KMFA Turns 50

Claire Christine Spera·May 11, 2017

When it comes to Austin’s 50-year-old radio station, KMFA Classical 89.5, it’s almost better defined by what it isn’t than what it is.

Austin Music

Wonder Girl: Texas Ballet Theater’s Carolyn Judson on Alice in Wonderland

Nancy Wozny·April 26, 2017

Texas is having an Alice boom with Ballet Austin performing Septime Weber’s Alice on May 12-14 at The Long Center and Texas Ballet Theater performing Stevenson’s Alice, May 19-21 at Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth, and June 2-4 at Winspear Opera House in Dallas.

Austin Dallas/Ft Worth Dance

Texas Early Music Project Bridges Past and Present

Sherry Cheng·April 26, 2017

Iberian monophony, Notre Dame polyphony, Medieval mystery plays, Renaissance madrigals, Baroque operas, French virelai, Spanish villancico, Italian frottola, Scottish ballades, Sephardic love songs, and much more—early music encompasses a dazzling wealth of forms and styles.

Austin Music

Beauty in Slaughtered Bodies: Lionel Maunz at Austin Contemporary

Jeremy Hallock·April 14, 2017

Exploring the aesthetics of self-destruction, Lionel Maunz uses cast iron, concrete, and steel to create dystopian figurative sculptures—surprisingly organic forms that appear distorted by dismemberment and decay.

Austin Visual Art

Design in Texas: Michelle Ney

Julie Herman·March 24, 2017

In a Texas State University production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the only thing visible to the audience until the play began was a ghost light on the stage.

Austin Design in Texas Features San Marcos

Visual Art

Style & Luminosity: Tamara de Lempicka at the MFAH

Vision & Experience: Bart Keijsers Koning Takes the Helm of Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas

Imagination and Experience: Nathaniel Donnett Teases Out the Threads

Gallery Row

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Dance

Dance Here: Agora Artists is Planting the Seeds to Make Dallas a Dance Town

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

Stories From The Room: The Case for Live Performance

Music

Triumph in Tragedy: Ars Lyrica Houston’s Luminous Theodora

Dallas Opera Brings the Audience Back

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

Theater

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

Stories From The Room: The Case for Live Performance

Next Chapter: The New Stewards of Fort Worth’s Amphibian Stage to Continue Commitment to New and Underrepresented Works

Austin

Glam Makeover: The Hidden Room’s Henry IV in Austin

Invoke String Quartet Brings “Folky Classical” to Austin

Make Austin Weirder: John Bock’s “Uncanny Musical” Does Its Part

Forklift Danceworks Dives into Austin’s Public Pools

Shaping the Public Realm: A Look At Austin’s State of Public Art

A Crisis of Space: Austin Struggles with the Loss of Performance Venues

Live Data: Clay Odom Represents Austin in UNESCO Media Arts Exhibition

On Key and Offbeat: Austin’s Lone-Star Station KMFA Turns 50

Wonder Girl: Texas Ballet Theater’s Carolyn Judson on Alice in Wonderland

Texas Early Music Project Bridges Past and Present

Beauty in Slaughtered Bodies: Lionel Maunz at Austin Contemporary

Design in Texas: Michelle Ney