Austin
TX Studio: Margo Sawyer
It was a typical hot and muggy Texas day when I made the 45-minute drive from Austin to Elgin. I was on my way to visit artist Margo Sawyer for the second time,
The Geology of Art: Fusebox Festival 2018
Art is like a rock; or, more precisely, a cross-disciplinary performing and visual arts festival is like a geological epoch.
Ellsworth Kelly’s ‘Austin’ comes to Austin and the Blanton
It seems facile to call Ellsworth Kelly’s Austin an instant icon, but an icon it is.
I THINK WE MEET HERE: Shana Hoehn, Yue Nakayama, and Felipe Steinberg at UT Austin Visual Arts Center
I Think We Meet Here, on view through Feb. 23 at UT Austin Visual Arts Center, is an exhibition of video-based work by Shana Hoehn, Yue Nakayama, and Felipe Steinberg, three artists from the Core Residency Program at the Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston
Order in Chaos: ‘The Curious Incident’ lands on the ZACH Theatre Stage
ZACH Theatre presents the Austin premiere of Simon Stephens’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Jan. 31-March 4 at Topher Theater.
Ballet Austin’s Sensational Spring
Ballet Austin has a blockbuster spring season ahead, launching with Masters of Dance Feb. 16-18 at the Long Center.
TX Studio: Beili Liu
In her installation for the exhibition Tensile Strength at the Silos in Houston, Austin-based artist Beili Liu wanted to think about the silo as both a physical space and a metaphor for division.
The Excitement of Shift: Joseph Keckler Comes to the Long Center
Last April, as the evening weekend revelries began at Fusebox, Austin’s annual cross-disciplinary arts festival, performer Joseph Keckler took the stage at Al Volta’s Midnight Bar.
Rednecks and Circuit Queens, Together: Tito’s Prize Winner Zack Ingram Dares to Dream
Zack Ingram wasn’t entirely optimistic in spring, when he applied for the inaugural Tito’s Prize, a collaboration between Big Medium and Tito’s Handmade Vodka to help develop an Austin-based artist’s career.
Jane Austen, Trailer Park Boys & a Rhinoceros: Holiday Stages in Texas
As a curmudgeonly connoisseur of holiday performing arts, I’m always on the lookout for the innovative, quirky or simply new shows to devour like Christmas candy each most-wonderful-time-of-the-year
Drumming up New Work: Austin’s line upon line Focuses on Commissioning
From woodwind trios to massive orchestras, most musical groups can prepare for a concert in a fairly straightforward way.