Listening to Dance
Festival Dance is a perfect example of why Mark Morris is a household name in dance and music circles.
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Marianne Vitale
It’s no accident that The Contemporary Austin decided to commission two works from Marianne Vitale, a New York artist known for provocative sculptures constructed from wood and steel reclaimed from old barns, factories, and railroads.
The Nearest Air: A Survey of Works by Waltercio Caldas
Entering Waltercio Caldas’s exhibition The Nearest Air immediately produces a sense of lightness in the viewer.
Leading Voices
The Austin-based chorus known as Conspirare is quite simply one of the best vocal ensembles of its kind in the country.
Dancing Illusions
Thrills! Danger! Dancing ropes! No, it's not this year’s holiday blockbuster movie; it’s Pilobolus.
Acting in Texas: Martin Burke on This Wonderful Life at the ZACH
Austin’s ZACH Theatre presents This Wonderful Life - a lively adaptation of the classic Christmas film It’s a Wonderful Life, through Dec. 29.
Ed Ruscha’s Archives Get “The Home to End All Homes”
The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin has announced a major coup: It’s acquired the archive of renowned artist Edward Ruscha ...
Review: Fixing King John
Before they head to Lincoln Center in New York in January, the Rude Mechs delivered the drunken punch to the face that is Fixing King John, at the Off Center.
Parched for Dialogue
Visually Alluring THIRST Comes Up Dry in Bid to Raise Awareness EDITOR’S NOTE: Since this story went to press,...
Upgrading the Bard
Leave it to Austin’s maverick troupe, the Rude Mechs, to tackle Shakespeare’s “problem plays.” Even the Bard’s esteemed canon contains a few duds, and in the new bi-annual series, Fixing Shakespeare, the Rude Mechs attempt to slice and dice these plays into more contemporary, and perhaps more palatable, shows.
Invariant Interval
Invariant Interval is a mesmerizing new installation at UT’s Visual Arts Center (VAC) that challenges viewers to observe three-dimensional art in a relativistic context that includes the invisible but ever-present dimension of time.
The Head
While the audience found their seats and engaged in casual pre-show conversation, an enormous decaying head with luminous eyes gazed at them from the stage like a contemporary Olmec.