Building a Global Network: The Fusebox Universe at 20
The planets will align this spring for Fusebox Festival’s 20th anniversary.
Austin
Pleasures of the Floating World: Ukiyo-e at the Blanton
During the relatively peaceful, prosperous, but isolationist Edo period (1603-1868) in Japan, ukiyo-e flourished as a popular art form.
Social Issues, Puppets, Yellow Swings and Big Changes: The 2023 Wrap Up
We are back for our epic annual public chit chat, a tiny snapshot of the thousand dishy emails that fly across the inter tubes discussing what we just saw, missed, didn’t understand or flat out loved.
Legendary Threads: Anni Albers at the Blanton
The German-born artist Anni Albers is not more widely known for several, unfortunately, common reasons.
Boredom, Chaos, and Intimacy from Austin Playwright Sam Mayer
Austin-based playwright Sam Mayer is in that fray, questioning what success in the theater means, both for him and for the art form more generally.
Texas Studio: Playwright Crystal Jackson Stays Off the Main Road
Austin-based Crystal Jackson took her time getting around to playwriting. Even in the thick of it, she once thought she might be done for good.
Texas Lens: Ann S. Graham on Arts Advocacy
Hot-button issues may have dominated the headlines out of Austin, but the Texas Legislature this past spring made a quiet move that some of us will appreciate: It expanded the Texas State Artists Award program, which includes the poet laureate and such, to include a slot for a classical musician.
How to Harmonize with Nature: The Blanton Museum of Art plants Texas in the climate change conversation
Mere days before acclaimed environmental journalist Jeff Goodell picks up the phone to talk about the Blanton Museum of Art’s If the Sky Were Orange: Art in the Time of Climate Change, a special exhibition running Sept. 9, 2023—Feb. 11, 2024, the skies along the East Coast actually do turn orange.
Texas Studio: Lauren Moya Ford
“What does it mean to make an image of a woman now?” Lauren Moya Ford asked during our recent studio visit. For her, the question is not sensational or rhetorical; instead, it’s personal.
Art on the Run: Austin’s Artist Run Club
Every Wednesday, people run around Austin to get a good look at contemporary art.
Art All Year: Texas Performing Arts teams up with Fusebox for 2023-24 season
It has long been the goal of Texas Performing Arts to help “keep Austin weird” onstage, but the 2023-24 season promises to be especially experimental.
Seeing Things: Sarah Fisher at landSPACE in Austin
Sarah Fisher walks constantly, and she is always looking.