Dancing Illusions
Thrills! Danger! Dancing ropes! No, it's not this year’s holiday blockbuster movie; it’s Pilobolus.
Austin
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.
Liam Gillick
Art lovers and artists have long wondered when, if ever, the visual arts in Austin would live up to the city’s creative reputation.
Radical Transformation: Magnum Photos into the Digital Age
Villagers gather scrap metal atop a crashed spacecraft in Northern Russia’s Altai Territory, while thousands of white butterflies swarm all around them. In a related image, five cows lay dead in a field.
Walker Lukens, Coming and Going
IMAGE: Walker Lukens. Photo by Lobo Sucio Creative. Walker Lukens is a Houston-born singer-songwriter living in Austin after...
Art Show/Model Show
Perhaps it’s the white-walled museum, cult of authorship, or the sublime reverence that we ascribe to art that...