All That Dance Can Be: Ballet Austin’s Mind Opening New Season
Ballet Austin’s artistic director Stephen Mills remembers the time from his early professional career when concert dancers fell into one of two camps: ballet or modern.
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Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries
Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries
Listen, Touch and Learn: Marie Watt at the Blanton
Think back to your first museum visit. For many of us, it was probably as a child during a school field trip or on a summer afternoon with a parent, and we probably received stern instructions to keep our voices down and to not touch anything while inside the gallery.
Unique and Determined: ISHIDA Dance brings ‘Mutability’ to the Asia Society and The Long Center
Austin-based choreographer Brett Ishida boasts a whirlwind June with performances of her company ISHIDA Dance in “Mutability” on June 7-9 at Asia Society Texas Center in Houston and June 12-14, 2024 at The Long Center in Austin.
Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries
A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries in San Antonio, Houton, Dallas and Autin
Building a Global Network: The Fusebox Universe at 20
The planets will align this spring for Fusebox Festival’s 20th anniversary.
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.