Steve Parker’s Surround Sounds
For his Tito’s Prize-winning exhibition, the Austin artist creates cacophonous new sculpture
Austin
line upon line Celebrates Percussion Icons
Less than a century has gone by since a composer first had the brainstorm of creating a piece solely for percussion.
Beyond Broadway: The Long Center Expands its Mission
If you check out what Austin’s Long Center has in store for its 10th anniversary season, you’ll find theater, dance, music of many genres, and more. But the bill of fare leaves out a staple of performing arts centers nationwide: Broadway shows.
Full Circle: A New Vision for Iconic Austin Mural
In 1992, two young local artists, Robert Herrera and Oscar Cortez, began transforming a 700-square foot wall section around the Holly Street Power Plant in East Austin into a spray-painted story of identity, pride, and community.
Texas Lens: Audience as Player/Experiments in Interactive Performance
You arrive at Texas State University’s Performing Arts Center in San Marcos and find the front doors to the lobby locked.
Contemporary History: Vincent Valdez’s ‘The City’ at the Blanton Museum of Art
Artist Vincent Valdez visited Austin in 2015 to see the exhibition Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties at the Blanton Museum of Art.
Pausing on a Sunday in the Park with George at ZACH Theatre
“Order, design, tension, balance, harmony.”
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.