Eyes on Texas: Performing Arts
IMAGE ABOVE: Diavolo dancers performing Trajectoire. Photo by Angela weiss. AUSTIN The Agony and the Ecstasy of...
27 Languages in Trans.lation
The Vickery Meadows neighborhood in North Dallas is known for its high-density housing, consisting almost exclusively of apartment complexes.
Performania
The season is off and running. At press time, Texans and Cowboys are off to an OK start, the Mack Brown drama continues, and Johnny Football had three seconds on the bench.
Eyes on Texas: Visual Arts
IMAGE ABOVE: Laurie Simmons (b. 1949). Woman/Red Couch/Newspaper, 1978. Silver dye-bleach print © Laurie Simmons. Los Angeles County...
Insider Notes
Texas and the open road go hand-in-hand for artists, who are as prone to roam as anybody. As...
Manuel Álvarez Bravo and México lindo
The Witliff Collections at Texas State University – a hidden gem located on the seventh floor of the Alkek Library – has been collecting the work of Manuel Álvarez Bravo, a leading Mexican modernist photographer, for more than 20 years.
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.
Danny Lyon: The Bikeriders
Danny Lyon photographed members of the Chicago–based motorcycle gang, the Outlaws, in the mid-1960s while attending the University of Chicago.
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.
Michael Crowder: Retro-spectacle
Houston artist Michael Crowder’s Retro-spectacle transports viewers from 2013 to 1913. Crowder transforms Wade Wilson Art into a velvet-lined cabinet of curiosities, facilitating a perspective into the past that calls into question what contemporary art can be.
Cash, Gas or Ideas: Artists Ride for Free
Art Residency on Wheels Aims to be a “Distribution Center for Ideas” IMAGE ABOVE: The Cargo Space bus. ...
Priscilla Queen of the Desert
I arrived in my Hobby Center seat feeling listless, in a major mid-week slump, with a pesky bout of melancholy tinged with despair. Then, three fabulous and feathered divas descended from the ceiling bellowing “It's Raining Men” in the opening number of Theatre Under the Stars presentation of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, and suddenly the world kicked it up a few notches.