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.
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Make Austin Weirder: John Bock’s “Uncanny Musical” Does Its Part
“Keep Austin weird,” the bumper-sticker admonition goes, but German filmmaker John Bock—the latest of many European artists to take a cinematic crack at Texas, has envisioned a weirder Austin in Dead + Juicy, an exhibition combining an “uncanny musical” with an installation of transformed versions of the film’s props and sets.
Shaping the Public Realm: A Look At Austin’s State of Public Art
Ai Weiwei’s Forever Bicycles lit up Austin social media feeds days before the dizzying sculpture had its official June 3rd opening.
Leaving a Mark: PrintAustin Deconstructs Diverse Art Form in 4th Citywide Festival
Austin is a capital of printmaking with many different components. Using several venues to host a deluge of events, PrintAustin ties all the components together. The month-long festival from Jan. 13-Feb. 18 at venues including Gallery Shoal Creek, FlatBed Press, and La Pena Gallery, draws a diverse crowd of art snobs, artists, hipsters, and novices. It’s printmaking on a huge scale.
Honoring Texas Artists: The Texas Medal of Arts Awards come to Austin
You may be hard-pressed to explain what ZZ Top, Eva Longoria, Willie Nelson and Walter Cronkite have in common, but for the Texas Cultural Trust, the answer is simple: Texas.
Behind the Curtain: Big Medium Hosts its Wildly Popular East Austin Studio Tour
Since 2003, Big Medium’s East Austin Studio Tour (or EAST for shorthand), Nov. 12-13 & 19-20, has offered Austin artists the chance to open their doors to the public.
Curating in Texas: The Contemporary’s Heather Pesanti
I walked into the Jones Center on a Monday to meet with Heather Pesanti, senior curator of The Contemporary Austin.
Contemporary Photography in Texas
Fotofest's This Side of Paradise
Talent, Training, Festivals & More: Fueling Contemporary Dance in Texas
In Texas, as in most other regions, funds for contemporary dance are spread thinly, even across companies considered to be the toast of the state’s dance scene.
Cautious Optimism in Austin
Looking back at 2014 and ahead to 2015
15 Signs that Contemporary Dance is Alive and Well in Texas
Contemporary dance in Texas is in motion.
Three Austin Choreographers Cross the Pond
Texas prides itself on its former status as an independent country, and no nation is complete without its ambassadors.