As I was driving to The Umlauf Sculpture Garden and Museum yesterday in my 1997 Subaru (restored, for all intents and purposes, faithfully and lovingly by mis amigos at Go…
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Stepping into the gaping jaws of a jaguar, you walk downstairs into a magical grotto with dripping stalactites and a splashing waterfall. This $3 million fairytale creation by San Antonio…
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I studied film at Northwestern University in the early ‘90s, and my first screenwriting teacher was a semi-embittersweetened morsel of a countercultural retiree who encouraged all of us to create…
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DISCLAIMER! This is not a review, this is one part truth, two parts lie. I live in the Heights. Redbud, G Gallery and Nauhaus Gallery are within walking distance, or…
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Around Christmas time of 1988, in the middle of my white, clean and neat senior year at Westlake High School, I discovered the first Fugazi EP at The Sound Exchange…
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On a vintage English bike, a “Robin Hood” three speed, Marfa artist Julie Speed rides to her studio every morning to paint the images in her head. Vito, a beautiful…
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If you haven’t noticed yet, photography in Austin is alive and well. A triumvirate of Austin-based photographers — Anna Krachey, Jessica Mallios and Adam Schreiber — shines mightily next to…
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DISCLAIMER! This is not a review, really, I swear it isn’t, o.k., I lied Skydive, and Lawndale Art Center. Last week, as five of you may have noticed, I did…
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Glasstire full disclosure: Art Guy Michael Galbreth is married to Glasstire’s founder and executive director, Rainey Knudson. Two years ago my little sister got married. She married her high school…
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Diego Rivera: The Cubist Portraits, 1913-1917 at the Meadows Museum
by Jim Starrby Jim StarrShort Ride in a Fast Machine That knife-in-the-back-of-the-neck might have been just the wake-up call Diego Rivera needed. Paris "she-devil" Marevna Vorobieva-Stebelska had the shiv up her sleeve, awaiting their…
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Just recently, Domy Books – Lower East Austin (?)’s newest and most entertaining playground to us grown-up kids that revel in fanzines, dirty pictures, in-depth chronicles of what starched shirts…
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Rebecca Carter is an artist living in Dallas whose interests include psychoanalytic theory, feminism and work with indeterminate boundaries. Since moving from Chicago in 2005 to take a position at…
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Jerry Saltz has been using Facebook for a while now, and gaining some well-deserved press. His posts range from simple comments/questions to more recently his major commentary on the…
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Fluent-Collaborative’s Testsite 09.3 – Common Sense Sheila Pepe & Elizabeth Dunbar May 31st – July 5th Question: Is there anything that a lifelong lover of rock and…
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Recently, a young Dallas reporter was interviewing me in my gallery and asked, “Is there anything you’d like to say to the collectors in the face of this recession?” At…
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Part 2 of 2: Chris Jagers interviews Dean Terry in regard to new mobile technologies. Art making is usually thought of as Intimate. Mobile devices are usually thought of…
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Ethan Azarian – Paintings On the walls of The Blue Dahlia Bistro Through June Excuse the brief detour into the culinary arts, dear reader, as it must…
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Texas-born artist Elvira Clayton lives and practices in Harlem, New York. Clayton’s work, multi-layered and multi-medium, might be reminiscent of elaborate Mexican or Haitian altars to the dead. The artist,…
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Jonathan Monk, a British-born artist who lives in Berlin, has created a shrine to fast cars and cheap gas in the Rew-Shay Hood Project Part II at Artpace in San…
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With the extension of the Riverwalk, San Antonio got some new high-visibility public artworks by people like Bill Fontana, Donald Lipski, and Stuart Allen. The city has also invested in…