Artists diverge at new Reynolds exhibit Noriko Ambe and Tom Molloy could hardly be more different in their approach to art. Ambe is from Japan, Molloy from Ireland.
Anne Akiko Meyers' new CD debuts at #1 on Billboard Austin violinist Anne Akiko Meyers’ latest CD — ‘AIR: The Bach Album’ — debuted this week in the #1 spot on the Billboard Classical Charts. Released Feb. 14, “Air” features the English Chamber Orchestra with
Review: Clutch UT New Music CLUTCH (which allegedly stands for “Collective Labors of the UT Composition Hub”) is a sort of demonstration day for the University of Texas graduate and post-graduate composers. It’s a flash in the pan: music the audience doesn’t
Champion gallery moves on After just a year-and-a-half after opening on Brazos Street in downtown Austin, the urbane gallery Champion must move on. Said Champion owner Sonia Dutton: “The new owner of 800 Brazos Street has decided to renovate the building and the
Ballet Austin's 'New American Talent/Dance' winners announced Ballet Austin has tallied up the votes — and prize money — for Fourth Biennial New American Talent/Dance, a national modern ballet choreographic competition held this past weekend at the Long Center for the Performing Arts. Three finalists
Review: 'Civilization' at Salvage Vanguard Theater What with the problems of industrial farming, rampant consumerism, internet pornography, and a general loss of artistic integrity, twenty-first century civilization has a lot to contend with - at least according to “Civilization (All You Can
A timeless music, thoughtfully and playfully presented Nostalgia has no quarter with Max Raabe. That might seem peculiar for an opera-trained German baritone who has made an unlikely international career singing popular songs of the 1920s and '30s with note-perfect authenticity - the tunes heard in the nightclubs of Weimar-era Berlin or Prohibition-era New York.
'New American Talent/Dance' review At the Long Center last weekend, everyone had the opportunity to voice an opinion by way of text message. At each of the three showings of Ballet Austin’s 4th biennial “New American Talent/Dance,” a competition between three emerging
Austin Shakespeare adds show to sold-out run of 'Arcadia' Due to popular demand, Austin Shakespeare has added an extra show to its production of Tom Stoppard’s “Arcadia” now at the Long Center’s Rollins Studio Theatre. A matinee at 2 p.m. Saturday is now on the docket. Check
Playful art dominates new UT exhibit When I ran into Austin artist Beili Liu standing near her new installation at the University of Texas' Visual Arts Center a "tusk" of curved wood that balances (alarmingly) on nylon rope strung up to a far wall she told me something that the gallery probably wishes I wouldn't pass along: It's a lot more stable than it looks.
Got ballet? There's an app for that Need a Ballet Austin fix? There’s an app for that now. Ballet Austin has just released a free iPhone app allowing users to keep track of all the goings-on at busy company. Cleanly laid out and loaded with gorgeous
New Music Ensemble, Deborah Hay and "How to Build Cathedrals" “For So Long It’s Not True” Musicians from the Butler School of Music’s New Music Ensemble play the Austin premiere of “For So Long It’s Not True,” a new piece by Austin-based composer Steven Snowden who last
Dance competition gets audience involved A curious thing happens when you collectively give an audience $1,000 and ask them to award to it to the best of three modern short ballets.
Schematic design for Seaholm Substation Wall Art approved; Colored lights added The Austin City Council voted unanimously Thursday to approve the schematic design for the $800,000 Seaholm Substation Wall Art , the city’s most expensive public art project to date. The approximately 1,000-foot-long wall will enclose an