What Happened to the Musical Acts That Defined the Art World in the Aughts?
Playing biennials, fairs, and galleries, art bands were a distinctly 2000s phenomenon. Are we due for a revival?
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Gareth Long Puts a Spotlight on the Grift of Local Entertainment–and Dabbles in It, Too
We're attracted to grifters because they tell us what we want to hear, regardless of whether or not it makes sense.
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Avant-Garde Populism: How Odd Stunts Made Jan Hakon Erichsen Instagram Famous
Perhaps what Erichsen has somehow managed to do is produce work that anybody's handy, weirdo cousin could make but that nobody in their right mind would make.
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Lily Cox-Richard’s Kaleidoscopic View on the Classical Canon
Cox-Richard's critical aim may be lost on the casual viewer who opts to forgo the wordy wall texts and ogle at the novelty of familiar forms saturated with rousing chromatics. For the more…
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James Allister Sprang Blends Concrete Sculptures and Musique Concrète
Sound artist and sculptor James Allister Sprang explores concrete as material and metaphor.
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Dark Eco-Comedy: Austin’s Fusebox Festival
Fusebox 2019 was challenging, joyous, anti-capitalist, frustrating, and laugh-out-loud funny. But most importantly, it implicated audiences in the global meltdown.
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Installation as Choreography: Janine Antoni in Austin
"Paper Dance," with its three phases organizing the artist's oeuvre conceptually, intuitively, and playfully, rather than chronologically, has advanced Antoni's career-long goal of demystifying her…
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First Look: Ariel René Jackson
Inside a rusted, twenty-foot-long trailer cage in a gravel lot on Austin's east side, dozens of balloons encased in layers of dirt and pigmented chalk dangled in the breeze over a bed of local soil.
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Dear Bruce: A Letter from a Fan
Very often, when encountering works that resonate with me, I find myself involuntarily thinking: "This reminds me of Bruce Nauman."
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Sink or Sink: Mel Chin in Times Square
Like Chin's virtual boats, the strongholds of the wealthy will get a few more years of existence than the rest of us. But they'll eventually rust out and sink, too.
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