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Lily Cox-Richard’s Kaleidoscopic View on the Classical Canon
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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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