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Twitch is known for noisy, high-speed gaming livestreams, but Lorelei Ramirez made a space there for trenchant social criticism and juvenile buffoonery.
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What Happened to the Musical Acts That Defined the Art World in the Aughts?
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Gareth Long Puts a Spotlight on the Grift of Local Entertainment–and Dabbles in It, Too
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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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