Content about Arts
A tattoo artist shares his view on art and its impact on his life.
In 1999, artist Sue Zola decided she had had enough of the East Coast’s cold winters. The Connecticut native was ready to escape her fast-paced life, so she packed up her car with all of her belongings and ended up in Austin. The live music capital proved to be the perfect setting for a woman with plans to sing jazz music, but her plans did not work out the way she expected them to.
Nacho Picasso raps with Blue Sky Black Death at KVRXplosion. KVRX hosted this free event featuring numerous local and indie artists at the Spiderhouse Cafe on Wednesday during SXSW.
Art on 5th is hosting the largest exhibit of Dr. Seuss artwork in the country. While the exhibit showcases many of Seuss' well-known characters like the Cat in the Hat and the Lorax, its main focus is on the artwork Theodor Seuss Geisel never showed to the public, until now.
Art lovers and history buffs alike will have the opportunity to partake in the beauty of 19th century American landscapes through depictions from the Hudson River School of Painting, starting today at The Blanton Museum of Art.
Francis Azarian helps his father, Ethan Azarian, paint over vandalism on his mural near 30th and Speedway. The mural is one of many by the local artist, whose pieces can be seen along South Congress and elsewhere around Austin.
WHAT: David Sedaris’ The Santaland Diaries
WHEN: Thursday, Dec. 1 at 8 p.m.
WHERE: Zach Theatre
ADMISSIONS: $18 student tickets one hour before showtime with I.D.
Editor’s note: Daily Texan columnist Samian Quazi wrote an opinion piece that was published in Wednesday’s paper questioning the value of fine arts programs. Below are several of the many firing lines we’ve received as well as a response from Quazi.
Before a fellow alumni team member can continue the 100-loop race, Ben Baron, who used to live at the co-op, must create a painting to satisfy “Van Gogh,” who later demanded that Baron smear his face against the painting to create an “abstract” effect.
Unidentified vandals sprayed graffiti in various location on campus Friday night, said UT Police Department Sgt. Samuel Ferguson.
The former lover of 1970s star Farrah Fawcett is counter-suing the UT System Board of Regents, claiming he is being publicly bullied into surrendering an Andy Warhol portrait of the actress.
Fawcett attended UT in the late 1960s before dropping out to pursue an acting career. Attorneys for Ryan O’Neal, the Golden Globe- and Academy Award-nominated actor, filed a counter-suit in the county court of Los Angeles on Oct. 7, according to newly released court documents.
An ensemble of jazz students provides the soundtrack for the silent film "Pandora's Box" by G.W. Pabst.
About 11 years ago, local photographer Rana Ghana could not walk down Guadalupe St. without smelling spray paint in the air and hearing the sizzle of local street artists doing their work. Those days are gone.
Ghana spoke about the dynamics of street art and the city’s efforts to remove it in a lecture sponsored by the Fine Arts Library Thursday evening.
Ian Shults has always been interested in art. As a child, his mother helped him make his own toys out of clay. As a teenager, he started creating graffiti characters under bridges after he was kicked out of his high school art class. From then on, he started to become aware of art everywhere he went.
“Moneyball” isn’t director Bennett Miller’s first foray into fact-based drama — Bennett’s last film was Oscar winner “Capote” back in 2005. While “Capote” managed to tell a compelling story and featured an all-time great performance from Philip Seymour Hoffman, “Moneyball” suffers from its true-to-life basis, dwelling on the facts of Billy Beane’s attempt to revolutionize baseball too much to tell an entertaining story.
The moment the “Star Wars” theme plays this Friday at Zilker Park will mark the 10th anniversary of the Austin City Limits Music Festival.
The festival has come a long way since its inception in 2002. Initially marketed as more of a local festival, capitalizing off of the branding of the pre-existing television show “Austin City Limits,” ACL stands among the big four — along with Coachella, Bonnaroo and Lollapalooza — in the sphere of music festivals today.
Jim Lancister views a series of walls covered in graffiti art located near 12th and Baylor streets Tuesday afternoon.
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Local graffiti artist Federico Archuleta talks about his interest in stenciling and his contribution to Austin.
A group representing an Austin-based carpenters union has been at the West Mall every weekday morning since July 19 protesting against what they say are unfair labor practices by a contractor working at UT.
“We’re just trying to alert the public to an issue not facing just Austin but the country,” said Craig Wright, an organizer for the Texas Carpenters & Millwrights Regional Council.
The UT System is suing actor Ryan O’Neal for the wrongful possession of Andy Warhol‘s 1980 portrait of late former UT student Farrah Fawcett, saying the actress bequeathed her collection of art to UT.
The UT System Board of Regents filed the suit Friday at the Central District Court of California in Los Angeles asking O’Neal to transfer the portrait to UT Austin, according to the lawsuit.
In the early 1980s, artist Andy Warhol made two portraits of actress Farrah Fawcett and, according to the suit, gave them to her as gifts.
LOS ANGELES — The University of Texas system and Ryan O’Neal are sparring over ownership of an Andy Warhol portrait of the actor’s longtime companion, Farrah Fawcett.
The system’s board of regents sued O’Neal in federal court in Los Angeles on Friday, asking a judge to order the Oscar-nominated actor to turn over the painting. The portrait is one of two that Warhol made of the “Charlie’s Angels” star and the University claims the actress bequeathed it to their Austin, Texas campus.
A famous Frida Kahlo self-portrait has returned to the Harry Ransom Center after more than six months on display abroad.
The center announced the arrival of the late painter’s self-portrait Wednesday, 104 years after her birth, and said it will remain in Austin through Jan. 8.
UT loaned the portrait to exhibitions in Europe, including a retrospective dedicated to Kahlo in Berlin and Vienna, said Peter Mears, Ransom Center associate curator and department head.
The Lovely Sparrows play some samples of their new work.
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Hey everyone! Rachel here.
As any of my friends will tell you, I absolutely love art. The interest manifested years ago when my grandma, an artist, watched me once a week while my mom ran errands and my dad was at work. She would take me to art exhibits and I always eventually wound up in her studio, creating the latest masterpiece for her fridge while I waited for my dad to pick me up.
