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Though I am a little late to this*, I would like to dedicate the following link to "professional fine artist" Polly Jackson (feel free to comment liberally on her blog),…

I keep finding myself getting into conversations with people about what artists in Austin need, what it means to be an artist in this town and why things "just aren’t…

Jim Finn, $15.45 Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the idea of "alternative economies," especially as they relate to art practices. It’s certainly a relevant issue here in Austin,…

Last month I went to the opening for Artpace’s first New Works series of the year (09.1 for those of you who love numerals), curated by Trevor Smith from the…

Last week I went to the opening for Artpace’s first New Works series of the year (09.1 for those of you who love numerals), curated by Trevor Smith from the…

Last week I went to the opening for Artpace’s first New Works series of the year (09.1 for those of you who love numerals), curated by Trevor Smith from the…

William Cannings‘s solo show for the 2009 Texas Biennial, on view at Okay Mountain, might be a formalist‘s wet dream. Of course, I am aware that these gorgeous metal forms…

    [Note: All numbered quotations are theses from Guy Debord’s SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE] 12. The spectacle presents itself as something enormously positive, indisputable and inaccessible. It says nothing…

      One of the problems, ok, scratch that word and let’s say issues with arts writing in Austin is that it’s such a small community that if you…

  So apparently the elusive New York graffiti artist Poster Boy has been caught by NYPD. Real name: Henry Matyjewicz. But, to keep things interesting, the NYT tells us: “Henry…

  Warren Oates in the Economic Crisis of 2008 at Okay Mountain, curated by Dave Bryant, is not a terrible show. Individually, a number of pieces included were quite nice,…

  This past Thursday the Austin Film Society presented another edition of their Avant Cinema series: No Drinks Allowed In  Screening Room. This time around, Rhizome darlings Ben Coonley and…

Jeanne Claire Van Ryzin reports, in her Seeing Things blog , that AMOA has "postponed" their plans for the new building. "Representatives of the museum and [Houston development firm ]…

I suppose it would be rude of me NOT to have at least one list of the best things I saw last year. In retrospect it was a somewhat underwhelming…

Curator and recent mom Elizabeth Dunbar, in a catalog essay, describes Arthouse at the Jones Center’s Rapture in Rupture better than I ever could: "…we appear to be witnessing a…

  ‘Bout What I Sees reports: Gallery Lombardi is closing for good on Jan 15th. That’s a serious blow to Austin’s gallery scene.   The Statesman’s Seeing Things blog by…

I visited Dallas this last weekend and had a chance to visit a lot of galleries. I like Dallas. It feels half-deserted. Like it just woke up from a plague…

  Let’s face it, despite all the potential and growth in the last few years, Austin will never be a real art center. We’ll never be New York, or L.A.,…

      The New York Times published an article, "M.I.T.’s Media Lab Will Study Film Narrative in Center for Future Storytelling," by Michael Cieply. Here’s the first paragraph: LOS…

PSYCHETRONIC SPECTROSCOPE from Colin Leipelt on Vimeo. BLACK ANAMORPHASER from Colin Leipelt on Vimeo. CONVERSION EMERGENCE//CONVERGENT IMMERSION from Colin Leipelt on Vimeo. Colin Leipelt pwns Okay Mountain‘s Kansas exchange show:…