Barbara Purcell

Barbara Purcell is an arts and culture writer based in Austin. She is the author of Black Ice: Poems (Fly by Night Press, 2006). In addition to Sightlines, her work has appeared in the Austin Chronicle, Canadian Art, Glasstire, and Tribes Magazine. She is a graduate of Skidmore College.
Lit & Letters

Ferry tales: Elizabeth McCracken’s ‘The Souvenir Museum’

“All shipwrecks begin with a ship,” writes Elizabeth McCracken in “The Souvenir Museum.” Her latest short story collection, recently longlisted for the National Book Award, features characters who relate...
Art

An eye for the untold: ‘Four Visions’ at Ruiz-Healy Art

Fotoseptiembre USA, the annual photography festival that takes place in San Antonio and Hill Country each September, returns for its 27th year with a host of online and in-person...
Art

Eternal spring: Elizabeth Chiles at grayDUCK Gallery

Elizabeth Chiles is an aspiring master gardener, and it shows in her art. In “Time Being,” on view at grayDUCK Gallery, Chiles has ventured into her own yard and...
Art

Who we are and what we want

Elegant and subversive — two words that come to mind with Women & Their Work’s “We Know Who We Are. We Know What We Want.” “Isn’t that the way to...
Art

Review: In Bartlett, building from the past

Bartlett, Texas looks like something straight out of the turn of last century. Fifty miles northeast of Austin, this quiet town, with its old-timey brick buildings and stock-still streets,...
Art

A weird, phantasmagorical dimension: Matthew Langland at Goodluckhavefun

Goodluckhavefun is a pandemic baby of sorts. The West Austin garage gallery, run by artist Tim McCool and designer Kira Prentice, opened last fall, after the couple decided to...
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