Becoming Freddie Mercury: Home alone during the pandemic, artist Michael Anthony García lets his imagination go to new places
I caught up with artist Michael Anthony García by phone recently, from his Northeast Austin home and studio about his artistic practice in quarantine, and his thoughts on cultural...
New Downtown Austin Murals Nod to the 19th Amendment
It may have been a while since you’ve been far past your house and neighborhood. But in March, just as the coronavirus spread began shutting things down, a couple...
Jazmyne Moreno and the Art of Genre Film Programming
Jazmyne Moreno, a freelance film programmer who curates Austin Film Society' LATES series, attends every single screening she organizes. That’s over 79 screenings since she took over the late-night...
“Becoming Leslie” Pays Homage to a Complicated Icon
Leslie Cochran has long been at the epicenter of “Keep Austin Weird” folklore, an affable homeless man who lived on the city's downtown streets beginning in the mid-1990s sporting...
No Linear Narrative: Ana Esteve Llorens
On a recent Sunday afternoon in Austin, I was on my way to meet Ana Esteve Llorens at Grayduck Gallery on East Cesar Chavez Street to discuss her current...
Chelsea Hernandez Stages a Project on Student Loan Debt, in the Unlikeliest of Places
Student debt figures scribbled on neon sticky notes are posted on the wall of Chelsea Hernandez’s residency suite at The LINE Hotel in downtown Austin: $140,000, $85,000, $43,600.
Hernandez, a...