 This section features articles and events related to art and artwork in Austin, Texas. This is also the section that features the visual arts. Check Austin Filmmaking for more on film and video and our music sections for music. The painting on the right is "the clearing" by Sean French copyright Sean French 1995, all rights reserved.
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Written by Dante
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 ColdTowne Theater improv Another Saturday night in Austin, and you know what that means: live improv and sketch comedy at ColdTowne Theater. If you weren’t aware that’s what it means, you’re not exactly alone, but you are among a dwindling number of non-converts to Austin’s blossoming live comedy scene. For a scant $7 you are the lucky recipient of splitting sides, bellyaches and the signature red forehead associated with ColdTowne audience members—the redness apparently derived from repeatedly smacking one’s self in shock and surprise and the insanity unfolding before you. |
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Written by Artly Snuff & Gloria Hill
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 Two part:
Arty Snuff -
Jack Jackson (1941-2006), who did his acclaimed Austin art under the name of ?Jaxon? has just passed away, leaving a large and saddened world of friends and fans. Jack created the world?s first underground comic in 1964 (printed surreptitiously in the basement of the Texas Capital Building) and called it ?God Nose.? This philosophical discussion in cartoon form preceded any of the other ?Comix? (such as the ones printed of the works of R. Crumb and Rick Griffin) that characterized and helped to form and coalesce the Hippie Movement out of San Francisco. |
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Written by Spencer Perskin
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this is from 'earthbeat' written about 1966---
nomads eat the void of plenty
shepherds star the way with fleece
secretly where mildmaids gather
lain with lay enduring peace
with so unmolested pleasure
let the bird convey his song
let the lion have his meat
boundless joy unknowing measure
bless his head and point his feet
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Written by Kristi Sprinkle
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Ric Williams’ the secret book of god speaks to the mythic archetypes that reside in all of us in a voice that is soulful, intelligent, and full of imagery. This book is a journey into mythopoetics for academics and laymen alike. Williams writes with an almost eerie insight into human nature that quenches the popular thirst for expressions of longing and intimacy so prevalent in today's internet-centered society. |
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Written by Liam Brooks
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week-end jaunt taunt
ends and begins with a splash and a flash
amazing pieces, releases
wonderful plastic concoction auction
lights up the modern mid-night sky sighs
explosion of magnified prism prisons
iridescent awakened meditations and medications
rethought all my calibrations, reservations
left it all just forever changed, rearranged
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