An Inclination to Rest in Uncertainty
Even before Shakespeare wrote “hap by hap may” in Taming of the Shrew in 1623, Raphael Holinshed employed the phrase “the hap of things” in his famed 1587 book Chronicles.…
The Poetry of Listening
Kevin Witt’s b-side opened the set at Batch with a question directed to the audience: “What is jazz?” And with the tune, Contemplation by McCoy Tyner, circling the room like…
Time Passes: Tsai Ming-Liang Brings His Meditative Cinema to Texas for the First Time
The lights were low inside the AFS Cinema. The theater was empty, its rows of seats waiting for the audience that would soon arrive. Onstage, under the glow of a…
Nothing can be compared to you, Rome
Image: Emperor Maximilian I My headline comes from a poem written in the 12th century, but its opening line does not prepare one for the punchline. The four lines in…
A Glorious Homage to Folks with dis-Abilities[1] – Amy and the Orphans
Dis with a dash because historically people with disabilities have been shunned by society when indeed their condition(s) show us what we lack. That is this writer’s sole opinion. Let…
Beat 4 Beat: Ten Years of Transforming Lives Through Music
Austin music education nonprofit Beat 4 Beat celebrated a decade of empowering youth through the transformative power of music at its 10-Year Anniversary Party this past weekend at Meanwhile Brewing.…
Adventures in the Louvre
This fact-filled book had been called “essential reading for anyone visiting the Louvre─for those who already know it inside and out and for those who have never been”. This book…
Quantum Color Memory Projections: The Art of Charles Heppner
In his Austin home studio, amidst canvases alive with sweeping ovals, kidney shapes, and Rorschach-like kaleidoscopic nature designs, Charles Heppner moves between paintings, photography, and sculptural boxes. The room hums…
The Rebel Romanov
Placing Julie of Saxe-Coburg in the tangled web of European royalty is actually quite easy: she was the niece of England’s Queen Victoria. And she came very close to being…
A Tapestry of Letters
The appeal and meaning of a tapestry is best appreciated by distancing oneself from it. Especially for large tapestries, one has to stand back 15-20 feet to take it all…