Project:Press

A New Musical Homage to Jay DeFeo's Monumental Painting, "The ...	January 25, 2019	Jeanne Claire van Ryzin	Article	“A Point on a Slow Curve” lands at the Museum of Human Achievement for three performances Jan. 31 through Feb. 2 courtesy of new music	A Point on a Slow Curve
A Sponge & A Sigh at The Museum of Human Achievement	February 15, 2016	Christina Rees	Review	"A Sponge & A Sigh" at The Museum of Human Achievement	A Sponge and A Sigh
A Summer Shindig With Austin’s Sex Workers Outreach Project	August 23, 2018	Charlie Neddo	Article	SWOP hosts a fundraiser for housing, employment, and safety	Swim for SWOP
Andrea Ariel Dance Theatre's Locked-In	June 28, 2018		Review	A dance inspired by our rigid connection to our cell phones was more spontaneous and personal than its title implied	Locked-In
Annie Miller: I see london, I see france at MoHA	November 29, 2018	Melany Jean	Review	This show in the Cage Match Project series casts the viewer as peeping Tom, looking through holes in a boarded-up trailer to view art	Cage Match Project, Round IX: I see london, I see france
Art Par Excellence	May 19, 2015		Article	The nominees for the 2014-15 Austin Critics Table Awards	AHoM
Austin Post-Punk Troupe Single Lash Pay Tribute to the Commedia Dell’Arte in Their Video for “Sugar Armadillo”	April 18, 2024	Alice Teeple	Article	Austin-based ensemble Single Lash pays tribute to the Old World theatrical tradition with Sugar Armadillo, off of their latest LP Ladida, as well as “stylistic North Star Steve Strange of the band Visage.	Single Lash Music Video Shoot
Austin's Satellite Art Show Announces Exhibitors & Programs for	February 26, 2019	Brandon Zech	Article	Austin's Satellite Art Show Announces Exhibitors & Programs for	Satellite Art Show
Ava Luna and Zorch at MoHA	January 23, 2013	Bryan Parker	Review		Zorch, Ava Luna, Lean Hounds, Celestial Shore
Batman Returns Returns: Now With Christmas	December 18, 2019	Claudia Meza	Article		Batman Returns Returns (Portland)
Best of 2019	December 20, 2019	Glasstire	Article	Best of 2019	Li Po and Dubbe's Nudes
Black Milk Returns	June 27, 2013	Chase Hoffberger	Article	Detroit MC spins tonight at the Museum of Human Achievement	Exploded Drawing XXI
Calculated Carelessness	April 30, 2013	Jim Caligiuri	Review	Okkervil River guitarist Lauren Gurgiolo gets arty	Calculated Carelessness
Christmas Carol 2060: Tanline Steamroller at the Museum of Human	December 20, 2021	William Sarradet	Review	Christmas Carol 2060: Tanline Steamroller at the Museum of Human	Tanline Steamroller
Critics Table Tops at 25	May 21, 2017	Robert Faires	Article	The nominees for the 2016-17 Austin Critics Table Awards	SPAMS - The Internet: The Restaurant, FINALCON
Crosstalk: Butthole Surfers’ Driftwood Ranch for Sale, and More Music News	June 22, 2023	Kriss Conklin	Article	Remembering KOOP’s Andrew Dickens and Meat Joy reunion dates	Meat Joy Reunion Show
Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week	April 13, 2023	Genevieve Wood	Article	Fusebox, Alejandro Escovedo, alexalone, and the Ballinger brothers lead our recommendations	Cool Adult Rec Center Lock In
Deconstructing Sonic Borders	February 25, 2016	Conor Walker	Article	The 13th annual No Idea Festival explores everything from phenological sound art to avant jazz and microtonal composition	No Idea Fest 2016
Disrupting practice: To make a new series of sculpture ...	August 15, 2018	Jeanne Claire van Ryzin	Article	Dubbed Cage Match, the cage trailer is a project space run by Ryan Hawk and Zac Traeger of the Museum of Human Achievement. Typically, Cage	Cage Match Project, Round VIII: This is Everything
Dolly Fest Celebrates Dolly Parton's Influence on Culture – Queer and Otherwise	July 30, 2019	Savana Dunning	Article	"Anti-musical” headlines an evening of high camp and high hair	Dolly Fest 2019
East Austin Studio Tour 2018: Recapping Weekend 1	November 13, 2018	Melany Jean	Review	Take MoHA's selfie challenge? Bathe in the forest? Do it all!	Its not you, its me A SelfieGauntlet
East Austin Studio Tour 2019: Weekend 1	November 18, 2019	Barbara Purcell	Article	East Austin Studio Tour 2019: Weekend 1	Fantastic Arcade Retro(spective)
Eighties Punks Meat Joy Reminisce After Landing in Austin for Reunion Dates	October 16, 2023	Genevieve Wood	Article	Triple homecoming shows around their 1984 LP reissue kick off tomorrow	Meat Joy Reunion Show
Everything Is Exemplary	June 2, 2015	Robert Faires	Article	The 2014-15 Austin Critics Table Awards	AHoM
Fantastic Arcade for the Average Austinite	October 25, 2018	James Renovitch	Article	A preview of free, public events at this weekend of indie gaming	Real World: Witch House
Faster Than Sound: A Festival Blooms in the Desert	May 2, 2019	Rachel Rascoe	Article	Amid concern over a new C3 festival, homegrown Marfa Myths strives to grow with the Texas city	Cage Match Project, Round VIII: This is Everything
Faster Than Sound: Jackie Venson Solos	April 11, 2019	Rachel Rascoe	Article	Local blues hero goes solo to cut costs, city polls on use of $12 million earmarked for the arts, and the U.S. State Dept. blocks Palestinian artist Dirar Kalash from the Fusebox Festival	Mike Khoury
Fibers of Being: taylor barnes	October 2, 2020	Barbara Purcell	Article	Her installation “(un)box” is a stone's throw from Big Medium, at the Museum of Human Achievement's Cage Match Project. Curated by Ariel	Cage Match Project, Round XIV: (un)box by taylor barnes
First Look: Ariel René Jackson	January 31, 2019	Sean J Patrick Carney	Review	INSIDE A RUSTED, twenty-foot-long trailer cage in a gravel lot on Austin’s east side, dozens of balloons encased in layers of dirt and pigmented chalk dangled in the breeze over a bed of local soil. As spring turned to summer in Central Texas, the installation was blasted with airborne debris and heavy rains. The balloons withered. Chunks of soil and chalk broke off, revealing the balloons’ true colors of black and white.	Cage Match Project, Round VII: Color Composition
Five Arts Events in Austin This Weekend	February 8, 2018	Wayne Alan Brenner	Article	Theatre, graphic glory, steamrollering, coffee, and the ol' brown box	Print Austin Expo 2018
Five Arty Things to Do This Weekend: Oct. 13-15	October 11, 2017	Wayne Alan Brenner	Article	So much! So good! So much good!	Spare the Rod
Five Different Things To Do In Austin This Weekend	April 5, 2017	Wayne Alan Brenner	Article	Art! Theatre! Dance! You know: What the enemy hates.	Fresh Squeezed Ounce of Opera 2017
Five Fusebox Shows to Get You Buzzing	April 6, 2023	Wayne Alan Brenner	Article	The annual Austin-born arts festival returns with five days of wonder	Lauren Lee McCarthy: Surrogate – Performance In Progress
Five Movies to See in Austin This Week	January 4, 2018	Josh Kupecki	Article	Kristen Stewart is haunted and there's a town full of fireworks	Second Look Series: Snowy Bing Bongs
Five Recommended Arts Events This Weekend	February 1, 2018	Wayne Alan Brenner	Article	Fear not, citizen! We’ll shield you against that mofo of a FOMO!	Natural Forces
Five Recommended Arts Events This Weekend	September 4, 2019	Wayne Alan Brenner	Article	Because you want to supercharge your time in this world, don’t you?	VR Fondue
Five Recommended Arts Events This Weekend	June 28, 2018	Wayne Alan Brenner	Article	Because you don’t want to miss a good Austin thing	This is a Test of the Internal Emergency Broadcast System
Five Recommended Arts Events in Austin This Weekend	April 5, 2018	Wayne Alan Brenner	Article	In which your local cultural FOMO is subdued via this handy listicle	Fresh Squeezed Ounce of Opera 2018
Five Things to Catch at OUTsider Fest	February 16, 2023	James Scott	Article	OUTsider explores the queer underground with their 2023 festival, Shapeshifting Underbellies	Apolaki: Opera of the Scorched Earth
Five Things to Experience at Fusebox Festival	April 7, 2022	Wayne Alan Brenner	Article	The return of the avant garde and experimental drama and artextravaganza	The APD Decruitment Initiative, Curses
Five Things to Experience at Fusebox Festival	April 14, 2022	Wayne Alan Brenner	Article	Defeat your FOMO with these top picks from the free and fantastic arts festival	You are clearly in perversion
Fusebox Festival 2022: Shaboom! At the Museum of Human	May 8, 2022	William Sarradet	Review	Fusebox Festival 2022: Shaboom! At the Museum of Human	Shaboom! (Fusebox)
Fusebox Festival 2022: The "It's Not" Fair	May 3, 2022	William Sarradet	Review	Fusebox Festival 2022: The "It's Not" Fair	The APD Decruitment Initiative, Curses
Fusebox Festival Director Chooses His Top Five Stops for EAST 2019	November 21, 2019	Ron Berry	Article	Ron Berry on what's hot on this year's East Austin Studio Tour	Fantastic Arcade Retro(spective)
Fusebox Festival Review: Magdalena Jarkowiec’s In Here	April 18, 2018	Jonelle Seitz	Review	Are we all just doing a dance in a box?	In Here
Fusebox's Celebration of Avant-Garde Arts Is Still Free, Still Free-Spirited	April 7, 2022	Wayne Alan Brenner	Article	Fest brings together Christeene, Golden Hornet, and Dexter	You are clearly in perversion
Gay Place	July 7, 2016	Sarah Marloff	Article	Magical Realness, an Austin spin on vogue / drag balls	Magical Realness
Gentrification, Income Inequality and Donald Trump Baby Turds	November 23, 2017	Paddy Johnson	Article		SPORTS
Glasstire’s Best of 2023	December 11, 2023	Zoe Roden	Article	Glasstire’s staff and contributors share which Texas-based shows, events, and works made their personal “best” lists for 2023.	Edward Normalhands
Gruesome Playground Injuries	May 30, 2013	Matthew Irwin	Review	Two wounded friends walk a line between nostalgia and regret in Street Corner Arts' staging of Rajiv Joseph's play	Gruesome Playground Injuries
Halloween in Texas: What You Should Do Today	October 29, 2015	Glasstire	Article	Halloween in Texas: What You Should Do Today	The 1st Annual Anthropomorphic Costume Competition for Inanimate Objects
Highlights from EAST & Austin	November 18, 2015	Brandon Zech	Article	Highlights from EAST & Austin	Just Some Me Time…
Horror Writer and Folk Musician Carter St Hogan Finds Relief in Discomfort	June 29, 2023	Laiken Neumann	Article	"Everything is so much grosser than anyone talks about"	One or Several Deserts
Immersive, Interactive, Intriguing EAST	November 8, 2018	Melany Jean	Article	Melany Jean's five recommended stops for the East Austin Studio Tour 2018	Its not you, its me A SelfieGauntlet
In the Studio With Ana Segovia, Austin	July 25, 2019	Leslie Moody Castro	Article	In the Studio With Ana Segovia, Austin	Ana Segovia
Jennifer Raye's Boa Retina Explores Messy Gender Uncertainty	June 15, 2017	James Renovitch	Article	Tech old and new explores trans issues	BOA Retina July Exhibit
Kevin McNamee-Tweed: The Exit Interview	March 9, 2017	Caitlin Greenwood	Article	As he leaves Austin, curator and artist Kevin McNamee-Tweed reflects on the city's artists and art community	Self-Tourism
Making the Most of EAST	November 19, 2015	Caitlin Greenwood	Article	Ten tips to help you keep your head in the crush of the East Austin Studio Tour	Just Some Me Time…
Matthew Steinke resurrects the genius of an unknown inventor ...	August 31, 2018	Joshua Figueroa	Article	“Reserve Plane of Cloudy” opens 6 to 11 p.m. Sept. 7 and continues through 9 at the Museum of Human Achievement. A conceptual artist and	Man, Woman, Friend, Computer with Invoke String Quartet and the Robotic Instruments of Reverse Plane of Cloudy
Meat Joy Reunion Shows and More Crucial Concerts This Week	September 14, 2023	Genevieve Wood	Article	Ways to celebrate the annular eclipse, fundraise for Sarah Brown, and avoid ACL	Meat Joy Reunion Show
Melany Jean’s Top 10 Fine Art Moments of 2018	December 27, 2018	Melany Jean	Article	Unforgettably textured sculptures, unsettling exhibitions, and unusual spaces made for a memorable year in art	Cage Match Project, Round VIII: This is Everything
Mixing Race, Gender, and Improv Is a Heady Cocktail for Two	January 21, 2019	Wayne Alan Brenner	Article	Shannon Stott and Quinn Buckner bid some basic boundaries bye-bye	It's OK to Laugh 1
Nadia Waheed: "Notes From a Windowless Room" at Raw Paw	February 21, 2019	Wayne Alan Brenner	Review	Explorations of identity by an artist of color, of colors, of many colors	See Me Where I Am
Natural/Synthetic/Human: Tammie Rubin's “Everything You Ever ...	January 2, 2019	Lindsey Reynolds	Article	Museum of Human Achievement's Cage Match Project. Despite a setup reminiscent of a stage — never mind the setting's novelty — the artist was	Cage Match Project, Round VIII: This is Everything
No Idea Festival Q&A	February 15, 2017	Michael Toland	Article	Improvisational guru Chris Cogburn explains the matrix	No Idea Fest 2017
No Idea Festival Returns for 16th Year	February 5, 2019	Glasstire	Article	No Idea Festival Returns for 16th Year	No Idea Fest 2019
No Idea Festival Returns to Austin this Week	February 18, 2018	Glasstire	Article	No Idea Festival Returns to Austin this Week	No Idea Fest 2018
Nominees for the 2018-19 Austin Critics Table Awards Announced	May 12, 2019	Robert Faires	Article	The Critics Table's picture-perfect year	Cage Match Project, Round VIII: This is Everything
One Ounce Opera’s Fresh Squeezed Ounce of Opera II	April 13, 2017	Wayne Alan Brenner	Article	Austin’s One Ounce Opera juices the night away	Fresh Squeezed Ounce of Opera 2017
Paul Soileau’s Double Duty	May 31, 2018	Kirk Lynn	Article	With a new show for Rebecca Havemeyer and a new album by Christeene, is the busy performer having an identity crisis?	Christeene: Basura Album Release
Playback	September 25, 2014	Kevin Curtin	Article	Stop complaining there's no hip-hop scene here because now it has its own festival	Frameworks: Photographs from the Austin Music Community
Playback: Being Christeene in 2018	May 24, 2018	Kevin Curtin	Article	“I’m a collection of all the shit that you’re throwing around in this stratosphere of online media conversation.”	Christeene: Basura Album Release
Playback: Lost in the Silent City	September 28, 2017	Kevin Curtin	Review	Crowdsourced sci-fi, getting steamy with Black Pistol Fire, and a mighty storm of music	The Silent City
Playback: Mayor Steve Adler's Politics of Music Policy	July 7, 2016	Kevin Curtin	Article	Omnibus staff report is imperfect, but don't stop the momentum, says mayor	Sailor Poon (Vinyl Release)
Pleasure of the Paynes 2015	October 27, 2015	Robert Faires	Article	Big wins for Am I White?, Heathers at the 2015 theatre awards	Picasso at the Lapin Agile
Qmmunity	May 2, 2019	Beth Sullivan	Article	Plus new music from Krudxs Cubensi and a Cinco de Mayo drag brunch	Future Traditions Festival
Qmmunity	October 25, 2018	Sarah Marloff	Article	Trump and other things that go bump in the night	Unmasked
Qmmunity: Carnival of Queers	September 14, 2023	James Scott	Article	A carnival of queer cavorting will delight your senses this weekend	Preheat
Qmmunity: Glam, Gore, and More	May 5, 2022	James Scott	Article	Fill your homosexual calendar with a b-day ball by House of Lepore, Hyperreal Film Club’s Aughts horror screening, and more.	Games Y'all (May 2022)
Qmmunity: Ride ’Em Cowboy	May 1, 2024	James Scott	Article	Sawyer Stoltz and Jeremy Stilb talk the upcoming live table read of their adult film script, BULLRIDE	BULLRIDE
Qmmunity: The Queer-ster Bunny	April 6, 2023	James Scott	Article	A springtime showing of Austin's queer haps, like a new leather bar, pre-show parties, and the academic achievement by a young Black trans scholar.	One or Several Deserts
Qmmunity: Video by Queer Latinx Artist Xandra Ibarra Pulled From San Antonio Art Exhibit	February 27, 2020	Beth Sullivan	Article	Plus Ballroom Basics, Greetings From Queer Mountain, and more	Ballroom Basics with Mother Lepore
Qmmunity: Y’alloween Fun	October 12, 2023	James Scott	Article	Keep up the tradition of great gay Halloween fun with these queer Austin events	Queer Community Care: a Night at the Drive-in
Queer Collaboration Yields Otherworldly Campiness in p1nky and The Kwane: Another Soup Opera!	May 28, 2019	Mac Irvine	Article	Genres collide in cartoon-inspired DIY musical	P1nky and the Kwane: Another Soup Opera!
Queer Indie Video Game Showcase Is a Gaymer's Delight	November 10, 2022	James Scott	Article	Local video game showcase Fantastic Arcade supports indie queer games	Games Y’all Queer Indie Games (November 2022)
Quin Galavis Turns Darkness Into His Magnum Opus	August 25, 2016	Greg Beets	Article	Obfuscating the narrative between fiction and lived experience on My Life in Steel and Concrete	Evil Triplet, Quinn Galavis
Recap: No Idea Festival, Austin	March 4, 2019	Neil Fauerso	Review	Recap: No Idea Festival, Austin	No Idea Fest 2019
Satellite Art Show Will Come to Austin During SXSW 2019	August 8, 2018	Brandon Zech	Article	Satellite Art Show Will Come to Austin During SXSW 2019	Satellite Art Show
Scenes from the 2019 Satellite Art Show, Austin	March 22, 2019	Jennifer Battaglia	Review	Scenes from the 2019 Satellite Art Show, Austin	Satellite Art Show
Seeing the Fusebox Festival Without Reservations	April 11, 2019	Robert Faires	Article	Tickets to some shows have been snapped up, but there’s still plenty of electric Fusebox action available	Puddin's Student Government
Shred for Bread	September 5, 2017	Kevin Curtin	Article	Guitar “Shred-Off” winner takes home $1,666	First Annual Texas Shred-Off
Sober-ish Spaces for Dry January Hangs	January 7, 2018	Sarah Marloff	Article	Just because you’re not drinking doesn’t mean you have to stay home	Yes You Can!
Song/Book: Grapes of Wrath vs. 1984	July 17, 2017	Wayne Alan Brenner	Article	Rob Halverson and friends wrap live music around some heavy fiction	1984 vs. Grapes of Wrath
Studio visit: Yuliya Lanina	November 8, 2017	Jeanne Claire van Ryzin	Article	Museum of Human Achievement. Using figures from her paintings, Lanina constructed a vivid dream-like animated film. Standing against the	Spare the Rod
TR*MP TH*S! "A One-Year Anniversary of Resistance" Screens in	January 9, 2018	Glasstire	Article	TR*MP TH*S! "A One-Year Anniversary of Resistance" Screens in	TR*MP TH*S
The 2014-15 Austin Critics Table Awards	June 4, 2015	Robert Faires	Article	Top honors to Salvage Vanguard's Thr3e Zisters, LOLA Austin's Femme Bohème, and Texas State's Kiss Me, Kate	AHoM
The Power of Refusal: Kevin McNamee-Tweed's Departure from	January 27, 2017	Ayden LeRoux	Review	The Power of Refusal: Kevin McNamee-Tweed's Departure from	Self-Tourism
The Results are In: Austin Critics' Table Awards	June 1, 2015	Paula Newton	Article	The Results are In: Austin Critics' Table Awards	AHoM
The Ultimate Queer Guide to SXSW 2019	February 28, 2019	Sarah Marloff	Article	Often imitated, never duplicated, we’re here to keep it real kweer	Satellite Art Show
This Fresh Squeeze Is All About the Opera Shorts	April 12, 2016	Wayne Alan Brenner	Article	One Ounce Opera premieres a concert of new young composers	Fresh Squeezed Ounce of Opera 2016
Top Five October 29, 2015	October 28, 2015	Glasstire	Article	Top Five October 29, 2015	The 1st Annual Anthropomorphic Costume Competition for Inanimate Objects
Top Five: December 10, 2015	December 9, 2015	Glasstire	Article	Top Five: December 10, 2015	A Christmas Carol
Top Five: January 22, 2020 with Emily Link	January 22, 2020	Brandon Zech, Christina Rees, Emily Link	Article	Top Five: January 22, 2020 with Emily Link	Hot Zen Island
Top Five: January 26, 2017 with Jamie Panzer	January 25, 2017	Glasstire	Article	Top Five: January 26, 2017 with Jamie Panzer	Self-Tourism
Top Five: June 13, 2019 with Henry G. Sanchez	June 12, 2019	Glasstire	Article	Top Five: June 13, 2019 with Henry G. Sanchez	CuerposUnidos
Top Five: March 14, 2019 with Adrian Aguilera, Tammie Rubin	March 13, 2019	Adrian Aguilera, Betelhem Makonnen, Glasstire, Tammie Rubin	Article	Top Five: March 14, 2019 with Adrian Aguilera, Tammie Rubin	Satellite Art Show
Top Five: May 11, 2017 with Michael Anthony García	May 10, 2017	Glasstire, Michael Anthony Garcia	Article	Top Five: May 11, 2017 with Michael Anthony García	Cage Match Project, Round II: Suspension of Belief
Touring the Tour	November 20, 2014	Seth Orion Schwaiger	Article	A very meta experience, guided by Heather Pesanti, senior curator of the Contemporary Austin	AHoM
Transplanted Austin-to-Portland Musical “Batman Returns Returns” Keeps Gotham Weird	December 16, 2019	Jay Horton	Review	The Dark Knight before Christmas has been newly cast with some of Puddletown’s finest.	Batman Returns Returns (Portland)
Trying to Make Magic: Katie Bender channels Houdini	August 31, 2019	Jeanne Claire van Ryzin	Article	at the Museum of Human Achievement. Bender describes it as “part DIY seance, part historical cabaret — and attempt to contact and	Instructions for a Seance
Wayne Alan Brenner's Top 10 Arts-Related Program Activities of 2016	December 29, 2016	Wayne Alan Brenner	Article	Uncommon combinations – dance with horses, music with robots, drama with a Tesla coil – made the year unforgettable	Fresh Squeezed Ounce of Opera 2016
Wayne Alan Brenner’s Top 10 Arts-Related Things I Enjoyed in 2018	December 27, 2018	Wayne Alan Brenner	Article	Representational and digital art, plus theatre rooted in history proved especially mind-blowing this year	The Cold Record
Your Mother's Copy of the Kama Sutra — Enacting vulnerability in ...	September 24, 2018	I.B. Hopkins	Article	The female-run theater collective has outfitted The Museum of Human Achievement, a sex-toy-factory-turned-arts-space in East Austin for the	Your Mother's Copy of the Kamasutra
Zach Theatre, Ballet Austin, Salvage Vanguard shows lead in Austin ...	May 12, 2019	Michael Barnes	Article	Museum of Human Achievement. “Malcolm Bucknall: Solo Show,” Wally Workman Gallery. “Martha Hughes: Fresh From Marfa,” Ola Gallery. “Terra	Cage Match Project, Round VIII: This is Everything
poolboy: don’t pick up	March 28, 2024	Hayley Labrum Morrison	Review	You know that feeling of sweet ecstacy when you discover an addicting reality show that already has three seasons under its belt? It’s a pool of open water to dive into; ripe for the binge. poolboy was in its fourth season in 2022 when I happened upon its zaniness. poolboy00 (Sam Mayer) and his best friend momgrab (Julia Mounsey) responded to prompts from an audience at Co-Lab Projects’ Glissman Culvert as I waded in a nearby collapsible pool. Maybe it was the cool water against my skin on a sweltering Texas night, or the sweaty dancing at Cheer-up Charlies afterward, but poolboy: I WANT TO LISTEN struck a chord with me that night.	Poolboy: don't pick up