rt Week Austin heats up with Pecha Kucha Night Volume 8 this Thursday. In the Starr Building, starting at 8:20 pm sharp, a line-up of 12 local mavens will have just 600 seconds each to provide insights about their respective creative fields. This Tokyo-born tradition of straightforward slide presentation keeps things dynamic with a time limit of 20 seconds per image. more ›

Art Alliance's Art Week Austin is in full swing with many exhibits and happenings taking place around town today. Down in the 2nd Street District, Rachel Cook and Claire Ruud have curated the multifaceted exhibit, One swallow doesn't make a summer. Taking it's name from former mayor Kirk Watson's assertion that "One swallow doesn't make a summer, and not even a dozen development projects make a Great Downtown", One swallow hopes to invigorate our developing downtown by inviting artists into unique exhibition spaces for many to enjoy. Various artists have pieces on display at 210 Guadalupe, 400 W. Cesar Chavez, 117 Lavaca, and 233 W. 2nd St. - work ranges in scope from large painted canvases to sound and video installations. One swallow's gallery spaces are open from 11am to 6pm today through Saturday with curator walking tours taking place at 12:30pm daily. more ›

Organized by Art Alliance Austin, this annual event is the city's largest and longest running outdoor art fair, and features more than 200 established and emerging artists working in a range of mediums. In addition to all of the creative output, there will be local and organic food producers, interactive art projects, live music, and activities for the little ones. more ›

Our coverage of Art Week Austin continues with a rundown of today's events: Art Talk: Art Critics, Critique, and Community Panel: Join the conversation about arts writing with a panel that includes writers from the Statesman, Fluent Collaborative/Might Be Good, Austin Film Festival, and Fusebox Festival. The panel will be moderated by Robert Faries from the Chronicle. The discussion takes place at Domy Books and begins at 4pm. more ›

Whether it makes you think of your drinking buddies or Matthew Perry and Courtney Cox, the word "friends" carries some positive connotations (and may have just put that "I'll Be There For You" song in your head for the rest of the afternoon). It's a good enough word that visual artist/musician/all-around creative badass Tim Kerr used it for the title of his new exhibition at Domy Books, which opens tonight and features the work of Kerr and four of his pals - Bill Daniel, Cynthia Connolly, Rich Jacobs, and Michael Sieben. more ›

Our coverage of Art Week Austin continues with a rundown of today's events: 12:19 Project at AMOA: Also an ongoing project of the Fusebox Festival, this open collaboration encourages people to document a single minute in their lives. A project of local non-profit Refraction Arts, anyone is invited to create an image (a photo, video, audio file, text, map, etc.) of their experience at 12:19 on any given day. Participants may also call 524-9772 to record one minute of their life. Presented in a real life and online "library" of sorts, the resulting documentation of everyone's short history will be on display at AMOA until May 2nd. more ›

Art Week Austin kicks off tomorrow and gradually culminates with this weekend's Art City Austin. We'll be posting a daily summary of Art Week Austin highlights. Wednesday's schedule commences with only a few events, but don't forget that Fusebox Festival starts on Thursday and will add to the critical mass of significant cultural happenings going on this week. Here's what's going on tomorrow: more ›