Welcome to the First-Ever Austin Edition of The Art Newsletter We’re building something local. This new list is just for our Austin community — curated events, creative happenings, and real-world meetups designed to bring artists, musicians, and makers together.
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Weekly Newsletter
I spent a good amount of time this week thinking about what content I should write about within this newsletter for today, and strangely, nothing was coming to me.
We have all been there before—we think we can’t finish writing that book until we get that better PC, we think we can’t make that YouTube video until we get that new camera, or in my case, we think that we can’t work on that song until we get the “best” gear or sound possible.
Film & TV
We have an obsession with lists and aggregated polls that crown a single film as the champion of the art form, but we think precious little about what we mean by that prestigious label.
Film & TV
Queer (2024) is a dizzying depiction of the disjointed existence of Lee (Daniel Craig), an expatriate living in Mexico City, whose life has been consumed by fervent drug use and lust. The film is an interesting experience, to say the least, especially given the grip that Call Me By Your
Weekly Newsletter
Last week I had the opportunity to meet with the CEO and founder of the ATX Writing Club, Zac Solomon, here in Austin. We discussed the idea of building for your 1% loyalists, as they will lead your 10% supporters who will drive the 90% fans.
Film & TV
There's a certain genre of film that I've actively avoided throughout my life, that being the excessively acclaimed, oversaturated collection of films that cinephiles relentlessly reference. It's not that I actually thought these films were bad; most were quite good or at least entertaining,
Film & TV
Ryan Coogler's bluesy horror shows us that fusing cultures together often means suffocating the less privileged one.
Weekly Newsletter
A reflection on the line between artist and hobbyist, the myth of the starving artist, and why perseverance is the only real difference between failure and success.
Film & TV
Through the Olive Trees (1994) is a film I understood long before I was able to properly watch it. During my first year of college, my screenwriting professor played the film's final sequence over and over again, about 20 times, before allowing us to process it altogether...
Film & TV
Two films, one a revered classic and the other a recent classic, interrogate the American Myth, examining the inevitable ruin that comes from obscene power and the legends we draw from such tales.