What better way to start 2012 than with one of our favorite annual traditions in Austin — Free Week!!! From January 1st through 8th (with a few shows on December 30th), there will be FREE MUSIC …

Podcast: Download Meryl Streep Makes Margaret Thatcher mythological in The Iron Lady — will Thatcher (or Streep dressed as Thatcher) be re-elected by the Academy? David D’Arcy has this review.

The counterculture movement was in essence a western phenomenon. That’s the premise of West of Center: Art and the Counterculture Experiment in America, 1965-1977, a book and exhibition currently on view at the Museum of Contemporary …

The Issues in Contemporary Architecture series continues at New York’s Museum of Modern Art with Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream,” opening February 15-July 20, 2012, in which five domestic architecture companies explore new architectural possibilities for …

Talented designers can use anything as a medium—including office furniture from reconstituted cardboard. (Maybe, offices of the future won’t be as high-tech as we had imagined.) TreeHugger.com has more on Paul Coudamy, French designer behind these …

Okay, well, we’re cheating a little bit because this exhibit of Francesca Woodman photographs has already opened, and runs through February 20th at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Francesca Woodman went to Brown University …

LACE, or Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions,on January 27th will re-present Suzanne Lacy’s 1977 performance work then called Three Weeks in May, now being called Three Weeks in January, as a citywide public performance and event still …

On November 22, I visited the newly opened Clyfford Still museum in Denver, which for the first time presented the artist’s work as it developed, in stages, visually highlighting how Still got from landscapes and figures …

Podcast: Download The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo rises above almost anything recent in the thriller genre, although the bar isn’t set too high, says David D’Arcy. Director David Fincher rises to the challenge, but Rooney …

I cannot recall a single calendar year in which Austin was privy to a deep well of varied, talented musicians. If 2011 was not the best year for our local, independent music scene here in Austin, …