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Beyond the Blockbuster
With ‘Luca Cambiaso, 1527-1585,’ the Blanton bucks the trend toward superstar exhibitions and spotlights a lost Renaissance master
Nikki Moore
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In Lu Ann Barrow’s brilliantly colored canvases, every pebble, blade of grass, dress, and wallpaper pattern is rendered in bold colors that excite rather than drown one another out
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With the exhibition ‘Rembrandt’s Etchings,’ the Blanton Museum of Art has created a rare and intimate opportunity for you to see, study, and absorb the impact of Rembrandt’s mastery for yourself
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Eric Zimmerman’s “Simplon Pass” plays off utopian visions of the past in ways that are beautiful and painful in their longing for release from spatial bounds
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The Austin Museum of Art’s exhibition ‘Mary Lee Bendolph, Gee’s Bend Quilts, and Beyond’ prompts one viewer to piece together a story about postmodernism from patches of art and ethnology
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The Oliver Boberg retrospective at Lora Reynolds Gallery is a must-see, but telling you why might spoil the surprise
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D. Berman’s joint exhibition of work by Naomi Schlinke and Gladys Poorte is an illumination of the “creatorly” power of the artist in process art
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Art or anthropology? Volitant Gallery’s ‘The Long Drive South,’ featuring work by New York artists who motored down to Austin, may be a revealing discussion on both
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In ‘Beast-Footed Feathered Serpents,’ artist Jules Buck Jones and writer Caitlin Haskell playfully call into question the facts we use as human beings to make sense of the world.
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The ‘Summer Group Show’ at Lora Reynolds Gallery is a departure from the strong exhibits it has mounted so far, a gap in the norm that suggests the pressures galleries are under to produce cohesive exhibits
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With its second exhibit, The Donkey Show moves away from the spectacular toward something a little closer to home, or at least to Home Depot: Rebecca Ward works with masking tape, and Kurt Mueller’s supplies are straight from the paint aisles
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Stepping into D. Berman’s exhibition ‘HEAT’ can transport you to a few alternate realities as powerful and reality-bending as any virtual world inside a computer