Ansel Adams: Revelations

The Ransom Center exhibition 'Ansel Adams: A Legacy' lets you experience the works of the best-known of American photographers as art rather than commerce

"...Without question, Ansel Adams is the best-known of American photographers. His images..."

Nov. 4, 2005 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Galleries in Bloom

The times being what they are, you don't exactly expect to see new galleries sprouting across Austin's cultural landscape, but two just did: Oswald Gallery, showing fine art photography, and Jean-Marc Fray, displaying paintings by French artist Robert Bourasseau.

"...of Oswald, the art is by legendary landscape photographer Ansel Adams. Getting a jump on the Adams centenary in..."

Nov. 16, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Celebrate the Apollo 11 Moon Landing With These Texas Road Trips

Houston and other Texas sites celebrate the golden anniversary of the first lunar landing

"...from its collection that relate to the moon, including Ansel Adams' Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, and Garry Winogrand's Apollo..."

May 17, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Sunshine Superman

BASE-jumping trailblazer Carl Boenish is the subject of this doc tribute

"...in Yosemite National Park that you may recall from Ansel Adams’ photographs) at first surreptitiously, and then with the..."

June 12, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Wide-Angle Lens

The Ransom Center captures photography's history with striking breadth and focus

"...it as today, among them Man Ray, Robert Capa, Ansel Adams, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paul Strand, Edward Weston, and Arnold..."

Oct. 1, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

"...a debt to Warhol, the Western landscapes that resemble Ansel Adams photographs, the lithe image of a woman guiding..."

May 20, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

What Can a Century Tell Us?

Looking at two art exhibitions that both survey 100 years of imagery, the more things change ...

"...has placed side by side two landscapes, one by Ansel Adams and one by Lynn Davis. Adams is rightly..."

July 13, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Figure in the Frame

The exhibit Arnold Newman: Masterclass gives us all a lesson in the power of the photographic portrait

"...trees are reflected in the sliding glass door of Ansel Adams' home, and in Adams' eyeglasses, so that he..."

March 15, 2013 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

Cream of the Crop

Nominations for the 2005-2006 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Kimberly Adams, Aisle 7..."

May 19, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Still Life

Whether it is the coterie around the world's most famous photographer or a group of cowboys on a West Texas ranch, Laura Wilson, who peeked inside a reclusive Christian sect for her new photography book Hutterites of Montana, has an instinct for penetrating insular, tightly knit societies.

"...had, as its photographic referent, the landscapes of, say, Ansel Adams -- a paean to the Yosemites of unfallen..."

Feb. 9, 2001 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, October 13-19

"...– an endless prospect of magic and wonder." – Ansel Adams 3) "A beautiful thing is never perfect." –..."

Oct. 13, 2023 Column by Rob Brezsny

Day Trips & Beyond: D.H. Lawrence in New Mexico

D.H. Lawrence’s banned art finds a home in Taos hotel

"...had lured many prominent artists such as Georgia O’Keeffe, Ansel Adams, and Mary Austin to her remote retreat...."

Sept. 22, 2017 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

The Great Outdoors 2.0

Becoming one with nature ... and 200 Instagram followers

"...Until quite recently, unless your name was Ansel Adams, the concept of life outdoors was about as..."

May 15, 2015 Features Feature by Andrea Kinnison

Playback: SXSW Survey a Snooze

City's post-SXSW survey succumbs to poor planning

"...at UT and later took a master class with Ansel Adams...."

June 6, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Culture Flash!

New curatorial directions, a new drama getting around, and a new way for theatre to change lives

"...Museum of Photography and Film and was awarded an Ansel Adams Research Fellowship from the Center for Creative Photography..."

June 29, 2012 Arts Column by Robert Faires

What Would Jean-Luc Do?

In a post-digital world, is cinema dead or just rebooting?

"...Polaroid? It's a Polaroid; it didn't make you into Ansel Adams. The Polaroid didn't make everything into art-photography. The..."

July 24, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Let Me Show You Something You May Have Missed

Sean Perry's photographs offer to show you familiar settings in a whole new light

"...not technical issues like, did I have right lens? Ansel Adams used to say that if you have more..."

Sept. 22, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Hightower Report

Axing Our National Parks; and Connecting the Dots to CEO Pay

"...Holy Ansel Adams! The administration that totally botched up the response..."

July 7, 2006 News Column by Jim Hightower

More Places at the Table

The Austin Critics Table is about to hand out its annual awards for achievement in the arts for the 10th year, and the list of nominees is longer than ever.

"..."Visualizing the Blues," Austin Museum of Art Gallery Exhibition"Ansel Adams," Oswald Gallery..."

May 24, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Ongoing Tradition

The Taos Talking Pictures Festival has carved out a place as one of the country's top 10 film festivals with an eclectic, mellow mix of artists, activist politics, panels, and New Age philosophy.

"...nurtured such writers and artists as Mabel Dodge Luhan, Ansel Adams, Willa Cather, D.H. Lawrence, and Georgia O'Keeffe, as..."

April 28, 2000 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Rainbows at Your Feet

Letters at 3AM

"...as daring as these forms. No one, not even Ansel Adams or John Ford, can photograph this vastness. For..."

Aug. 29, 1997 Column by Michael Ventura

Silent Days and Nights

Discovering Live Cinema... Again

"...(not yet also Wong) Howe, whose exquisite cinematography suggests Ansel Adams. This aesthetic predicament must give us pause. Literary..."

Jan. 3, 1997 Screens Feature

Record Reviews

"...photos are a family album. In substance, they give Ansel Adams a run for the money. There are some..."

June 21, 1996 Music Review

Food-o-File

New menus, new arrivals, new ventures, and other news

"...confirmed that his South Austin retail venture with David Ansel, the Juicebox/Soup Peddler, is slated to open in the..."

Nov. 19, 2010 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

SXSW Adds Speakers, Films

Buzz Aldrin, Kesha, Cory Booker, Cecile Richards, and more

"...Sarah Kate Ellis; GLAAD Transgender Media Program director Nick Adams; and Transparent producer Zackary Drucker...."

Feb. 7, 2017 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker