Ellsworth Kelly's Austin Opens at the Blanton Museum of Art

By building this structure, the Blanton enabled a major modern artist to realize his masterwork

"...building wound up not being made. But the idea of the building didn't leave Kelly when that happened, and..."

Feb. 16, 2018 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Blanton Museum of Art

The companion facility to the UT museum's gallery building is finally complete

"...Since opening in 2006, the Blanton Museum of Art's Michener Gallery Building has been a major..."

Nov. 14, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Blanton Museum of Art: Adios, Pérez-Barreiro

Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro, the Blanton's curator of Latin American art, is leaving UT to head the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros

"...Last week the University of Texas' Blanton Museum of Art announced the departure of..."

Dec. 7, 2007 Arts Feature by Rachel Cook

Portrait of Wally

UT film professor Andrew Shea’s documentary is an engrossing account of how this Egon Schiele painting changed hands over the years.

"...era and, nearly a century after his death, his art still makes waves. One piece in particular, the tender..."

Sept. 7, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Art

Art Openings

"...ALTERNATE CURRENT ART SPACE, 2209 S. First, 443-9674. "The Sacred and Profane,"..."

March 14, 1997 News Feature

Nicole Eisenman Receives Booth/FLAG Art Prize

NYC artist is the first recipient of the $200,000 award

"...Three months after the Contemporary Austin announced its partnership with New York's FLAG Art Foundation to expand the..."

Aug. 6, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

A Tug of War Between Art and Morality

Andrew Shea's 'Portrait of Wally' follows the trail of Nazi plunder

"...Back in the late summer of 2010, a 98-year-old oil painting by Austrian expressionist Egon..."

Sept. 7, 2012 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Art for Healing

The stunning art collection of the Dell Children's Medical Center

"...families, and, as I understand it, many people find art museums almost as intimidating. But fear gives way to..."

Jan. 18, 2008 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

Chronicle of a Disappearance

"...Jamal Daher. This experimental meditation on the psychological effect of political instability on the Palestinian people is the fascinating..."

Nov. 21, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

An Arc of Crystal Clarity

Rob chats with Gavin Russom and Viva Ruiz of the Crystal Ark

"...Gavin Russom has been part of New York's underground dance scene as a artist..."

Jan. 10, 2013 Qmmunity Post by Rob Cohen

Things Are What You Make of Them

The deliciously cracked comedies of Bob Byington

"..."Hello, baby, hello/Open up your heart and let your feelings flow" – Elton John's "Harmony"..."

Oct. 23, 2009 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Day Trips: Dick's Classic Car Museum, San Marcos

Travel through an automotive time machine

"...Dick's Classic Garage Car Museum in San Marcos travels nearly 60 years of automotive..."

April 17, 2015 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Michael Ray Charles' New Art Asks Hard Questions About Race and America

The internationally acclaimed artist returns to Austin with new work that, as ever, leaves us asking ourselves what we see

"...The artist spreads the paint deliberately but quickly, filling in the..."

Sept. 13, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Blanton Museum Cafe

The Blanton follows the trend of pairing high art and gourmet treats

"...Blanton Museum CafeTuesday-Friday, 9:30am-5pm; Saturday, 11am-5pm; Sunday, 1-5pm; third Thursday open..."

Nov. 14, 2008 Food Review by Kate Thornberry

Coming of Age

"...Dawn Cooper and Cyndy Kirkland of Reel Women inside the Alamo Drafthouse, one of the..."

Aug. 20, 1999 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

A Place of Calm and Light

The Blanton to build a structure designed by Ellsworth Kelly

"...that in Austin in Austin, which is the title of a building designed by the artist and being built..."

Feb. 12, 2015 Arts Post by Robert Faires

'Paved Paradise Redux: The Art of Joni Mitchell'

John Kelly brings back his Joni Mitchell tribute before retiring it for good

"...festival called Fusebox, John Kelly's performance at the interdisciplinary arts fest this year was electric. Immersing himself in the..."

Oct. 1, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of

A Dream Collaboration: Richard Linklater and 30 animators team up to produce a startling, surreal new film.

"...Richard Linklater is on the stage of Austin's Paramount Theatre introducing his new animated movie Waking..."

Oct. 26, 2001 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

King of the Hillbillies

"...bringing Jesco White, the white trash, Elvis-impersonating, clogging star of his 1991 Dancing Outlaw documentary, out to L.A. for..."

May 7, 1999 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Texas, Art Texas

When it comes to Lone Star art, Rebecca Cohen wrote the book (finally!)

"...the gutters, write a comprehensive guide to all the art museums and galleries in Texas. Now, that last need..."

Oct. 15, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

How to Celebrate Austin Museum Day 2020

In person and virtual events abound on the city' annual free museum day

"...Here comes the 23rd annual Austin Museum Day, citizen, that free celebration of art, culture, history,..."

Sept. 15, 2020 Arts Post

The Bullock in the Museum Shop

Supporters say the Bullock History Museum has acted as a catalyst for smaller local museums.

"...The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum isn't the only museum in town. It just seems..."

Feb. 21, 2003 News Feature

Celebrating the Women of Flatbed Press at PrintAustin 2019

Elisabet Ney Museum gives Austin’s world-class press its historic due

"...Getting kicked out of your home is a helluva way to celebrate your..."

Jan. 11, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Art of the State '98

Art & Theatre to See Around Texas This Summer

"...Windows of Remembrance at Josef and Edith Mincberg Gallery, Houston That..."

May 29, 1998 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Depths of 'Desire'

Curator Annette Carlozzi invites art lovers to dive down into images of longing

"...a phrase expansively (or reductively) making explicit the point of this assemblage of art. Just a single, simple word..."

March 19, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Austin Arts Hall of Fame Class of 2018

Actor/director Norman Blumensaadt, dance artists Kathy Dunn Hamrick and Anuradha Naimpally, and philanthropists Jeanne and Michael Klein join the ranks of cultural heroes

"...When you look at the vitality of the arts and culture in Austin, it isn't just..."

May 25, 2018 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Art Par Excellence

The nominees for the 2014-15 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...After poring over the hundreds of stage productions, concerts, and art exhibitions mounted locally between..."

May 20, 2015 Arts Post

For the Love of the Line

In the exhibitions “Old Master Drawings From the Suida-Manning Collection” at the Blanton Museum of Art and “Selected 20th-Century Master Drawings” at the Norwood Gallery, we can indulge our eyes in samples of art spanning five centuries.

"...space is where it always begins, the empty space of a sheet of paper or parchment, a canvas or..."

Oct. 8, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Art of the State

Art:

"...DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART presents "Animals With Attitude," wood sculptures of..."

Feb. 28, 1997 Arts Feature

Art of the State

Art:

"...AMON CARTER ART MUSEUM presents Plain Pictures: Images of the American..."

Dec. 27, 1996 Arts Feature

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