Making a Front Porch for the City

As he was completing the final design for the Austin Museum of Art's long-awaited downtown facility, architect Richard Gluckman took time to discuss the project, his approach to architecture, and what it means to design buildings for a boomtown.

"...Just over two years ago, the Austin Museum of Art selected an architect to design the museum's..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

An Eye for History

"...The year is 1958. The place: La Californie, Pablo Picasso's village chateau outside Cannes, France. David Douglas Duncan, the..."

April 23, 1999 Arts Feature by Sam Martin

Blanton Launches Film Series This Weekend

As if you needed another good reason to go to the Blanton

"...has always been plenty to love about the Blanton Museum of Art...."

March 22, 2013 Screens Post by Monica Riese

Paris by Net

Surfing to the City of Light

"...A hand shot through the crowd with a rolled-up museum program and sharply swatted one of the boys on..."

Aug. 25, 2000 Features Feature by Margaret Moser

Art and Craft

Mark Landis is an expert forger who donates his work to museums, and this doc makes no judgments about this curious man.

"...Mark Landis have been featured in at least 46 museums in 20 different states over the course of 30..."

Oct. 17, 2014 Movie Review by William Goss

Local Palette

Lithographs

"...Pablo Picasso..."

Jan. 17, 1997 Arts Feature

Art

Art Openings

"...an active local artist who helped create the Mexic-Arte museum, painted the mural with the help of seven area..."

March 5, 1999 News Feature

Renaissance (and Baroque) Man

As a curator for UT's Blanton Museum of Art, Jonathan Bober played a pivotal role in securing the Suida-Manning and Steinberg art collections, thereby giving some of the world's great art a home in Austin.

"...of prints, drawings, and European paintings at UT-Austin's Blanton Museum of Art for the past 16 years -- you..."

April 4, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Day Trips

Texas Monthly has called the Old Jail Art Center "the best small town art museum in Texas -- and maybe the nation."

"...Art Center houses a remarkable art collection for a museum in a town the size of Albany. The seat..."

Dec. 21, 2001 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Art Fun in the Summertime

May

"...interpretation. Through June 12, Tue-Sat, 10am-6pm, Sun, noon-5pm. Austin Museum of Art -- Downtown, 823 Congress. $3. http://www.amoa.org. 495-9224...."

May 21, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

AMOA and Mexic-Arte Shows Take Us to Personal Places

"...Luis de Potosí, Mexico. Now through June 6, Mexic-Arte Museum is hosting the first retrospective in North America of..."

May 22, 1998 Arts Feature

Letters at 3AM

Monet's Water Lilies transport us to a time before the definition of eyesight and humanity.

"...few blocks, then west half a block, to the Museum of Modern Art ... in those days the Modern's..."

June 8, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

Let There Be Light

After a $14 million facelift, UT's Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center is letting the light in, literally, through new windows across the front of the structure, and philosophically, through a new mission to give the public more opportunities to see and enjoy its astonishing accumulation of cultural treasures.

"...second-by-second motion of a horse at full gallop; Pablo Picasso's eyes, staring with a mesmerist's intensity, as photographed by..."

May 16, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Pleasure of the Paynes 2015

Big wins for Am I White?, Heathers at the 2015 theatre awards

"...on Cinderella, and the Present Company's immersive staging of Picasso at the Lapin Agile at the Museum of Human..."

Oct. 28, 2015 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Day Trips & Beyond: December Events Roundup

Happy holidays to everyone and happy daytrippin’ to all!

"...in 1849. After extensive restoration it reopened as a museum and bed & breakfast lodging...."

Dec. 2, 2016 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips

The Outdoor Art Museum reproduces some of the most famous works of the art world on the walls of the little town of Eastland

"...The Outdoor Art Museum brings some of the most famous works of the..."

Dec. 17, 2004 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Basquiat

"...child is anointed with a golden crown upon viewing Picasso's Guernica or the recurring images of a surfer riding..."

Aug. 23, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Art:

"...ARLINGTON MUSEUM OF ART features TEXAS REALism... with a twist, a..."

Dec. 22, 1995 Arts Feature

Day Trips

Museum-hopping in Houston.

"...The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston looks boxy and plain..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips

"...dozen jails around the state have been converted to museums commemorating past generations of the community...."

Feb. 15, 2002 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Art

Art Openings

"...AUSTIN MUSEUM OF ART, DOWNTOWN, 823 Congress, 495-9224. "Fresh Ink: Austin..."

March 14, 1997 News Feature

Articulations

UT-Austin's Blanton Museum of Art acquires one of the most comprehensive collections of prints ever assembled by a private individual: the Leo Steinberg Collection of 3,200 prints from the 15th through the 20th centuries.

"...assembled by a private individual? That's what UT-Austin's Blanton Museum of Art has done. This past week, UT-Austin President..."

July 26, 2002 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Day Trips

The Nasher Sculpture Garden and the Crow Collection of Asian Art are just two excellent reasons to make a short trip to Dallas to enjoy some world-renowned art

"...a wide range of artistic expression. The garden and museum are a roller-coaster ride of shapes, colors, and feelings...."

Feb. 3, 2006 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Taking Pictures

This year, for whatever reasons, Dick Holland writes, we have been blessed with photography books of great beauty and intelligence. Several of the leading figures in the canon of 20th-century photography are represented in this season's unusually rich outpouring, among them Eugéne Atget, Walker Evans, and Edward Steichen.

"...The Museum of Modern Art/Callaway Editions, 224 pp., $60..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Books Feature by Dick Holland

Day Trips & Beyond: October Events Roundup

Find fall foliage in Texas and stop and smell the roses

"...Created by a collective of artists, the site-specific pop-up museum debuted in San Francisco in 2017, moved to New..."

Oct. 3, 2019 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Sin Fronteras

Most observers would agree that Austin has a Latino visual arts community, but within that community are many voices, many points of view, many styles -- and no borders.

"...Ramirez, curator of Latin American Art at UT's Blanton Museum of Art, reacted to marketing vultures hovering around her..."

Feb. 16, 2001 Arts Feature by Rob Curran

Articulations

Honors

"...Billy A. Forrester, Jr. for supporting the O. Henry Museum and underwriting the 1996 "O. Henry Pun-Off"; Austin Optimist..."

Jan. 3, 1997 Arts Column

In Memoriam: Rhoda Winter Russell

Movement therapy pioneer who knew the greats of dance has died

"...for many with whom she worked and admired. "There's Picasso in art, and there's Stravinsky in music, and there..."

Aug. 1, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Day Trips & Beyond: June Events Roundup

Craft beer, Matisse, SummerFest, and more

"...The Oklahoma City Museum of Art will host an exclusive showing of “Matisse..."

June 1, 2016 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Joshua Jay Tells You How They Died Their Tragic Deaths

Magicians, their assistants, audience members: Killed onstage

"...last Sunday I did a show at the Rubin Museum in New York, and I'm going to England straight..."

Feb. 18, 2013 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

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