Arts Archives: UT makes play for Shepard, snaps up Newman, wins Woody

That treasure trove of cultural archives at UT has recently been expanded to include photographic portrait maker, playwright and actor Sam Shepard, and filmmaker Woody Allen

"...spent photographing the world's leading figures, from LBJ to Picasso to Jonas Salk to Diana Vreeland. Soldiers, scientists, painters,..."

Sept. 29, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Russell Collection: A second home Downtown

The West End space, vacated by F8 Fine Art Gallery, is now a new home for the Russell Collection, showing contemporary artwork alongside its paintings by the masters of yore

"...likes of Rembrandt, Mary Cassatt, Marc Chagall, Toulouse-Lautrec, Manet, Picasso, Renoir, Matisse, Pissarro, and the artists of the French..."

Sept. 8, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Point Austin: Three Dimensions

When you're looking for heroes, avoid the usual suspects

"...from Bowie knives to Pez dispensers); and a dazzling Picasso retrospective at the Arkansas Arts Center (worth the long..."

June 23, 2006 News Column by Michael King

Pablo Veliz

'La Tragedia de Macario'

"..."I could be making batteries, for all they care. Picasso never painted to sell his paintings. The only dude..."

March 10, 2006 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

An Unfit Man

Honorable mention

"...too rough, comparing him to the minotaur in the Picasso print which hung in the master bedroom. That was..."

Feb. 17, 2006 Books Feature by Martin H. Boozer

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

"...Nasher's extensive collection of artwork that includes work by Picasso, Gauguin, Rodin, Matisse, as well as contemporary artists like..."

Feb. 3, 2006 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Asking for It

'Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic'

"...and scrunched noses, Valley girl gag-me-style tongue wagging, and Picasso-painting side-mouth asides. And did I mention the rape jokes?..."

Dec. 9, 2005 Screens Feature by Steve Birmingham

Explosions in the Sky

Record review

"...locally in 2000, is finally redigitized and illustrated in Picasso's blue period. Time to stop kicking oneself for not..."

Nov. 11, 2005 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

'Secuestro Express'

Jonathan Jakubowicz and Elizabeth Avellán on 'Secuestro Express'

"...direct quote from Hitler when he was referring to Picasso...."

Oct. 28, 2005 Screens Feature by Michael King

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...to reinterpret them would be like looking at a Picasso and saying, "You know, Pablo, that's great but what..."

Sept. 23, 2005 Column

Ugly, Mean, Hurtful Review

"...to reinterpret them would be like looking at a Picasso and saying, "You know, Pablo, that's great but what..."

Sept. 21, 2005 Postmarks

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

Runaways, lobbyists, philosophers, and Pablo Picasso

"...they do in international tests of literacy and math.Pablo Picasso loved the Chicago White Sox...."

Sept. 16, 2005 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

GlassTire: Stew Descending a Staircase

GlassTire, the online journal for all things visual artsy in Texas, has coerced assorted Austin arts organizations to stir up some serious chili this weekend

"...art – a combination as classic as pickles and Picasso, or so it will be this Saturday, when GlassTire..."

Sept. 9, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Flight Patterns

The Texas Documentary Tour: Judy Irving's 'The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill'

"...Connor, the lonely blue-crowned conure to the cuddling pair, Picasso and Sophie, to Pushkin, a single father who raises..."

Sept. 9, 2005 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Friday Picks

SXSW picks & sleepers

"...all those young dudes and ducessies: "Irene Wilde," "Michael Picasso," and of course your ("I Wish I Was Your)..."

March 18, 2005 Music Feature

Ian Hunter

"...the passing of longtime Hunter guitarist Mick Ronson, "Michael Picasso," which Hunter sang with such conviction you could feel..."

March 18, 2005 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

The Concerts

"...Igor Stravinsky, like Picasso, never rested long in any one style. His most..."

Feb. 11, 2005 Music Feature

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

Dec. 31, 2004 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Report From Art Basel

Texans find a place with the art world elite in Art Basel Miami Beach

"...the artists, and blue-chip works by art stars like Picasso and Basquiat shared space with art of the living..."

Dec. 24, 2004 Arts Feature by Jacqueline May

Naked City

"Upset emissions" pose a not-so-nonroutine threat to air quality

"...Pablo Picasso said, "Accidents, try to change them – it's impossible...."

Aug. 27, 2004 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

TV Eye

I want Craig McCracken to be my friend

"...otherwise known as Duchess. Her face looks like a Picasso portrait with an enormous elephant's snout. She thinks she's..."

Aug. 13, 2004 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Summer Reading

In Texas

"...masters meet Rene Magritte and hash it out with Picasso. But that's the easy way of tackling a description..."

May 28, 2004 Books Feature by Margaret Moser

"The Collaborative Spirit: Prints, Presses & Deluxe Artists' Books"

"The Collaborative Spirit: Prints, Presses & Deluxe Artists' Books" at the Ransom Center is a terrific show that recalls the exuberance and true freedom of an earlier America through collaborations by visual artists and writers in printed books

"...G is Gertrude, as in Stein, and P is Picasso. On these pages the artists are not just placing..."

May 21, 2004 Arts Review by Madeline Irvine

Will Travel for Food (and Awards)

Barcelona

"...architecture by Gaudí, Domènech, and Puig; the art of Picasso, Miró, and Dalí; ancient buildings by the Romans, Visigoths,..."

April 2, 2004 Food Feature by Mick Vann

Midnight Art Heist at Z'Tejas

Z'Tejas art theft has the artist, restaurant, and police baffled

"...smash-and-grab art heists, culminating in the theft of two Picasso linocut prints from the Russell Collection in the Arboretum,..."

March 19, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith

David Bowie

Record Review

"...here, two of which are covers (Jonathan Richman's "Pablo Picasso," which rocks, and George Harrison's "Try Some Buy Some,"..."

Oct. 3, 2003 Music Review by Marc Savlov

Stereolab

Reissues

"...ABC Music's second disc represents the group's mid-Nineties pop Picasso stage, where lounge, swing, and funk crept into their..."

Aug. 15, 2003 Music Review by Michael Chamy

Crank Up the Machine!

When Austin Symphony conductor Peter Bay leads the UT New Music Ensemble in a performance of George Antheil's Ballet mécanique, he'll not only be giving the 1920s work its Austin premiere, he'll be reviving the notorious masterpiece of one of the true bad boys of music.

"...with his share of actresses, dancers, and a baroness. Picasso, Satie, Joyce, Yeats, Milhaud, and Leger cheered at his..."

April 25, 2003 Arts Feature by Jerry Young

Short Cuts

Say yes to life, art, and Mogwai by becoming part of Cinqué Hicks' free daisy chain of digital art and free expression.

"...downsides, traditionally spawns its own artistic backlashes -- check Picasso's Guernica or the varied countercultural films of the Vietnam..."

April 18, 2003 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Prince of Prints

"...Dürer, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Piranesi, Fragonard, Blake, Matisse, Grosz, and Picasso, with many in pristine condition...."

April 4, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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