Tracking, Vacuuming, and Sinking Carbon at SXSW

Time to save the planet

"...to decarbonize the atmosphere, Ralph Keeling of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego told us. He..."

March 7, 2025 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Day Trips: The Lhakhang, El Paso

How a Bhutanese temple landed in an El Paso college campus

"...The Lhakhang was constructed by Bhutanese craftsmen for the Smithsonian Institution’s 2008 Folklife Festival in Washington, D.C...."

June 28, 2024 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Meet Me at Waterloo Records: Playing, Shopping, and Encountering Life-Changing Moments at the Heart of Austin Music

Influential Austin characters reminice on 40 years of playing, shopping, and encountering life-changing moments at the heart of Austin music

"...wedding. Debuting at 221 S. Lamar in 1982, Austin's Smithsonian library of sound relocated seven years later. Kunz pointed..."

April 8, 2022 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Bowie and Elvis tributes, Kelly Willis, Kool & the Gang, Unsane, and more live local shows

"...in 1969. Kool's bass is even displayed at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African American History and Culture..."

Jan. 7, 2022 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

The Luv Doc: Exposed Nipples

Unlike our president, a warm, sweaty, glitter-speckled nipple is nothing to be embarrassed about

"...would be willing to bet that somewhere in the Smithsonian there is an entire art photography exhibit devoted to..."

Oct. 26, 2018 Column by The Luv Doc

SXSW Panel Recap: Immerse Yourself: AR & VR in Museums and the Arts

An odd juxtaposition of VR experience and expert panel

"...of course the "Immerse Yourself" panel of Shanise Gholston (Smithsonian Institution), Katherine Lewis (Meister Seelig & Fein LLP), Will..."

March 16, 2018 SXSW Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Playback: Can Austin Be a Jazz City?

Two venues usher in a new era in Austin jazz. Plus music scholar Bill Bentley brings the Smithsonian Institution to bear at BookPeople.

"...2017), so when the books arm of Washington, D.C.'s Smithsonian Institution invited him to tell the story of rock..."

Feb. 16, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Five Recommended Art Events This Weekend

How can you lose with a sweet list to use before it's time to choose?

"...5) Here’s Sunday – O holy and secular day..."

Jan. 26, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The AggreGAYtor: August 22

What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.

"...The Smithsonian Institution is adding the “T” in its LGBTQ collection...."

Aug. 22, 2014 Qmmunity Post by David Estlund

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...The Smithsonian Institution has a collection of over 20,000 skulls...."

May 23, 2014 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

SXSW Interview: Blondie

CBGB survivors take on the hipster zombie apocalypse

"...that they’re shifting from music legend to full-blown cultural institution, they previewed their own Smithsonian Channel special, Blondie’s New..."

March 12, 2014 Music Post by Richard Whittaker

News Ticker: April 23

All the news that's fit to blog

"...Austin Parks and Recreation Department has partnered with the Smithsonian Institution to bring more exhibits to Austin. But why..."

April 23, 2013 News Post by Brandon Watson

Day Trips

The Franklin County Museum holds a treasure trove of artifacts and stories

"...222 eggs include three from birds now extinct. The Smithsonian Institution was so impressed with the collection that it..."

Nov. 18, 2011 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

As Above So Below: The Art of the Secret Society

This collection of arcana from various fraternal orders is seriously impressive

"...diverse and symbolic artifice as proffered by a one-man Smithsonian Institution...."

May 13, 2011 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Day Trips

Market Square in San Antonio brings a little bit of the Mexican border culture to Central Texas

"...the food is definitely Tex-Mex, and there is a Smithsonian-affiliated museum on the plaza. You don't need a passport..."

Jan. 21, 2011 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Wide-Angle Lens

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

"...one they would run in affiliation with an established institution or governmental body – almost from the moment the..."

Oct. 1, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Setting the Table

New director Ned Rifkin wants to bring more people to the feast that is the Blanton

"...What's a former undersecretary of art for the Smithsonian Institution doing running the Blanton Museum of Art? And..."

Oct. 2, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

A Claimed Space

Mexic-Arte blazed a trail in Texas by making a place for Mexican culture in a museum

"...Museums, a national advocacy organization for large and small institutions. The declaration comes from the description of its 2010..."

Aug. 14, 2009 Arts Feature by Belinda Acosta

Blanton Museum of Art

Ned Rifkin, former Smithsonian undersecretary of art, is the new director of the Blanton

"...of his resignation as undersecretary for art at the Smithsonian Institution in March 2008. One must presume then that..."

May 22, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum

Paleontologist author Richard Fortey comes across like an aging UK dreamboat with a twist of Indiana Jones' wry charisma

"...Natural history museums, such as the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C., and the American Museum of..."

Aug. 22, 2008 Books Review by Dan Oko

Landmarks: Enhancing Campus With Art

UT gets 28 large sculptures on long-term loan from the Metropolitan Museum

"...to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The New York institution is lending the University of Texas 28 mid- to..."

Aug. 15, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Hightower Report

The Luxury of Chinese Labor; and Taking Care of the Smithsonian

"...up exploitation, dishonesty, and greed. TAKING CARE OF THE SMITHSONIAN..."

Jan. 11, 2008 News Column by Jim Hightower

Food-o-File

You're not leaving the site till you eat all of your news

"...with TFR, including the American Folklife Festival at the Smithsonian Institution. She also helped us stage the successful Barbecue..."

Oct. 6, 2006 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Michael Frary: In Memoriam

Michael Frary, an influential Texas modernist, painter of Texas watercolors, and longtime UT-Austin art professor, has passed away at age 87

"...to the National Museum of American Art and the Smithsonian Institution. His painting Antelope Country was chosen by the..."

Sept. 9, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Short Cuts

Movin' on up: MoveOn.org, Steve Bilich, Bennie Klain, and Kyle Henry.

"...local filmmaker Steve Bilich and his involvement with the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian -- this..."

Dec. 5, 2003 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Short Cuts

Steve Bilich here, in Manhattan, and everywhere

"...short titled "Manhattan: A Picture Postcard," premiering at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian in Lower..."

Nov. 21, 2003 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Day Trips

A new exhibit at the New Braunfels Museum of Art & Music in Gruene documents the love and skill that musical-instrument makers around America put into their creations.

"...put into their creations. Hearts & Hands is a Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibit, built from the national museum's extensive..."

Sept. 12, 2003 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips

"...development of the Hispanic story-song with support from the Smithsonian Institution through March 9. And you can see local..."

Dec. 27, 2002 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

The Hightower Report

Bob Dole scolds us from his taxpayer-funded penthouse; and, "This police rescue is brought to you by: Hooters!"

"...of our national parks to the exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution -- the likes of Microsoft, GE, Nike, and..."

Dec. 13, 2002 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Hightower Report

Reliant CEO Finds Religion; Edison Has the Vapors

"...Baltimore grew a private museum of what the esteemed Smithsonian Institution now declares to be one of the three..."

June 21, 2002 News Column by Jim Hightower

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