UT Visual Arts Center

David Ellis creates a 'motion painting' – or is it several? – for the university

"...currently in residence at the University of Texas' new Visual Arts Center, paints simple things. David Ellis, who compares..."

April 23, 2010 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Top 10 Visual Arts of 2012

The emergence and re-emergence of arts spaces, events, venues, and museums dominated the year in Austin art

"...2) AMOA-ARTHOUSE How does an institution come out of a censorship-addled spate of firings, resignations,..."

Jan. 4, 2013 Arts Feature by Andy Campbell

UT: Major Arts Commissions Announced

Landmarks will get new mural, CoFA a Spanish-language opera

"...This time of year, most talk about the University of Texas concerns the football team, but..."

Aug. 4, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Visual Arts Top 10

Best Art, 1996

"...Best UT Archer M. Huntington Gallery Exhibition: Dennis Oppenheim. This internationally..."

Jan. 10, 1997 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

UT's Public Arts Program Debuts an Ambitious New Project

Landmarks presents Ann Hamilton’s O N E E V E R Y O N E at the Dell Medical School

"...two areas where the haziness gives way to sharp resolution: part of her face and her hands, held gingerly..."

Jan. 27, 2017 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

“Fool’s Romance / Books From Aeromoto” at the UT VAC

The interactivity of Aeromoto’s installation seizes the spirit of collective action seen in the response to the Mexico City earthquake

"...The "Fool's Romance/Books From Aeromoto" exhibition at UT's Visual Arts Center feels like the mixture of two..."

Oct. 6, 2017 Arts Review by Melany Jean

Melany Jean's Top 10 Fresh Takes in the Arts of 2017

Works of art and shows that were timely, intimate, funny, and awe-inspiring stood out over the year

"...expansive road trip provided a revelatory survey of the visual arts landscape statewide. The culminating exhibition gathered some of..."

Dec. 29, 2017 Arts Feature by Melany Jean

“Marta Lee & Anika Steppe: Kind of About Michigan” at UT VAC

A road trip to adolescent haunts in Michigan results in a touching collaboration that stops short of sentimentality

"...Familiarity breeds abstraction. Handwriting mutates into barely legible strings, longtime friends create an ever-abbreviating..."

Oct. 13, 2017 Arts Review by Melany Jean

'Natasha Bowdoin: The Daisy Argument'

A work that takes Lewis Carroll's text undersea and lets us drown in words

"...The Arcade, UT Visual Arts Center, 23rd & Trinity..."

Feb. 4, 2011 Arts Review by Robert Faires

"Moving Mountains: Extractive Landscapes of Peru" at the UT VAC

Edi Hirose's documentation of massive construction projects altering Peru's landscape can put the viewer in a state of visual shock

"...hole at the foot of a mountain, angular walls cut out of stone in layers like a ziggurat turned..."

Nov. 18, 2016 Arts Review by Sam Anderson-Ramos

Top 10 Favorite Arts-Related, Ah, Things From the Past 12 Months

A surfeit of visual-arts splendors and transcendent theatre elevate 2010

"...2) WALLY WORKMAN GALLERY Helmut Barnett's most recent Workman show exhibited the two-dimensional wonders..."

Jan. 7, 2011 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

“Tania Mouraud: Everyday Ogres” at UT VAC

The artist’s disturbing videos capture the ominous sense of an industrial intelligence beyond humans’ capacity to manage

"...From such a distance, it was impossible to make out any human presence, so the machinery seemed to be..."

Nov. 4, 2016 Arts Review by Sam Anderson-Ramos

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 the current..."

May 25, 2018 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Introducing the 2019 Class of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame

The stories behind the art transformers of this year's Hall of Fame inductees

"...never static. The work created in the performing and visual arts is always changing, ever evolving. That's because so..."

May 24, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Five Recommended Arts Events In Austin This Weekend

Mind the rain, yes, but don’t miss these public treats IRL

"...in order to become, say, a dental floss tycoon. But when four people move from Montana to Austin and..."

May 3, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

A Cabinet of Drawings

The Ransom Center reminds us of the power of seeing originals over reproductions

"...Harry Ransom Center..."

Dec. 19, 2008 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Five Recommended Arts Events This Weekend

The shows are going on. Go on, see these shows.

"...Because SXSW 2018 is over, yes. But that doesn’t mean all local creative entertainment’s suddenly gone..."

March 23, 2018 Arts Post

Arts Bits

Calling all artists for new Art in Public Places projects! Heather Barfield does England with Metamorphosex.

"...the Department of Aviation are seeking artwork for two outdoor pedestrian bridges at the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport. Interested artists..."

July 2, 2004 Arts Feature

Arts Bullets

Physical Plant Theater's first Garden Party raised more than $8,000, Ann Hume Wilson has been appointed associate director of the Blanton Museum of Art, Blue Lapis Light is exhibiting – and auctioning off – bras and breastplates for angels, and the city unveils a new mural at the Pan Am / A.B. Cantu Recreation Center

"...Theater's first Garden Party was not only a singularly beautiful and charming affair, it raised more than double the..."

June 4, 2004 Arts Feature

Five Recommended Arts Events This Weekend

Because you don’t want to miss a good Austin thing

"...1) If you like visual art that can knock you off your ass with..."

June 29, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Magic Flute

Twenty-first century tech doesn't serve Mozart's 18th century opera, but the human artists make magic

"...The Magic Flute..."

Sept. 21, 2007 Arts Review by Michael Kellerman

The Supper Club Gives Artists of Color Important Space to Be Seen and Heard

Elia Alba’s multifaceted project at the UT Visual Arts Center

"...No doubt a picture is worth a thousand words, but why stop there? Why not double the value by..."

Jan. 25, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Never Adult Moment

Artist Michael Sieben ollies his skater years into the Visual Arts Center's vaulted elegance

"...for action. The University of Texas graduate is the Visual Arts Center's artist-in-residence for spring 2014, and Sieben is..."

April 25, 2014 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

"The Blessings of the Mystery" Questions the Notion of Preservation and Ownership

A different West Texas at UT's Visual Arts Center

"...poetic, the subversive, and the speculative. Freed from the institutional confines of peer-review and verification, research-based art creates space..."

Oct. 29, 2021 Arts Feature by Vivie Behrens

Engagement

UT's new Visual Arts Center connects its art department with the world

"...fluorescent tubes, visitors will find that what's immediately striking about the building's new Visual Arts Center – built from..."

Sept. 24, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Critics Table Awards 2013

Arts writers raise their glasses to outstanding art in list of nominees

"...considered the most exceptional achievements in dance, classical music, visual arts, and theatre...."

May 24, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Table Banquet

The nominees for the 2013-2014 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...the Austin Critics Table have agreed on the most outstanding work in dance, classical music, visual art, and theatre..."

May 8, 2014 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Critics Name Cream of the Cultural Crop

The nominees for the 2017-18 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...and April 30, 2018, and settled on what was outstanding in dance, classical music, visual art, and theatre in..."

May 14, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Juan Capistran

Visiting artist's double exhibition at UT VAC digs deep into cultural identity

"...to have." Born in Guadalajara, Mexico, and raised in South Central Los Angeles, Capistran is deft in what we..."

Feb. 14, 2014 Arts Feature by Andy Campbell

Critics Table Tops at 25

The nominees for the 2016-17 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...the Austin Critics Table have settled on what was outstanding in dance, classical music, visual art, and theatre in..."

May 22, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

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