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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
"...one of the country's leading and largest university art museums. It will be interesting to see what the Blanton..."

Dec. 7, 2007 Arts Feature by Rachel Cook

Off the Record
Max Dropout's garage-punk festival levels Beerland to Ground Zero; David Letterman hosts a Late Show spectacular at Antone's; What Made Milwaukee Famous grapples with success on second LP
"...Skatepark of Austin Friday afternoon, while Denton's the Wax Museums and surf punks Bleach Boys, along with a slew..."

Dec. 7, 2007 Music Column by Austin Powell

Love Craft
Stitch Austin, your rockin' showplace for indie design
"...full of tiny masterpieces. Perhaps craft is to art museums what the X Games are to the NFL: the..."

Nov. 9, 2007 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

Day Trips
Tours of Georgia O'Keeffe's home and studio in Abiquiu, N.M., allow guests unique insight into her art and life
"...or the bunkhouse to enjoy the hiking trails and museums or to eat in the dining hall. The bus..."

Nov. 9, 2007 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

The 2007 Arthouse Texas Prize Exhibition
This year's five prize finalists all question what civilized society is, in Texas and elsewhere
"...Or, more to the point, Texas wonders why galleries, museums, and public spaces aren't exhibiting, encouraging, and supporting more..."

Sept. 28, 2007 Arts Review by Nikki Moore

Culture Flash!
Austin Museum Day turns 10, and TCA names a new director
"...here again this Sunday, Sept. 23, with 30 area museums and sites offering free admission all day. Take your..."

Sept. 21, 2007 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Austin's Cultural Makeover: The Next Stage
How much closer we are to getting the cultural wonderland we imagined 10 years ago
"...plans were hatched for nine new or newly renovated museums, two new performing arts organization headquarters, one new theatre..."

Sept. 7, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Happenings
Aug. 30-Sept. 6
"...closed Saturday-Monday, Sept. 1-3. City administrative offices, cultural-arts facilities, museums, recreation and senior activity centers, and art schools: Monday,..."

Aug. 31, 2007 News Feature

The Great Man
Kate Christensen's fourth novel is reminiscent of that particular breed that can only be weaved and wielded by a true artisan
"...swollen nipples, and eroticized lips hung in the big-time museums the world over. A well-known womanizer and vehement critic..."

Aug. 17, 2007 Books Review by Sofia Resnick

Venus: Shocking Blue & Cabanel
The Shocking Blue scores Alexandre Cabanel's Birth of Venus

July 20, 2007 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

TV Eye
The Territory
"...and media art outside the film-festival circuit or fine-art museums...."

June 22, 2007 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Greenbacks for Green Space
City moves to make development pay more for parks
"...as youth and senior services, athletic leagues, golf courses, museums, pools and swim lessons, summer day camps, tennis courts,..."

May 4, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Holywood Squares?
A local church rents out the Alamo Drafthouse South for a conference on Christians and film
"...for his junior year of high school, he "discovered museums and film and was overwhelmed with beauty and the..."

April 13, 2007 Screens Feature by Toddy Burton

Larger Than Life
The late Luis Jiménez created art on a grand scale – and lived life that way, too
"...it in a later interview, "the limited audience that museums and galleries attracted," so in 1972, when he received..."

March 30, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Site Unseen
"America Starts Here" shows how the pioneering artistic team of Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler made the overlooked visible
"...primarily for commercial galleries or at the invitation of museums. In many ways, Ericson and Ziegler approached their work..."

March 23, 2007 Arts Feature by Amanda Douberley

Electric Sheep Co. of 'Second Life'
Herding pixels for fun and profit
"...sprawling landscape – houses, malls, castles, casinos, dance clubs, museums, entire cities – has been built by the players..."

March 2, 2007 Screens Feature by Memory Harker

Community Access
The groundbreaking Austin Past and Present archive projects means free museums, movies, music, and more all over town

March 2, 2007 Screens Feature by Nora Ankrum

Event Menu
Feb. 16-22
"...coffee" and have recently developed this traveling presentation for museums and libraries around the country. Ruta Maya will serve..."

Feb. 16, 2007 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

After a Fashion
Throw down after throw down, 2006 was one biiiig par-tay for your Style Avatar
"...the top that raise the millions so that the museums, opera, symphony, ballet, and theatres can open their doors..."

Dec. 29, 2006 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Curatorial Reportage
The Blanton Museum's ever-shifting WorkSpace offers up- to-the-minute views of what's happening in contemporary art
"...journals, exhibition catalogs, and scholarly texts; viewing exhibitions in museums and galleries; doing studio visits with artists; and conversing..."

Nov. 24, 2006 Arts Feature by Amanda Douberley

Close to Outrage
A letter sent to city leadership by Sarah Campbell, who recently retired from a 20-year career with the city's Parks & Recreation Department, where she was a senior planner.
"...mostly resulted in the creation of parks, open spaces, museums and aquaria, and similar cultural and community facilities that..."

Nov. 24, 2006 News Feature

Beyond the Blockbuster
With "Luca Cambiaso, 1527-1585," the Blanton bucks the trend toward superstar exhibitions and spotlights a lost Renaissance master
"...the power of each dollar by suggesting that various museums and collectors close to one another consolidate their deliveries...."

Oct. 20, 2006 Arts Feature by Nikki Moore

To Your Health
Do creases in the earlobe signify potential heart problems?
"...sculptures from the Greek and Roman era in the museums of Rome, and it may be a useful marker..."

Sept. 15, 2006 Column by James Heffley, Ph.D.

When There's Motion, but No Pictures
Guest Artistic Director Ed Halter adjusts Cinematexas' experimental aim
"...so many places show this stuff – the major museums and various festivals and so forth – that you..."

Sept. 15, 2006 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Culture Flash!
Austin museums want you, and Richard Buckley conducts in the Windy City
"...free! The Austin Museum Partnership, a consortium of local museums, ranging from arts institutions to botanical gardens to our..."

Sept. 8, 2006 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Are You Experienced?
In a new ad campaign, the Blanton redefines 'art,' raising questions about what it means
"...the Blanton puts it in a unique position among museums today: first, in its engagement of the public through..."

June 30, 2006 Arts Feature by Nikki Moore

Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
"...Waste Facility, the Austin Public Library, and all city-run museums, recreation, and senior activity centers will be closed July..."

June 30, 2006 News Feature

A Curiosity, Tough to Crack
The AFS Texas Documentary Tour: Don Bernier's 'In a Nutshell: A Portrait of Elizabeth Tashjian'
"...a much tamer documentary about private collections in roadside museums. Then they encountered Elizabeth Tashjian, who, at 89, physically..."

June 9, 2006 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Letters at 3AM: Effete!
It's never too late to see yourself as you are
"...to pray at the cathedral and go to the museums. But these men, they were about to do what..."

April 14, 2006 Column by Michael Ventura

Art Outside
Art Outside reinvents the art show by placing art outside of its normal context, in a wood filled with 120 plots, each occupied by a different visual artist
"...Art is that stuff that hangs in galleries and museums, yes? The stuff that adorns the walls in waiting..."

March 24, 2006 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

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