By Leslie Castro on October 24, 2012
I recently had the pleasure of curating a video show at Tiny Park Gallery in Austin, Texas titled the Time and Space of Calixto Ramirez. The exhibition was a show of video work produced by ar Calixto Ramirez, an artist I met in Mexico City who has been living and working there for the better part of [...]
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By Bill Davenport on June 19, 2012
Jack Risley, associate dean of academic affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), will be the next chair and Ruth Head Centennial Professor of the Department of Art and Art History at UT Austin, effective July 1, 2012. Amy Hauft, chair of the sculpture department at VCU, will also join the department as professor of art [...]
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By Bill Davenport on April 3, 2012
If you’re in Austin, or vaguely near Austin, don’t miss the talk by Mark Allen, founder of Machine Project in Los Angeles. It’s from 6:30-8pm in the UT Art Building, Rm. 1.110 Tonight, April 3, 2012. We need more of him: absorb his wisdom and form yourself in his image.
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By Claire Ruud on January 31, 2012
When I ask Mark Goodman, Graduate Academic Advisor in the Department of Art at the University of Austin, what he wishes he could tell his 25-year-old self about a career as a visual artist, he pauses. In his early twenties, he wasn’t an artist, he was a photographer. It was the early 70s. Photography wasn’t [...]
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