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By Christina Patoski on January 1, 2013
At this point in the winter calendar, I’m ready to be transported far from all things Western. Noble Change: Tantric Art of the High Himalaya, a small, stunning exhibit at the Crow Collection of Asian Art in Dallas, fits the bill perfectly. Eleven tantric Buddha sculptures dating from the late 17th through the early 20th [...]
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By Claire Ruud on June 27, 2012
There’s been a lot of management turnover within top tier Texas museums over the past year. [Quick recap: Just 13 months ago, Simone Wicha replaced Ned Rifkin as Director of the Blanton Museum of Art after Rifkin had spent only two years in the post. Five months later, Maxwell Anderson became the new Director of [...]
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By Leslie Castro on April 12, 2012
I had the incredible pleasure of visiting the studio of artist Pablo Vargas-Lugo a little more than one week ago. Pablo’s studio is temporarily nestled in a corner of the Museo El Eco, in the San Rafael neighborhood of Mexico City, just south of the downtown historic district. The Museum El Eco is also the [...]
Posted in LMC y Pensamientos Pochosos, Uncategorized | Tagged blanton museum of art, Eclipses for Austin, Intemperie, Museo Experimental El Eco, Pablo Vargas-Lugo |
By Ryan Sachetta on January 9, 2012
A few weeks ago, my girlfriend and I began binge viewing art documentaries. We started with Herb and Dorothy (2008), the story of an elderly middle-class couple whose private collection of art, amassed over 50 years, directly challenges the preconceived notions of what a prominent New York City art collector looks like. Herb, a life-long [...]
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By Glasstire on November 21, 2011
Wherever we go in Texas, we always make time for the museum gift shops. Our museum shops reliably have some of the most fun, unique and affordable gifts (for yourself and others) to be found. We’ve rounded up some of the best of them this year. For more shopping delight, be sure to check our [...]
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By Bill Davenport on August 4, 2011
UT’s Blanton Museum drew the short straw and won twelve works by celebrated Texas artists through a lottery organized by the Dallas Museum of art to distribute some of Richard and Nona Barrett’s extensive collection to museums across the state. In 2003, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston held a lottery to re-gift 229 of the [...]
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By Bill Davenport on July 18, 2011
Austin’s lone standing arts journalist, Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, reports that Austin’s Blanton Museum of Art is one of seven recipients of grants awarded by the Texas Women for the Arts, a fundraising circle of the Texas Cultural Trust. The Blanton received $30,000 for its Art Central program, an education initiative for at-risk elementary students. [...]
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By Claire Ruud on June 10, 2011
(To read Arthouse and the Dallas Contemporary: Crunching the Numbers, Part I, click here.) In 2009, the Austin Museum of Art (AMOA) cancelled its plans for a new building downtown for the third time. Last December, AMOA sold the land on which it had been planning to build and in February it announced it would [...]
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