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Okay Mountain exhibit has angels
Okay Mountain arts collective builds global community the DIY way with its new exhibit “Bayanihan: Work from Manila.” The show was organized by Tim Brown, who went to Manila in 2007.
While Brown anted up his own money for the project, but he had some angels who helped make it a reality by donating to the cause.
The “Bayanihan” angels are:
Michael Chesser
Ann Daugherty
Jim Brown and Ann Franklin
Annette DiMeo Carlozzi
Kasey McCarty
Deborah Buse
Brad Parman
Elaine Green
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You can read more about the exhibit here.
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Rufus Wainwright, Woody Allen, John Waters, Sarah Vowell on Paramount’s 2009-2010 season
Woody Allen and his New Orleans Jazz Band, singer/songwriter Rufus Wainwright, humorist Sarah Vowell and camp legend John Waters are just a few of the acts coming to the Paramount Theatre during the 2009-2010 season.
Jazz great Wynton Marsalis, actress Diane Keaton and comedian Don Rickles are also on the schedule.
See the full schedule here.
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Lance Letscher book signing Thursday
For two decades, Austin artist Lance Letscher has mesmerized with his enigmatic, precisely cut collages made of old books and letters, album covers, recipe cards, receipt books and just about any other type of paper ephemera much of it culled from dumpsters behind used book and record stores.
Now, the University of Texas Press releases ‘Lance Letscher: Collage.’ the first full-length monograph of Letscher’s work with 160 color illustrations.
In Austin, Letscher is represented by D. Berman Gallery which frequently has Letscher’s work on view in its back gallery.
On Thursday, Dallas-based critic Charles Dee Mitchell, who wrote the introduction to Letscher’s book, interviews the artist before a book-signing.
7 p.m. Thursday
Austin Museum of Art. 823 Congress Ave.
www.amoa.org
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UT PAC announces 2009-2010 season; New director looks forward to new horizons
Famed tenor Jose Carreras, Mexican techno band Nortec Collective and jazz great Charles Lloyd are just a few of acts that will come to Austin as part of the University of Texas’ Performing Arts Center 2009-2010 season which will be announced today.
Also coming up is is the Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet, all male New Zealand dance troupe Black Grace and the Soweto Gospel Choir.
And seven-time Grammy winning Brazilian songwriter — and the former Brazilian minister of culture — Gilberto Gil will give solo acoustic concert.
See the full season at www.utpac.org.
Other events to look forward to include DJ Spooky’s ‘Terra Nova: Antarctic Suite,’ a multi-media performance which has Spooky — artist Paul Miller —weaving the sounds of melting ice he recorded in Antarctica into his trademark DJ’ing along with live music and video.
Though she’s just been on the job part-time for a few months, new PAC director Kathy Panoff has already had a hand in adding to the PAC’s next season. Thanks to Panoff, we’ll see some very progressive and worldly acts such as Black Grace and a concert featuring world music greats Bela Fleck, Edgar Meyer and Zakir Hussain.
“Austin is brimming with so much stuff to do that UT’s efforts really need to be distinguishing itself,” said Panoff in a recent phone interview. “We need to push envelope more. The academy has the intellectual responsibility to support new work.”
For her part, Panoff is pushing the envelope by booking events like a rare evening that will find comic book creative legends Art Spiegelman, Robert Crumb and Francoise Mouly. “I think it’s a great fit for Austin,” said Panoff. “We need to have more boundary blurring when we think about what a performing arts center can offer.”
Panoff joins UT after years as the first director of the Modlin Center for the Arts at the University of Richmond which opened in 1995. Prior to working at the Modlen, Panoff worked at the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, WGUC-FM, classical public radio from the University of Cincinnati, the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and the Bank Boston Celebrity Series. She holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in music.
A devoted supporter of new music, Panoff points with pride to the recent news that composer Steve Reich received the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in Music for his piece Double Sextet. The piece was co-commissioned by the Modlin Center under Panoff’s directorship and premiered there in 2008.
Panoff’s goals for the PAC include planning events that are “more intentionally integrated with the academic mission of the College of Fine Arts” and that involve students more.
“A lot of the programming should be done in consultation with the arts faculty,” she said. “We should be a reflection of the research interests of our faculty. And if you involve faculty, then you involve students.”
Photo by Ivori Zvorsky.
