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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Be a part of art history on Tues., Oct. 6
Want to be a part of art history?
Pablo Vargas Lugo invites you to be a part of his ‘Eclipses for Austin’ project, a commission from the Blanton Museum of Art. And to all participating volunteers, Vargas Lugo will give an original signed artwork that he has produced for the occasion.
The Mexican artist needs 350 volunteers to gather on Tuesday, Oct. 6, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., in the stands of UT’s Darrel K. Royal Texas Memorial Stadium.
In synchronicity, Vargas Lugo will direct the group to hold and flip black and white cards in sequence to simulate the 10 solar eclipses that will occur in Texas over the course of the next 340 years, The artist will create 10 videos of the event that will be exhibited at the Blanton in November.
‘Eclipses for Austin’
10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
UT Darrel K. Royal Texas Memorial Stadium
Lunch will also be provided for all volunteers. To play a part in the project email eclipsesforaustin@gmail.com
Watch a digital video sketch of the project:
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More art talkin’ on Thursday
There’s plenty of places to talk, or hear talking, about art Thursday night. In addition to performance art pioneer RoseLee Goldberg at Arthouse Thursday, Austin Museum of Art and the Creative Research Laboratory also have gallery talks.
Dean Young: Poetry Reading
Together artist Chuck Close and poet Bob Holman created composite portraits of their friends for the exhibition ‘A Couple of Ways of Doing Something.’ In response, poet Dean Young reads his work, which is largely influenced by the New York School of poets and combines aspects of experimentation and surrealism. His ‘Elegy on Toy Piano’ was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Doors at 6:30 pm., reading begins at 7 p.m. Austin Museum of Art, 823 Congress Ave. Free with Museum admission ($4-$5). No cost to museum members or UT students with ID.
Fall Faculty Exhibition: Gallery Talk
In conjunction with the current exhibit of faculty art work, John Yancey, John D. Murchison Regents Professor in Art, and chair of the University of Texas department of art and art history, will moderate a group discussion with several UT faculty artists about their work and process. Panelists will include Lee Chesney, Gloria Lee, Moyosore Okejidi and Dan Sutherland. 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. today. Creative Research Laboratory, 2832 E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Free.
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RoseLee Goldberg at Arthouse
In 1979, RoseLee Goldberg, art historian, critic, curator and author, blazed the trail for the study of performance art with her book ‘Performance Art from Futurism to the Present.’
Goldberg will speak at Arthouse, 700 Congress Ave., Thursday at 7 p.m. in a free lecture. See www.arthousetexas.org.
In 2004 — after several decades working with a broad range of interdisciplinary artists such as Laurie Anderson, Phillip Glass and Robert Wilson — Goldberg founded ‘Performa’, a multidisciplinary non-profit arts organization dedicated to live performance art. ‘Performa’ hosts a biennial festival of new visual art performance. ‘Performa 09’ runs Nov. 1-22.
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