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A wilted toy Hummer, detail of an installation by Margarita Cabrera on exhibit the Mexican American Cultural Center.

Van Ryzin: The threads of art, politics in intriguing exhibit at the MACC

The dangling threads are a signature. Margarita Cabrera’s sculptures made of vinyl or fabric are sewn together with thread left long and uncut. The shaggy threads make for a disconnect. At first glance, Cabrera’s colorful objects — familiar consumer products such as a waffle iron, a toy Hummer or a ...

A360 blasts: Art critic’s picks, May 23-29

SaturdayAustin New Music Co-op: Morton Feldman’s “Crippled Symmetry.”A major composer of “indeterminate music,” like his cohort John Cage, Morton Feldman pioneered a unique style of composition that slowly and quietly evolves and unfolds over long periods of time. Rothman took the rectangular fields of light and color of painter Mark ...

Trouble Puppet Theatre’s newest show, ‘The Cruel Circus,’ continues at Salvage Vanguard Theater.

This week’s Austin360 arts list, May 23-29

Theater and dance“12 Angry Men.” The City Theatre presents Reginald Rose’s classic courtroom drama. 8 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays, 5:30 p.m. Sundays, through June 9. $10-$29. The City Theatre, 3823 Airport Blvd. 524-2870, www.citytheatreaustin.org.“The Brothers Merlin.” Set in a carnival, with elements of comedy, magic and 1960s B-movie horror. 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday ...

Mike Reddy’s ‘Tattoo,’ ink on paper, is part of the exhibit ‘Red Left Blue Right’ at Grayduck Gallery.

Old-school 3-D adds sense of wonder to works in Grayduck Gallery exhibit

It is a universal truth that kids love 3-D glasses. Like holograms, smelly stickers and View-Masters, the red and blue paper versions pulled back a layer of the world that was otherwise invisible.The artists who use this vintage tech in the exhibit “Red Left Blue Right” now at Grayduck Gallery ...

Annette Di Meo Carlozzi is the curator at large at the Blanton Museum of Art.

Van Ryzin: Austin Arts Hall of Fame inducts 5 new honorees

With its in-the-moment mentality, Austin is sometimes wont to overlook its history. But given the enormous growth of the city’s cultural landscape, it’s important to recognize those who made the arts landscape what it is today — a percolating, diverse scene. Each year, the Austin Critics’ Table names several people ...

A row of gallery spaces at Canopy, the new gallery/studio in East Austin on Springdale Road.

East Austin artists, galleries launch ‘Frame’ events to showcase year-round efforts

With its droves of crowds and clatter of buzz, the East Austin Studio Tour is both a boon and a frustration for the neighborhood’s indie galleries.It’s a boon because the annual tour of artists’ studios, businesses, galleries and project spaces draws tens of thousands to the neighborhood and spotlights the ...

“Cadmium Red Above Black,” by Adolph Gottlieb, 1959. The painting is part of the permanent collection of the Blanton Museum of Art.

Ensemble to accompany painting at Blanton event

Justin Sherburn has one of those jobs that doesn’t really exist until you carve it out for yourself: He writes and performs live soundtracks for art projects. Whether it’s a vintage film, or a puppet drama, Sherburn and his band have found a niche in Austin and elsewhere, cranking out ...

This is one of the plates Ryan McKerley has created.

Art you can use every day on tour

Repeat customers who shop for pottery from local potter Keith Kreeger have that one mug, plate or bowl that they prefer to use each morning. If it’s in the dishwasher, they pull it out and wash it with their hands. Kreeger says they have developed an attachment to a pot ...

Pinaree Sanpitak’s ‘Temporary Insanity,’ an installation at AMOA-Arthouse at the Jones Center, includes pieces that response to sound.

Odd shapes respond to sound in new AMOA-Arthouse exhibit

Inside the second story of AMOA-Arthouse’s Jones Center are a hundred multi-colored bulbous shapes, covering the floor like an organized crowd of giant shellacked fruit. What, at first, looks like beanbags shaped like pears and lemons turns out to be something more delicate: sculptures that have a softness to them, ...

Stopschinski CD release comes amid a whirlwind of work

Peter Stopschinski is hopping around his South Austin living room on one foot, moving from the piano to his crutches. Breaking your ankle is one way of finding out just how many projects you’re working on, and Stopschinski has more spinning plates than almost anyone. “I just made a list ...

“Passage,” archival pigment print, by Elizabeth Chiles. “I’m interested in light… and that moment of presence and awakeness,” she says.

West Austin Studio Tour artist plays with light, nature and the cycles of life

There is an entire wall of green, dappled leaves in Elizabeth Chiles’ West Austin studio space — they’re two of her photos, blown up; the kind of art that transforms a room and brings the outside in. No doubt, when the West Austin Studio Tour (WEST) gets underway this weekend, ...

“Progress II,” painted fiberglass, by Luis Jiménez. Blanton Museum of Art permanent collection.

Blanton takes new approach to catalog, images

If, as the maxim goes, a picture is worth a thousand words, then what is the single image an art museum chooses to represent itself worth?Arguably, it’s priceless.A signature image speaks volumes about how an art museum chooses to define its aesthetic and public profile. Selecting the iconic work of ...

The cast of ‘Austin is a Place (You Are Here)’ developed the play after talking to Austinites about what the city means to them.

Theater piece dramatizes locals’ love of Austin

While Jenny Lavery and Derek Kolluri have both been in Austin for only a few years, they can say they know the city and its people pretty well. That’s because they’ve spent hours getting to know the locals — from kids to the homeless to city representatives, as well as ...

Steve Wiman, artist and owner of Uncommon Objects. Photo by Rino Pizzi as part of his “Transfiguration” project of artists’ portraits.

Van Ryzin: Artists alter their own portraits in Fusebox Festival event

Portraits of artists — and artist self-portraits — remain a veritable genre of their own. We know what Vincent van Gogh looked like from the more than 30 self-portraits he painted. And photographer Arnold Newman — honored in a retrospective currently at the Ransom Center — created some of the ...

;As Holy Sites Go/duet,’ by influential choreographer (and Austin resident) Deborah Hay, will be performed as part of the Fusebox Festival.

Arts community lights up with Fusebox Festival 2013

“I wanted something bigger than normal,” says Matt Teodori from Line Upon Line percussion, “but it’s certainly more than I bargained for.” Teodori is talking about his group’s new project, the American premiere of “Erewhon,” (air-uh-wahn), an obscure piece of music that might have been famous, if not for 150 ...

Van Ryzin: New museum director envisons art beyond museum’s walls

One thing’s for certain: The lagoon is compelling. Louis Grachos, the new executive director of AMOA-Arthouse, has played host several times recently to visiting artists, in town at his invitation to consider future projects. Laguna Gloria — the museum’s 12-acre lakeside site anchored by a 1916 historic villa — invariably ...

Judy Garland shows up in pieces like ‘Color Me.’

‘Last Resort’ reimagines scenes from vacations of the past

Because any fan of the visionary architect Buckminster Fuller holds a romantic hold on the shape of a geodesic dome, San Antonio artist Kelly O’Connor decided she’d take it one step further and make one. For people interested in the visions of early modern America, the image of a dome ...

The Meehan Perkins Duo will play at Fast Forward Austin on Saturday. The percussion pair will debut a new piece by composer Tristan Perich.

Fast Forward to be as eclectic as ever

As if organizing a music festival is not complicated enough, the young composers behind Fast Forward Austin decided this year to plan their daylong marathon of new music from thousands of miles away, across three cities and two continents. Most importantly, Ian Dicke (currently in Sweden), Robert Honstein (New York) ...

Nina Seely in the gallery of the Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum. She is executive director of the musuem. Alberto Martínez AMERICAN-STATESMAN

Umlauf museum quietly expands, with addition of sculptor’s home and studio

The windows are positioned perfectly — perfectly for an artist’s studio, that is. When Charles Umlauf built his studio on a bluff above Barton Springs Road in the 1950s, the sculptor positioned an expanse of windows facing north. And the artist placed the windows high on the wall so the ...

Artist Trent Doyle Hancock collaborated with Ballet Austin choreograper Stephen Mills and musician Graham Reynolds to create ‘Cult of Color: Call to Color.’

‘Cult of Color’ offers unusual mix of art, ballet

Trenton Doyle Hancock was caught completely by surprise the first time he saw “Cult of Color: Call to Color.” Though the Houston-based artist had spent years working with Ballet Austin artistic director Stephen Mills and Austin composer Graham Reynolds to create the highly unusual ballet based entirely on Hancock’s own ...