Saturday, May 25, 2013 | 11:06 p.m.
In partnership with: statesman.com
Hi, (not you?) | Member Center | Sign Out
Find fun things to doin the Austin, TX area
Back to Jeanne Claire van Ryzin's profile
Stories by Jeanne Claire van Ryzin
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 ...
How art evolved during Civil War
The invention of photography shortly before the Civil War meant that for the first time in history, the general public gained eyewitness knowledge of the horrors of war.Images of battlefield carnage, of piles of dead bodies and of the gaunt faces of hungry soldiers captured by photographers such as Matthew ...
Artist Jimmy Jalapeeno remembered for Hill Country landscapes
Austin artist Albert James Bonar — who was known to his friends and signed his paintings as Jimmy Jalapeeno — died Tuesday after a long battle with cancer. He was 66. Born Jan. 5, 1947, in Bryan, Bonar was proud of saying he was a lifelong Texas resident but for ...
2012-2013 Austin Critics' Table Awards nominations
Nominations for the 2012-2013 Austin Critics' Table are announced.
Blanton Museum nets Kress Foundation fellowship
UT's Blanton Museum of Art one of seven to receive a Kress Foundation fellowship grant.
Weekend arts picks: New Music Co-op plays Feldman’s “Crippled Symmetry”
Austin New Music Co-op members Sarah Dutcher, Nick Hennies and Francois Minaux will play the rarely performed piece.
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 ...
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 ...
AMOA-Arthouse announces Jones Center summer exhibits
AMOA-Arthouse, with new leadership in place, has announced three exhibits for this summer at the museum’s Jones Center location at 700 Congress Ave. All of the exhibits run July 14-Sept. 1 “Please: An exhibition by Devon Dikeou,” “The Syphilis of Sisyphus: An exhibition by Mary Reid Kelley with Patrick Kelley” ...
Long Center launches its own Broadway series
The Long Center for the Performing Arts is launching its own series of touring Broadway shows. Long Center officials say that audience surveys indicate a demand for Broadway fare. A four show series starts with “A Chorus Line,” July 24-28. “Chorus Line” is a produced by Houston’s Theatre Under the ...
A360 blasts: Art picks for May 16-22
Thursday-Saturday“Austin Latino New Play Festival.” Teatro Vivo’s new play festival has drawn standing-room-only crowds for several years now. Perhaps that’s because the staged readings of new plays offer a chance for the audience to provide feedback afterward and participate in the process. On Thursday, it’s “El Jardin Viviente” by Ariana ...
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 ...
Arts picks, May 9-15
Thursday through Sunday“The Cruel Circus.” A new work of dark whimsy from the award-winning Trouble Puppet Theater. A mysterious tinkerer brings to life an entire world of strange circus performers — some polished and complete, some clumsy and misshapen — then disappears, leaving the circus folk to make sense of ...
‘Dance’ explores art of everyday movement
“This lady is crazy,” says Don Anderson, a municipal Austin sanitation worker in “Trash Dance,” the documentary by Austin filmmaker Andrew Garrison. “How are you going to make trucks dance? Trucks don’t dance.” Austin choreographer Allison Orr indeed made the trucks dance. Anderson is one of 25 sanitation workers who ...
Arts picks, May 2-8
Saturday and SundayWest Austin Studio Tour. More the 100 artists participate in this open-studio tour, the west side companion to the long-standing East Austin Studio Tour. 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Various locations west of IH-35, east of Mopac, south of Hwy. 183 and north of Ben ...
Best bets, April 28
Arts Ahead: Critic’s Picks for the Upcoming Week Art Gallery Shoal Creek. The longtime Gallery Shoal Creek celebrates its new location in East Austin in the with Flatbed building with an exhibit featuring gallery artists Jennifer Ball, Gregg Kreutz and Tony Saladino. Along with Gallery Shoal Creek, the Flatbed building ...
Best bets, April 27
To celebrate its half-century mark, the Blanton Museum of Art is staging a free, 12-hour multi-disciplinary family-friendly festival.Throughout the day there will be special tours of Blanton’s current exhibit, “Through the Eyes of Texas: Masterworks from Alumni Collections” art exhibition and permanent collection.Art-making stations include temporary tattoos and T-shirt screen ...
Critics’ picks for May
Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, arts writer‘Priscilla Queen of the Desert,’ May 8-12The Tony Award-winning Broadway musical based on the Academy Award-winning film comes to Austin for the first time. Three offbeat gay friends pile into a battered yet distinctly old pink bus — dubbed “Priscilla” — and head out over ...
Arts picks, April 25-28
Thursday-SundayGounod’s “Faust.” Austin Lyric Opera presents a new production of Gounod’s “Faust,” with the classic battle between good and evil set in contemporary times in a show designed and directed by Bernard Uzan. Tenor Jonathan Boyd performs the role of Faust. Richard Buckley conducts. 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Saturday, 3 ...
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 ...
© 2013 Cox Media Group. By using this website,
you accept the terms of our Visitor Agreement and Privacy Policy, and understand your options regarding Ad Choices
.
You're Almost Done!
Select a display name and password
{* #socialRegistrationForm *} {* socialRegistration_displayName *} {* socialRegistration_emailAddress *} {* traditionalRegistration_password *} {* traditionalRegistration_passwordConfirm *}Tell us about yourself
{* registration_firstName *} {* registration_lastName *} {* registration_postalZip *} {* registration_birthday *} {* registration_gender *} {* agreeToTerms *}