266 Search Results for “August”

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    Cinema East’s Summer Program Concludes With Girl Walk // All Day

    Cinema East‘s 2012 outdoor summer film series has featured some of the best independent films of the Spring 2012 festival junket. Somebody Up There Likes Me, Gayby, Kid Thing, Sun Don’t Shine and King Kelly have all drawn very impressive numbers of hipsters, cinephiles and everyone in between to Yellow Jacket Stadium in East Austin. The final Cinema East screening of the summer is Girl Walk // All Day, a 71-minute dance music video choreographed to More …

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    Miró in (Almost) Full — at The National Gallery of Art

    Joan Miró was not Picasso. That’s the bad news. The good news was that he was Joan  Miró. The more of  Miró’s work that you see, the more you will appreciate that. You’ll see a lot of Joan  Miró in the Exhibition, Joan  Miró: The Ladder of Escape, which is at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC through August 12. If you are near Washington, don’t miss this show. Images More …

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    Can Creative Placemaking Be Proven? The (New) State of the Arguments

    It’s become a trope of creative placemaking, one of the most discussed new forms of art funding that I reported on last October for New Formula, that arts “assets” can transform, vitalize and invigorate future economic development. But is this true? Is there proof? This line of questioning has been very active – indeed hot – in the philanthropic and arts-analytic blogosphere in the past few months. The idea of creative More …

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    Belaire’s DIY Integrity – And a Free Show Saturday at Frontier Bar

    If you were cognizant of the Austin indie rock scene circa 2003-2010, then you have probably heard of Voxtrot. Admittedly, I was pretty obsessed with Voxtrot for a while; then, sometime in late 2007, I realized that two of Voxtrot’s founding members — Matt Simon and Jason Chronis — were moonlighting in a band called Belaire with Cari Palazzolo. Needless to say, I immediately went out and bought everything Belaire had released More …

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    Jimmy Mirikitani’s Nine Lives, at Eight Modern

    Jimmy Mirikitani could probably teach a workshop on the intricacies of crayon-color mixing and its affinity with Bic pen marks. Really—his crayon-color mixing is incredible, boasting layer-upon-layer of pigment that transforms into coral or fish scales.  His show of work on view at Eight Modern, 231 Delgado Street, through August 15th, follows on a documentary movie made about his life, The Cats of Mirikitani. It’s a subtle film about the complexities of More …

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    I Have No Clue What the Question is, but Die Antwoord is Dangerous

    Like most people I know who have been mentally damaged by big-corporation-cubicle-life one screen is just not enough for me.  You gotta have at least two and if your cortex is really dented you can juggle three (not counting the TV). The justification for this is of course computer screens make some tasks just plain easier;  for the current me those tasks being video-editing and interview transcribing. (Yes, I still More …

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    Maometto II at SFO: Structuralist Opera Design

    Maometto II tells a 15th-century story of a Byzantine-era war in which the Venetian city of Negroponte is laid siege by Turkish Sultan Mehmet II. Next Monday our audio podcast on Maometto will air on AdobeAirstreamRadio. Before then, you can catch this fantastic performance at Santa Fe Opera on July 18th. Future performance dates include July 27, August 2, 7 and 16.  Set and costume designer Jon Morrell created a More …

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    Interrogating Heroic-Ness – and Judy Chicago’s Cultural Powers

    July 7th at St. Francis Auditorium found artist Judy Chicago sharing a stage with art historian and queer theorist Jonathan D. Katz, to discuss a body of her work that she began in 1982 and had not shown publicly in more than three decades before the current exhibit, Reviewing PowerPlay, went on view at David Richard Gallery in Santa Fe, June 29th. (Through August 11.) The painting above sold to a More …

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    New Director – and New Gallery in Marfa – for Gerald Peters Gallery

    Mary Etherington is the new director of contemporary art at Gerald Peters Gallery in Santa Fe, filling a post that hasn’t had a permanent director for several years. She comes to Santa Fe from Marfa, Texas, where Peters is also opening a new store-front gallery of about 1800 square feet. Called GP Marfa, it is located at 124 East El Paso (between the Foodshark lunch restaurant and Arber & Son More …

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    9 Recommendations for the Dallas International Film Festival

    The Dallas International Film Festival presented by Boardwalk Auto Group Volkswagen Dealers will run April 12 – 22. DIFF celebrates its 6th year with 111 films representing 27 countries, 5 World Premieres, 1 North American Premiere, 1 U.S Premiere and 36 Texas Premieres. To purchase tickets and passes, telephone the Prekindle Box Office at 972-707-0838 or visit: www.DallasFilm.org. 5 BROKEN CAMERAS (Directors: Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi) Winner of the World More …

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    Christo Gets Thumbs-Up for Over the River Installation

    The Fremont county commissioners on March 27th granted the artist Christo permission for his Over the River project, involving fabric panels slated to horizontally cover a total of 5.9 miles of a 40-plus section of the Arkansas River, to go forward. The opening is scheduled for the first two weeks of August 2015. Christo and his late wife Jeanne-Claude began working on Over the River 16 years ago. The four-phase commissioners’ More …

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    Craig Anderson Resigns from Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe

    Craig Anderson has resigned as executive director of the Center for Contemporary Arts in Santa Fe to “focus on curatorial pursuits.” In what appears to inject a note of managerial uncertainty for an organization that has endured a lot of it,  “Anderson will continue to offer his services to CCA as an advisor and as a curator,” the board of directors announced in a press release. The last line of the release More …