Three Exhibits To See in January. David Hockney: A Bigger Exhibition Through January 20, 2014 Years, they start passing faster than they used to. I believe it was 2010 when I went with my New York pal JB to Pace Gallery in Chelsea to see what David Hockney was making of his tooling around in Yorkshire, England then externalizing the landscape into frames of paint. Huge canvases, multiple parts. The More …
Our age has a “my sister-my daughter” relationship with celebrity. Is it our twin or our spawn? An interesting question deals not in the obvious worshipful condition, but in how to define a role – and a difference – for art objects in an image- and celebrity-inebriated society like ours. Walter Benjamin wrote the famous Mechanical Reproduction essay back in 1928, but even a seer like him couldn’t forsee Steve More …
First of all, HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! So, for those of you in the Austin area whose New Year’s resolution was to see more live music, Free Week was designed just for you. What better way is there to begin a new year than by expanding your musical horizons? It is a surefire way to start 2013 off by being happy and free. Free Week is without a doubt one of More …
SFUAD BFA Thesis Show Useless Things & Other Stuff, the SFUAD BFA Thesis show, opened on November 30th, with a solo show by Sandra Halpin who is the only graduate this semester from Santa Fe University of Art and Design’s BFA program. Halpin filled the Southwest Annex with four video installations, some Kool-Aid, a trough of goldfish and well, useless things. Reporting as her classmate, Halpin’s studio was notoriously swallowed all semester by what More …
The Denver Art Museum is the only scheduled U.S. venue in 2012 for two exhibitions imagined as crowd-sources: Yves Saint Laurent: The Retrospective, and Becoming Van Gogh. One of these exhibitions will be the most well attended in DAM history. My prediction? Yves Saint Laurent, which opens March 25 and runs through July 8, 2012, will feature 200 haute couture garments, photographs, drawings and films will draw more crowds to Denver More …
I cannot recall a single calendar year in which Austin was privy to a deep well of varied, talented musicians. If 2011 was not the best year for our local, independent music scene here in Austin, it came damn close. What I came to appreciate the most about the independent music scene here in Austin is how supportive the bands are of each other. (I have played in enough bands More …
Opening tomorrow in New York at CUE Art Foundation, a show of work by artist Sarah Canright, curated by Nic Nicosia. Nic Nicosia writes of the curatorial assignment: “I was to select an artist (preferably an under recognized artist) who didn’t have any gallery affiliation, has not had any recent museum shows and has not had a show in NYC for at least 10 years. I was introduced to Sarah Canright who teaches More …
A Klimt landscape that that hadn’t been since the late 1930’s by the man whose family owned it before the Nazi Era sold for $40 million last Wednesday night at Sotheby’s in New York. The sale affirmed a truth of today’s art market, that pictures seized during the Nazi Era which are restituted to their owners and brought “fresh” to auction can bring huge prices when they’re put up for More …
AdobeAirstream’s “picks” — art events and happenings in Austin, Santa Fe, and Denver for October 14-23, 2011. AUSTIN October 14 Yadir Quintana and Matthew Schenning exhibits open at Champion, 800 Brazos St, at E 8th St, through November 12th, 7-9pm. B Scene: Afrobeat, a party, at the Blanton Museum, 2 San Jacinto Blvd, south of E 1st St, 6-10pm, $12. Opening Reception! Opening: The Austin Series, Part IV – Featuring More …
In London on June 22, a landscape by Egon Schiele set a world auction record price for the Austrian artist (1890-1918), bringing 22 million pounds (approx. $40 million). The painting, House with Laundry (Suburb II), was sold by the Rudolf Leopold Museum in Vienna, which will use the proceeds to cover costs in settling claims by Jewish families who were the original owners of works in the museum’s collection that More …
It must have been fate. The single object that rose from the mix of hundreds of objects and pictures and posters from the property of Dennis Hopper was a 1972 blue Mao print by Andy Warhol that Hopper put two bullets through. The prevailing legend is that Hopper woke up in the middle of the night and, in a fit of paranoia that seems lifted from a shooting script, he More …
Modern living can often feel like a sensorial circus. And according to an excerpt at Sensory Crossover: Synesthesia in American Art, one of every twenty-three people experience what could be considered a heightened version of this spectacle. Synesthesia, the condition, as well as the exhibit, refers to a sensory crossover. For example, you could experience “colored hearing,” wherein a sound resonates not only in your ear but as a specific More …