Blanton Museum of Art Presents Mobile Concert and Dance Performance

The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin presents SoundSpace: Music and Dance, a special mobile concert and dance performance that will travel throughout the museum’s galleries on Saturday, October 30 at 2 p.m. and 3 p.m.

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Sign-up for the Museum Express Tour in Spring 2012

The announced closure of The Women’s Museum reminded us how much fun we had with the Museum Express Tour in the spring of 2010. So much fun that we would like to do it again in 2012.

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Dallas Art News Needs Reporters

Dallas Art News needs reporters. We are looking for individuals with a passion for art and the ability to write an honest review. Reporters should live in Texas (Austin, Dallas, El Paso, Fort Worth, Houston and San Antonio areas) and can attend local museums and galleries.

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Tiny Park in Austin to Open with Inaugural Exhibit

Tiny Park in Austin, Texas, opens this Friday, September 9, 2011, with inaugural exhibits by Deborah Stratman and Miguel Aragon. Tiny Park is at 607 ½ Genard Street, Austin, Texas.

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Blanton Museum Addes Twelve Contemporary Works to Collection

The Blanton Museuem of Art announced the acquisition of 12 new works for its contemporary collection. Artists include Melissa Miller, Jesse Amado and Dixie Friend Gay.

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New Austin Art Space to Open in September

Tiny Park, a new exhibition series and art space located in central Austin, will present contemporary art exhibitions, readings, and film screenings by local and national artists. Functioning out of the organizers’ home located at 607 ½ Genard Street, Tiny Park will also utilize outside venues for larger exhibitions and events, and will collaborate with guest curators and other galleries to present conceptually and aesthetically diverse works.

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Call to Dallas Artists: White Rock Lake Centennial Commemorative Sculpture Project

The City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs has announced a call to artists for the White Rock Lake Centennial Commemorative Sculpture project. The project is open to all professional artists not currently under contract with the City of Dallas Public Art Program or anyone currently employed by the City of Dallas. This is a gran opportunity to leave a lasting impression on our beautiful city.

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The Dallas Morning News Reports on Mr. Holga's JFK Project

Today, The Dallas Morning News reported on Mr. Holga’s JFK project. The project, titled Death By Holga: 11.22.63, is a journey to photograph people, places and things related to the Kennedy assassination in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.

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List of Blue Star Museum Program Participants

The National Endowment for the Arts in collaboration with Blue Star Families’ Operation Appreciation will honor millions of American service members with free admission to museum across the country. Starting Friday, May 27, 2011, over 125 museums in Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas will open their doors to active military personnel and their families. The Blue Star Museums program ends Sunday, September 4, 2011.

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Four Centuries of French Drawings at the Blanton Museum of Art

The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin is pleased to present Storied Past: Four Centuries of French Drawings from the Blanton Museum of Art from September 18 – December 31, 2011. Organized by The Blanton, and comprising fifty-eight works drawn primarily from the museum’s Suida-Manning Collection, the exhibition explores the expressive and technical range of French drawing through preliminary sketches, compositional studies, figure studies, and finished drawings from the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries.

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Rifkin Resigns as Director of the Blanton Museum of Art

Dr. Ned Rifkin, director of the Blanton Museum of Art, will resign from that position May 31 to commit full time to scholarly work and teaching at The University of Texas at Austin.

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A Knitted Wonderland Extended at the Blanton Museum of Art

By popular demand, A Knitted Wonderland, the current textile installation in The Blanton Museum’s Faulkner Plaza, will remain on view an additional week, through Friday, March 25. Response to the work has been so extraordinary, museum officials and the artist Magda Sayeg decided to extend the presentation as long as possible.

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Laura Moore Fine Art Studio — A working artist's studio and gallery. Check this one out in McKinney, Texas.
www.lauramooreart.com

Mr. Holga — Mr. Holga is a die-hard film photographer specializing in Holga cameras.
www.mrholga.com

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