events + openings October 2011 |
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| Austin Museum of Art Saturday, October 1, 2 pm Public Tours First Saturdays All programs take place at AMOADowntown and are free with Museum admission unless otherwise noted. For more information go to http://www.amoa.org/ |
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| Visual Arts Center - UT October 4, 8 pm Southeast Lawn of the Art Building Fade In: Pandora's Box with live score As a rare treat, the VAC is pleased to showcase a new live score to accompany this iconic silent film. In partnership with the Butler School of Music, a small ensemble of UT jazz students, under the direction of faculty composer Dr. John Mills, will provide improvisational musical accompaniment based on written themes to the classic silent film. The new score is a contemporary homage to the musical zeitgeist of 1920s Germany and is not to be missed. |
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| Women & Their Work Thursday, October 6, 6-8 pm Opening Reception Margaret Meehan: Hystrionics and the Forgotten Arm |
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| Harry Ransom Center Thursday, October 6, 7 pm Curator Tour Molly Schwartzburg, Cline Curator of Literature, leads a tour of The Greenwich Village Bookshop Door: A Portal to Bohemia, 1920–1925. . |
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| Arthouse at the Jones Center Thursday, October 6, 7 pm Visiting Lecturer Series: Yasufumi Nakamori, Assistant Curator of Photography, Museum of Fine Arts Houston The Anxiety of Photography Nakamori's lecture will focus on the visual representation of cities in a crisis. Yasufumi Nakamori has organized numerous exhibitions of contemporary art and photography. He is also one of the founders of Arts Initiative Tokyo, the Tokyo-based not-for-profit contemporary art platform. Presented with the Austin Museum of Art. |
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| West End 1st Thursday October 6 1st Thursday Gallery Night Open until 8 pm |
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| Blanton Museum of Art October 7, 6-10:30 pm B scene B scene takes place on the first Friday of every other month. Fees/Admission: $5 for members/$12 for all others |
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| Visual Arts Center - UT October 7, 7 pm Visual Arts Center Sound + Vision: Disco Desert by Austin Video Bee Setting out to capture the surreality, mutability, and possibility found in the West Texas landscape, Austin Video Bee (AVB) traveled to Presidio, Texas and the adjacent area to collect footage and construct a temporary shelter that doubles as a projection structure for this edition of Sound + Vision. Using the power of the five-person collective to gather a multitude of desert images and sounds, AVB translated and reassembled the footage, augmenting it in post-production, to draw out the fantastic elements of the landscape. The installation will fill the interior space with projections and sound to envelop the VAC viewer in an immersive sensory experience. |
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| Austin Museum of Art October 8, 12-4 pm Second Saturdays are for Families Drop in and create! $10 per family; $5 member families |
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| Wally Workman Gallery Saturday, October 8, 6-8 pm Opening Reception Fatima Ronquillo | Devotion |
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| Arthouse at the Jones Center October 12, 6 pm Arthouse Talks: Andrea Mellard on The Anxiety of Photography The Anxiety of Photography Andrea Mellard will lead an insightful 20 minute talk on the current exhibition, The Anxiety of Photography. Presented with the Austin Museum of Art. |
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| Visual Arts Center - UT October 12, 8 pm Center Space Special performance by Ezra Masch In conjunction with the Center Space exhibition Music of the Spheres, Center Space Project presents a very special performance by MFA Studio student Ezra Masch. This rousing and enveloping production is in tandem with his exhibition, featuring his modified Fender Rhodes Electric Stage Piano wired to a matrix of seventy-three colorful electric lights. |
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| AMOA - Laguna Gloria October 13, 6-9 pm La Dolce Vita EVENT TICKET: $125 AMOA MEMBER TICKET: $100 More information |
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| Harry Ransom Center Thursday, October 13, 7 pm Discussion Mike Barsanti and Rob Berry discuss Ulysses "Seen," their graphic novel adaptation of James Joyce's Ulysses, and issues of copyright and censorship in the twenty-first century. |
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| Gallery Shoal Creek Friday, October 14, 6-8 pm Opening reception THE SUM OF ALL PARTS / New works by Shawn Camp |
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| Arthouse at the Jones Center October 18 Visual Studies: Special Topics in Contemporary Art A Three-Part Course* for Adults by Ben Ruggiero, Lecturer, Studio Art: Photography, Texas State University, San Marcos *Second and Third classes take place on November 15 and December 13. Presented with the Austin Museum of Art. |
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| Visual Arts Center - UT October 19, 5 pm Vaulted Gallery Music in Architecture — Architecture in Music: The Infinite Space Between By Joshua Lantzy, Kirsten Volness and Jacob Richman With new and traditional compositional techniques and physical and sonic materials, and deeper notions of "performance" in hand, the School of Architecture and the Butler School of Music created the MIA-AIM Design and Composition. Their site-specific project, a winning selection, creates an architectural musical instrument exploring how the movement of people through a large space, as well as their movements in relationship to one another, can be utilized to create music. |
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| Visual Arts Center - UT October 20, 12 pm The Arcade Lunch Break: Red Without Blue This special edition is featured in conjunction with the exhibition Queer State(s). Join us for an artistic and groundbreaking portrayal of gender, identity, and the unswerving bond of twinship despite transformation. An honest portrayal of a family in turmoil, Red Without Blue follows a pair of identical twins as one transitions from male to female. Watch this fiercely honest documentary directed by Brooke Sebold, Benita Sills, and Todd Sills, and stay for a post-film conversation with representatives from The Gender and Sexuality Center afterwards. |
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| Visual Arts Center - UT October 22, 10am – 5pm Art Building, Room 1.120 Queer State(s): A Symposium This symposium brings together scholars and critics to discuss a variety of themes connected to the exhibition Queer State(s). |
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| Davis Gallery Saturday, October 22, 7-9 pm Opening reception Edwards County: Malou Flato |  |
| Women & Their Work Wednesday, October 26, 7-8 pm Emotional Excess and the Politics of Hysteria An Evening of Conversation Margaret Meehan: Hystrionics and the Forgotten Arm Read more |
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| Arthouse at the Jones Center Wednesday, October 26, 7:30pm How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster? Rooftop Architecture Film Series Free admission for Arthouse members $10 for non-members Read more |
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| Visual Arts Center - UT October 27, 6:30 pm Art Building, Room 1.102 Selected films by Jack Smith, a special screening presented in conjunction with the exhibition, Queer State(s) Jack Smith was one of the most accomplished and influential underground artists from the 1960s to the 1980s, and was a key figure in the cultural history of Downtown New York film, performance, and art. From the late 1950s until his death from AIDS in 1989, Smith was chiefly recognized for his work in film and performance. Innovative and idiosyncratic, Smith explored and developed a deceptively frivolous camp aesthetic, importing allusions to B-Grade Hollywood films and elements of social and political critique into the arena of high art. Less celebrated than the many people he inspired, Smith's multi-media influence is evident in the works of a broad segment of the American Avant Garde, especially in the work of Andy Warhol, Ken Jacobs, John Waters, George Kuchar, Scott and Beth B. |
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| Harry Ransom Center Thursday, October 27, 7 pm Lecture Associate curator of Art Peter Mears discusses Frida Kahlo's Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird, which resides in the Ransom Center's collection. |
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