events + openings April 2012 |
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| Visual Arts Center - UT April 3, 6:30 pm Art Building, Room 1.110 Art in Practice: Mark Allen, Executive Director of Machine Project This edition of Art in Practice invites Mark Allen, an artist, educator, and curator based in Los Angeles and the founder and executive director of Machine Project. Under his direction, Machine Project has produced over 500 events, workshops and installations. He is an Associate Professor of Art at Pomona College and serves on the Board of Directors of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Mark received his MFA in Visual Art from the California Institute of the Arts. |
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| West End 1st Thursday April 5 1st Thursday Gallery Night Open until 8 pm |
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| Harry Ransom Center Thursday, April 19, 7 pm Studio 6A, Communication Center Building B The King James Bible: Its History and Influence HARRY RANSOM LECTURE Tom Smith, filmmaker and special effects pioneer, discusses his work on films including Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), E.T. (1982), Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (1982), and Return of the Jedi (1983). Ransom Center members receive complimentary parking and priority entry. |
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| Visual Arts Center - UT April 11, noon The Arcade Lunch Break: John Baldessari: The Way We Do Art Now and Other Sacred Tales (1973, NR) Lunch Break is a daytime series of carefully selected films that will satisfy your hunger for fresh perspectives on the exhibitions on view. For this edition, the VAC presents John Baldessari's, The Way We Do Art Now and Other Sacred Tales. In keeping with Baldessari's conscious miscommunication and well-known pun making, this collection contains a series of parables concerning modes of representation, language and cognition. |
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| AMOA - Laguna Gloria April 14, 12-4 pm Laguna Gloria Music Meets Art at Laguna Gloria We're bringing music and art together with Mr. Johnny & Sharon! Enjoy fun, family performances at 1pm and 2pm, and make your own music-inspired artwork to take home! Drop in and create! $10 per family; $5 member families |
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| Women & Their Work April 14, 8-11pm Spring Benefit Bash Event Sponsorships begin at $300 + $10,000: Purchase at http://womenandtheirwork.org or 512.477.1064 or in the Gallery Shop which is open M-F 10-6pm & Sat. 12-5pm at 1710 Lavaca, Austin, TX 78701. Read more |
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| Visual Arts Center - UT April 17, 6:30 pm Art Building, Room 1.110 Two Ships Passing with David Heymann, Architect and Harwell Hamilton Harris Regents Professor in the School of Architecture, UT Austin The past fifty years have seen an increase in responses to the idea of context, whether it be a room, institution, built environment, or landscape. The second Two Ships Passing event presents a conversation about ways of thinking about and reacting to landscapes, whether through architecture, performance, photography, or art history (among other possibilities). |
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| Harry Ransom Center Thursday, April 26, 7 pm The King James Bible: Its History and Influence LECTURE Helen Moore, editor of Manifold Greatness: The Making of the King James Bible and Fellow and Tutor in English at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, speaks about the history of the King James translation. A reception follows. Co-sponsored by Corpus Christi College, Oxford and The Wall Street Journal. |
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