Spring has officially sprung and, in Texas, that usually means we only have a few more weeks until we start complaining about the heat and avoid going outside. So get…
Contemporary Austin
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"There’s no area in the world that has a lock on the great people, or on the shit people, either."
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Mark Mothersbaugh’s retrospective at the Contemporary Austin opens February 13, and on that very evening, Mothersbaugh himself will host a multi-media night at the Alamo Drafthouse on South Lamar. The evening…
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To experience art in the everyday requires a willful suspension of disbelief about that experience.
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POSTPONED: Before the Halloween Parties, Catch up on Some Sleep with Andy Warhol
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonIf you’ve never seen more than a still or a clip from Andy Warhol’s 1963 avant-garde film Sleep, now is your chance to experience the full 5 ½ hour epic…
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“We know how much you love for us to talk about things we don’t like.”
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The winners of the 2014-2015 Austin Critics’ Table Awards, given by an informal group of arts writers from the Austin American-Statesman and the Austin Chronicle, were announced last night. The…
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The art apocalypse continues apace. The Contemporary Austin has commissioned six well-known artists to create bespoke…ahem… paddleboards to be auctioned off at the non-profit’s fundraising art dinner on May 9.…
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Whatever one thinks of Top-Whatever lists and segregating women from men for the sake of online clicks, we are pleased to see two Houstonians and one Austinite on Artnet’s new…
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The Contemporary in Austin–all three of its locations–will play host to the first-ever institutional show of Tom Sachs works in Texas. Beginning in January, Boombox Retrospective 1999-2015 will spread out…
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Contemporary Austin Announces Finalists for Laguna Gloria Landscape Master Plan
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonThe Contemporary Austin is wasting no time in getting its 12-acre lakeside estate ready for the future Betty and Edward Marcus Sculpture Park at Laguna Gloria, for which it was…
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Contemporary Austin Pairs Up Artists with Teens for Collaborative Exhibition
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonThe Contemporary Austin is now accepting applications for its Advanced Young Artists Program (AYA), in which Austin-area high school students are paired up with artist-mentors. Starting in mid-January, each teen…
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Arthouse in Austin is a layered place. As the Kunsthalle of Texas’s capital city, its projects are varied, from the ballet music installation extravaganza of the forthcoming Cult of…