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events + openings September 2009
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| West End 1st Thursday September 3 1st Thursday Gallery Night Open until 8 pm |
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| Wally Workman Gallery Thursday, September 3, 6-8 pm Closing Reception Angie Renfro: New Paintings |
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| ART on 5th Thursday, September 3, 6-8 pm Meet artist Monica Araoz at ART on 5th! Modern Mexican Masters |
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| Blanton Museum of Art September 4, 6-11 pm B scene 1st Friday Fees/Admission: $5 for members/$10 for non-members |
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| Austin Museum of Art Saturday, September 5, 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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| L. Nowlin Gallery Saturday, September 5, 6-8 pm Opening reception Bear Guerra: Postcards from Invisible Cities Photographs 2005-2009 |
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| Austin Museum of Art Thursday, Sept. 10, 7 pm Film Screening Portrait of Close's Creative Circle A Couple of Ways of Doing Something: Photographs by Chuck Close Artist Chuck Close redefined contemporary portraiture. In her film Chuck Close director Marion Cajori examines the appeal of the human face by interviewing the artist and his circle of creative friends, including Philip Glass, Robert Rauschenberg, and Kiki Smith, for over a decade. |
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| Davis Gallery Friday, September 11, 6-8 pm Texas Photographic Society Fifteenth Annual Collectors Print Auction Read more |
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| Austin Museum of Art September 12, 12-4 pm A Patterned World Second Saturdays are for Families Be inspired by Chuck Close’s use of photography and patterns in A Couple of Ways of Doing Something. Capture a pattern in the world around you in a photograph, then head over to the Community Room to create your very own painted pattern. Explore black and white patterns in a world of color! Drop in and create! $7 per family; Members $5. |
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| Wally Workman Gallery Saturday, September 12, 6-8 pm Opening Reception New Talent Richard Ewen - Angela Fife - David Fowler - Scott Kiche - Erika Pochybova-Johnson |
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| d berman gallery Thursday,September 17, 6-8 pm Opening Reception Beili Liu: Bound |
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| Women & Their Work September 17, 6-9 pm Some Like It... Red Hot Red Dot Art Spree and Silent Auction Opening Event (tickets $75 per person) Read more |
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| Harry Ransom Center Thursday, September 17, 7 pm TOUR From Out That Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Edgar Allan Poe Richard Oram, the Ransom Center ’s Associate Director and Hobby Foundation Librarian, leads a gallery tour of From Out That Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Edgar Allan Poe. |
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| Austin Museum of Art Sunday, September 20, 12-5 pm Austin Museum Day Take part in Austin’s free, city-wide re-discovery of its museums! See new art in new ways in A Couple of Ways of Doing Something and Collection Selections in the galleries. Collaborate on a wacky weaving wall and make a pipe cleaner portrait to take home with you! Enjoy performances in the Community Room: 1:00: Central Texas Storytelling Guild 1:30: Central Texas Storytelling Guild, Part Two 2:00: Mr. Johnny and Sharon 3:00: Mr. Johnny and Sharon Drop in and create! Free! |
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| Arthouse at the Jones Center September 21, 7:00 pm Eve Sussman: The Rape of the Sabine Women A film screening and artist talk The Paramount Theatre 713 Congress Avenue This event is free and open to the public. Read more |
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| Harry Ransom Center Thursday, September 24, 7 pm, JESSEN AUDITORIUM PERFORMANCE From Out That Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Edgar Allan Poe Isaiah Sheffer of Selected Shorts, heard on public radio stations across America, hosts "Edgar Allan Poe: Poet and Storyteller," featuring actors René Auberjonois and Fionnula Flanagan. Actors subject to change. |
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| L. Nowlin Gallery Thursday/Friday, September 24 and 25, 7 pm Austin Center for Photography Lectures Magnum Photographer, Elliott Erwitt Blanton Museum Auditorium | University of Texas | Austin, Texas Cost: ACP Members Free | General Admission $20 & Students/Seniors/Military $10 (Advance sales); $25 & $15 (At the door) Tickets go on sale September 6. Austin Center for Photography |
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| Arthouse at the Jones Center September 26, midnight – midnight 24 Hour Roman Reconstruction Project Artist Liz Glynn organizes collaborators and volunteers for this live super-performance at Arthouse, where Rome is, against all truisms, built in a day—and then destroyed. Read more |
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| Harry Ransom Center Thursday, September 28, 7 pm POE FILM SERIES From Out That Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Edgar Allan Poe Two silent classics, The Fall of the House of Usher (1928), directed by James Sibley Watson and Melville Webber, and a French adaptation, La Chute de la Maison Usher (1928), directed by Jean Epstein. |
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