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events + openings November 2009
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| Harry Ransom Center Thursday, November 5, Noon TOUR Other Worlds: Rare Astronomical Works Richard Oram, the Ransom Center’s Associate Director and Hobby Foundation Librarian, leads a lunch-time gallery tour of Other Worlds: Rare Astronomical Works. |
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| Women & Their Work November 5, 7 pm Architecture and Desire Erin Curtis: Perspective Threshold Paintings, Drawings & Installations Join us for a lively discussion about how we create what we desire. Inspired by the iconic modernist Kaufman House, artist Erin Curtis pays homage to-- and questions-- the idea of perfection in her exhibition Perspective Threshold. Using this show as a point of reference, a panel of architects and designers will investigate how architecture both dictates and responds to the way we wish to live in the world. Can architecture better our experience of the world? Does contemporary architecture embrace or deny our past? Read more |
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| Austin Museum of Art Thursday, November 5, 7 pm Slide Lecture on Chuck Close A Couple of Ways of Doing Something: Photographs by Chuck Close Art historian Richard Shiff puts the portraits of Chuck Close in context with the slide lecture Realism of Low Resolution: Chuck Close (and Others). |
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| West End 1st Thursday November 5 1st Thursday Gallery Night Open until 8 pm |
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| Blanton Museum of Art November 6, 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, November 7, 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, November 7, 6-8 pm Opening reception Robert Shults: The Small Corners of Existence |
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| Harry Ransom Center Monday, November 9, 7 pm OTHER WORLDS FILM SERIES Other Worlds: Rare Astronomical Works A collection of early silent films, including Georges Méliès’s short A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans la Lune) from 1902. |
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| Arthouse at the Jones Center November 10, 7-8 pm Arthouse Presents…Conversations at the Carver Participants, tba Held at Carver Branch of the Austin Public Library, 1161 Angelina, Austin, TX |
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| Harry Ransom Center Thursday, November 12, 7 pm HARRY RANSOM LECTURE Poet and critic James Fenton discusses "Life-Writing," new approaches to autobiography, biography, and memoir. A book signing follows. Presented by the University Co-op. |
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| ART on 5th Friday - Sunday, November 13 - 15 Vintage Poster Weekend ART on 5th welcomes back Retro Gallery and their collection of original, vintage posters. Many of the posters are from France, Italy, England, Poland, Switzerland, and other European countries and each is an antique, printed between 1890 and 1940 -- there are no reproductions. The printing process used is stone lithography, employing hand-carved limestone to create posters for advertising anything from liquor to opera, from household goods to bikes and cars. Each fragile poster has been linen lined to museum paper preservation standards and are preserved and ready to be framed and hung. |
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| Austin Museum of Art November 14, 12-4 pm Second Saturdays are for Families Drop in and create! $7 per family; Members $5. |
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| AMOA - Laguna Gloria Gatehouse Gallery Sunday, November 15, 3-5 pm Preview reception Cassandra James: Earth, Fire, Wind, and Water Proceeds from all sales benefit the artist. |
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| Arthouse at the Jones Center November 18, 7pm Arthouse Visiting Lecturer Series Bill Arning, Director, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston Held at George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center, Boyd Vance Theatr, 1165 Angelina St, Austin, TX |
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| Women & Their Work November 19, 6-8 pm Opening Reception My Wicked Twisted Love |
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| Austin Museum of Art Saturday, November 21, 2 pm Curators' Tour David Bates since 1982: From the Everyday to the Epic New Works: Jade Walker Join AMOA Executive Director Dana Friis-Hansen and Assistant Curator Andrea Mellard for a gallery walk-through to discuss highlights of the exhibitions. |
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