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Birth of the Cool:
California Art, Design, and Culture at
Midcentury
Blanton Art Museum
February 22nd through May 17th
Austin is the sole
venue in the Southwest United States for
the exhibit
celebrating American modernism designs of the
1950s, and the Blanton
appearance will be the only
opportunity to see the show
in this part of the country.
Album cover for Miles Davis' Birth of the Cool (Capitol
Records, 1957);
Courtesy Blue Note Records
Clifford Ross Photography: Outside Realism
Austin Museum of Art
February 21st through May 17th
The first significant
museum exhibition of photographer
Clifford Ross shows
how he combines World War II era
aerial photographic
equipment with contemporary digital
post-production
techniques to create sublime images
of nature.
Hurricane I (2000)
Silver gelatin print
© Clifford Ross
The Lining of Forgetting:
Internal & External Memory in Art
Austin Museum of Art
May 30th through August 9th
Family photo albums,
Road Runner cartoons, the works of
Shakespeare, and
Barack Obama’s presidential primary
campaign are just some
of the subjects in the international
exhibition that explores
the ways we remember.
Louise Bourgeois,
Ode à L’Oubli, 2004
fabric and color lithograph book,
Courtesy of Cheim & Read, NY
Lordy Rodriguez: States of America
Austin Museum of Art
February 21st through May 17th
Rodriguez’s
decade-long project reconfigures the 50 states
and explores the
addition of five new “states” - Hollywood,
Internet, Monopoly,
Territory and Disney - that newly define
our perceived geographic
version.
Texas, 2006,
Ink on paper, Triptych,
Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio
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