In darling divined, Brackens teases out the symbolism, allegory, and parable long associated with global cosmologies of tapestry weaving.
Tag: Austin
The University of Texas at Austin Presents Its Studio Art MFA Thesis Exhibition
The work of 12 recent graduates is featured in _____: Revisited, now on view at UT Austin’s Visual Arts Center through November 20, 2020.
About the Black Skin We Live In
As Juneteenth approaches, I’ve been given reason to consider a confluence of events and ideas: my family’s life-long process of becoming Black and having to police my sons’ consumption of a certain kind of blackface.
A Museum Educator Asks How We Can Feel Closer to Art
With the teaching galleries at the Blanton Museum now being closed, as a museum educator there I can’t but help ponder how an art experience of close looking with our eyes, our bodies, and our breath might translate in our post-pandemic future.
Conserving the Art and Legacy of Spain’s First Recorded Female Artist
Once the official sculptor in the court of the last Habsburg king, Luisa Roldán is easily the most famous sculptor you’ve never heard of.
An Avant-Garde Magazine That Promoted the Indigenism Movement
Amauta affirmed the rights and political demands of Latin America’s indigenous groups and recognized their cultures as vital and authentic alternatives to Hispanicized, colonial narratives.
Two Transnational Artists Connect Through Shared Experiences of Displacement
Betelhem Makonnen and Stephanie Concepcion Ramirez trace the influence of neo-colonialism on immigrants from the Global South, merging their personal journeys into a collective experience.
Joiri Minaya’s Tropical-Inflected Critiques of Colonialism
In unifying contemporary tropical realities with histories of colonization, Minaya demonstrates how imperialist attitudes survive in the discourse and commodification culture surrounding tropical tourism.
In Maria Antelman’s Work, Technology Is More Than Just a Tool
One of the most evincing themes in Mechanisms of Affection is how easy it is for computers, digital spaces, and technology writ large to be anthropomorphized.
Subverting the Whiteness of Antiquity
Lily Cox-Richard questions — and successfully subverts — a long-held association between the aesthetic qualities of classical sculptures with physical whiteness.
Mapping Non-European Visions of the World
Maps drawn by Indigenous artists at the behest of the Spanish in the 16th century illustrate the amalgamation of visual traditions during the early years of contact between Indigenous groups and colonizers.
How Latin American Artists Have Used Language to Political and Poetic Effects
The artworks in Words/Matter suggest that language is not simply ethereal and cerebral, but infinitely malleable, corporeal, and tactile.