NICOLE EISENMAN

The Contemporary Austin - Jones Center 700 Congress Avenue, Austin, TX, United States

As the winner of the 2020 Suzanne Deal Booth / FLAG Art Foundation Prize, New York–based artist Nicole Eisenman presents a solo exhibition at The Contemporary Austin’s downtown venue, the Jones Center on Congress Avenue, with an outdoor sculpture also to be installed at the museum’s fourteen-acre sculpture park at Laguna Gloria. Encompassing a wide range of […]

NATHAN MABRY AND DAVID ODO IN CONVERSATION

The Contemporary Austin - Jones Center 700 Congress Avenue, Austin, TX, United States

Artist Nathan Mabry, whose sculptures in The Sorcerer's Burden combine cultural iconography of non-western origins with Western Minimalist art, speaks with David Odo, Director of Academic and Public Programs, Division Head, and Research Curator at the Harvard Art Museums. The artist and anthropologist discuss the intersection of their fields as it relates to cultural appreciation and appropriation.

DARIO ROBLETO AND MARINA PETERSON IN CONVERSATION

The Contemporary Austin - Jones Center 700 Congress Avenue, Austin, TX, United States

Artist Dario Robleto discusses his newly commissioned video, The Boundary of Life Is Quietly Crossed, on view in the exhibition The Sorcerer’s Burden: Contemporary Art and the Anthropological Turn, with anthropologist Marina Peterson. Their cross-disciplinary conversation will span sonic ethnography, audio archaeology, and the last beating heart in the cosmos.