ArtScene: Home Exhibitions Current in the southwest (July / August 2010) is the hottest time of year in the big southwest. That means it's the season High in the unique cultural oasis of Santa Fe earlier this month over SOFA Western art design fair and the decade-old Santa Fe Art chaired consecutive weekends.
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Museums in Austin, Texas: Texas State Capitol, Austin Museum of Art, Harry Ransom Center, Texas Governor’s Mansion $19.99 Museums in Austin, Texas: Texas State Capitol, Austin Museum of Art, Harry Ransom Center, Texas Governor’s Mansion

Ut Austin $14.48 Ut Austin : Traditions and Nostalgia by Margaret Catherine Berry Reprint Published in 1983 by Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum

Historic House Museums in Texas: Austin Museum of Art Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens Varne $14.14 Historic House Museums in Texas: Austin Museum of Art Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens Varne

Wildly Austin: Austin’s Landmark Art (wildly Austin) $4.86 Wildly Austin: Austin’s Landmark Art (wildly Austin)

A is for Art Museum $14.21 A is for Art Museum

At the Art Museum $6.36 At the Art Museum

Wildly Austin: Austin S Landmark Art $3.6 Wildly Austin: Austin S Landmark Art

A Is For Art Museum $19.95 An art museum is a magical place…

Placenotes–Austin $22.96 pPlaces–buildings, neighborhoods, landmarks, and cultural and commercial institutions–help define a city’s unique character, its sense of place. This is the key concept behind Placenotes, a wholly new type of travel book that features the one of a kind places that make a city distinctive. This set of Placenotes guides you to places where you can experience the authentic culture of Austin. For visitors, these are the must-see places. For residents, Placenotes offers the perfect opportunity to become deeply acquainted with the places that distinguish their city from all others–an opportunity to invest in the life of the place.pNot a conventional travel book, Placenotes is a set of individual cards that describe unique places in the city. The front of each card has a color photograph that captures the spirit of a particular place. The back of the card tells the story of the place, often with commentary by a local expert. It also provides all the practical details you need to plan your visit. A map, index of places, and key to symbols comes in the set. The cards are contained in a sturdy box with a lid that snaps shut with invisible magnets.pSelected Placenotes-Austin: Moore/Andersson CompoundThe VelowayLady Bird Johnson Wildflower CenterHarry Ransom CenterHotel San JoseLong Center for the Performing Arts2nd Street DistrictTexas Governor’s MansionThe Forty AcresUmlauf Sculpture Garden & MuseumHamilton PoolBlanton Museum of Art

Museum Ritter: A Museum Squared With Art $17.05 Museum Ritter: A Museum Squared With Art

Art Museum $8.85 Buy and sell [Art Museum] at great prices.

Museum Of Art $43.95 Buy and sell [Museum Of Art] at great prices.

Digital Art Studio $24.38 Bonny Lhotka, Dorothy Simpson Krause, and Karin Schminke are the founders of Digital Atelier, a printmaking studio. Their art is in more than 200 corporate and museum collections…

Omni Austin Hotel $209 Omni Austin Hotel > AUS > 700 San Jacinto Blvd > Austin > TX > 78701>Location. This business friendly city center property is located in Austin, close to Paramount Theater, Austin Museum of Art, and O. Henry House Museum. Also nearby are Governor’s Mansion and Texas State Capitol. Features. Omni Austin Hotel has an outdoor pool, a spa tub, a sauna, and a fitness facility. This 4.0 star Austin property features massage and treatment rooms, a hair salon, and beauty services. Business amenities include a 24 hour business center, complimentary wireless Internet access, meeting rooms for small groups, and audio visual equipment. Omni Austin Hotel has a restaurant, a bar/lounge, and a coffee shop/café. Room service is available during limited hours. Event facilities consist of a ballroom, exhibit space, conference rooms, and banquet facilities. Guestrooms. Amenities featured in guestrooms include air conditioning, coffee/tea makers, and minibars. In addition, amenities available on request include refrigerators, microwaves, and a turndown service. 32 inch flat panel televisions with premium TV channels and HBO are available in guestrooms. Business friendly amenities include multi line phones, wireless Internet access (surcharge), and desks. Bathrooms feature shower/tub combinations, bathrobes, and hair dryers. Guestroom services include housekeeping and wake up calls. Rollaway beds are available on request. >The preferred airport for Omni Austin Hotel is Austin, TX (AUS Austin Bergstrom Intl.) 10.1 km / 6.3 mi. Distances are calculated in a straight line from the property’s location to the point of interest or airport and may not reflect actual travel distance. Distances are displayed to the nearest 0. 1 mile and kilometre.

InterContinental Downtown Austin $184 InterContinental Downtown Austin > AUS > 701 Congress Avenue > Austin > TX > 78701>Location. This city center property is located in Austin, close to Paramount Theater, Austin Museum of Art, and Frost Bank Tower. Also nearby are Governor’s Mansion and Texas State Capitol. Features. InterContinental Downtown Austin has a health club, an indoor pool, a steam room, a sauna, and a fitness facility. This 4.0 star Austin property features massage and treatment rooms. Business amenities include a business center, high speed Internet access, business services, and secretarial services. InterContinental Downtown Austin has a restaurant and a bar/lounge. 24 hour room service is available. This is a smoke free property (fines may apply for violations). Guestrooms. Amenities featured in guestrooms include air conditioning, coffee/tea makers, and minibars. In addition, amenities available on request include a turndown service and wake up calls. Guestrooms have televisions with premium TV channels and pay movies. Business friendly amenities include multi line phones, desks, and voice mail. Bathrooms feature scales, bathrobes, and hair dryers. Sofa beds and rollaway beds are available. All guestrooms at InterContinental Downtown Austin are non smoking. >

Doubletree Guest Suites Austin $160.65 Doubletree Guest Suites Austin > AUS > 303 W 15th St > Austin > TX > 78701>Location. This business friendly property is located in Austin, close to Texas State Capitol, Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum, and Travis County Law Library. Also nearby are Governor’s Mansion and Blanton Museum of Art. Features. Doubletree Guest Suites Austin has an outdoor pool and a fitness facility. There is a business center on site. Doubletree Guest Suites Austin has a restaurant and a bar/lounge. Room service is available during limited hours. The staff can arrange concierge services. Additional amenities include valet parking, room service during limited hours, and self parking. This property is self catering. Guestrooms. Amenities featured in guestrooms include air conditioning, coffee/tea makers, and televisions. In addition, amenities available on request include wake up calls. Guestrooms have cable/satellite television with pay movies. Business friendly amenities include desks and voice mail. Bathrooms feature hair dryers. Sofa beds are provided. All guestrooms at Doubletree Guest Suites Austin are non smoking. >

Magic Facade: The Austin House $34 The story of a house that combines the theatrical fantasy of the baroque with the arresting elegance of the Machine Age, and insights into the dazzling modernist who created itIn 1930 twenty-nine-year-old Chick Austin and his wife, Helen Goodwin built a house on one of the grandest streets in Hartford. It was a pastiche inspired by a sixteenth-century Palladian villa they had seen near Venice on their honeymoon, but instead of brick and stucco, the house was constructed with painted pine boards. Behind its 86-foot-long facade, it was a mere 18 feet deep, leading Austin’s neighbors, who lived in respectable neo-colonial or Tudor-revival houses, to dub it the pasteboard palace.brThe house became the stage set for Chick Austin’s life, a gathering place for leading figures in the international art world who came to experience the artistic tidal wave that Chick Austin set in motion as the transformative director of Hartford’s Wadsworth Atheneum from 1927 to 1944. Austin emerged as a pioneer in both the rediscovery of the baroque and the introduction of modernism to the United States, presented the first comprehensive American exhibitions of Italian baroque painting and surrealism as well as the works of Picasso, and produced a series of groundbreaking performances at the museum, including the premiere of the now legendary opera by Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson, Four Saints in Three Acts, and the first public performances by Balanchine’s original company, which evolved into the New York City Ballet. Austin–himself a painter, an actor, a designer of sets and costumes, a superb cook, and an expert stage magician–shone as an impresario of the arts or, in the words of composer Virgil Thomson, a whole cultural movement in one man.brThe book includes more than 100 illustrations, including historic photographs, works of art from the Atheneum’s collection, Austin family archival material, and recent images of the house and its interiors by noted photographer Geoffre@A

Live At The Museum Of Modern Art $9.93 Live At The Museum Of Modern Art