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When the world shut down to the coronavirus pandemic in March 2020, Austin’s Fusebox Festival was just weeks away from happening.
Fusebox leaders did a quick pivot, staging a digital version of the performance art celebration, a popular annual event that presents a mix of international and local theater, music and dance artists.
But this year, for the first time in its 16 year history, the non-profit Fusebox organization, decided not to stage its springtime festival.
Ron Berry, Fusebox founder and artistic director said that the prospect of presenting what would have had to have been another virtual festival, just didn’t make sense. And besides, Fusebox has something else coming up that it’s been quietly working on for over three years.
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Moments That Matter: Momentary offers visual delights for the summer
Momentary offers visual delights for the summer
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Jocelyn Murphy
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Photo by Ironside Photography / Stephen Ironside.
On June 22, the Momentary in Bentonville opened its first temporary exhibition of the 2021 summer season. Three new solo exhibitions on display throughout the contemporary arts space offer unique perspectives on social issues, racial politics and the current moment through the lens of three artists working today.
New York painter Kenny Rivero s The Floor Is Crooked fills the long corridor of Gallery 1 and was the first of the three to debut. The exhibition is a look back at how Rivero s artistic practice has evolved over the past decade, and it presented the opportunity to dig into the work of an artist who is exploring topics such as identity, spirituality and this current moment, explains the exhibition s curator, Lauren Haynes, former director of artis
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Iconic Innovators: Founders of Eureka Springs art scene recalled
Founders of Eureka Springs art scene recalled
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Becca Martin-Brown
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Today at 1:00 a.m. Portrait Of Gary’s Cake Plate, acrylic on canvas by Mary Sims, 1993. Sims died in 2004. She was not as big as a minute, but Mary’s personality and paintings were huge in beauty, technique and wit. Nationally revered, she painted daily with fierce dedication, achieving both greatness and whimsy. Her still life paintings combined disparate items in a bizarre but winning fashion. Her portraits brought muscles and poignancy together in surprising ways. As for style, she kept defining it.
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