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CURRENT EVENTS

FEATURED EVENT: VIDEO GAMES LIVE!

Video Games Live, presented by Razer, has the power & emotion of a symphony orchestra mixed with the excitement and energy of a rock concert and the technology and interactivity of a video game, all completely synchronized to amazing cutting edge video screen visuals, state-of-the art lighting and special on-stage interactive segments with the audience. Guests who arrive early will enjoy interactive game demos, a costume contest, prize giveaways, game competitions and the very popular meet-and-greet with top game composers and designers.

The show is performed by The Austin Symphony Orchestra and the Texas Choral Consort and it features music and video clips from the most popular games from the beginning of video gaming to the present including Final Fantasy, Halo, Warcraft, Metal Gear Solid, a classic arcade medley and many more.

Legendary video game composers Tommy Tallarico & Jack Wall are the creators and executive producers of the show, and they are personally involved in each performance: Jack conducts while Tommy, who earned a two-page feature in the 2008 Guiness Book of World Records for his work on over 300 games in the last 19 years, is the host and emcee.

The Long Center Presents Video Games Live
July 11 & 12 @ 8:00 p.m.
Michael and Susan Dell Hall
Tickets $24 – $49 [info]
512.474.LONG
$24-$49

THREADGILL'S BEER GARDEN SERIES

Threadgill’s South, a.k.a., Threadgill’s World Headquarters, has some great live music coming up, so put on your dancin’ boots and head on out!

The 2008 Beer Garden Series is underway just in time for SXSW and with a great lineup of music coming up! KUT is proud to party with Threadgill’s to present another great year of music in the beer garden.

Thursday, July 3rd Bob Schneider’s Texas Bluegrass Massacre with Winchester Twin

Friday, July 4th The South Austin Jug Band (before and after the fireworks)

Saturday, July 5th Jimmy LaFave

Wednesday, July 9 Shinyribs with Devin Russell from The Gourds

Thursday, July 10th T-Bird & the Breaks, Much Love

Friday, July 11th The Gourds with The Dedringers

Monday, July 14th Wood Guthrie Birthday Tribute featuring Butch Hancock and Friends

Thursday, July 18th Santana-rama, Carlos Santana’s Birthday Celebration benefitting ALMA starring Raul Alvarez

Friday, July 19th Austin Lounge Lizards

Thursday, July 24th The Belleville Outfit

Friday, July 25th Mingo Fishtrap

Saturday, July 26th Hot Club of Cowtown

Visit the Threadgill’s website for ticketing information.

FEATURED EVENT: LEWITT X 2 AT AMOA

Austin Museum of Art Downtown presents LeWitt x 2. This two part exhibition focuses both on the artworks of Sol LeWitt and on his personal collection of contemporary art. Sol LeWitt: Structure and Line documents the full arc of the artist’s career. Renowned for his contribution to minimalism and conceptual art, LeWitt’s pencil drawings, brilliantly colored gouaches, and “structures” made of wood, aluminum, and fiberglass have defined and pushed the limits of art-making for over forty years. Throughout his career critics have admired how his work synthesizes left and right brain creativity and provokes both intellectual and emotional responses. Selections from the LeWitt Collection showcases works by an exciting array of national and international artists including Alice Aycock, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Alighiero Boetti, Chuck Close, Gilbert & George, Hans Haacke, Eva Hesse, On Kawara, Shirin Neshat, and Robert Ryman.

LeWitt x 2
AMOA Downtown
823 Congress Avenue at 9th Street
Through August 17

Austin Responds
Thursday, July 10th 7:00 p.m.
Join Austin composer and multi-instrumentalist Graham Reynolds for a piano performance of his original composition inspired by systems, structures, and simplicity of the art of Sol LeWitt. For more information about Graham Reynolds.

THE BLANTON PRESENTS THE LANGUAGE OF PRINTS

The Language of Prints

Prints are the most frequently experienced but least understood works of art. In the history of art, and most exhibitions, the medium is usually presented in terms of its great masters, from Albrecht Durer through Jasper Johns, or explained solely in terms of technique. Instead, The Language of Prints exhibit explores the medium as a uniquely rich and largely collective system of expression, a “language” with distinctive principles, persistent tendencies, and special processes that are shared across time and space. Planned to coincide with the annual meeting of The Print Council of America, the first ever in the state of Texas, the exhibition will feature around 100 of the collection’s finest and most distinctive prints.

The Language of Prints
April 19 through August 17