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In order to discover and address systemic problems facing men of color in higher education, the Heman Sweatt Symposium on Civil Rights continues the legacy of one famous African-American.
Painter David Villasana waits for pedestrians to stop and view his paintings along South Congress Avenue Thursday afternoon. David, who is 72-years-old, said that painting is good for his heart and keeps him healthy.
NEW YORK (AP) — One of the art world’s most recognizable images — Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” — could sell for $80 million or more when it is auctioned at Sotheby’s on Wednesday.
The 1895 pastel of a man holding his head and screaming under a streaked, blood-red sky has become a modern symbol for human anxiety, popularized in movies and plastered on everything from mugs to Halloween masks.
Ever since his childhood, James Moore said he has dealt with the stigma of inferiority associated with being an African-American male. As a result, his lifelong passion has become attempting to rise above this inequality, a burning passion which permeates his entire being, he said.
Rochelle Rae is an artist of many mediums. With a degree in fine arts and experience as a painter and graphic designer, she ventured into a new world of art when she launched her Austin business Rae Cosmetics in August of 2006.
After meeting a friend who worked as a makeup artist, Rae’s interest in cosmetics ultimately led her to the prestigious Make-up Designory in Hollywood. There, Rae swapped her paintbrushes for makeup brushes and embraced a new canvas: a human one.
KILLINGTON, Vt. — Swollen rivers began falling Wednesday in much of the Northeast, allowing relief crews to reach the last of the tiny Vermont towns that had been entirely cut off from help by Hurricane Irene’s fast-moving floodwaters.
Friends and business partners Dustin Maxey and Richard Panter play a quick game of table tennis at Lavaca Street Bar & Grill. They trash-talk each other jokingly as they hit the ball back and forth, and Maxey holds a Lone Star in one hand.
“It’s hard to play in the dark,” Maxey says when he hits the ball off the table.
Panter asks a friend to grab him a Dos Equis from the bar.
“I’d be saying that too if I was losing by two points,” he answers.
A famous Frida Kahlo self-portrait has returned to the Harry Ransom Center after more than six months on display abroad.
The center announced the arrival of the late painter’s self-portrait Wednesday, 104 years after her birth, and said it will remain in Austin through Jan. 8.
UT loaned the portrait to exhibitions in Europe, including a retrospective dedicated to Kahlo in Berlin and Vienna, said Peter Mears, Ransom Center associate curator and department head.
Former UT housemother Almetris Duren provided a source of critical support for many of the first black students at UT, said two speakers at a talk Thursday.
Students, faculty and members of the community learned about Duren’s impact in the 1940s and 1950s at the third talk for the 25th Annual Heman Sweatt Symposium on Civil Rights. The talk featured Louise Iscoe, who co-authored “Overcoming: A History of Black Integration at the University of Texas” with Duren and Kevin Foster, assistant professor in African and African diaspora studies.
