Carole Sikes Artist / Writer in Austin, Texas

I'll be brief because I am having technical trouble with blogging. It is either the Google Blog's problem or my computer's recent bout with a Trojan virus. Hope that never happens to you!      The big news continues to be AUSTIN MUSEUM OF ART (AMOA) and ARTHOUSE. Front page news on the Austin American Statesman's Friday, May 27th issue was entitled "ARTHOUSE, AMOA TO BEGIN MERGER TALKS". I recommend you go the the Statesman's website for details. Look either on the Friday front page or in the Thursday 360 section. It appeared in both places.      Although I have been contacted by "insiders" from both organizations, there is very little to know at this time except what appeared in the article by Jeanne Claire van Ryzin. Because each group has what the other needs and does not have, I am hopeful the merger will work. One has money but soon will give up their Congress Ave. location. The other has a ...

It's King's X for the month of March. I'm out, gone, no esta, but I'll be back online after April Fools' Day. The big new is that Lake Travis is full. See the view from our porch! Even our "catch pond" is full. No it's not for catching fish, but for filtering the run off from our rains so that the soil does not silt our cove and make it more shallow. Next month I hope to be painting again. If so I'll post an image and some comments on what's going on in the art world around Austin. And perhaps I will have some comments on what we discovered in London and Barcelona. Did you catch the movie AN EDUCATION? It was brought back because it is one of the ten Academy Award nominations. I hope you will scroll down to read my "review" of it in my December 2009 blog.