This week, the Long Center drive racked up an impressive gift, in fact, a gift that ranks alongside two of the biggest in the campaign to date. Tom Meredith is the current managing director of Dell Ventures , which pumps out venture capital for the computer giant, and was previously the corporation's chief financial officer. No doubt ARTS Center Stage would love to think so, but the donors offer up their own reasons for making the big donation. At press time, the Merediths and ARTS Center Stage had yet to settle on an appropriate naming opportunity for them the Merediths. Free TV Going to the community art museum just got a lot cheaper, at least for the run of one show.
Downtown is absolutely free.
Underwriting of this kind would be sweet under any circumstances, but it's an especially nice payoff for the museum now as this exhibition is not the touring show it might sound like but a homegrown project which AMOA has been developing for the last three years. Art historian John Alan Farmer was brought to Austin from New York to assemble this work of social history and critique, taking a closer look at the major cultural shift engendered by The Tube and the way it was utilized and interpreted at a turning point in American history and modern art. It's a high-power show, with work by a host of name artists, including Wallace Berman , Bruce Conner , Dennis Hopper , Edward Kienholz , Yoko Ono , Nam June Paik , Robert Rauschenberg , and Andy Warhol . For info, call 495-9224. Austin Chronicle Corp. All rights reserved.