Modern art can baffle and delight, and sometimes leave you wondering, "What in the what was that artist thinking?"...

Brillo pads, travel toothbrushes, and stainless steel dog bowls may seem more appropriately placed in your junk drawer than at an art museum. But the beauty of ordinary household items is exactly what's celebrated in the new exhibit, Extra-Ordinary: The Everyday Object in American Art, now on display at the Austin Museum of Modern Art. In addition to the main exhibit, which features Andy Warhol’s iconic Campbell’s Soup Can and a giant fabric sculpture of......

Hotel/condos are so 2005. Tom Stacy is in negotiations with the Austin Museum of Art to build a museum/condo project on the block between Third, Fourth, Guadalupe and San Antonio streets. The museum already owns the block. Stacy has signed up Pelli Clarke Pelli as the architects on the project, the same architects working on his previously blogged condo tower at Fifth and Congress. Pelli Clarke Pelli also did the Museum of Modern Art Tower......