ELLSWORTH KELLY’S ‘AUSTIN’
Before his death two years ago at age 92, renowned abstract artist Ellsworth Kelly gifted the design concept for the only freestanding building he ever designed to the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin. The structure, named Austin, with its stone facade and chapel-like colored glass windows is now complete and opens to the public today. Look for a review by Dallas Morning News architecture critic Mark Lamster online next week and in print in an upcoming Arts & Life Sunday. The building sits on the outskirts of the campus, and you’ll find a corresponding exhibition next door in the museum: “Form Into Spirit: Ellsworth Kelly’s Austin.”