blanton museum of art

In recent years, the benefits of making medical students take art classes have received much attention in scientific articles and medical journals (examples here and here). Why? Over at the…

The Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas (UT) has announced that Francesca Consagra, Curator Emerita at the Blanton, has passed away. Consagra was senior curator of prints…

Given as part of a new initiative by the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, the 10 prints and 6 printing proofs will be accompanied by a $25,000 grant that will go towards research and programming around the works.

Christina Rees and Rainey Knudson count down Glasstire’s favorite museum restaurants in Texas.

The works in the exhibition swing like a pendulum between internal perceptions and the acknowledgment of external ones. 

Glasstire Fall Preview 2018: Rainey Knudson and Brandon Zech run down the fall exhibitions across Texas that we’re most excited about, and wonder aloud about changes we'll see at the reopened Menil Collection.

Glasstire's guest editor Neil Fauerso and San Antonio-based Artpace resident Jenelle Esparza on an exhibition of works inspired by the culture of Mexico, the draw of Australian Aboriginal art, and a timely show addressing incarceration in the U.S. 

Earlier this year, seventeen Texas museums were gifted a total of more than 500 works of art from The Contemporary Austin’s collection. The museums received the pieces as part of…

Artists throughout Latin America engaged in revolutionary DIY art as their own particular expressions of the conceptual art-think that zoomed around the continents in the 1960s.

Early this year, the Metropolitan Museum of Art changed its admission fees to a complicated mess, but mainly it started a mandatory fee for non-New Yorkers, instead of its longtime…

Rainey Knudson and Brandon Zech on the legacy of one of Houston’s great art supporters, a homecoming show for former Artpace residents, and a burgeoning art route between San Antonio and Brownsville.

Last year, Glasstire reported that the Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin had acquired Vincent Valdez’s City The City I and The City II. The…

“This and That” is an occasional series of paired observations. -Ed. Today: stained glass Above: interior views of El Tiempo Cantina, a Tex-Mex restaurant on Navigation Blvd in Houston Below: interior…

Christina Rees and Brandon Zech on the beauty of a simple video edit, a rare cross-pollination between Houston and Dallas art collectives, and an artist making your brunch this coming Sunday… down in a hole.

Christina Rees and Brandon Zech on a Houston show named after the street it’s on (Moonmist!), a Panhandle show that requires a magnifying glass, and the undeniable charge of 1930s-era Picasso.

Rainey Knudson and guest host Julie Kinzelman on the lure of Looney Tunes, the opening of Ellsworth Kelly's Austin, and the shock of cultural acclimation.

This past summer Austin’s Blanton Museum of Art announced that it was launching a new residency offering emerging artists the opportunity to create a sound-based artwork to be featured in the museum’s…

The Visual AIDS website describes Day without Art’s history: In 1989, in response to the worsening AIDS crisis and coinciding with the World Health Organization’s second annual World AIDS Day…

The University of Texas’ Blanton Museum of Art has hired two new curators, reports the Austin-based publication Sightlines. The institution has brought on Holly Borham as Assistant Curator of Prints and Drawings, and…

This coming Thursday, Sept. 7 at 6:30 p.m. at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, artists Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler will be in discussion with Blanton curator Veronica…