More Mourning: Blanton Museum to Honor Musicians
It’s turning out to be quite a year of loss and mourning. Austin’s Blanton Museum of Art will commemorate the lives of recently lost musicians...Read More
The Most Important Book In Texas This Year
Like all wonderfully rich cabinets of curiosities, "The Collections" rewards slow and repeated looking.
The Blanton Appoints New Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs
UT Austin’s Blanton Museum of Art has just announced the appointment of Carter E. Foster as the new Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs and Curator of Prints...Read More
Highlights from Austin: February 2016
Brandon Zech shares some thoughts on the work he saw on his most recent trip.
Top Five February 18, 2016
“It’s all a little bit funny, and… " “Dark. It’s terribly violent and very, very bloody.”
This Week’s Museum-Hopping for Some Great Artist/Writer Talks
Not only are Texas galleries and museums in the midst of a plethora of post-holiday exhibition openings, there are also some fantastic upcoming art talks....Read More
SPRING PREVIEW 2016
“Note: these are for museums and non-profits who have released their schedules, or who have updated websites. Hint, Hint.” Rainey Knudson’s picks: 1. Mark Flood:...Read More
Top Five: December 10, 2015
“Crusader: that’s not politically correct.” “But that’s what it is! The Crusades!”
Highlights from EAST & Austin
Last weekend, the Glasstire crew was in Austin to see the East Austin Studio Tour (EAST) and shoot video/serve mimosas at their community breakfast. Here...Read More
Skip the Malls! Buy Some Art!
When it drops 10 or 20 degrees below the sweaty humiliation known as summer in Texas, we realize the holiday season is sneaking up on...Read More
Top Five October 15, 2015
Come hear some art this weekend at our Off Road talk between Robert Irwin and Michael Govan! (and other great picks this week). 1. Off Road:...Read More
Pauline Oliveros to Present Deep Listening at the Blanton
Today, the Blanton will present a new work by composer Pauline Oliveros. Her piece draws from ideas of “deep listening,” a concept Oliveros describes as “the seemingly impossible task...Read More
The Met Names Kelly Baum as New Curator
On Saturday, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced the appointment of Kelly Baum as the new curator of the department of post-war and contemporary art....Read More
Austin: It’s Okay Mountain Month!
Austin’s Okay Mountain, the nine-member artist collective, is about to have a busy few weeks. The Blanton Museum of Art announced the acquisition of Roadside...Read More
Art Apps: the Blanton and LACMA on Snapchat!
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art made cyber-news recently when Hyperallergic announced that they were the first museum to join Snapchat. A handful of...Read More
Art History and the Smart, Hard Truth About Our Cats and Dogs
If anything, this show makes abundantly clear that the long history of civilization’s relationship to dogs and cats is troubled, mutually exploitative, purely functional (if not dysfunctional), and ambivalent.
The Dog Days of Texas Summer
Of course it’s hot and muggy in Texas this time of year, but it suddenly seems like it’s literally the dog days of summer...Read More
Things to Be Looked At (But Not Touched or Felt): Waltercio Caldas at the Blanton
Is ultramarine-blue Plexiglas a sufficient reason to title a geometric sculpture Whispering Giotto? What does a chrome cube lined with white rabbit fur on a black granite base have to do with Thelonious Monk?
Blanton Museum to Rock the Stage (or Conference Table) at SXSW
Just when pop musicians are tripping over themselves to be declared “performance artists” by the art world, Austin’s Blanton Museum of Art is working it...Read More
