This week: Pop gets political in Austin, an annual juried LGBTQIA+ exhibition in Dallas, transborder art in El Paso & more.
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The new grounds will feature a mural by 105-year-old Cuban-American artist Carmen Herrera.
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Christopher Blay and Brandon Zech run down a list of the best ongoing online programming from Texas museums.
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Art and food have alway coexisted.
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Drawing from the Morgan Library & Museum’s stunning collection, Medieval Monsters examines the monstrous through three specific themes: terrors, aliens, and wonders.
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Christina Rees and Brandon Zech on alternative monuments for Dallas, an East Texas homecoming, and a couple of artists who bring the humor.
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Moody Foundation Gifts $20 Million to Blanton to Transform Museum Grounds
by Glasstireby GlasstireThe Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin has received a $20 million gift from The Moody Foundation of Galveston, Texas, to transform the museum’s exterior spaces.
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Blanton Museum Announces Acquisition of 119 works from the Spanish and Portuguese Americas
by Glasstireby GlasstireThis week the Blanton announced that it has acquired the collection of Roberta and Richard Huber.
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Blanton Museum Curators Send Letter to UT Austin Protesting the Gutting of UT’s Fine Arts Library
by Glasstireby GlasstireThe drama continues. University of Texas at Austin’s students, faculty, alumni, and other art lovers are closely watching the controversy over the dismantling of University of Texas at Austin’s extensive…
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Polly G. Koch, age 65, died on November 28, 2017, in Houston’s Montrose area while walking her two dachshunds. A pickup truck struck her at the corner of Mandell Street…
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The Tate announced yesterday that it has appointed Michael Wellen as curator of international art, reports Artforum. Beginning in December, Wellen will work with the art from Latin America in…
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The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego has named Kathryn Kanjo to succeed longtime director Hugh M. Davies, reports artnet. Currently deputy director at the museum, San Antonians will remember…
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There's a Twilight Zone problem with the show 'Come As You Are: Art of the 1990s' at the Blanton Museum of Art.
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The Blanton Museum of Art in Austin has just announced plans for a complete reinstallation of its collection, set to open in February of 2017. The reinstall, collectively titled You Belong Here: Reimagining…
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The Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin has just announced the acquisition of a to-be-built Ellsworth Kelly standalone building titled Austin. The stone structure will be 73…
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Chitchat on E.A.S.T., Houton Artcrawls then and now, One-painting shows, Marclay's Clock, and Peter Ligon vs Fairfield Porter.
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Annette Carlozzi, longtime curator at the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas in Austin, is retiring in December after 18 years on the job. For the Blanton Carlozzi has…
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Interactive technology is the new museum arms race, and the Blanton Museum in Austin has appointed museum-tech expert Koven Smith as to the new post of “Director of Digital Adaptation.”…
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Mark Moore Gallery (Los Angeles), which represents the (mostly) Austin-based art collective Okay Mountain, has announced that the collective’s piece “Roadside Attractions” (2012) has been acquired by the Blanton Museum of…
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Houston residents Charles and Judy Tate have donated their private collection of 120 modern and contemporary Latin American artworks, valued at nearly $10 million, to the Blanton Museum of Art…