Brackens participates in this cultural moment by “having bodies in repose or resting — doing anything but dying."
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Review
The Avant-Garde Networks of Amauta: Argentina, Mexico, and Peru in the 1920s
by Lydia Pyneby Lydia PyneLatin American voices became the epicenters for powerful, far-reaching intellectual projects in the mid- to late-1920s, like the Peruvian magazine Amauta.
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It’s thrilling to see artworks up close and unframed, and viewers seem to slow down in the pop-ups’ intimate, informal atmosphere.
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The endowment's namesakes, Carl and Marilynn Thoma, have been active supporters of the Blanton for more than a decade.
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The works in the exhibition swing like a pendulum between internal perceptions and the acknowledgment of external ones.
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The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin has announced that is has received a gift of seven works by American abstract painter Leon Polk Smith (1906–1996).…
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"Humor is useful as a hook and it puts people at ease, and then once you have people at ease, you can do something else to them."
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The Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin has announced a new curatorial position for the museum, underwritten by the The Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation.…
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Upcoming at UT’s Blanton Museum of Art in Austin is a slated in-person discussion between artist Ed Ruscha and writer Dave Hickey. These two old friends and wooly wild-westerners should have a lot…
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Today is the day you’ve all been waiting for. Don your cliché Warhol costume, grab two armfuls of candy (because you’re an adult) and go forth into the night. If…
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U.T.’s Blanton Museum in Austin just announced that 40 unbound pages from one of the most important illuminated manuscripts from the Middle Ages will be on view starting in December; these are startlingly complex…
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Big news: Twenty works by the prominent African American artist Charles White (1918–1979) have been gifted to the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin by Drs.…
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Ah, the ever-shortening nostalgia cycle. No sooner have we gotten a big 1980s museum show out of our Texas blood and now here comes the touring exhibition, Come As You Are:…
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PrintAustin, a non-profit outfit dedicated to raising awareness of Austin’s impressive status as a hotbed of printmaking, begins its third annual month-long showcase of prints. Beginning January 15 and hosted…
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By the time this is published the new curator of modern and contemporary art at the Blanton Museum may have been announced. I was told last week that an offer…
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No need to panic when you turn the corner of the second floor gallery at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, and discover Melissa Miller‘s epic painting The Ark…
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The implosion of the Austin art world has got me thinking about art world power dynamics, as I mentioned last week in my published correspondence with Rachel Cook. The resignation…