The new grounds will feature a mural by 105-year-old Cuban-American artist Carmen Herrera.
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UT Removes Confederate Statues Overnight; Bomb Attempt and Arrest in Houston Over Another Statue
by Glasstireby GlasstireOvernight last night the University of Texas at Austin removed three Confederate monuments from its campus. Via the New York Times: “Work to remove statues of two Confederate generals, Robert E.…
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Hamilton, the acclaimed Ohio-based artist, photographed more then 500 Austinites for the project—a cross section-section of men, women and children of various ages and ethnicities.
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On August 1, a law went into effect in Texas that made it legal to carry concealed firearms into public university campus buildings. Next week, students at the University of…
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Landmarks, the University of Texas at Austin’s public art program, recently announced their new acquisition of works by Ann Hamilton and Marc Quinn. Hamilton’s piece, a commissioned work for the university’s recently built Dell…
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Announced today: Fritz Steiner, the respected longtime dean of the University of Texas at Austin’s acclaimed architecture school (ranked seventh in the nation) is leaving his position, and he cites…
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Jules' Airstream in East Austin may not be a mystic cave of the ancients, but with his tropical shirt glowing, he really embodies a little bit of what keeps Austin weird.
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The Harry Ransom Center, the humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, has been awarded a $500,000 challenge grant from the National Endowment for the…
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Turrell charmed the crowd of art students, professors and other Turrell-groupies with sassy comments like “I make money selling blue sky and colored air.”
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UT Art History PhD candidate Rose Salseda discusses Afro-Latin American identity and art that fuses punk rock, immigration, and post-identity politics.
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Loren Mozley: Structural Integrity at the DMA
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy LewisLoren Mozley, “Winter Fields,” 1948. Oil on canvas, overall: 24 x 30 in. Collection of Susan and Claude Albritton III Though Loren Mozley’s impact is most strongly felt in Austin,…
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The Exploring Latino Identities series examines issues in Latino/Latin American contemporary art through interviews with artists, art historians, and others. In today’s installment, multimedia artist, writer, DJ, and recent Austin-NYC…
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Growing up in Austin, the Blanton was our reference during high school art history classes. Even spread across campus from the Harry Ransom Center to the Art Building, the collection…
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US News and World Report‘s new rankings for Graduate School of art and Design are out. Selected by polling deans and other academics in 2012, there were no Texas schools…
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I recently had the pleasure of curating a video show at Tiny Park Gallery in Austin, Texas titled the Time and Space of Calixto Ramirez. The exhibition was a show of…
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Jack Risley, associate dean of academic affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), will be the next chair and Ruth Head Centennial Professor of the Department of Art and Art History…
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If you’re in Austin, or vaguely near Austin, don’t miss the talk by Mark Allen, founder of Machine Project in Los Angeles. It’s from 6:30-8pm in the UT Art Building,…
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When I ask Mark Goodman, Graduate Academic Advisor in the Department of Art at the University of Austin, what he wishes he could tell his 25-year-old self about a career…