Austin’s Blanton Museum of Art recently announced that they are starting a new residency offering emerging artists the opportunity to create a sound-based artwork to be featured in the museum’s January…
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Blanton Museum Acquires Vincent Valdez’s Large-Scale ‘The City’ Paintings
by Glasstireby GlasstireThis week, the University of Texas’ Blanton Museum of Art told Glasstire that they have acquired Vincent Valdez’s large-scale paintings The City I and The City II. These pieces were introduced to the public…
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The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin recently announced that it will receive 83 artworks from The Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC). Based in New York…
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Glasstire's Christina Rees and Brandon Zech talk about Nina Katchadourian's solo show at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin.
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Austin’s Umlauf Sculpture Garden is currently hosting the exhibit Mentoring a Muse: Charles Umlauf & Farrah Fawcett. The show focuses on the long-standing relationship between the two artists; while a…
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Sometimes museums use billboards to advertise art, and sometimes billboards are the art:
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Christina Rees and Brandon Zech on what to see over Spring Break, whether there are any bands left at SXSW, and naked people at the museum.
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Today marks the reopening of the permanent collection galleries in UT Austin’s Blanton Museum of Art. Closed for the past year, museum workers have been busily cleaning and restoring the galleries,…
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Spring Preview! Rainey Knudson, Brandon Zech, and Christina Rees run down our top picks in Texas for the coming months.
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Blanton Docent Raises Funds to Add African American Art to the Collection
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonBusinesswoman Marilyn Johnson moved to Austin in the 1990s and became a docent at the Blanton Museum of Art in 2012. When she visited the museum, reports KUT.org, she realized…
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Christina Rees and Brandon Zech on getting the band back together, a celebration of a legend, and an institution's comeback show.
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Artforum reports that Evan Garza has been named the new director of Rice Public Art at Houston’s Rice University. A Houston native, Garza has been serving as assistant curator at…
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Top Five Special Edition! Rainey Knudson and Brandon Zech on the top five art venues that have made it into our weekly Top Five.
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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 in its upcoming SoundSpace event.…
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Like all wonderfully rich cabinets of curiosities, "The Collections" rewards slow and repeated looking.
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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 and Drawings. Foster will join the…
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Brandon Zech shares some thoughts on the work he saw on his most recent trip.
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“It’s all a little bit funny, and… " “Dark. It’s terribly violent and very, very bloody.”
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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. Here are a few that…
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“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: Gratest Hits Contemporary Arts Museum…