Shopping with a Conscience
As the holiday season approaches, we often take the opportunity to both indulge in some well-earned treats and gifts, but also to give back to those less fortunate. Whether that means donating to a...
View ArticleOut on the Edge with Kate Perez
The Blanton’s Art on the Edge black-tie party is coming up this Saturday. Launched for the first time as a stand-alone event, it promises to be an unforgettable night of live music, dancing, cocktails...
View ArticleBring Your Own Boombox: Mobile Music at the Blanton
Kids born in the 21st century won’t remember a time when music wasn’t mobile—a time when we encountered music almost exclusively through objects in our living rooms. But the rise of the boombox in the...
View ArticleArt+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon
Join us Friday afternoon, March 4th, for the Art+Feminism Wikipedia-edit-a-thon at the UT Fine Arts Library (map). The edit-a-thon, hosted by UT student organizations the Association for Information...
View Article5 days, 5 films: Matthew Barney’s The CREMASTER Cycle
In 1995, when The New York Times first reviewed of one of artist Matthew Barney’s CREMASTER Cycle films, his indulgent and elaborate five-part film epic, critic Michael Kimmelman asked, “What’s the...
View Article(Re)consider the Slacker: films of the 1990s at the Blanton
There’s a critique of American films of the 1990s that calls out an excessive focus on slacker protagonists: the too-cool-for-school hipsters, always rolling their eyes, coolly mocking authority...
View ArticleFelix Gonzalez-Torres, AIDS, and ACT UP
1990: Already ten years into trickle down economics, a rise in cynicism, growing racial and class tension, and the widening gap between the very rich and the rest of us. L.A. before the riots of 1992....
View ArticleFive Austin Birds for Ellsworth Kelly’s “Austin”
From a young age, artist Ellsworth Kelly was quite the bird lover, watching and learning to identify local species in the woods behind his house in upstate New York. For our May 11th lunchtime lecture,...
View ArticleVincent Valdez & Maria Hinojosa in Conversation about “The City”
“One of the issues I find when I step back and observe…for far too long it’s been too easy for America to avoid the conversation about racism.” — artist Vincent Valdez On July 17, the Blanton launched...
View ArticleWonder Women: 5 Prints and Drawings of Powerful Women
When we think about artworks featuring women as central characters, we might consider renowned works such as Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci, Marilyn Monroe by Andy Warhol, and Birth of Venus by Sandro...
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