Upcoming events at the Blanton
Join us for Third Thursdays–a free, monthly themed event that features extended hours (until 9 PM), multiple programs including Yoga in the Galleries, the Blanton Book Club, and tours, among other offerings.
Programs are included with admission and are free to members, unless noted. Thursdays are always free at the Blanton.
For more information on events please visit our calendar, and for future exhibitions please visit our Please visit our Blanton Book Club page for upcoming selections.
Public Tours
The museum offers themed tours on the collection and special exhibitions every Saturday and Sunday at 3 PM, every Thursday at 12:30 PM, Third Thursday at 7:30 PM, and during B scene.
MARCH
Special Lecture: Hiroshima After Iraq: A Study in Art and War
Wednesday, March 10, 7:30PM
A noted art historian and critic, Rosalyn Deutsche has written extensively on topics including public art, art and activism, and feminist theories of representation. She teaches at Barnard College and is the author of the well-known book Evictions: Art and Spatial Politics. This talk presents her current work on contemporary art and war. Blanton Auditorium, FREE
Co-presented by the Blanton Museum of Art and the Humanities Institute at the University of Texas at Austin. Presented as part of the Humanities Institute Distinguished Lecture Series, Intellectual Life at Moments of Crisis.
Perspectives: WorkSpace: Anna Craycroft
Thursday, March 11, 12:30PM
Sam Gosling, associate professor in the department of psychology, in conversation with artist Anna Craycroft.
Book Club with Anna Craycroft
Saturday, March 13, 2PM
Artist Anna Craycroft leads a special book club discussion for children and adults on texts by Gregory Bateson, Paul Chan, R. Buckminster Fuller, and Bruno Munari. (Paul Chan text is available at the Museum Shop, other texts are available as a course packet at Speedway Copy in the Dobie Mall)
Third Thursday
Thursday, March 18, 5 – 9PM
6:30PM Yoga in the Galleries
7PM Blanton Book Club: Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson
*POSTPONED: 7PM Artist Talk: Walead Beshty followed by screening of Dawn of the Dead
7:30PM Tour: The Figure in Art
*PLEASE NOTE: The talk and screening with artist Walead Beshty has been postponed to Thursday, November 18.*
Media sponsor for Third Thursdays: Univision
Slide Jam
Saturday, March 20, 2PM
Get to know 25 emerging contemporary artists from Austin and Virginia Commonwealth University in under two hours. Invited artists have 20 images and five minutes each to introduce their work. Part of WorkSpace: Anna Craycroft.
Perspectives: Desire
Thursday, March 25, 12:30PM
Kathleen Higgins, professor in the department of philosophy at UT, on Desire.
Artist Talk: RH Quaytman
Thursday, March 25, 5PM
R.H. Quaytman is a painter, and former director of Orchard, a collaborative, artist-run gallery in New York. Since 2001 she has structured her work as a “book of paintings,” with the story unfolding via exhibitions, the paintings themselves, and the viewers’ place before them. Blanton Auditorium, FREE
Media sponsor: ArtLies magazine
Funding provided by the Carolyn Harris-Hynson Centennial Visiting Professorship in Fine Arts
Conversation: Manuel Álvarez Bravo: A Double Unfolding
Sunday, March 28, 2PM
Leonard Folgarait, professor of history of art at Vanderbilt University, and the author four books on modern Mexican art, including Seeing Mexico Photographed: The Work of Horne, Casasola, Modotti, and Álvarez Bravo discusses the photographic images of Manuel Álvarez Bravo in conversation with Roberto Tejada, associate professor in the department of art and art history at UT, co-curator of the exhibition Manuel Álvarez Bravo: Optical Parables at the J. Paul Getty Museum, and author of, among other books, National Camera: Photography and Mexico's Image Environment. Blanton Auditorium, FREE
Talk to be followed by a docent-led tour of the exhibition.
Funding provided by the Barbara Duncan Centennial Endowed Lectureship. This event is presented as part of The University of Texas at Austin's programming to celebrate the Mexican Bicentennial.
Bach Cantata Project
Tuesday, March 30 12 Noon
A partnership between the Blanton and UT’s Butler School of Music, this popular series takes place in the museum’s soaring Rapoport atrium. This month: In allen meinen Taten BWV 97
Media sponsor: KMFA, 89.5 FM 
