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. During Third Thursday, visit the Blanton Cafe for a special extended happy hour featuring a glass of wine and slice of gourmet pizza for $5 (until 9 PM).

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 upcoming exhibitions page.

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 2 PM, every Thursday at 12:30 PM, and during B scene on the first Friday of every month and Third Thursdays. [No Saturday tours are given on UT football home game days.]

November

• Perspectives
  Thursday, November 5, 12:30 PM
  Margo Sawyer, sculpture professor at UT , discusses the creative process behind installation art within the context of the exhibition Teresita Fernández: Blind Landscape.
• B scene
  Friday, November 6, 6-10:30 PM
  The Blanton's monthly art party presents an illuminating celebration of light, nature, and the senses, in conjunction with the opening of Teresita Fernández: Blind Landscape and Drawn Toward Light. Don't miss a live performance by Amy Cook and music by DJ Nicknack. Plus enjoy tours, art activities, free appetizers, a cash bar, and more. The Museum Shop and Café will be open late featuring special tapas paired with a selection of Texas wines. Members get in free to this special B scene. $10 for non-members.

  Media sponsor: Artlies magazine

• Miro String Quartet at The Blanton
  Sunday, November 8, 2 PM
  A unique opportunity to see one of the nation's highest profile chamber groups during their time as Faculty String Quartet in residence at UT.
• Perspectives
  Saturday, November 14, 3 PM
  Annette Carlozzi, curator of American and contemporary art, discusses Teresita Fernández: Blind Landscape.
• Artist Talk
  Thursday, November 12, 12:30 PM
  Artist Pablo Vargas Lugo discusses his current WorkSpace installation, Eclipses for Austin, with Roberto Tejada, associate professor in the Art and Art History Department.
• Special Lecture: Creating the Sacred
  Sunday, November 15, 3 PM
  Join Craig Kanewske of Venture Four Architects, Father Jim Wiesner of St. Austin's Catholic Church, and Mark Landers of Landers' Studio for a discussion on the architectural, logistical, and formal implications of creating a sacred space, such as an altarpiece, within a church setting.
• Lectures in Art and Diaspora: Asian in America
  Tuesday, November 17, 5 PM
  Artist and UT Professor Beili Liu will discuss Mining the Material: Time and Process. This series is co-sponsored by the Center for Asian American Studies; the Lectures on Art in the Black Diaspora in the Department of Art and Art History, College of Fine Arts; the Blanton Museum of Art; and the Institute for Historical Studies. This event will take place in the Blanton Auditorium. FREE
• Perspectives
  Thursday, November 19, 12:30 PM
  Jonathan Bober, curator of prints, drawings, and European paintings, discusses Paolo Veronese.
• Third Thursday
  Thursday, November 19, 5:30-9 PM
  Join us for our FREE evening of art and activities. Enjoy an extended happy hour in the Café featuring a glass of wine and slice of gourmet pizza for $5.
  6:30 PM Yoga in the Galleries
  **7 PM Panel Discussion: The Evidence of Fragments
  7 PM Book Club, Sanditon: Jane Austen's Unifinished Masterpiece completed by Jane Austen and Juliette Shapiro
  7:30 PM Tour, Paolo Veronese: The Petrobelli Altarpiece

  **A panel of experts discuss the importance of fragments in conjunction with the recent reconstruction of Veronese's Petrobelli Altarpiece. Moderated by Kurt Heinzelman, the Blanton's interim director of Academic and Public Programs, panelists include: Jonathan Bober, the Blanton's curator of prints, drawings, and European paintings; David Armstrong, Professor Emeritus of Classics; Enrique Rodriguez-Alegria, assistant professor in anthropology, and Marjorie Woods, associate professor of English.

• Bach Cantata Project
  Tuesday, November 24, 12 PM
  A joint venture between the Blanton and Butler School of Music at UT, the Bach Cantata Project presents beautiful music in the museum's soaring atrium.
  BWV 36: Schwingt freudich euch empor (Soar in your joy)

  Media sponsor: KMFA, 89.5 FM

• Thursday, November 26
  The museum will be closed Thanksgiving Day