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 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 3 PM, every Thursday at 12:30 PM, Third Thursday at 7:30 PM, and during B scene.

February

• Perspectives: Paolo Veronese
  Thursday, February 4, 12:30 PM
  Ernest N. Kaulbach, Distinguished Teaching Professor in the department of English at UT, on Paolo Veronese: The Petrobelli Altarpiece.
• B scene: Desire
  Friday, February 5, 6, 10:30 PM
  Celebrate the opening of the highly anticipated exhibition, Desire, with a live performance by Suzanna Choffel and music by DJ Nicknack, tours, art activities, free appetizers, a cash bar, and more!
  Members get free admission to this special B scene. $12 non-members.
• Conversation: Representing Desire
  Saturday, February 6, 2 PM
  Artists Glenn Ligon and Marilyn Minter, two artists in the Desire exhibition who explore desire and identity from very different vantage points join curator Annette Carlozzi in a conversation on desire and its representation. Blanton Auditorium, FREE
  Sponsored by the Blanton Contemporary Salon with funding provided by the Carolyn Harris-Hynson Centennial Visiting Professorship in Fine Arts
• Film Screening: L’Avventura, 1960, Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni (Italy/France)
  Sunday, February 7, 3 PM
  In conjunction with Desire and organized by Chale Nafus, director of programming, Austin Film Society, the four films in this series, like the works in the exhibition, capture different aspects of desire from the comedic to the heartbreaking. Cost: $3 for members, UT students, faculty, and staff; $5 for non-members. Blanton Auditorium. Sponsored by
  
• Perspectives: Eclipses for Austin
  Thursday, February 11, 12:30 PM
  Volker Bromm, assistant professor in the department of astronomy at UT, on cosmic evolution in conjunction with WorkSpace: Pablo Vargas Lugo
• UT Faculty Ensemble: A Tribute to Handel
  Sunday, February 14, 2 PM
  UT faculty and students perform works by Handel in honor of the 250th anniversary of his death.
• Film Screening: Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, 1988, Written, produced, and directed by Pedro Almodovar (Spain)
  Sunday, February 14, 3 PM
  In conjunction with Desire and organized by Chale Nafus, director of programming, Austin Film Society, the four films in this series, like the works in the exhibition, capture different aspects of desire from the comedic to the heartbreaking. Cost: $3 for members, UT students, faculty, and staff; $5 for non-members. Blanton Auditorium. Sponsored by
  
• Perspectives: Goya’s Prints
  Thursday, February 18, 12:30 PM
  Vance Holloway, associate professor in the department of Spanish and Portuguese at UT, on "Witches, Wantons, and Wretches: Goya's Capricious Women"
• Third Thursday
  Thursday, February 18, 5 - 9 PM
  Join us for our FREE evening of art and activities. Enjoy an extended happy hour in the Blanton Café featuring a slice of gourmet pizza and a glass of wine for $5.
  6:30 PM Yoga in the Galleries
  7 PM Book Club: Goddess of the Americas
  **7 PM Artist’s Video: Manner of Person Art Thou? By Erin Cosgrove
  7:30 PM Tour: Desire

  ** Erin Cosgrove’s darkly funny animation follows Elijah Yoder and Enoch Troyer, two anachronistic believers who dispense justice on those they deem to be evildoers. Allegorical figures representing the corruptibility of faith, Yoder and Troyer illuminate the hazards of morality and the corruption of modern life.

  Media sponsor for Third Thursday: Univision

• Special Lecture: Shakespeare and Desire
  Saturday, February 20, 2 PM
  One of the most profound interpreters of human desire, Shakespeare used this powerful theme as a driving force in his works. James Loehlin, the Shakespeare at Winedale Regents Professor of English, examines Shakespeare’s use of this complex concept. The talk will include performance illustrations by students of the Shakespeare at Winedale program. Blanton Auditorium, FREE
• Film Screening: She’s Gotta Have It, 1986, Written, produced, directed, and edited by Spike Lee (USA)
  Sunday, February 21, 3 PM
  In conjunction with Desire and organized by Chale Nafus, director of programming, Austin Film Society, the four films in this series, like the works in the exhibition, capture different aspects of desire from the comedic to the heartbreaking. Cost: $3 for members, UT students, faculty, and staff; $5 for non-members. Blanton Auditorium. Sponsored by
  
• Bach Cantata Project
  Tuesday, February 23, 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: Laß, Fürstin, laß noch einen Strahl BWV 198
  Media sponsor: KMFA
• Perspectives: Goya
  Thursday, February 25, 12:30 PM
  Jonathan Bober, curator of prints, drawings, and European paintings, and Ursula Davila-Villa, interim curator of Latin American Art at the Blanton, on Goya’s Prints: The Dawn of Modern Art and The Sleep of Reason: Goya’s Influence in Spanish America
• Film Screening: Happy Together, 1997, Written and directed by Wong Kar-wai (Hong Kong)
  Sunday, February 28, 3 PM
  In conjunction with Desire and organized by Chale Nafus, director of programming, Austin Film Society, the four films in this series, like the works in the exhibition, capture different aspects of desire from the comedic to the heartbreaking. Cost: $3 for members, UT students, faculty, and staff; $5 for non-members. Blanton Auditorium. Sponsored by