Hours, Admission, & Directions

As the season turns to fall, come view a selection of prints and drawings that will bring a chill to the air. With images including sorcerers, specters, and snakes, along with moonlit scenes, we’re sure you’ll walk out with a shiver.

Museum admission is always free on Thursdays. On the third Thursday of each month, the museum remains open until 9 pm.

The Blanton is located at the intersection of Congress Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.  Paid parking is available in the Blanton/Brazos Garage on Brazos Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. Parking is $4; bring your ticket with you to the front desk of the museum for payment and validation.

Image Caption: MAGE CREDIT: Jean Morin, “Memento Mori, after Philippe de Champaigne,” 1640s, etching and engraving, 12 5/8 in. x 12 9/16 in., Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, The Karen G. and Dr. Elgin W. Ware, Jr. Collection, 1996

Join us for a special performance by renowned Austin-based musician and composer Ephraim Owens!

Trumpeter Ephraim Owens is no Austin-native, but the Music Capital has continued to lay claim to the Dallas-born Blues, Gospel, and Jazz (his favorite) musician. While growing up in the Big D, Owens talents were backed by a mother who sung and a father with an ear for the blues. In elementary school, he joined the school band after being pushed by friends. Soon after, church members at his family’s Pentecostal church began to hear the sharp, metallic drones of Owen’s trumpet solos. Owen’s father later enrolled the young artist into Dallas’ first high school for African Americans, Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing & Visual Arts — known for educating Erykah Badu, Norah Jones, and fellow trumpeter Roy Hargrove. Hargrove, who passed last year, piqued Owen’s interest in Jazz at the professional level. He also gravitated towards more underground artists like Austin’s Kenny Dorham and Freddie Hubbard. After high school, he spent two years in the DFW area attending community college and playing area clubs until he later enrolled into Texas State University (Southwest Texas State) where he studied Music Education before dropping out and moving to Austin in 1996. Since then, Owens has played all over the city — regularly, The Continental Gallery and Elephant Room — and the world. He’s also joined various musical groups, like the Texas Trumpets, and has recorded with the likes of Mumford & Sons, Sheryl Crow, Badu and is on tour with the Tedeschi Trucks Band. Austin is both another home and a captive to the rich and soothing vibrations of Owen’s trumpeting skills (and not as often-ly used flugelhorn).

Museum admission is always free on Thursdays. On the third Thursday of each month, the museum remains open until 9 pm.

The Blanton is located at the intersection of Congress Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.  Paid parking is available in the Blanton/Brazos Garage on Brazos Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. Parking is $4; bring your ticket with you to the front desk of the museum.

Join us for another event in this series of intimate, 30-minute conversations about a single work of art in the museum’s galleries.

Museum admission is always free on Thursdays. On the third Thursday of each month, the museum remains open until 9 pm.

The Blanton is located at the intersection of Congress Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.  Paid parking is available in the Blanton/Brazos Garage on Brazos Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. Parking is $4; bring your ticket with you to the front desk of the museum for payment and validation.

Join us for Singing Monsters, a lecture and performance presented by Luisa Nardini, UT Professor of Musicology, that will highlight some of the ways monsters inhabited medieval music. Whether the subject of song lyrics or of musical scenes painted in manuscripts, monsters were an important element of sacred and secular music in the Middle Ages.  We will sing songs connected with the theme of the exhibition and will reflect on the ultimate sonic meaning of monsters and monstrosity in the medieval imagery and vocabulary.

Thursdays are free admission at the museum. The Blanton is located at the intersection of Congress Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.

Paid parking is available in the Brazos Garage on Brazos Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. Parking is $4; bring your ticket with you to the museum.

ABOUT LUISA NARDINI
Luisa Nardini is a medievalist with special interests in the later development of chant repertories in Western Europe.  Her works on Gregorian chant, medieval music theory, music and visual art, manuscript studies, and oral and written transmission of liturgical chant, and digital humanities had been presented at scholarly forums worldwide. She is the author of Interlacing Traditions: Neo-Gregorian Chant Propers in Beneventan Manuscripts (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 2016) and Chant, Hypertexts and Prosulas in Beneventan Manuscripts: The Proper of the Mass under contract with Oxford University Press. She also edited the collection Intersecting Practices in the Production of Sacred Music, ca. 1400–1650: Proceedings of a Symposium of Studies, Austin, TX, May 2015(ed.), Journal of the Alamire Foundation (2016) and has published several essays in journals and collected volumes. She is Associate Professor of Musicology at the Butler School of Music at the University of Texas, Austin.

Image Credit: “Siren(detail),” from Les abus du monde [Abuses of the World], ca.1510,7 11/16 x 5 ¼ in., The Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.42, fol.15r, Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899, Photography by Janny Chiu, 2017

Join us for another event in this series of intimate, 30-minute conversations about a single work of art in the museum’s galleries.

Museum admission is always free on Thursdays. On the third Thursday of each month, the museum remains open until 9 pm.

The Blanton is located at the intersection of Congress Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.  Paid parking is available in the Blanton/Brazos Garage on Brazos Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. Parking is $4; bring your ticket with you to the front desk of the museum for payment and validation.

Join us for another event in this series of intimate, 30-minute conversations about a single work of art in the museum’s galleries.

Museum admission is always free on Thursdays. On the third Thursday of each month, the museum remains open until 9 pm.

The Blanton is located at the intersection of Congress Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.  Paid parking is available in the Blanton/Brazos Garage on Brazos Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. Parking is $4; bring your ticket with you to the front desk of the museum for payment and validation.

Please note, there will be a UT home football game which will affect parking at Brazos garage so alternative transportation is recommended. There will be no parking available in our garage so it’s a good time get a ride or walk, bike, bus or Uber/Lyft.  The Bullock Museum across the street charges $25 p/day if you wish to use their garage.

The museum will remain open as usual during this time.

Please note, there will be a UT home football game which will affect parking at Brazos garage so alternative transportation is recommended. There will be no parking available in our garage so it’s a good time get a ride or walk, bike, bus or Uber/Lyft.  The Bullock Museum across the street charges $25 p/day if you wish to use their garage.

The museum will remain open as usual during this time.

Please note, there will be a UT home football game which will affect parking at Brazos garage so alternative transportation is recommended. There will be no parking available in our garage so it’s a good time get a ride or walk, bike, bus or Uber/Lyft.  The Bullock Museum across the street charges $25 p/day if you wish to use their garage.

The museum will remain open as usual during this time.