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- Salvage Vanguard Theater to Premiere ‘Casta’ at the Blanton Museum of Art
- Blanton Museum to Present Ellsworth Kelly’s Rarely Seen Postcard Collages
- Blanton Museum to Present New Work by Njideka Akunyili Crosby
- Blanton Museum Presents Painted Cloth: Fashion and Ritual in Colonial Latin America
- The third annual #BlantonBakeOff invites amateur and professional bakers to recreate works of art from the Blanton’s collection
- The Blanton Museum’s Popular SoundSpace Returns for its Tenth Season
- Blanton Museum to Present ‘Fantastically French! Design and Architecture in 16th- to 18th-Century Prints’
- Blanton Museum of Art Presents First U.S. Retrospective of Oscar Muñoz
- Blanton Museum to Present ‘Terry Allen: MemWars’
- Blanton Museum Launches New Digital Education Resources for PK-12
- Blanton Museum Announces New Board Chair
- Blanton Museum to Present ‘Without Limits: Helen Frankenthaler, Abstraction, and the Language of Print
- Blanton Museum Fall Shows Will Forefront Latin American and Chicano Art
- Blanton Museum of Art to Become First Major Museum with Dedicated Outdoor Space for Sound Art, Following $5 Million Gift from Ernest and Sarah Butler
- Blanton Museum to Present ‘Sedrick Huckaby’
- Blanton Museum of Art Receives National Endowment for the Humanities Grant
- Blanton Museum of Art to Present Summer Exhibitions: ‘Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brathwaite’ and ‘Suzanne Bocanegra: Valley’
- Media Alert: The #BlantonBakeOff Edible Art Contest is Back!
- Blanton Museum of Art Announces New Grounds Initiative that will Transform Museum Experience
- Blanton Museum to Present ‘After Michelangelo, Past Picasso: Leo Steinberg’s Library of Prints’
- Blanton Museum to Present ‘Diedrick Brackens: darling divined’
- Blanton Museum to Present ‘Expanding Abstraction: Pushing the Boundaries of Painting in the Americas, 1958-1983’
- Media Alert: Blanton Museum Reopens
- Ellsworth Kelly’s ‘Austin’ Goes Digital During the COVID-19 Crisis
- Media Alert: Blanton Museum Announces #MuseumFromHome Initiatives
- Still Water Foundation Gifts Strengthen the Arts on Campus
- Blanton Museum Presents Fourth Annual Block Party
- Blanton Museum to Exhibit ‘Ed Ruscha: Drum Skins’
- Blanton Museum to Present ‘The Avant-garde Networks of Amauta: Argentina, Mexico, and Peru in the 1920s’
- Blanton Museum to Present ‘Arte Sin Fronteras: Prints from the Self Help Graphics Studio’
- For Second Year in a Row, Blanton Museum Welcomes 200,000 Visitors
- Blanton Museum Announces New Curator of Latin American Art
- Media Alert: Blanton Presents “SoundSpace: In Such Times”
- The University of Texas at Austin Presents Two Exhibitions on Acclaimed American Artist Charles White
- Blanton Museum Presents New Work by Lily Cox-Richard
- Blanton Museum Receives 76 Works by Ellsworth Kelly through Several Significant Donations
- Blanton Museum to Present ‘Jeffrey Gibson: This Is the Day’
- Blanton Museum Announces Landmark Endowment for Curator in Art of the Spanish and Portuguese Americas Underwritten by the Thoma Foundation
- Media Alert: Blanton Expands Evening Hours for the Summer Season
- Moody Foundation Donation of $20 Million to Blanton Will Transform Museum Grounds
- Blanton Museum Announces Acquisition of 119 Works from the Spanish and Portuguese Americas
- Blanton Museum Announces Third Annual Block Party
- Blanton Museum to Present ‘Words/Matter: Latin American Art and Language at the Blanton’
- Dell Medical School Building Features Soaring Sculpture Passage from Blanton Museum of Art
- Blanton Museum Shop Celebrates Museum Store Sunday
- Blanton Museum’s 20th SoundSpace Transforms Sounds of the Body Into Immersive Gallery Performance
- Blanton Museum to Exhibit ‘Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design’
- Blanton Museum Collaborates With The Contemporary Austin to Transfer 500 Works of Art to Texas Museums
- Blanton Museum to Exhibit ‘Vincent Valdez: The City’
- Blanton Museum to Exhibit ‘Ancestral Modern: Australian Aboriginal Art from the Kaplan & Levi Collection’
- Blanton Museum Invites City to Second Annual Block Party
- Blanton Museum Celebrates Opening of Ellsworth Kelly’s Austin With Historic Gala
- Blanton Museum Receives Gift of Contemporary Latin American Art From the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros
- Blanton Museum Announces Form Into Spirit Exhibition to Accompany Opening of Ellsworth Kelly’s “Austin”
- Blanton Museum of Art Completes $23 Million Fundraising Campaign ahead of the Debut of Ellsworth Kelly’s Austin
- First-Ever Museum Store Sunday offers Blanton Visitors Deals on Unique Holiday Gifts
- Blanton Expands Curatorial Team with Two New Hires
- Blanton Museum brings The Open Road: Photography and the American Road Trip to Austin this Fall
- Blanton Museum’s September SoundSpace will Celebrate the Innovative, Multicultural Music of Alice Coltrane
- Blanton Museum’s SoundSpace Announces its New Music Residency Program
- Blanton Museum Partners with Writers’ League of Texas to Explore Mythology at August Third Thursday Event
- Blanton Museum’s Latest SoundSpace Brings the Refugee Experience to Life with Musical Works by and about Refugees
- Blanton Museum to Exhibit Epic Tales From Ancient India: Paintings From the San Diego Museum of Art
- The Contemporary Austin Transfers Legacy Art Collection to The Blanton Museum of Art, Solidifying Focus of its Collecting Program on Outdoor Sculpture
- Blanton Museum is One of Five Museums to Receive a Gift of Spanish Colonial Art from The Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros
- The Blanton’s Reinstalled Collection Galleries Now Open to the Public
- Blanton Museum of Art Gifted Twenty-Eight Video Works by Renowned Contemporary Art Collectors, Jeanne and Michael L. Klein
- Blanton Museum of Art Announces 2017 Gala Celebrating the Opening of the Museum’s Renovated and Reinstalled Permanent Collection and Honoring Jeanne and Michael L. Klein
- Blanton Announces 2017 Art on the Edge Fundraising Event
- Blanton to Present First Touring Museum Exhibition of Works by Nina Katchadourian
- Blanton Announces Curator of Spanish Colonial Art Underwritten by Thoma Foundation, Long-term Loan of Works from Thoma Collection
- Advanced Exhibition Schedule, 2016-2017
- Blanton’s SoundSpace Explores the Museum’s Interior and Exterior Spaces
- Blanton Museum of Art Presents First Exhibition in U.S. to Examine Andy Warhol’s Extensive Work In Books
- Blanton’s SoundSpace Celebrates Work of Musicians Who Have Recently Passed, From David Bowie to Prince
- Blanton Museum of Art Announces Carter E. Foster as Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs and Curator of Prints and Drawings
- Blanton to Exhibit Xu Bing’s Iconic Book from the Sky in First Full-Scale Texas Installation
- Blanton Organizes Exhibition of Prints and Paintings by Francisco de Goya
- Blanton Organizes Exhibition of Peruvian Photography from the 1960s Through Present; Announces New Acquisitions
- Blanton’s SoundSpace Pays Homage to Music of the 1990s; Brings Together Noted Musicians and Artists including Graham Reynolds, Tim Barnes, and Others
- Blanton Museum Presents First Major Historical Survey of Art of the 1990s
- Museum Shop to Host Fair Trade Trunk Show Featuring Companies that Empower Artisans
- Blanton Museum Announces Groundbreaking For Ellsworth Kelly’s Austin, Organizes Symposium with Leading Kelly Scholars
- Blanton’s Art on the Edge Gala After Party to Become Stand Alone, Annual Event
- Paintings from Esteemed Spanish Colonial Collection Offer New Insight Into Depictions of the Virgin Mary
- Blanton Presentation Offers Rare Look at One of History’s Most Celebrated Medieval Manuscripts; Includes Medieval Arms and Armor
- Blanton Museum’s SoundSpace Celebrates Composer and Musical Theorist, Paulie Oliveros, and Deep Listening, Brings Together Noted Musicians Incorporating Site-Specific Sounds
- Moderno: Design for Living in Brazil, Mexico, and Venezuela, 1940-1978
- Blanton Museum First to Use Live-Streaming Platform, Periscope; Announces Periscope Tour Series
- Blanton Museum of Art Presents New Acquisitions by Texas Native Donald Moffett
- Blanton Museum’s SoundSpace Spotlights Musicians Working Outside the Mainstream, Including Phil Niblock, Conlon Nanacarrow, and Others
- Blanton Museum Receives Key Works by Celebrated American Artist Charles White
- Blanton Exhibition Explores the Capitvating and Unsanitized World of Grimm’s Fairy Tales
- Advance Exhibition Schedule, 2015-2016 Season
- Exhibition Spotlighting Pioneering Puerto Rican Impressionist Francisco Oller to Premiere at the Blanton Museum
- Blanton Museum Acquires Installation by Texas Artist Collective Okay Mountain
- Blanton Museum Makes Key Additions to Curatorial Staff
- Blanton Museum of Art Announces Acquisition of Ellsworth Kelly’s Austin, A Site for Art and Contemplation
- Blanton Museum’s SoundSpace Spotlights Improvisation, Brings Together Noted Musicians, Dancers, and Sound Artists
- Blanton Museum of Art and Harry Ransom Center Partner to Present Works by Legendary Photographer Ralph Eugene Meatyard
- Annette DiMeo Carlozzi to Retire After 18 Years at the Blanton Museum of Art
- Blanton Exhibition Explores Artists’ Response to the 1960s Civil Rights Movement
- Blanton Museum of Art to Honor UT President Bill Powers
- Blanton Museum Announces Launch of National Leadership Board
- Blanton Museum of Art Names Koven Smith Director of Digital Adaptation
- Blanton Exhibition Features Works by Botero, Caldas, Kahlo, and Others from Recently Gifted Collection of Latin American Art
- Blanton Museum Announces Major Gift of Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art
- Blanton Museum’s SoundSpace: Sound Construction Explores Unconventional, Newly Constructed Instruments and Techniques
- Two Years, 1,242 Drawings: Immersive Blanton Exhibition Spotlights Extraordinary Draftsmanship of Artist James Drake
- Blanton Commissions Artist Leslie Mutchler to Create Innovative Art Making Stations
- 2014-2015 Advance Exhibition Schedule
- From Ancient Egyptian Sculpture to Works by Goya, Hopper, and Wegman, Blanton Exhibition Investigates the History and Psychology of Human Relationships with Cats and Dogs
- Blanton Museum’s Acclaimed SoundSpace Series Transports Visitors to 1960s Downtown Manhattan
- UT Mourns the Loss of Jack S. Blanton
- 2013 A Record Year for the Blanton
- Blanton Museum of Art Names Beverly Adams Curator of Latin American Art
- Innovative Blanton Exhibition Unites Art, Dance, and Technology
- Blanton Exhibition Sheds New Light on Art and Lives of Artists Eva Hesse and Sol LeWitt
- Blanton Museum of Art Exhibition Highlights Art of Ancient Andes, Explores Relationship Between Art and Environment
- Blanton Museum of Art Receives Prestigious Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant
- Panel Developed by Blanton Museum Selected for 2014 SXSW Music Conference
- New Development Director and Director of Collections and Exhibitions Appointed
- Waltercio Caldas: The Nearest Air
- Imperial Augsburg: Renaissance Prints and Drawings, 1475-1540
- Cubism Beyond Borders
- Lifelike
- Luminous: 50 Years of Collecting Prints and Drawings
- Blanton 2013 Gala Raises Record $1 Million
- Blanton Receives Iconic Sculptures by Luis Jiménez