Mari Sabusawa Michener: A Legacy Celebrated May 2022, by Claire Howard, Assistant Curator, Modern and Contemporary Art, Blanton Museum of Art Back to Blog Many visitors are interested to discover that the Blanton Museum of Art is home to the vast art collection of writer James A. Michener (c. 1907–1997) and his wife Mari Sabusawa …
Women’s History Month 2022: #5WomenArtists from the Blanton’s Collection March 2022, by Rachel Urbano Back to Blog In honor of Women’s History Month and to participate in the ongoing #5WomenArtists campaign led by the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), we’re highlighting five artworks made by women in five different centuries. These artists …
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Seeing the Obvious: Vito Acconci’s “Wav(er)ing Flag” March 3, 2021 by Genevra Higginson Back to Blog Sometimes art can appear, at first glance, rather obvious. Such is the case with Vito Acconci’s Wav(er)ing Flag (1990), a twelve-foot long series of six lithographic prints. Together, the sheets depict the flag of the United States of America, elongated and billowing, …
Conserving Oliver Lee Jackson’s “Untitled (Sharpeville Series)” December 8, 2020 by Christian Wurst Back to Blog As you enter the first gallery of Expanding Abstraction: Pushing the Boundaries of Painting in the Americas, 1958–1983 titled “Emphatic Gestures,” the first painting you encounter across the room is the largest work in the show and one of the most …
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