Conserving Oliver Lee Jackson’s “Untitled (Sharpeville Series)”
December 8, 2020 by Christian Wurst
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 striking. One of the newest additions to the museum’s collection and making its debut…
Women’s Suffrage at 100: A Commemoration and Exploration
August 18, 2020 by Genevra Higginson
It is hard to mark exactly when and how to celebrate the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage in the United States. The 19th Amendment, which prohibits the states and federal government from denying the right to vote on the basis of sex, was first passed in the US Senate on June 4, 1919. It took…
Greetings, Visitor: A Comic Series
June 18, 2020 by Manami
Meet “Riri” (short for Galerie), sharing her musings on life in and around the Blanton Museum of Art. This blog post will be updated with new comics so stay tuned!
Blanton Recommends: Museum Store Favorites
May 1, 2020 by Justin O'Connor
A trip to the Blanton is incomplete without a visit to our popular Museum Shop, filled with gift shop treasures to delight art fans of all ages. While our doors are still closed, we asked our Store Manager and Buyer Justin O’Connor to share some of her favorite gift items so you can still shop…
