The Art Museum and Medical Education
May 6, 2019 by Penny Snyder
This post is authored by Ray Williams, the Blanton’s director of education and academic affairs. For more than a decade now I have had the opportunity to participate as a museum educator in an emerging national trend of collaboration between medical schools and art museums. Initial experiments at Yale and Columbia focused on honing observation…
Women’s History Month 2019: #5WomenArtists from the Blanton Collection
March 18, 2019 by Lizabel Stella
Women artists are everywhere, but it’s through the important work of curators, writers, and international institutions, to name a few, that we actually get to learn about them and their work. Since 2016, the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) have been asking the public through social media each March during Women’s History Month…
Behind the Velvet Curtain: The Makings of the Blanton’s Symbolist Exhibition
March 6, 2019 by Vivie Behrens
Deep in the Blanton Museum of Art’s exhibition Ideas in Sensuous Form: The International Symbolist Movement, chaste virgins and conniving femmes fatales peer from the bounds of black frames, generating a Symbolist ambiance of desire and mystery. To complement the atmospheric artworks, Claire Howard, Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, created a luxurious, immersive gallery…
Digital Platforms in “Making Africa”: From the Continent to the World
January 3, 2019 by Lizabel Stella
One of the most exciting aspects of our current exhibition Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design is how it combines creative work across mediums—from fashion to furniture, photography to websites and apps—to show the many forms design can take, shifting and responding to economic, social, and political change on the continent and beyond. Below…
