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Blanton Museum to Exhibit ‘Vincent Valdez: The City’

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Press Coverage of ‘The City’ at the Blanton

• ¡Ahora Sí!, Pintura monumental de Vincent Valdez reta la historia racial del país
• Artnet News, Artist Vincent Valdez Made a Painting So Provocative This Texas Museum Waited a Year to Unveil It. Now It’s a National Sensation. 
• Arts + Culture Texas, Contemporary History: Vincent Valdez’s ‘The City’ at the Blanton Museum of Art
• Artsy, Texas Museum Mounts 30-foot Painting of Today’s KKK. Can It Avoid Controversy?
• Austin American Statesman, Large-Scale Painting of Klan Members Unveiled at UT
• Austin American Statesman, Opinion: Klan Painting May Not Shock. But It Forces a Reckoning 
• The Chronicle of Higher Education, Two Museums Wanted to Spark Dialogue with Controversial Art. They’re Handling That Very Carefully
• The Guardian, How a Painting of the Ku Klux Klan is Causing a Stir in Texas 
• Hyperallergic, Texas Museum Deliberates How to Display a Mural About Hate Crimes Against Latinos 
• KUT, New Piece by Texas Artist Vincent Valdez Depicts a Modern Ku Klux Klan
• The New York Times, 30-Foot Painting of the KKK Puts a Museum to the Test
• Sightlines, A Haunting Call to Action, and to History: Vincent Valdez’s ‘The City’
• Texas Monthly, Vincent Valdez, The People’s Champion