Chapters
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1. About the Art
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2. About the Artist
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3. FAQs
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4. Faculty and Community Perspectives
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5. Gallery Guide with Essay
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6. Video interview with Vincent Valdez
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7. Additional Readings & Resources
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8. Programs/Events
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9. Facing Racism: Art & Action Symposium
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10. Maria Hinojosa & Vincent Valdez Conversation
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11. Press
- Back to all Art Primers
Press Release
Blanton Museum to Exhibit ‘Vincent Valdez: The City’
Press Images
Available upon request
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
