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Oscar Muñoz: ChronologyDecades: 2010s-2020s Decades 2010s HistorySecurity in Cali increases thanks to the capture of drug traffickers and a curfew for minors in some neighborhoods. However, the homicide rate continues to be among the highest in Colombia, in part because of limited investment in social development and security.1 Art/CultureThe collective art space Objeto–Workshops (Object-Workshops) is […]

Your city. Your art. Your museum. As the primary art collection for the city of Austin, the Blanton Museum of Art is a major resource for the community. With more than 21,000 works in the collection, the Blanton showcases art from across the ages, from ancient Greek pottery to abstract expressionism. With a year-round schedule

PAST EXHIBITION WorkSpace: Lisi Raskin: Armada OPENS March 06, 2009 CLOSES June 21, 2009 SHARE About the Exhibit March 6, 2009 – June 21, 2009 Brooklyn-based artist Lisi Raskin presents Armada, a series of new sculptures based on the forms she found at the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG), a storage facility for military airplanes

Visions of the American West CHAPTER 4: Hard times in the American West Chapters It’s no secret that life on the frontier in the early- and mid-nineteenth century was difficult. Landscapes transformed, families dispersed, and loved ones were lost. While William Gilbert Gaul’s The Land of the Free places such suffering at center stage, other works—like Worthington

Vincent Valdez: The City(July 17, 2018 – October 18, 2018) CHAPTER 5: Additional Readings & Resources Chapters Prepared by Allison Myers, Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, Modern and Contemporary Art in 2018. This list, prepared in August 2018, includes resources on themes and subjects surrounding Vincent Valdez’s The City, many of which the artist studied while creating the

Off the Walls: Gifts from Professor John A. Robertson CHAPTER 3: Jonathan Bober, “Tribute to a Friend-Collector” Chapters “Tribute to a Friend-Collector”Jonathan BoberAndrew W. Mellon Senior Curator of Prints and DrawingsNational Gallery of Art, Washington John Robertson was curious, about everything it seemed. His range was striking, his knowledge extraordinary and often dauntingly precise in a host

PAST EXHIBITION The Nearest Air: A Survey of Works by Waltercio Caldas OPENS October 27, 2013 CLOSES January 12, 2014 SHARE About the Exhibit October 27, 2013 – January 12, 2014 The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin and the Fundação Iberê Camargo in Porto Alegre, Brazil have joined together

Fragments CHAPTER 1: Introduction Chapters Paintings we see in the galleries today engage the viewer as independent, complete works of art. Many of them, however, are fragments of larger compositions, although it is not always known what the original would have looked like. The scale of figures in relation to other elements in the painting,

Color Chart CHAPTER 5: Color signatures Chapters Between 7th– 3rd century BCE, Greek potters predominantly worked in one of two techniques, black-figure pottery followed by red-figure pottery. These two techniques defined a period when mythical stories were depicted and artists—or groups of artists—were identified by their distinct styles. Take for instance the Amphora from circa

About The H-E-B Study Room is open by appointment only. Contact Holly Borham, Associate Curator of Prints, Drawings and European Art at 512-471-9208 or at holly.borham@blantonmuseum.org with further questions about researching the prints and drawings collection. Located within the Julia Matthews Wilkinson Center for Prints and Drawings, the H-E-B Study Room is a public study center