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Group Visits & Tours The Blanton’s school group visits aim to inspire curiosity and foster lifelong relationships between students and the art through interactive, inquiry-based explorations of art. Guided gallery lessons, also available in Spanish or as bilingual, are approximately 50 minutes and can be tailored to focus on a variety of curricular topics. Gallery Lesson […]

PAST EXHIBITION Exquisite Visions of Japan OPENS June 29, 2008 CLOSES August 24, 2008 SHARE About the Exhibition June 29, 2008 – August 24, 2008 This summer the Blanton Museum of Art presents Exquisite Visions of Japan, a special exhibition of Japanese woodblock prints from the James A. Michener Collection of the Honolulu Academy of Arts.

PAST EXHIBITION Marcelo Pombo: Ornaments in the Landscape, and the Museum as a Hotel Room OPENS October 04, 2008 CLOSES February 22, 2009 SHARE About the Exhibition October 4, 2008 – February 22, 2009 Marcelo Pombo is one of the key figures to emerge from the 1990s art scene in Argentina, and was part of

PAST EXHIBITION Workspace: Jim Drain OPENS July 03, 2009 CLOSES October 01, 2009 SHARE About the Exhibition July 3, 2009 – October 1, 2009 The Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin is pleased to present I Will Show You The Woe-Joy Man, a multi-media installation by Miami-based artist Jim Drain. The

PAST EXHIBITION WorkSpace: Anna Craycroft: Subject of Learning / Object of Study OPENS March 05, 2010 CLOSES October 17, 2010 SHARE About the Exhibition March 5, 2010 – October 17, 2010 Visit the UOIEA Web site created by Anna Craycroft specifically for this exhibition. For the latest exhibition in the Blanton’s WorkSpace series, Brooklyn-based artist Anna Craycroft

PAST EXHIBITION Restoration and Revelation: Conserving the Suida-Manning Collection OPENS November 17, 2012 CLOSES September 01, 2013 About the Exhibition November 17, 2012 – September 1, 2013 The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin presents Restoration and Revelation: Conserving the Suida-Manning Collection, an exhibition that thoughtfully considers the ethical and aesthetic

PAST EXHIBITION Goya: Mad Reason OPENS June 19, 2016 CLOSES September 25, 2016 SHARE About the Exhibition June 19, 2016 – September 25, 2016 The Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin presents Goya: Mad Reason, an exhibition of nearly 150 prints and paintings by renowned Spanish court painter Francisco de Goya.

PAPER VAULT Line Form Color OPENS December 09, 2017 CLOSES March 11, 2018 SHARE About the Exhibit In the twentieth century, as some artists began to reject traditional representation and explore abstraction, many adopted an elemental vocabulary of lines, shapes, and colors. Flourishing simultaneously in Europe, Latin America, and the United States, this graphic lexicon

FILM & VIDEO GALLERY Lais Myrrha: Infinite Column OPENS December 09, 2017 CLOSES February 25, 2018 SHARE About the Exhibit Lais Myrrha (Belo Horizonte, 1974) addresses the failures of Brazil’s mid-century modernist project through a critique of architecture and its primary materials.  Her video Infinite Column (2011) features cement bags being continuously stacked in a single, increasingly unstable column.

FILM & VIDEO GALLERY Jeremy Blake: Winchester Trilogy OPENS June 08, 2019 CLOSES September 01, 2019 SHARE About the Exhibit Jeremy Blake’s haunting Winchester trilogy explores the history of the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, California. In the late 1800s, Sarah Winchester, heiress of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, began to turn her eight-bedroom home into