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Join us for “Singing Monsters,” a lecture and performance presented by Luisa Nardini, UT Professor of Musicology, that will highlight some of the ways monsters inhabited medieval music. Whether the subject of song lyrics or of musical scenes painted in manuscripts, monsters were an important element of sacred and secular music in the Middle Ages.  We will sing songs connected with the theme of the exhibition and will reflect on the ultimate sonic meaning of monsters and monstrosity in the medieval imagery and vocabulary.

Thursdays are free admission at the museum. The Blanton is located at the intersection of Congress Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.

Paid parking is available in the Brazos Garage on Brazos Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. Parking is $4; bring your ticket with you to the museum.

ABOUT LUISA NARDINI
Luisa Nardini is a medievalist with special interests in the later development of chant repertories in Western Europe.  Her works on Gregorian chant, medieval music theory, music and visual art, manuscript studies, and oral and written transmission of liturgical chant, and digital humanities had been presented at scholarly forums worldwide. She is the author of Interlacing Traditions: Neo-Gregorian Chant Propers in Beneventan Manuscripts (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 2016) and Chant, Hypertexts and Prosulas in Beneventan Manuscripts: The Proper of the Mass under contract with Oxford University Press. She also edited the collection Intersecting Practices in the Production of Sacred Music, ca. 1400–1650: Proceedings of a Symposium of Studies, Austin, TX, May 2015(ed.), Journal of the Alamire Foundation (2016) and has published several essays in journals and collected volumes. She is Associate Professor of Musicology at the Butler School of Music at the University of Texas, Austin.

Image Credit: “Siren(detail),” from Les abus du monde [Abuses of the World], ca.1510,7 11/16 x 5 ¼ in., The Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.42, fol.15r, Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899, Photography by Janny Chiu, 2017

Come feast your eyes on works of art that illustrate exactly that – feasts! From scrumptious still lifes, to intriguing dinner guests, to bustling kitchens, this pop-up will celebrate the multitude of ways in which artists have represented all that is edible.

Museum admission is always free on Thursdays. On the third Thursday of each month, the museum remains open until 9 pm.

The Blanton is located at the intersection of Congress Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.  Paid parking is available in the Blanton/Brazos Garage on Brazos Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. Parking is $4; bring your ticket with you to the front desk of the museum for payment.

Image Credit: Mary Doyle, “Still Life with Melon,” 1953, color screenprint, 12 5/8 x 19 3/4 in., Blanton Museum of Art, Gift of the Still Water Foundation, 1992

A special conversation in conjunction with our exhibition Arte Sin Fronteras: Prints from the Self Help Graphics Studio. Our speakers will be Tomás Ybarra-Frausto, Dr. Gilberto Cárdenas, and Amelia Malagamba. This event will take place in our auditorium.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Gilberto Cárdenas has combined his passion for sociology and Latinx art in his research and projects on Mexican immigration, race and Latinx art in his research and projects on Mexican immigration, race and ethnic relations, economy and society, and visual sociology. An avid collector since his high school days, Dr. Cárdenas holds the largest private collection of U.S. Latinx art in the world with over 6,000 paintings, works on paper, sculptures and installations. In the last decade, he and his wife have made significant gifts to museums. The National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago inaugurated the Galeria Gilberto & Dolores Cárdenas in recognition of their gift of over 2,200 artworks in 2016. In addition, Dr. Cárdenas presented 428 artworks to the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin, and to the Snite Museum of the University of Notre Dame and other national and international institutions and organizations. Click to read more.

Tomás Ybarra-Frausto is an independent scholar of Chicanx and Latinx arts and culture. He was formerly the Associate Director of Creativity and Culture at the Rockefeller Foundation. Prior to joining the Rockefeller Foundation, Dr. Ybarra-Frausto was a tenured professor at Stanford University in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. In 2007, the Mexican government bestowed “The Order of The Aztec Eagle” on Dr. Ybarra-Frausto citing his life work in fostering cultural understanding between the United States and Mexico through the arts and humanities. Click to read more.

Amelia Malagamba works as an independent scholar of Chicanx and Latinx art. She has taught at The University of Texas at San Antonio and Arizona State University. She has edited Encuentros. Los Festivales Internacionales de la Raza (1988) and co-edited Mujer y literatura mexicana y chicana: Culturas en contacto (1988, 1990). She collaborated with Gilberto Cárdenas on Caras vemos, corazones no sabemos, on an exhibition at the Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame.

Funding provided by the Carolyn Harris Hynson Centennial Endowment.

This program is co-sponsored with the Center for Mexican American and Latino Studies of the University of Texas at Austin.

Thursdays are free admission to the museum. The Blanton is located at the intersection of Congress Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.

Paid parking is available in the Brazos Garage on Brazos Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. Parking is $4; bring your ticket with you to the museum for the discounted rate.

Image Credit: José Francisco Treviño, Untitled, 1986, screenprint, 40 1/16 x 26 5/16 in., Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Gift of Gilberto Cárdenas, 2017

Austin-based composer, Nathan Felix will present a live and immersive opera featuring newly composed music and libretto inspired by “Medieval Monsters: Terrors, Aliens, Wonders.”  Follow opera singers as they move within the gallery and amongst museumgoers to create an immersive, surround-sound experience at the Blanton.

Museum admission is always free on Thursdays. On the third Thursday of each month, the museum remains open until 9 pm.

The Blanton is located at the intersection of Congress Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.  Paid parking is available in the Blanton/Brazos Garage on Brazos Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. Parking is $4; bring your ticket with you to the front desk of the museum.

Lions and tigers and bears, oh my! While Dorothy worried about these animals during her journey through Oz, printmakers have depicted encounters with otherworldly beasts from medieval times to the present. Come to the H-E-B Study Room for a chance to admire creatures at times ferocious, familiar, and even fantastic. With images drawn from mythology and beyond, this pop-up will offer a virtual zoo, unlike anything you’ve seen before.

Museum admission is always free on Thursdays. On the third Thursday of each month, the museum remains open until 9 pm.

The Blanton is located at the intersection of Congress Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.  Paid parking is available in the Blanton/Brazos Garage on Brazos Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. Parking is $4; bring your ticket with you to the front desk of the museum for payment and validation.

Image Credit: Marcelo Grassmann, “Monstros,” 1958, ink on paper, 13 13/16 x 19 11/19 in., Blanton Museum of Art, Gift of John and Barbara Duncan, 1971

Join us for another event in this series of intimate, 30-minute conversations about a single work of art in the museum’s galleries.

Museum admission is always free on Thursdays. On the third Thursday of each month, the museum remains open until 9 pm.

The Blanton is located at the intersection of Congress Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.  Paid parking is available in the Blanton/Brazos Garage on Brazos Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. Parking is $4; bring your ticket with you to the front desk of the museum for payment and validation.