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The Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art (often referred to as the Blanton or the BMA) at the University of Texas at Austin is one of the largest university art museums in the U.S. with 189,340 square feet devoted to temporary exhibitions, permanent collection galleries, storage, administrative offices, classrooms, a print study room, an auditorium, shop, and cafe.
Ray Williams is the current Director of Education and Academic Affairs at the Blanton Museum of Art (20012-current). [1] He previously held the position of director of education at the Harvard Art Museums, Rhode Island School of Design's Museum of Art, Peabody Essex Museum, the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, and the Ackland Art Museum.
In January 2015, Kelly gave to the Blanton Museum the design concept for a 2,715 square feet (252.2 m 2) stone building that he subsequently named Austin. Kelly said that the design of the building was inspired by Romanesque and Byzantine art he studied while in Paris on the G.I. Bill. Following Kelly's gift, the Blanton launched a $15 million ...
For example, as of 2021, the Birmingham Museum of Art offers reciprocal benefits through international and regional programs. [11] Art museums associated with colleges or universities have organized a College and University Art Museums Reciprocal Program (CUAMRP, previously called the Academic Art Museum Reciprocal Membership program).
Christ on the Road to Calvary (c. 1500) by Giovanni Ambrogio Bevilacqua, from the Suida-Manning Collection at the Blanton Museum of Art.. In 1947 Suida became director of the art history department of the Kress Foundation in New York, advising entrepreneur Samuel Henry Kress on art purchases and later helping to disperse the collection to museums across the United States, including the ...
The Blanton Museum is currently preparing for a major exterior transformation of its grounds and plaza designed by Snøhetta. That effort was significantly aided by the surprise announcement, at a February 2019 gala, that the museum would receive a $20 million gift from The Moody Foundation, to fund the project and continued free admission on ...
The Harry Ransom Center, known as the Humanities Research Center until 1983, is an archive, library, and museum at the University of Texas at Austin, specializing in the collection of literary and cultural artifacts from the Americas and Europe for the purpose of advancing the study of the arts and humanities.
The museum still maintains its original home on the Clara Driscoll estate, where it was known for 34 years as Laguna Gloria Art Museum. Once owned by Stephen F. Austin , [ 3 ] the Laguna Gloria site has been declared a national treasure and is on city, state , and national registers of historic places. [ 4 ]