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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.
Luckily for Austin, the Blanton could rely on its own collection — as well as on works promised to the University of Texas museum — for the small current exhibition "Long Live Surrealism! 1924 ...
The city's dozens of art galleries offer temptingly chilly options, but their hours are variable, and they show a limited number of artworks. ... (Blanton Museum of Art. 200 E. Martin Luther King ...
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 ...
In the 2000s, the university experienced a wave of new construction. On April 30, 2006, the school opened a new 155,000-square-foot (14,400 m 2) facility named the Blanton Museum of Art. The museum, the largest university art museum in the United States, is home to more than 17,000 works from Europe, the United States and Latin America. [48]
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.
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 ...
Solo exhibitions include those at the Gund Gallery at Kenyon College (2022), [6] Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin (2021), [7] Art Cake (2019), [8] and The Fabric Workshop and Museum (2018).