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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 ...
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 ...
Herbert and Dorothy Vogel. Herbert Vogel (August 16, 1922 – July 22, 2012) and Dorothy Vogel (born 1935), once described as "proletarian art collectors," [1] worked as civil servants in New York City for more than a half-century while amassing what has been called one of the most important post-1960s art collections in the United States, [2] mostly of minimalist and conceptual art. [3]
(Blanton Museum of Art. 200 E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., blantonmuseum.org) Artist Manik Raj Nakra is silhouetted in front of his new mural on the side of The Contemporary in downtown Austin.
Nicéphore Niépce's View from the Window at Le Gras, c. 1826, on permanent display in Harry Ransom Center's main lobby. Two prominent items in the Ransom Center's collections are a Gutenberg Bible, [18] [19] one of only 21 complete copies known to exist, and Nicéphore Niépce's c. 1826 View from the Window at Le Gras, the first successful permanent photograph from nature.
The National Gallery of Art is an art museum in Washington, D.C., United States, located on the National Mall, between 3rd and 9th Streets, at Constitution Avenue NW. Open to the public and free of charge, the museum was privately established in 1937 for the American people by a joint resolution of the United States Congress.
The National Building Museum's gift shop was honored in 2007 as the "Best Museum Store" in the country by Niche magazine, "Best All-Around Museum Shop" in the region by The Washington Post, [7] a "Top Shop" by the Washingtonian, [8] and named best museum shop in D.C. by National Geographic Traveler's blog, Intelligent Travel, in July 2009. [9]