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From the LBJ Presidential Library to the Texas Memorial Museum, UT has plenty to offer history and science buffs, young and old alike.

Details on holiday hours and exhibits for the Blanton Museum of Art, Harry Ransom Center and more.

“Converging Lines: Eva Hesse and Sol LeWitt,” which opens at the Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin on Feb. 23, celebrates the close friendship between two of the most significant American artists of the postwar era: Eva Hesse (19361970) and Sol LeWitt (19282007).

[caption id="attachment_43623" align="alignright" width="400" caption="Moche stirrup spout bottle Early Intermediate Period (100-800 CE) ceramic. Photo courtesy Mark Menjivar."][/caption] AUSTIN, Texas  The Blanton Museum of Art, in partnership with the Department of Art and Art History at The University of Texas at Austin, will present a special selection of objects that illuminate the lifestyle, technological achievements and…

*Ok, we can’t actually claim the title definitively, but at 10,000 students and counting, UT’s upcoming Jazz Appreciation massive open online course (MOOC) looks to be on top.

Harry Ransom Center Director Stephen Enniss statement regarding unauthorized J.D. Salinger materials posted online:

A new book by a journalism professor documents the hysteria and fear that culminated in Kennedy’s assassination 50 years ago. Read an excerpt and see archival JFK photographs.

The Ransom Center’s newly acquired Ed Ruscha archive reveals the creative process of one of the most influential artists working today. See his sketches, snapshots and journals.

[caption id="attachment_43185" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Pages from one of Ed Ruscha's journals, undated."][/caption] AUSTIN, Texas  The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, has acquired the archive of artist Edward Ruscha (b. 1937).

[caption id="attachment_43152" align="alignleft" width="240" caption=""Dottie." Denver. © Alec Soth / Magnum Photos"][/caption] AUSTIN, Texas  The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, is partnering with photographer Alec Soth and writer Brad Zellar to bring their limited edition, “irregularly published” newspaper The LBM Dispatch to Texas.

The good news about Austin’s worsening traffic? It will be the focus of a major study by the Center for Transportation Research. Read more about this and other recent headlines.