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The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin has been awarded a $504,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to establish a curatorial fellowship program for a six-year period to help train future museum curators.

Bruce Pennycook has been appointed director of digital arts for the College of Fine Arts. Pennycook, a music professor in the Butler School of Music, will facilitate the creation of digital arts courses across the college’s academic departments, including Art and Art History, Theatre and Dance and the Butler School of Music.

The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin and the Fundação Iberê Camargo, Porto Alegre, Brazil, have joined together to organize the first comprehensive career survey of one of Brazil’s most important contemporary artists, Waltercio Caldas.

[caption id=”attachment_42773″ align=”alignright” width=”300″ caption=”Photo of Art History Professor Julia E. Guernsey, grand prize winner of the 2013 University Co-op Robert W. Hamilton Book Award. From left to right, pictured with: Michael G. Hasler, chair, University Co-op Board of Directors; Gregory Fenves, executive vice president and provost, The University of Texas at Austin; and Douglas…

The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin presents Imperial Augsburg: Renaissance Prints and Drawings, 1474-1540, a selection of works from Augsburg, a wealthy German city and center of trade known for its innovative printmaking techniques and its important role in the spread of Renaissance ideas from Italy. The exhibition is…

“The Color Inside” is a new naked-eye observatory from renowned “sculptor of light” James Turrell. The artist participates in a free QandA Friday, Oct. 18.

Aerospace engineering Ph.D. student Andrew Takano captures Austin, UT in a stunning new light.

[caption id="attachment_42389" align="alignright" width="336" caption="Photo courtesy of Michael O'Brien."][/caption]   AUSTIN, Texas  The University of Texas Press has undertaken the most ambitious and comprehensive publishing endeavor about the culture and history of one state ever undertaken The Texas Bookshelf.

[caption id="attachment_42001" align="alignleft" width="400" caption=""Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya." August 2001, printed 2013. Inkjet print. © Eli Reed / Magnum Photos."][/caption] AUSTIN, Texas  The Harry Ransom Center presents “Eli Reed: The Lost Boys of Sudan,” an exhibition of photographs by Eli Reed (b. 1946), Magnum photographer and clinical professor of journalism at The University of Texas…

Artist and visiting professor Laurie Anderson blends technology, music and storytelling in her unique performance art. Her “Landfall” exhibit opens Friday on campus.

[caption id="attachment_42170" align="alignright" width="245" caption="George Rodger, Sahara Desert, 1957, verso. With permission of Magnum Photos."][/caption] AUSTIN, Texas The Magnum Photos collection, which contains nearly 200,000 press prints of images taken by world-renowned Magnum photographers, has been donated to the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin. The gift was made by Michael…

UT Austin scholars made headlines recently, discussing physiology, global politics and the Bard. Find out whether biking or running is more effective for weight loss, per Professor Tanaka.