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In this behind the scenes video, artists, curators and more work together to install the “El Anatsui: When I Last Wrote to You About Africa” exhibition on display at The Blanton until Jan. 22.

The Butler School of Music at The University of Texas at Austin announced today that it will host the 2014 Menuhin Competition from Feb. 21 to March 2. This biennial competition, the pre-eminent international competition for young violinists, will be held in North America for the first time in its 29-year history.

Event: The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, hosts The David Foster Wallace Symposium.

“The King James Bible: Its History and Influence,” an exhibition at the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin, demonstrates that four centuries after its first printing, the King James Bible (1611) remains one of the most influential books in the English language.

Small groups of workers can use communication tactics to agitate for democracy, transparency and fighting spirit within their unions, according to the new book “We ARE the Union: Democratic Unionism and Dissent at Boeing” (University of Illinois Press, 2011) by Dana Cloud, associate professor of communication at The University of Texas at Austin.

The Department of Art and Art History at The University of Texas at Austin is proud to announce a new graduate seminar course starting in spring 2012. “Staying in the Game” will focus on preparing studio artists for success in their professional careers. Austin-based visual arts executive Sue Graze will lead the seminar.

Classics and Religious Studies Professor L. Michael White won the Hamilton Book Awards Grand Prize for his scholarly book “Scripting Jesus.”

The scholar and teacher was elected to the Academy of the Hebrew Language in November for his seminal contributions to Hebrew studies.

The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin has acquired as a gift the professional and personal papers of Dominick Dunne, the acclaimed journalist and writer. Before his death in August 2009, Dunne directed that his papers should eventually be placed in the Briscoe Center’s News Media History collection,…

Bestselling novelist and Vanity Fair writer Dominick Dunne donated his personal and professional documents to the Briscoe Center’s journalism history archives at the university.

Nineteen undergraduate students from the School of Architecture at The University of Texas at Austin will visit Santa Rosa, Honduras, Jan. 2-8 to finish construction on a school and community center they helped design and build.

Sixteen students spent four weeks in China navigating the ins and outs of international reporting. View a selection of photographs taken during their time studying abroad.