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Event: The Graduate School, The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History and the Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music at The University of Texas at Austin will present a series of events to celebrate Black History Month and the premiere of

Jonathan Bober, senior curator of European Art at the Blanton Museum of Art since 2010 and prior to that, curator of prints, drawings and European painting since 1988, will leave The Blanton on April 30 to become curator and head of the Department of Old Master Prints at the National Gallery of Art in Washington,…

The documentary “When I Rise” chronicles the life of world-renowned opera singer and University of Texas at Austin alumna Barbara Smith Conrad.

In the documentary film “When I Rise,” Barbara Smith Conrad speaks candidly about being removed from the lead role in The University of Texas at Austin’s 1957 production of the opera “Dido and Aeneas.”

Barbara Smith Conrad makes an emotional return visit to Center Point, Texas, her hometown and the home of the first accredited black school in the state.

In 1957, Barbara Smith Conrad, who was part of the first racially integrated undergraduate class at The University of Texas at Austin, became the central figure in a civil rights storm that changed her life forever.

Watch a Jan. 31 live stream of Pulitzer-winning Professor David Oshinsky and Gates Foundation guests discussing eradication of the disease.

Professor and former Department Chair Robert Schmidt of the Department of Theatre and Dance at The University of Texas at Austin will retire on Jan. 31.

Event: The Visual Arts Center (VAC) at The University of Texas at Austin hosts a reception as it introduces the first five exhibitions of the VAC’s spring season. The event is free and open to the public.

Event: Founder and Director of International Print Center New York (IPCNY) Anne Coffin will give a lecture on the history and identity of the IPCNY as part of the Department of Art and Art History’s new Printmaking Convergence pro

The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, has received a plate painted by Pablo Picasso from David Douglas Duncan, a photojournalist whose archive resides at the Ransom Center.

Event: The University of Texas at Austin Department of Theatre and Dance presents the 20th century musical theater milestone, “The Threepenny Opera,” written by Bertolt Brecht with music by Kurt Weill and directed by third-year Ma