As the population and profile of Austin, TX exploded over the past 40 years, it’s art museum struggled to keep up. Today, the Blanton Museum of Art is an institution befitting its prominent home city.

AUSTIN, Texas — An Austin art museum has a whole new look following years of planning and construction. The Blanton Museum of Art, located at 200 E Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. on the University of ...

View of the Blanton Museum of Art’s refreshed campus as seen from Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard looking north toward the new Faulkner Gateway. The Edgar A. Smith Building is on left and the Mari ...

While there’s long been a vogue for exhibiting fashion in museums, Austin’s Blanton Museum of Art is using fashion to explore art history. Last week, it opened “Painted Cloth: Fashion and Ritual in ...

It doesn't overwhelm the senses like the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City or the Louvre Museum in Paris. Yet the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin is sizable. Three buildings embrace a new ...

AUSTIN, Texas — The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin is getting a new look soon. University officials announced a comprehensive grounds redesign to the museum campus, which ...

Aspiring artists looking to break into the art world often hear a warning: “Don’t quit your day job.” But a new show at the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin proves that even ...

In 2017, the Blanton Gala will mark the celebratory unveiling of the museum’s reinstalled permanent collection galleries. The Blanton is completely re-hanging its wide-ranging holdings to inspire and ...

The Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas Austin (UT Austin) revealed earlier this week a new central feature of its ongoing, Snøhetta-led campus revamp, first announced in January. A ...

As the primary art collection for the city of Austin, the Blanton Museum of Art is a major resource for the community. With more than 21,000 works in the collection, the Blanton showcases art from ...

On a southern wall in the Blanton Museum of Art, blinking red and blue neon lights alternate from reading "I will light you up" to "I will light up your life." It is striking, and it is ...

When a director envisioned a museum you couldn’t walk by, Snohetta’s architects and designers added bright entryways, varied landscaping and impossible-to-miss “petals” on campus. By Sam Lubell A show ...