Art
The Secretive, Ritual Objects of Masonic Groups
Though masonic fraternal groups have existed for centuries, their rites and methods have long been shrouded in secrecy.
Austin
Art
Stitched Scenes of Everyday Life in LA’s Boyle Heights
Erick Medel’s labor-intensive pieces pay tribute to the labor being done around him.
Art
How Pop Became Political for Artists Across the Americas
From North to South America, artists used the bold colors, figuration, and appropriated imagery of Pop Art, but with a biting political message.
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Announcement
University of Texas at Austin Studio Art MFA Program Opens Fall 2022 Applications
Driven by the individual interests of each cohort, this program based in Austin, TX promotes intellectual curiosity, visual acuity, and direct engagement with the larger world.
Art
In Vivid Pastels, Adrian Armstrong Explores the Complexity of Blackness
Armstrong’s layered portraits prompt a consideration of race that is not tethered to skin shades.
Interview
Deborah Roberts’s Intricate and Thoughtful Depictions of Black Childhood
“There’s a lot here to unpack if you’re willing to do the work,” says Roberts.
Art
Diedrick Brackens Explores the Warps and Wefts of Black and Queer Histories
In darling divined, Brackens teases out the symbolism, allegory, and parable long associated with global cosmologies of tapestry weaving.
Announcement
The University of Texas at Austin Presents Its Studio Art MFA Thesis Exhibition
The work of 12 recent graduates is featured in _____: Revisited, now on view at UT Austin's Visual Arts Center through November 20, 2020.
Art
About the Black Skin We Live In
As Juneteenth approaches, I've been given reason to consider a confluence of events and ideas: my family’s life-long process of becoming Black and having to police my sons’ consumption of a certain kind of blackface.
Art
A Museum Educator Asks How We Can Feel Closer to Art
With the teaching galleries at the Blanton Museum now being closed, as a museum educator there I can’t but help ponder how an art experience of close looking with our eyes, our bodies, and our breath might translate in our post-pandemic future.
History
Conserving the Art and Legacy of Spain's First Recorded Female Artist
Once the official sculptor in the court of the last Habsburg king, Luisa Roldán is easily the most famous sculptor you’ve never heard of.
Art
An Avant-Garde Magazine That Promoted the Indigenism Movement
Amauta affirmed the rights and political demands of Latin America’s indigenous groups and recognized their cultures as vital and authentic alternatives to Hispanicized, colonial narratives.