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Rocks, dirt and branded petrified wood fill the main gallery of the Visual Arts Center a week before public unveiling of its latest exhibition. Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro moves about the…

A mother took her 8-year-old for a dental checkup. The dentist began normal procedures and asked the girl her name. She stuttered her answer.  “Are you nervous?” the dentist asked…

Beyond the scaffolding and construction, the Blanton Museum of Art is still open.  The museum grounds are being transformed outside, but inside, red velvet curtains conceal the Sarah and Ernest…

“Is this what I want to say I did for a living?” If you have asked yourself that question, and the answer has been, “not so much,” Art Markman and…

Laura Klopfenstein arrives home from campus at 5 p.m. and changes out of her work clothes. She spends quality time with her family, then steps into the artist’s role. Klopfenstein…

Four glass panes flank the Peyton Yates Family Bridge at the Gary L. Thomas Energy Engineering Building (GLT). They act as windows, bringing the campus closer to the clear, powder-blue…

In the second-to-last scene of Japanese director Akira Kurosawa’s 1946 film, “No Regrets for Our Youth,” the protagonist, Yukie Yagihara, realizes she prefers rural life over her urban home in…

Nestled near the corner of Navasota and Cotton streets in East Austin, the renovated John S. and Drucie R. Chase Building now serves as the new off-campus office of the…

Nine-time World Firefighter Challenge champion Jared Johnson lost a third-place title by one-thousandth of a second in 2019.  When the Austin firefighter vowed never to place fourth again, his father,…

Memory, history and our perception of  images combine in “Oscar Muñoz: Invisibilia,” on display at the Blanton Museum of Art through June 5. The exhibition showcases about 40 works from…

Among the sea of undergraduates and faculty and staff members who bustle through UT’s campus each semester, you might encounter a graduate student employee who navigates the intersection of these…

Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin are playing an instrumental role in the construction of the largest optical telescope in the world.   UT is part of a…