Humanities
Mar 23, 2026
Visual Arts Center staff work behind the scenes to make the magic happen
On any given day at the Visual Arts Center, the space might be filled with the soft echo of a hammer tapping, a sculpture being measured for suspension or the…
Mar 23, 2026
Director Bob Bursey keeps looking for next big thing at Texas Performing Arts
The bustling crowd murmured with excitement as nearly 3,000 K-12 students shuffled into the dimly lit Bass Concert Hall on a Thursday morning in October. For more than two hours,…
Mar 23, 2026
Professor’s latest poetry collection uses old texts to create new messages
Pages of dwindling brown imposed with black and white imagery revolve on a screen in the Harry Ransom Center: ink lungs blossoming with air, arms outstretched in perennial movement and…
Sep 29, 2025
Swifties, Trekkies and other devotees unite in UT class ‘Rhetoric of Fandom’
What does it mean for someone to be a Longhorn? Can it be defined by the clothes they wear or how many football games they’ve been to? Are you a…
Sep 29, 2025
For coordinator Susanna Sharpe, music is yet another way of making connections
On a quiet street tucked away in Austin, the lawn outside Susanna Sharpe’s home comes alive with the tuning of instruments and the chatter of neighbors settling in with fold-up…
Sep 29, 2025
Exhibition puts spotlight on Ransom Center’s new collection from creator of ‘Saturday Night Live’
For 50 years, “Saturday Night Live” has provided social commentary, witty comedy and some of the most iconic pop culture moments of its time. Now, after just under two years…
Sep 29, 2025
Psychologist David Yeager explains how adults can best get through to young people
As a kid, David Yeager never really enjoyed school. “I just had this feeling teachers didn’t like me. I felt like I was too energetic and asked a million questions,”…
Mar 24, 2025
KUT’s ATXplained Live brings local journalism to the stage
In 2016, KUT projects editor Matt Largey started a crowdsourced reporting project called ATXplained with the goal of answering people’s questions about the city. “It was modeled off a project…
Mar 23, 2025
Artist finds balance in work as printmaker, lecturer and lab manager
Erin Miller’s art often starts with an obsession. In “Lucky Charm Casino,” her exhibition of print-based work showcased last summer at the Galveston Arts Center, she dived into the maximalist…
Mar 23, 2025
Cohen New Works Festival shines spotlight on students’ experimental art projects
For one week in April, the College of Fine Arts will become an exhibition space for theater, visual art, dance, music and more as part of The Cohen New Works…
Mar 21, 2025
Michener Center director’s novel pictures Waco tragedy through eyes of star-crossed young lovers
Bret Anthony Johnston has now published three books, including his recent “We Burn Daylight,” a reimagining of “Romeo and Juliet” set during the 1993 Branch Davidian siege near Waco. But…