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…

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…

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…

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…

Delicate architectural details such as intricate stone carvings and vibrant tiles are the hallmark of the Forty Acres. In the early 20th century, UT was still establishing itself as an…

After five years of extensive research, grueling writing and a cycle of revisions, anthropology professor Martha Menchaca published her fifth book: “The Mexican American Experience in Texas.” Menchaca’s book is…

Between junior and senior year of his undergraduate studies at Harvard University, Peter LaSalle spent the summer in Ireland. There on assignment for the Ivy League college’s zany, student-run series…

The sweeping silver lines of the aluminum canoes that loom over Speedway in Nancy Rubins’ “Monochrome for Austin.” The paintings of light formed by James Turrell’s “The Color Inside” Skyspace…

Before Director Robert Devens and Editor-in-Chief Dawn Durante even joined The University of Texas Press, each had their sights set on our publishing house.  When UT Press’ biannual catalogs would…

Someday, when you think back to life during 2020, what will you remember? Protests and a protracted presidential election? Masks and overflowing ICUs? Bleach and bread-baking tutorials? History is made…

While working on an essay related to Simone de Beauvoir in the late 2000s, Judith Coffin came across a virtually unexplored archive of letters sent by readers to the famed…