Public Tour - Modern Artists

The Blanton Museum of Art is running a public tour of its modern art collection on Tuesday, Oct 20, from 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM. It's led by one of the museum's gallery teachers and covers modern art from 1870 to 1970, so you're looking at a century of work in a single hour.

The tour is free with museum admission, and there's no reservation needed—you just show up. The group meets in the Rapoport Atrium on the ground floor of the Michener Gallery Building, so that's where you'll want to be a few minutes before it starts. The museum offers these tours in both English and Spanish, and since they're led by the gallery teachers, you'll get a guided walk through the galleries rather than just wandering on your own.

It helps to have a sense of the collection you're stepping into. The Blanton is part of The University of Texas at Austin, and its modern and contemporary holdings pull from European, Latin American, and U.S. art. Behind that is an encyclopedic collection of 18,000 works on paper from major printmaking centers across Europe and North America. The museum building itself, called Austin, is the culmination of artist Ellsworth Kelly's seven-decade career and the only building he ever designed. The collection galleries change often, so you'll see something different each time you visit.

If you're planning to go, the tour runs from 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM on Tuesday, Oct 20, and it's free with museum admission.