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UT Regents Rita Clements and Tony Sanchez torpedoed Herzog & De Meuron's design for the Blanton Museum because it didn't fit in with the Campus Master Plan. But neither do most buildings built on campus since the mid-1960s.

The University of Texas announces the finalists for the design of its new art museum (after rejecting the original design as too modern) and everyone on the list, with few minor exceptions, hews closely to the classical or neo-classical tradition.

The Art of the Deal

The preliminary design for UT's new Blanton Museum of Art facility has been unveiled, and as expected, the white-shoe Boston firm of Kallmann McKinnell & Wood has come up with a building that hews to the dicta of UT's Campus Master Plan, even when it doesn't make much sense.

The Blanton Museum of Art gets an architect (for the second time), and the Paramount and State theatres move a step closer to partnership.

UT System's lobbying – oops, 'legislative activities' – to gain deregulation

Our readers talk back.

Larry Speck is the main architect of the Hill Country Galleria. He's also a member of the Save Our Springs Alliance board, which opposes the Galleria. This is what you call, "walking the tightrope."

Finalists for Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art

The loss of the architects for the new Blanton Museum of Art; a home for the Rude Mechanicals.

New titles include experimental Visions and 24 Beats Per Second

Apollo 10 1/2, Sandra Bullock, and more join movie list

Art Openings