The Blanton Museum of Art’s Extremely Grand Opening features a full 24 hours of events on the grounds of the new facility, including live music by Austin bands; an Austin Craft Mafia fashion show; improv comedy; art-making activities; morning yoga; lots of snacks, and Art Brief sessions, short tours exploring specific aspects of the museum collections (e.g., works associated with movement or current events, portraits, large works, etc.). For more information, visit www.blantonmuseum.org. – R.F.
Saturday
9-10pm
Tango from Glover Gill (Atrium)
9-11pm
UT Marimba Band (Plaza)
9pm-1:30am
Cash Bar and Snacks (Loggia and Atrium)
Creation Station: Iron-On T-Shirts (Classroom)
9:30-10pm
Art Brief: Party and Celebration (meet in the eLounge)
10-10:30pm
Art Brief: Current Events (meet in the eLounge)
10pm-12:30am
DJ Jennifer of Ear Candy (KOOP FM)
10:30-11:30pm
Voxtrot (Atrium)
11-11:30pm
Art Brief: Movement (meet in the eLounge)
11:30-midnight
Art Brief: Process (Meet in the eLounge)
Sunday
Midnight-12:45am
Improv for Insomniacs with the Austin Improv Collective (meet at the Visitor Services Desk)
12:30am
Art Brief: Performance (meet in the eLounge)
Examine the genre of performance art within the America/Americas exhibition.
12:30-2am
Pong (Atrium)
1-1:30am
Art Brief: Meireles (meet in the eLounge)
1-3:30am
Random Acts of Brilliance (various galleries)
Impromptu appearances by artists, musicians, and performers throughout the museum.
1-5am
Blanton CSI (pick up guide at Visitor Services Desk)
Discover what work of art committed a murder in the Blanton’s galleries.
1-5am
Creation Station: Really Big Drawings (Modern and Contemporary Galleries)
1:30-5am
Milk and Cookies (Center for Prints and Drawings Hallway)
2-2:30am
Art Brief: Curious and Surprising (meet in the eLounge)
2-3am
Austin Craft Mafia Fashion Show (Modern and Contemporary Galleries)
3-3:45am
Improv for Insomniacs (meet at the Visitor Services Desk)
5-5:30am
Art Brief: Kinetic (meet in the eLounge)
5-6:30am
Morning Cartoons (Atrium)
5-9am
Cereal Bar and Juice (Center for Prints and Drawings Hallway)
Creation Station: Everyday Art (Atrium)
6-6:30am
Art Brief: Emotion in America/Americas (meet in the eLounge)
6:30-7:30am
Yoga (Modern and Contemporary Galleries)
7-7:30am
Art Brief: Emotion in the European Painting Collection (meet in the eLounge)
7:30-8:30am
Yoga (Modern and Contemporary Galleries)
8-11am
Coffee and donuts (Loggia)
Relax on the loggia with a cup of coffee and a donut.
8:30-9am
Art Brief: Motion (meet in the eLounge)
9-9:30am
Art Brief: Natural World (meet in the eLounge)
9-10am
UT Innervisions gospel choir (Atrium)
9-11am
Creation Station: Pillow Talk with artist Jenny Hart (Special Exhibitions Gallery and Classroom)
9-11:30am
World Newspapers (Loggia)
Community Art Project: Blanton Blooms (Tent on Plaza)
Artful Meditations (Secret Garden-southeast quadrant of museum grounds)
Creation Station: Make an Impression (Tent on Plaza)
9:30-10am
Art Brief: Transcendence (meet in the eLounge)
10-10:30am
Art Brief: Saints (meet in the eLounge)
10-11am
Prints and Drawings Study Center Opens
10-11:30am
Chair Massage (Loggia/Mezzanine)
10:30-11am
Art Brief: Fabulous (meet in the eLounge)
10:30-11:30am
Golden Arm Trio (Modern and Contemporary Galleries)
Noon-1pm
Welcoming and Ribbon Cutting Ceremony (Plaza)
1-2:30pm
Fancy Schmancy Family Opening (Tent on Plaza)
1-5pm
Lemonade and Cookies (Tent on Plaza)
Art Stops interactive activities (European and Modern and Contemporary Galleries)
Creation Station: Curtain call (Tent on Plaza)
1-8pm
Community Art Project: Blanton Blooms (Tent on Plaza)
1:30-2pm
Art Brief: Drama (meet in the eLounge)
2-2:30pm
Art Brief: How’d They Do That? (meet in the eLounge)
2:30-3pm
Two-step lessons (Atrium)
3-3:30pm
Art Brief: Big (meet in the eLounge)
3:30-4pm
Art Brief: Sprawling (meet in the eLounge)
3:30-5pm
Heybale! (Atrium)
4-4:30pm
Art Brief: Optical Illusion (meet in the eLounge)
4:30-5pm
Art Brief: Wonders Big and Small (meet in the eLounge)
5-5:30pm
Art Brief: Lives of Artists (meet in the eLounge)
5-6:30pm
Blanton CSI (pick up guide at the Visitor Services Desk)
Use your sleuthing skills to discover what work of art committed a murder in the Blanton’s galleries.
5-6:30pm
Art Stops for Adults (Modern and Contemporary Galleries and European Galleries)
5-7pm
Cheese and crackers, cash bar, including Blantinis! (Loggia)
5-8pm
Creation Station: Everyday Art (Tent on Plaza)
5:30-6pm
Art Brief: Viewer Experience (meet in the eLounge)
5:30-6:30pm
Guitarist Tony Morris performs classical guitar
6pm
Art Brief: Portraits (meet in the eLounge)
6:30-7pm
Art Brief: Collective Experience (meet in eLounge)
7-8pm
Music for the Blanton (Atrium, then upstairs galleries)
Public premiere of Music for the Blanton, an original composition by university professor and composer Donald Grantham commissioned by the College of Fine Arts.
8-8:30pm
Blanton CSI (pick up guide at the Visitor Services Desk)
Use your sleuthing skills to discover what work of art committed a murder in the Blanton’s galleries.
9pm
Conclusion
This article appears in April 28 • 2006.