2010 OCTOBER BLOG
It has been a year since I started my blog and 35 years since I sat on the "steering committee" of the Huntington Museum on the University of Texas campus. This past weekend my husband Charles, our friend McDonald Smith and I returned to the art building to see what has replaced the Huntington, later renamed the Blanton Museum. Pictured from left to right are CHARLES SIKES; JUDITH SIMS, Austin Museum of Art School and Laguna Gloria Site Director; JADE WALKER, director of the new U.T. Visual Arts Center and McDONALD SMITH, professor emeritus of Art History at U.T. The museum space in the art building, formerly occupied by the Huntington/Blanton, was vacated when the Blanton Museum moved into its new building on M.L.K. Street. The Art Building is located on the corner of San Jacinto Steet across from Royal Memorial Stadium and west across Trinity Street from the Performing Arts Center (Bass Hall). Its museum space was recently converted into the Visual Arts Center (VAC...