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A student walks down the Art Building stairs on San Jacinto Boulevard on Monday.

Antiquities Action Symposium opens dialogue on antiquities trafficking

Layla Dajani, General Life&Arts Reporter April 15, 2024

After watching the demolition of precious historic sites, such as the Palmyra in Syria, during ISIS attacks in 2015, Stephennie Mulder, an associate professor of Islamic art and architecture, felt she...

Daymé Arocena, a Cuban singer, performs for a small audience in the Butler School of Music’s Live Room on Tuesday.

Juno Award-winning Daymé Arocena performs intimate musical odyssey in Live Room

Layla Dajani, General Life&Arts Reporter April 5, 2024

Daymé Arocena’s explosive vocals echoed off the walls and reverberated through the bodies of audience members sitting in the recording studio-turned-intimate concert space. On Tuesday, the Afro-Cuban...

Museum visitors interact with the new exhibit Sky Dances Light located on the second floor of the Blanton Art Museum on Wednesday.

Marie Watt brings interactive installation to Blanton Museum

Layla Dajani, General Life&Arts Reporter April 3, 2024

Audible from around the corner of Marie Watt’s solo installation, fingers run through a coat of hanging tin cones in the room Watt transformed into an immersive sensory space. On display at the Blanton...

Blanton resources to experience before graduation

Blanton resources to experience before graduation

Layla Dajani, Life&Arts General Reporter March 18, 2024

As students trickle back to campus from spring break, many seniors get lost in familiar academic routines that distract from the array of resources available on the Forty Acres, such as the Blanton Museum...

‘Ensemble’ exhibition celebrates UT printmaking community

‘Ensemble’ exhibition celebrates UT printmaking community

Layla Dajani, Life&Arts General Reporter March 4, 2024

Tucked away on the top floor of the Visual Arts Center, a display of letters unique in color and size flows across two adjacent walls, inviting viewers to follow. The characters spell “ENSEMBLE,” the...

Longhorn artist Farah Narejo poses in front of her self portrait hanging in Medici Roasting on Feb. 16, 2024.

Studio art sophomore explores collective history through multimedia art

Layla Dajani, General Life&Arts Reporter February 20, 2024

Amidst the steady hum of study groups with a view of pedestrians walking along The Drag, Farah Narejo researched her culture’s history from a corner table in Cafe Medici, half a world away from where...

Geocaching — a parallel world hidden beneath the surface of everyday life, not exempt from same racial biases

Geocaching — a parallel world hidden beneath the surface of everyday life, not exempt from same racial biases

Layla Dajani, Life&Arts General Reporter February 14, 2024

For Adrian Fernandez, geocaching and history go hand-in-hand. His journey began with his first cache at a museum 10 years ago and extends to the present with his adventure lab that guides cachers to locations...

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