Blanton Museum of Art
Book Club

Blanton Book Club

Held as part of the museum’s Third Thursday evenings of free programming, the Blanton Book Club features a new book each month, focusing on current exhibitions or works in the museum’s collection.

Winter - Summer 2012
Join docent-led discussions in our galleries on books selected to coincide with art on view including National Medal of Arts and Pulitzer prize recipient N. Scott Momaday’s Way To Rainy Mountain, Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Nature, and New Museum founder Marcia Tucker’s A Short Life of Trouble: Forty Years in the New York Art World.


Selected as part of Ballet Austin’s citywide exploration of human rights
January: Night by Elie Wiesel


In conjunction with Go West and American Scenery
February: Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday
March: Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson
April: A is for American: Letters and Other Characters in the Newly United States by Jill Lepore
May: Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West by Dorothy Wickenden


In conjunction with The Human Touch and The Collecting Impulse
June: A Short Life of Trouble: Forty Years in the New York Art World by Marcia Tucker
July: Seven Days in the Art World by Sarah Thornton
August: The 12 Million Dollar Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art by Donald N. Thompson