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Art This Week-Impressionism and the Caribbean: Francisco Oller and His Transatlantic World

At the Blanton Museum of Art
Impressionism and the Caribbean: Francisco Oller and His Transatlantic World
Curatorial Associate for Latin American Art, Beth Shook Interview
Episode 251-July 9, 2015

This week, we visit the Blanton Museum of Art and our interviewer, KC Schanbaum, speaks with Curatorial Associate for Latin American Art, Beth Shook, about the exhibition, Impressionism and the Caribbean: Francisco Oller and His Transatlantic World. The exhibition is on view at the museum through September 6, 2015.
On August 29, 2015, Dr. Edward Sullivan, will give a lecture on the exhibition (2-3pm). You can find information on the talk here. Dr. Sullivan is Helen Gould Sheppard Professor of the History of Art at the Institute of Fine Arts and the Department of Art History at New York University, co-curator of the exhibition and author of From San Juan to Paris and Back: Francisco Oller and Caribbean Art in the Era of Impressionism

For more information:
Art Austin-Blanton exhibit highlights cultural exchange in age of impressionism by Jeanne Claire van Ryzin
Dallas Morning News-A rare look at a Puerto Rican painter by Rick Brettell
Wall Street Journal-‘Impressionism and the Caribbean: Francisco Oller and His Transatlantic World’ Review by Willard Spiegelman

Notes:
Blanton Museum of Art
The University of Texas at Austin
200 E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Austin, Texas 78701

And thanks to Valley House Gallery and Sculpture Garden for letting us film in the garden!

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