View from MLK Jr. Blvd. looking north toward the Faulkner Gateway and
Austin by Ellsworth Kelly, with the Edgar A. Smith Building on left and the Mari and James A. Michener Gallery Building on right North view through the Faulkner Gateway toward Ellsworth Kelly’s
Austin. Left: Edgar A. Smith Bldg.; right: Mari & James A. Michener Gallery Bldg. (Courtesy of Blanton Museum of Art)
Being inside the Blanton Museum is a great experience.
Getting inside the Blanton is, well, less of one.
If you re like most museum visitors, you come out of the University of Texas Brazos garage – your closest parking option – only to face the Blanton s backside, distinguished chiefly by its loading dock. So you have to walk around the building to reach the entrance. Going left puts you on a narrow sidewalk between whizzing traffic on MLK Jr. Boulevard and the campus unwelcoming southern wall. Going right offers a more pastoral setting and an enticing view of Ellsworth Kelly