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Landmarks’ blog, Latest, features timely updates on new installations, public programs, event announcements, volunteer and internship opportunities, and a range of other initiatives. Learning with Landmarks is a dedicated blog series highlighting the unique and innovative ways that students and other scholars use the collection. To view the entire series, click the button below.

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Landmarks Commissions Sarah Oppenheimer

Two glass and wood structures in the atrium of a museum. A person can be seen walking through one and another person is walking towards another. Both figures are slightly blurred showing movement.

Landmarks announced today a new work by artist Sarah Oppenheimer. Titled C-010106, the commission is among Oppenheimer’s largest works to date and represents the artist’s first public work to be sited entirely outdoors. The installation opens this fall and will be sited at the university’s Cockrell School of Engineering.

Louise Bourgeois’ "Eyes" to Leave UT

An image of Louise Bourgeois' sculpture "Eyes" a block of white marble with two circular carved eyes perched on top. The work is seen from above and is surrounded by a crowd of people who look and move around it

Later this month, Louise Bourgeois’ sculpture, Eyes, will be permanently removed from the atrium of Bass Concert Hall at Texas Performing Arts and returned to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. On view since 2008, Eyes is one of 28 works on long-term loan to Landmarks from the Met, and has greeted more than three million people while at the university.

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Meet Composer Thomas Rodriguez

A photo of Thomas Rodriguez; He is smiling and has brown hair and black glasses on and is wearing a navy blue jacket

Landmarks recently announced the return of Sound in Sculpture, our annual collaboration with the Butler School of Music and Texas Performing Arts. In advance of the program, we sat down with one of this year’s composers, Thomas Rodriguez. A 3rd year undergraduate student pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Music and a Minor in Arts Management and Administration, Rodriguez wrote a work inspired by Joel Perlman’s Square Tilt.

Support Landmarks during 40 for Forty!

Three women stand around a sculpture cleaning and conserving it, with UT's 40 for 40 logo in the bottom right corner

As UT’s public art program, Landmarks enriches the lives of students and campus visitors by making great works of art broadly accessible and free for all. This year, we are raising funds to support the Landmarks Preservation Guild (LPG), a committed group of volunteer interns who examine and maintain the modern and contemporary art in the Landmarks collection.

Collection Connections: James Turrell

Two images of James Turrell's work side-by-side; On the left a single vertical white line with light appearing to emerge from it in a dark space; Right: An image of "The Color Inside" with an oculus revealing clouds in the ceiling

Step inside the work of artist James Turrell. Watch Landmarks Director Andrée Bober and Harry Ransom Center Curator of Art Tracy Bonfitto in conversation considering Turrell’s Skyspace The Color Inside with prints in the Deep Sky portfolio from the Ransom Center collection.

Watch Sound in Sculpture 2021

A graphic that has on the left a detail of Koren Der Harootian’s "Prometheus and Vulture" which is of a bird, and on the right the "Sound in Sculpture" graphic

Sound in Sculpture features student-composed music written in response to works of art from the Landmarks collection. Presented in partnership with Texas Performing Arts and the Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music , the 2021 program took place on April 22 at 7:00 PM. Watch the recorded performances on Vimeo.

One Year In - Landmarks Looks Back

Two women in masks holding Landmarks maps look up at Mark Di Suvero's sculpture "Clock Knot"

On March 13, 2020 Landmarks announced the suspension of all in-person events, screenings, and tours in response to COVID-19. Like other arts organizations, we had to quickly retool our offerings to make them available in ways that were safe but still inspiring. At this one year anniversary of the pandemic, we are taking a look back at some of the digital initiatives we created to bring art to you, wherever you are.

Meet the New Communications Intern

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Meet Kirsten Hahn, Landmarks' New Communications Intern Landmarks welcomes Kirsten Hahn, a third-year Radio-TV-Film and Journalism major in the College of Communications at UT, as its Spring 2021

Intern with Landmarks this Spring

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COMMUNICATIONS INTERN (PAID) This is mostly a remote-work position. Appointment: Spring 2021; $12 hourly, avg. 10-15 hours/week, flexible within M-F 9-5pm Overall purpose of the position: The

Student Reflections on the LPG Program

Landmarks Programs Intern Alexis Pierce recently chatted with Ashley Stanford, a former Landmarks Preservation Guild (LPG) volunteer, to learn more about the LPG program and how Ashley's volunteer experience impacted her decision in pursuing a career in conservation.