Curator's Choice tour

Name: Curator's Choice tour
Start: 2026-10-18T11:00:00-05:00
Location: Blanton Museum of Art

When: Sunday, October 18, 11 AM
Where: Blanton Museum of Art
200 E Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Austin, TX 78712
Price: Not listed. Check with the venue.

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Come learn about the darker side of Philip Evergood's Dance Marathon with Assistant Curator of Prints and Drawings, Sarah Bane. Evergood's 1934 painting comments on a craze that swept the United States during the Great Depression in which couples would dance as long as possible, with the last-standing couple given a cash prize. Here, Evergood depicts exhausted couples struggling to stand, trapped on a dance floor that has transformed into a spider's web. A skeletal hand looms eerily in the corner, suggesting the artist's critical view of the popular spectacle.

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