Art is tireless, and you should be too. Everyone's invited to the ultimate opening experience at the Blanton Museum of Art beginning this Saturday at 9pm and running to 9pm on Sunday. If you have to work Sunday morning, skip it. Call in sick. What's more, this event is all-inclusive!

The Blanton's new building on MLK and Congress is an enormous space housing expansive galleries and a magnificent atrium. Exhibitions include the classics, American and Latin American contemporary art, prints and drawings. Of such exhibitions, the one to watch is the "New Now Next: The Contemporary Blanton," featuring Texas artist Trenton Doyle Hancock.

Austin has never experienced an Art opening like this: starting on Saturday, the party commences with hors d'oeuvres and refreshments along with live music by Voxtrot, and improv by the Austin Improv Collective. The night crowd will want to stick around for the Austin Craft Mafia's early morning fashion show, followed by Yoga, cereal and juice, chair massages, and a Ribbon Cutting around noon on Sunday.

The celebration will wrap up from 5pm-9pm on Sunday with a toast of the museum's own "Blantini" and the conclusion of the community art project "Blanton Blooms," in which you, the extreme art enthusiast, will walk away with (or plant on site) the flower you made to commemorate the new museum.

24-Hour Extreme Grand Opening
Blanton Museum of Art
MLK at Congress
Saturday and Sunday, April 29-30
(9 PM Saturday - 9 PM Sunday)