A young Austinite wanted to know the most valuable item in all of Austin’s museums. But “value” can mean a lot of different things.
A few years ago, my daughter, June, asked me a question I wasn't sure how to answer. So I told her to ask it for ATXplained.I don't think we have any Picassos or Van Goghs on public display here in the Live Music Capital of the World. Austin is not exactly well-known for its museums .
"A lot of the wealth in Austin is very new. It doesn't go back three or four generations," said Doug Dempster, the former dean of UT's College of Fine Arts."When you look at Houston and Dallas and Fort Worth, you can see 100 years of wealth that's invested very intentionally in building the cultural infrastructure of those communities."
"I don't mean the thing that's worth the most amount of money. I mean the most, like, precious thing to the people," she said.Gabby RodriguezThe first thing I want to look at is the value of listening. Sound artist Henna Chou composed this piece for the Blanton's"SoundSpace: Conversation Pieces" video series earlier this year.
I asked, Angie Glasker, the curator of the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum what she thought the most valuable thing in the museum is. She pointed me to this tiny piece of rock.A stone point discovered in Central Texas that was made at least 16,000 years ago.
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