Archive for: College of Fine Arts

UT’s Francie Ostrower Snags $3.5 Million to Study Arts Engagement

By Chris O'Connell

From 2002-12, attendance at arts organizations declined from 39 percent to 33 percent. In a Sept. 26, 2013 article in The New York Times, Patricia Cohen wrote that...

Obama Apologizes to UT Professor for Art History Joke

By Andrew Roush

Editor’s Note: This post has been updated. Last week, in a story about the value of degrees in different fields, we mentioned a remark made by President Barack...

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New Course Collaboration Preps UT Students For Gaming Careers

By Joe Marshall

Recently, PricewaterhouseCoopers priced the video game industry at a cool $56 billion, estimating that it would reach $82 billion by 2015. In entertainment terms,...