The Alcalde

Founded in 1913, the Alcalde (pronounced “all-call-day”) is the alumni magazine of The University of Texas at Austin.

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“If people in Texas only know one Chinese contemporary artist, it should be Xu Bing.”

Xu Bing: Book from the Sky will be on display at the Blanton Museum of Art through Jan. 22, 2017.

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Bohemian Rhapsody

In Prague, photography students learn a new way of seeing the world.

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Meet Bevo XV—long may he reign.

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Five years ago, a UT student was imprisoned in Iran. He’s still there.

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Store Owners’ Daughter

What it's like growing up behind a counter in the wilds of East Texas' Big Thicket

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A new exhibition at the Ransom Center explores photographer Elliott Erwitt’s sparkling sense of humor.

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It’s much easier not to be an individual. You run the risk of scorn, if you care about it. I don’t give a damn.

Iris Apfel

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Master of One

After getting cut from SNL after just one season, UT alum Noël Wells takes control as director of her first feature film.

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Longhorn football players make their way to practice over a rickety bridge while Waller Creek runs beneath.

Photo credit: Russell Lee Photograph Collection, Briscoe Center; UT-Austin

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The Big One

An asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. Now geologists are drilling into the crater left behind to learn how it happened—and what it means for life on Earth today.

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Boomerang Days: Barfly

We visit some of UT’s most popular watering holes

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Lack and Presence

A recent exhibition united UT’s few African-American MFA in studio art alums.

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“I love to work and I love people and I love being busy. I’m not a lady who lunches and I don’t play golf or cards,” Iris Apfel says, straightening the black feather boa draped over her neck. “To me, that’s a fate worse than death.”

Five days in New York with UT visiting professor Iris Apfel

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Great Isn’t Good Enough

An interview with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott

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25 Longhorns are representing seven countries in the 2016 Olympics.

Put your horns up and follow them.

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The 2016 Texas 10

UT-Austin’s best professors as voted by alumni

A great professor can profoundly shape your college experience—they enlighten, inspire, motivate, and challenge. It’s often in hindsight we realize which teachers had the biggest impact on our lives, so we asked alumni to nominate their favorite professors on the Forty Acres. As we narrowed down the list to just 10 faculty members, descriptors like “passionate” and “exceptional” leapt out. Whether they’ve been at the University of Texas for three years or three decades, their zeal for knowledge and devotion to their students made an enduring impression.

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One More Shot

Kansas City Chiefs running back Jamaal Charles has it all — money, accolades, a loving family — but he’s still working on immortality.

Read the story on The Cauldron