It stands to reason that residents should expect both pluses and minuses from Austin’s transformation into a bigger, richer, and more expensive city. For the city’s art community, the downsides of the recent boom have been painfully noted, from the widespread loss of studio and gallery spaces to the pricing out of semi-employed creatives who once defined the city’s slacker mystique. But when should we expect the upside of all the new money to arrive, and in what form? A shiny new world-class art museum? Better exhibitions, collections, and architecture for the museums we already know and love?It was perhaps with these questions in mind last weekend that hundreds of Austinites braved a daunting weather forecast to gather outdoors on the UT campus’s Moody Patio…The post The Blanton Debuted a Flowery Renovation. Will the Austin Museum Scene Bloom With It? appeared first on Texas Monthly.