RSS Feeds at the College of Fine Arts

The College of Fine Arts' RSS feeds will help you keep up-to-date on everything going on in the college—from alumni news to faculty announcements, student shows, and awards. This information is already on the site, but RSS will notify you as new material is posted, allowing you to access the information as soon as it becomes available. With RSS, you can keep track of the goings on in any or all of our five units through your RSS reader, eliminating the need for time-intensive web surfing.

In order for you to subscribe to the college's RSS feeds, you will need an RSS reader. Below are links to reader programs for both Windows and Macintosh platform, available for download for free. These are NOT pieces of software supported or endorsed by the College of Fine Arts or the University of Texas at Austin. They are free programs written by third-party software vendors, and any problems you may encounter while running them should be taken up with their makers.

RSS Explanation

RSS stands for Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication. It's a protocol designed to allow viewers of frequently updated web sites to know when those sites have been updated without having to visit the site and check manually.

Sites like Yahoo and BBC have been using RSS for some time, as the protocol readily lends itself to the on-demand world of Internet news. But the recent rise in popularity of weblogs (blogs) has pushed RSS' popularity even further. Blogs are frequently updated web sites containing news, commentary, personal reflections, pictures—anything that the owner wants—and the form has been adopted by news sites, political magazines, and the public at large (through free hosting services like Blogger.com). Blogs and RSS go together naturally—many people who read multiple blogs see RSS as the perfect way to keep up with what their favorite commentators are saying, without having to go to multiple websites individually. If you like to use the web to stay up on current events, but dislike the amount of surfing staying informed can take up, then RSS is for you.

RSS Feeds

News:

• College of Fine Arts News RSS:
  http://www.finearts.utexas.edu/rss/finearts_news.xml
• Department of Art and Art History News RSS:
  http://www.finearts.utexas.edu/rss/aah_news.xml
• Blanton Museum of Art News RSS:
  http://www.finearts.utexas.edu/rss/bma_news.xml
• Department of Theatre and Dance News RSS:
  http://www.finearts.utexas.edu/rss/tad_news.xml

Events:

• College of Fine Arts Events RSS:
  http://www.finearts.utexas.edu/rss/finearts_events.xml
• Department of Art and Art History Events RSS:
  http://www.finearts.utexas.edu/rss/aah_events.xml
• Blanton Museum of Art Events RSS:
  http://www.finearts.utexas.edu/rss/bma_events.xml
• Texas Performing Arts Events RSS:
  http://www.finearts.utexas.edu/rss/pac_events.xml
• Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music Events RSS:
  http://www.finearts.utexas.edu/rss/som_events.xml
• Department of Theatre and Dance Events RSS:
  http://www.finearts.utexas.edu/rss/tad_events.xml

Free Readers

PC: RSS Reader

Mac: NetNewsWire Lite