Ana Fernandez planned to major in history before the smells emanating from art classes at the University of Texas at San Antonio drew her in a different direction. ...
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders began shooting large-format portraits in the late 1970s, using an 8x10-inch camera to capture a certain expression or pose that would reflect something memorable in his subject....
San Antonio’s expansive, one-night-only arts festival is turning 10 this year. In a city that wears its culture on its sleeve, Luminaria is unique, a carefully choreographed explosion of site-specific art events attended by an average of 10,000 patrons....
From Oct. 29-Nov. 19, 2017, San Antonio’s Nicolás Valdez will travel to California to be in residence at the Los Angeles Theatre Center where his show, Conjunto Blues, will play in repertory alongside 12 other productions as part of the Encuentro de las Américas International Theatre Festival. ...
San Antonio’s McNay Art Museum has been transformed into a haunted house for the Halloween season, as if a witch had cast her spell on the venerable San Antonio institution. ...
Eyebrow-plucking as critique of conventional gender roles; wigs that mimic authenticity but question identity; porcelain mugs in service of social awareness: These are just a few of the recent artworks by Jennifer Ling Datchuk that provoke important, if not awkward, conversations....
It could be argued that art is limitless. But is it borderless? This summer, Artpace embraces this question with two solo exhibitions of work by Sabine Senft and Doerte Weber, artists who are addressing global issues of migration and geopolitical borders....
Depending on one’s frame of mind, the new exhibitions on view through July 16 at San Antonio’s Southwest School of Art—created by three very different artists in three divergent mediums—offer either hopeful or apocalyptic visions of landscapes....
The shift may not have been conscious, violinist Ertan Torgul says, but he sees it clearly. After 20-plus years of performing new music, San Antonio's Soli Chamber Ensemble is gravitating toward composers who bridge genres —mixing the classical tradition with jazz, rock or whatever else resonates with them. To them, music is music....
Artists—Americans, in some cases, expatriates in others—played key behind-the-scenes roles in helping to decide which European paintings and sculpture would comprise what became some of the great public collections in the United States. ...
