Robert Indiana Under the Influence
Yesterday I finally got to see the McNay Art Museum’s presentation of Robert Indiana: Beyond LOVE (read Scott...
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SOLI Chamber Ensemble’s Third Decade of Youthful Beginnings
SOLI Chamber Ensemble’s May concert, titled Future, logically concludes the San Antonio-based classical contemporary quartet’s 20th season
Blue Star Rising?
In late February, Houston native Mary Heathcott leaped from Artpace, San Antonio’s internationally-acclaimed artist residency program, to take over as director of Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum.
Thomas Sully: Painted Performance
SAN ANTONIO—Well-represented in museum collections, the 19th-century Philadelphia portrait painter Thomas Sully (1783-1872) isn’t exactly a forgotten figure...
Ain’t We Fancy? Then and Now
The 21st-century status of Thomas Sully (1783-1872), a Philadelphia painter and leading successor to Gilbert Stuart’s Federal portrait style
Looking at Milwaukee, Thinking About San Antonio
At least from my vantage point in Houston, there don't seem to be many tea leaves to read regarding the abrupt departure of David Rubin from the San Antonio Museum of Art, where he's been the curator of contemporary art since 2006.
Layover Art
It’s not unusual for a gallery to show renderings, models or other materials related to public artworks. When...
Are We World Class Yet?
If a few more logistical details come together, I may be in New York next week in time...
Visualizing Theater
It’s not quite right to use the term “hidden gem” to describe the Tobin Theatre Arts Collection, housed in gallery space at San Antonio’s McNay Art Museum—mostly because the collection is far from hidden.
Reconsidering a Pop Outlier
Robert Indiana’s totemic sculptures and hard edge paintings filled with enigmatic numbers and text were lionized by New York art critics in the early 1960s, who listed him with Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and James Rosenquist as one of young Turks taking on the rule of abstract expressionism.
Museum in Transition
One of my most powerful art memories of 2013 is visiting the traveling exhibition 30 Americans, which presented important works by contemporary African American artists, on July 4, a free day at the Milwaukee Art Museum.
Kent Rush: Concrete Poetry and Other Poems in Gray
SAN ANTONIO—When the Chicago Sun-Times fired its entire photography department last May, it was a sign of something...