San Antonio
Nuyorican with a Global Reach
What do you get when you fuse a profoundly personal Puerto Rican heritage, a love for indigenous cultures and an eclectic mix of global histories, all combined with draftsmanship worthy of Albrecht Dürer?
Dancing Illusions
Thrills! Danger! Dancing ropes! No, it's not this year’s holiday blockbuster movie; it’s Pilobolus.
Localized Histories: Works from the Linda Pace Foundation Collection
Gazing at Linda Pace’s Orange Crush is like flying over a monochromatic landscape of childhood – stuffed Elmos and other Sesame Street characters, Halloween pumpkins, teddy bears, plastic toys, soda cans, baby angels, and boxes of Tide.
No Fear, No Discovery
Houston artist (and A+C contributor) Debra Barrera has work in two group shows in San Antonio this month — one large, one small. She’s been included in the TX 13 Group Survey Exhibition, on view through Nov. 9 at Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum
San Antonio’s Grassroots Spread
As Blue Star Gentrifies, viagra Artistic Energy Branches Out Across Town IMAGE ABOVE: Angel Rodriguez-Diaz, American, born 1955,...
Eerie Does It
Click. A key turns, unexpectedly. Locked in? Panic rises as the clock keeps time. Alone and defenseless, the mind runs wild with what horrific end one might meet;
Danny Lyon: The Bikeriders
Danny Lyon photographed members of the Chicago–based motorcycle gang, the Outlaws, in the mid-1960s while attending the University of Chicago.
Peter and the Starcatcher
If the title character of J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan existed before the beloved story begins, he might have been a nameless boy in the bowels of a boat caught in the crossfire of warring pirates. That’s the story of Peter and the Starcatcher, a winsome play touring the country and still enjoying a successful run on Broadway.
TX 13 Group Survey Exhibition
With 13 curators and about 70 artists, the TX 13 Group Survey Exhibition is a cacophony of sounds, images and styles that tries for the first time to jam all the artists selected in a statewide open call for the Texas Biennial into a single space — the Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum.
Review: Book of Mormon
The Book of Mormon is the most over-hyped Broadway musical of the last decade. But no doubt you’ll still be laughing about it to your friends long after the touring musical leaves Texas.
Majority Rules: A Decade of Contemporary Art Acquisitions
At first glance, order the McNay Art Museum’s Majority Rules: A Decade of Contemporary Art Acquisitions reads merely...