Layover Art
It’s not unusual for a gallery to show renderings, models or other materials related to public artworks. When...
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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...
Eight, Eighteen
Marking the 10th anniversary of the Linda Pace Foundation, Eight, Eighteen presents something old and something new.
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,...