Texas Studio: Ari Brielle
“There are many Black people who feel like art is not their space…it’s been really great to have shows where people come who might not typically engage with the art. Where they can be seen in a special way.”
San Antonio
This Time ʼRound: Jennifer Ling Datchuk at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft
San Antonio-based artist Jennifer Ling Datchuk reminded me of Brecht’s riddle-like assurance while discussing her current exhibition Later, Longer, Fewer: The Work of Jennifer Ling Datchuk, on view at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft until Jan. 8, 2022.
Treasures and Discoveries Revealed: San Antonio Museum of Art Celebrates 40 Years
Sir Joshua Reynolds’ Mary, Lady Arundel of Wardour has belonged to the San Antonio Museum of Art since 1981.
Make It So: Texas Biennial Centers and Connects Visionary Artists
From slabs on the scene to teeter-totters at the border, and all manner of complexity in between, what happens in Texas does anything but stay put.
Dancing on a Lake and Other Pandemic Miracles
If 2020 into 2021 was the ultimate annus horribilis, the year really became the worst of times for that most ephemeral and impermanent of arts, live performance.
Agarita Brings an Immersive Vibe to San Antonio
Bushman and three other San Antonio musicians—pianist Daniel Anastasio, cellist Ignacio Gallego and violinist Sarah Silver Manzke—joined forces in 2018. To symbolize their group’s roots in the city, they dubbed it Agarita, taking the name from a shrub that’s native to San Antonio and the Hill Country.
A Cartography of Broadway Shows Across Texas
We’re still holding our breath, knocking on a forest full of wood and sacrificing chicken-shaped tofu to Dionysius, but it looks like in-person, inside-an-actual-theater, theater will finally take the stage this fall.
Traversing Geographies: Rethinking the Story of American Impressionism at San Antonio Museum of Art
On view at San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA) from June 11-Sept. 5, the expansive exhibition America’s Impressionism: Echoes of a Revolution, co-organized by the Brandywine River Museum of Art in Pennsylvania, the Dixon Gallery and Gardens in Tennessee, and SAMA, brings together 62 works from a wide range of public and private collections.
Women Reshape Contemporary Art: Limitless at the McNay
For those hoping to experience art beyond sedate viewing, San Antonio’s McNay Art Museum brings Texas an exhibition that defies boundaries with Limitless! Five Women Reshape Contemporary Art, (on view through Sept. 19)
No Ocean Between Us at the San Antonio Museum of Art
“Migration is beautiful.” These are the words the viewer reads upon entering the San Antonio Museum of Art’s newest exhibition, No Ocean Between Us, on view at the San Antonio Museum of Art Feb. 12-May 9, 2021.
Love and other words: Robert Indiana’s Enduring Influence at the McNay
Sometimes LOVE is all-consuming. Nowadays, Robert Indiana’s iconic LOVE artworks—with their clunky capital L and tilted O stacked over the V and E—are everywhere.
It Happened in Texas: San Antonio Collector/Visionary Robert L. B. Tobin at the McNay
Standing six-foot-six, sporting a luxuriant silver mane and beard, decked out on formal occasions in flamboyant capes, he turned heads from Texas to New York.