State of the Art 2020: San Antonio Artists at Crystal Bridges and The Momentary
San Antonio is having a moment, and it’s a good one.
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Texas Studio: Ana Fernandez
San Antonio artist Ana Fernandez, a regionalist for the 21st century, finds that it’s really the people that make a place.
Ensemble Storytelling: Come From Away Comes to Texas
As the United States closed its skies on September 11, 2001, thousands of plane passengers found themselves in midair over the Atlantic with only one place to land—the airport near the small town of Gander, Newfoundland.
A Lesson in Looking: McNay Art Museum Focuses on Minimalism
San Antonio’s McNay Art Museum operated for decades with a major gap in its holdings. “When you think of all 20th-century art, the U.S. made two huge contributions to the canon,” says Lyle W. Williams, the McNay’s curator of prints and drawings.
Bringing Your Heart to a Role: Dear Evan Hansen Tours Texas
Coming of Broadway age in the shadow of the Hamilton juggernaut, Dear Evan Hansen, the seemingly unassuming musical about an unpopular high school kid with social anxiety, managed to turn its misfit story into a multiple Tony® Award winner.
McNay’s Tobin Collection of Theatre Arts Gets a New Show and Curator
An orchestral score for a ballet wouldn’t ordinarily pop up in an art museum’s storage room. But the one in San Antonio’s McNay Art Museum, a score of Erik Satie’s surrealist Parade, was no ordinary example.
Defying the art Establishment: The Pre-Raphaelites at San Antonio Museum of Art
Now a new exhibition, Victorian Radicals: From the Pre-Raphaelites to the Arts & Crafts Movement, brings their masterworks and stories to the San Antonio Museum of Art (Oct. 11, 2019-Jan. 5, 2020).
Dreams Made Manifest: Ruby City Opens in San Antonio
The dream of Ruby City is coming true.
Show Up: Margarita Cabrera
To artist Margarita Cabrera, loose threads are “a reference to the labor and the importance in the act of making by hand.”
Every Body: Transamerica/n at the McNay
In James Gobel’s 2007 work Robert, we see a bearded and tattooed person—presumably named Robert—wearing a black Morrissey tee-shirt.
Texas Lens: American Made, American Maker
Both of my grandmothers were factory workers. Paw Paw, my Chinese grandmother, watched her family oppose the Communist party in China and lose everything. They left mainland China for British-controlled Hong Kong before arriving to the United States as refugees.
Corporeal Narratives: Queering Contemporary Dance in San Antonio Towards Voices of Color
San Antonio may be overlooked as it is browner than other major cities in Texas, and although people of color are the numerical majority in the city, there is little ethnic or racial diversity in the field of contemporary dance.