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.”
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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.
Rich Aste Reflects on His First Two Years at the McNay
“I arrived with very big ideas,” Rich Aste says, as he surveys his first two years as Director of the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio.
Texas Studio: Audrya Flores and Lisette Chavez
When I walk into Audrya Flores’s home studio in San Antonio, I find a wood-paneled room, with a carefully curated selection of objects—needlework, prints, collages, fabric pieces—paired with found things—a turtle shell, stones, a preserved bat, potted plants.
Capturing the Moment at San Antonio Museum of Art
The donated collection includes over 500 photographs, 75 of which will be on view Feb. 22 – May 12 in Capturing the Moment: Photographs from the Marie Brenner and Ernest Pomerantz Collection at SAMA alongside key works from the Museum’s existing photography collection.
Art for the Crowd: Luminaria Layers History in San Antonio
“My biggest take away from last year was that I didn’t get to experience everything,” says Kathy Armstrong, executive director of Luminaria.
REVIEW: ‘Reclaimed’ at Ruby City
In Reclaimed, the current exhibition through Jan. 26, 2019 at Ruby City in San Antonio, the collection attempts to host a myriad of themes, visual relationships, and connections through a small sampling of works by nine prominent female artists.
San Antonio Tree of Life: Margarita Cabrera and Mission Espada
For the better part of a year, Phoenix-based artist Margarita Cabrera has been working on Árbol de Vida: Voces de Tierra, a community-based sculpture for San Antonio’s Misión Espada and Rancho de las Cabras.
What’s happening?: Right Here, Right Now: San Antonio at the Contemporary Art Museum Houston
Thank goodness, because one thing our arts communities do not need is another wannabe dictator (ditto the world for that matter). Give us a little room for curiosity, however, and we’ll happily run with it.
It Happened in Texas: Don Carlos at HemisFair and more at the McNay
For one night, San Antonio just may have been the United States’ operatic capital.