Arts and Culture Texas magazine

What’s happening?: Right Here, Right Now: San Antonio at the Contemporary Art Museum Houston

Nancy Zastudil·April 23, 2018

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.

Houston San Antonio Visual Art

It Happened in Texas: Don Carlos at HemisFair and more at the McNay

Steven Brown·April 16, 2018

For one night, San Antonio just may have been the United States’ operatic capital.

It Happened in Texas San Antonio

Artists in Charge: An Uncommon Format to Celebrate San Antonio’s 300th Anniversary

Manuel Mendoza·February 23, 2018

Ana Fernandez planned to major in history before the smells emanating from art classes at the University of Texas at San Antonio drew her in a different direction.

San Antonio Visual Art

The Latino List: Photographs by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders at the San Antonio Museum of Art

Donna Tennant·October 31, 2017

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders began shooting large-format portraits in the late 1970s, using an 8x10-inch camera to capture a certain expression or pose that would reflect something memorable in his subject.

San Antonio Visual Art

Origins, Rations, Extractions: Paula Luttringer and Gissette Padilla at Blue Star Contemporary

Donna Tennant·October 23, 2017

Both Paula Luttringer and Gissette Padilla lived and emigrated from South American countries during eras of social and political upheaval.

San Antonio Visual Art

A Decade of Surprises: The Refined and Undefined Appeal of Luminaria

casey gregory·October 23, 2017

San Antonio’s expansive, one-night-only arts festival is turning 10 this year. In a city that wears its culture on its sleeve, Luminaria is unique, a carefully choreographed explosion of site-specific art events attended by an average of 10,000 patrons.

Music San Antonio Visual Art

Growing a Teatro Scene: Latina/o Theater in San Antonio

Trevor Boffone·October 23, 2017

From Oct. 29-Nov. 19, 2017, San Antonio’s Nicolás Valdez will travel to California to be in residence at the Los Angeles Theatre Center where his show, Conjunto Blues, will play in repertory alongside 12 other productions as part of the Encuentro de las Américas International Theatre Festival.

Editor's Picks Latinx Theater San Antonio Theater

Texas Studio: Joey Fauerso

Nancy Zastudil·September 22, 2017

“There’s a war today?” It’s a question that begs an answer. But it also suggests a casual if not ambivalent conversation.

San Antonio Texas Studio

Monsters & Mayhem at the McNay

Manuel Mendoza·September 20, 2017

San Antonio’s McNay Art Museum has been transformed into a haunted house for the Halloween season, as if a witch had cast her spell on the venerable San Antonio institution.

Editor's Picks San Antonio Theater Visual Art

Texas Studio: Jennifer Ling Datchuk

Nancy Zastudil·June 22, 2017

Eyebrow-plucking as critique of conventional gender roles; wigs that mimic authenticity but question identity; porcelain mugs in service of social awareness: These are just a few of the recent artworks by Jennifer Ling Datchuk that provoke important, if not awkward, conversations.

San Antonio Texas Studio Visual Art

Over the Borderline: Exhibitions at Artpace Address Contemporary Divisions

Nancy Zastudil·June 20, 2017

It could be argued that art is limitless. But is it borderless? This summer, Artpace embraces this question with two solo exhibitions of work by Sabine Senft and Doerte Weber, artists who are addressing global issues of migration and geopolitical borders.

San Antonio Visual Art

Unpeopled Landscapes: Esteban Delgado, Tom Turner, and Victor Pérez-Rul at Southwest School of Art

casey gregory·June 15, 2017

Depending on one’s frame of mind, the new exhibitions on view through July 16 at San Antonio’s Southwest School of Art—created by three very different artists in three divergent mediums—offer either hopeful or apocalyptic visions of landscapes.

San Antonio Visual Art

Visual Art

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Material Culture: Betsabée Romero at Blanton Museum of Art

Cartoon King: The Brilliant Accessibility of KAWS at Crystal Bridges

Gallery Row

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Dance

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

Reimagining a Classic: Houston Ballet’s Stanton Welch Breathes New Life into Raymonda

Dance Here: Agora Artists is Planting the Seeds to Make Dallas a Dance Town

Music

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

Celebrating 125 Years, the Dallas Symphony Looks Back to its History

Triumph in Tragedy: Ars Lyrica Houston’s Luminous Theodora

Theater

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

Fade To Black: Week-Long Arts Festival Amplifies Black Voices in Houston

Leaping into the Unknown: The Risks and Rewards of World Premieres

San Antonio

What’s happening?: Right Here, Right Now: San Antonio at the Contemporary Art Museum Houston

It Happened in Texas: Don Carlos at HemisFair and more at the McNay

Artists in Charge: An Uncommon Format to Celebrate San Antonio’s 300th Anniversary

The Latino List: Photographs by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders at the San Antonio Museum of Art

Origins, Rations, Extractions: Paula Luttringer and Gissette Padilla at Blue Star Contemporary

A Decade of Surprises: The Refined and Undefined Appeal of Luminaria

Growing a Teatro Scene: Latina/o Theater in San Antonio

Texas Studio: Joey Fauerso

Monsters & Mayhem at the McNay

Texas Studio: Jennifer Ling Datchuk

Over the Borderline: Exhibitions at Artpace Address Contemporary Divisions

Unpeopled Landscapes: Esteban Delgado, Tom Turner, and Victor Pérez-Rul at Southwest School of Art