Arts and Culture Texas magazine

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

Soli Chamber Ensemble Concludes Season Under the Ligurian Sun

Steven Brown·April 24, 2017

The shift may not have been conscious, violinist Ertan Torgul says, but he sees it clearly. After 20-plus years of performing new music, San Antonio's Soli Chamber Ensemble is gravitating toward composers who bridge genres —mixing the classical tradition with jazz, rock or whatever else resonates with them. To them, music is music.

Music San Antonio

Monet to Matisse: A Century of French Moderns at the McNay

Devon Britt-Darby·March 19, 2017

Artists—Americans, in some cases, expatriates in others—played key behind-the-scenes roles in helping to decide which European paintings and sculpture would comprise what became some of the great public collections in the United States.

San Antonio Visual Art

Lam Gift Makes SAMA a Center for Indigenous Australian Works

Devon Britt-Darby·March 19, 2017

The captivating exhibition Of Country and Culture: The Lam Collection of Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art, on view through May 14 at the San Antonio Museum of Art, kicks off with a notice to visitors that’s as startling as it is salutary.

San Antonio Visual Art

Redefining Modern: McNay Director Rich Aste on Breaking Down Walls——Literally and Figuratively

Devon Britt-Darby·January 18, 2017

Before joining San Antonio’s McNay Art Museum as its third director in September, Rich Aste was finishing work on the exhibition French Moderns: Monet to Matisse, 1850-1950, which turned out to be his swansong as the Brooklyn Museum's managing curator, arts of the Americas and Europe, and curator of European art. French Moderns travels to the McNay from March 1 to June 7. Devon Britt-Darby sat down with Aste to discuss his plans for Texas's oldest modern art museum.

Eclectic and Equal: W-I-P offers San Antonio movement artists critical feedback

Claire Christine Spera·January 17, 2017

Frustrated by the awkward process of giving and receiving critical artistic feedback, dance/theater legend and MacArthur Fellow Liz Lerman developed her own system in the early 1990s, her Critical Response Process — an approach based on the principle that the best possible outcome from a response session is for the maker to want to get back to work.

Dance San Antonio

Visual Art

A Sprawling History: Tavares Strachan at the Blanton

Storytime: Meow Wolf Leans into the Narrative in their immersive adventures

Beauty and Repulsion, Decay and Renewal: Jessica Kreutter at Galveston Arts Center

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

The Hills are Alive with a Pair of Mickle Mahers, Noises Off, Die Hard, Tharp, Cinderella’s Rats and so much more: The 2024 Season Wrap up

Revealing Repertoire: Houston Ballet’s Triple Bill Tells a Company’s Story

Texas Studio: Jordan Fuchs Starts with Choreography

Music

The Hills are Alive with a Pair of Mickle Mahers, Noises Off, Die Hard, Tharp, Cinderella’s Rats and so much more: The 2024 Season Wrap up

TX Studio: Héctor Guzmán Conducts a Life

Spreading the Classical Music Word: San Antonio’s Agarita Thinks Beyond the Concert Hall

Theater

The Hills are Alive with a Pair of Mickle Mahers, Noises Off, Die Hard, Tharp, Cinderella’s Rats and so much more: The 2024 Season Wrap up

Building a Community: D. Wambui Richardson Invites Audiences to Become Part of Jubilee Theatre’s Family

Born to Lead: Circle Theatre’s New Artistic Director Ashley H. White Isn’t Afraid to Shake Things Up

San Antonio

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

Soli Chamber Ensemble Concludes Season Under the Ligurian Sun

Monet to Matisse: A Century of French Moderns at the McNay

Lam Gift Makes SAMA a Center for Indigenous Australian Works

Redefining Modern: McNay Director Rich Aste on Breaking Down Walls——Literally and Figuratively

Eclectic and Equal: W-I-P offers San Antonio movement artists critical feedback