Arts and Culture Texas magazine

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

SHOW UP: Lily Cox-Richard

Laura August·November 16, 2016

“I'm trying to shake up my practice,” Lily Cox-Richard says, as we stand in her installation-in-progress at Artpace.

Animated Dance: The Proximity of Being at Luminaria

Claire Christine Spera·October 24, 2016

For San Antonian Barbara Felix, the human form is a never-ending source of fascination.

Dance San Antonio Visual Art

Hand, Heart & Passion: Jim Dine’s Designs for Salomé at the McNay & More

Steven Brown·October 17, 2016

A hand, a conch shell, a pair of lips, a valentine heart: Rendered in pastels and lined up along the gallery wall, they possess an eerie mix of starkness and sensuality.

A New Focus: Objectives at Artpace

Dan Goddard·October 11, 2016

Ryder Richards, Maya and Stack, Courtesy Artpace For the first time, Artpace has asked the guest curator for...

San Antonio Visual Art

San Antonio Symphony Shines in a “Real” Hall at The Tobin Center

Steven Brown·October 11, 2016

Carmina Burana always packs a wallop. This time, Carl Orff’s paean to frolic and fate delivered a double whammy: Not only did the San Antonio Symphony and Chorus lay into Orff’s lusty themes and booming sonorities with gusto, but the live-wire acoustics in the orchestra's home turned all that into a visceral experience.

Moving Forward: Suzanne Weaver Takes the Reins at San Antonio Museum of Art

Laura August·August 15, 2016

Laura A. L. Wellen interviews Suzanne Weaver, newly appointed Brown Foundation Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at San Antonio Museum of Art, about the distinct offerings of the museum collection, her Texas roots, and raising the bar for collaboration and creativity.

Art Briefs Editor's Picks San Antonio Visual Art

Push, Pull, Play: Kirsten Reynolds’s Site Specific Constructions at Blue Star Contemporary

casey gregory·July 21, 2016

When we watch the walls of a house go up, we are aware of an implicit narrative in the skeletal studs, a uniformity that allows us to imagine a cozy life being lived inside their orderly framework.

San Antonio Visual Art

Rivane Neuenschwander: Secondary Stories

Dan Goddard·June 9, 2016

Fun is a quality sadly lacking in much contemporary art, but Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander showers viewers with giant colored discs of confetti at the Linda Pace Foundation’s SPACE.

San Antonio Visual Art

Grim State

Lee Escobedo·March 25, 2016

Eric Breish at Clamp Light Studios

San Antonio Visual Art

Visual Art

Style & Luminosity: Tamara de Lempicka at the MFAH

Vision & Experience: Bart Keijsers Koning Takes the Helm of Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas

Imagination and Experience: Nathaniel Donnett Teases Out the Threads

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

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

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

Stories From The Room: The Case for Live Performance

Music

Triumph in Tragedy: Ars Lyrica Houston’s Luminous Theodora

Dallas Opera Brings the Audience Back

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

Theater

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

Stories From The Room: The Case for Live Performance

Next Chapter: The New Stewards of Fort Worth’s Amphibian Stage to Continue Commitment to New and Underrepresented Works

San Antonio

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

SHOW UP: Lily Cox-Richard

Animated Dance: The Proximity of Being at Luminaria

Hand, Heart & Passion: Jim Dine’s Designs for Salomé at the McNay & More

A New Focus: Objectives at Artpace

San Antonio Symphony Shines in a “Real” Hall at The Tobin Center

Moving Forward: Suzanne Weaver Takes the Reins at San Antonio Museum of Art

Push, Pull, Play: Kirsten Reynolds’s Site Specific Constructions at Blue Star Contemporary

Rivane Neuenschwander: Secondary Stories

Grim State