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The Tragedies of Andy Warholnew
There is nothing more banal than death — it happens to everyone. But for collectors, death is the best career move an artist can make. It limits supply, driving prices up. And being dead, the artist is not able to diminish his legacy by making unacceptable art.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
02-08-2012 |
Art
A double-dip of 'Grosse Fuge'new
The San Antonio Symphony's Beethoven Festival just finished its first week, with performances sponsored by the San Antonio Symphony, Camerata San Antonio, SA International Piano Competition, and more festival partners.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
01-19-2012 |
Performance
Who the #$&% is Thomas Hoving?new
Tony Feher likes plastic. In Thomas Hoving, his new exhibition at Artpace, strands of iridescent red, orange, and purple nylon string sweep from the ceiling in the middle of the Hudson (Show) Room, twisting in a dramatic arc.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
01-19-2012 |
Art
Earth isn't always what we try to make of itnew
Land is not necessarily rural, and despite urbanist claims, place need not be a built environment or opportunity for development. "Land Portrait," curated by Brian R. Jobe, brings works by 11 artists of the Culture Laboratory Collective to UTSA Satellite Space that consider land as something much more familiar: known through collective memory or daily habit, but often strangely other.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
01-11-2012 |
Art
Stubborn, Wide-Spread HIV in San Antonionew
When the Texas Department of State Health Services released updates to their 2010 study on HIV/AIDS just before Christmas last year, something seemed amiss.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
01-11-2012 |
Health
Granddaddy Beethoven Getting Comprehensive Treatmentnew
Why Beethoven? Jack Fishman, president and CEO of the San Antonio Symphony, tells it like this: "I've often heard that the periods of music are: Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Beethoven, Romantic, and Contemporary.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
01-05-2012 |
Music
Weaving African-American DNA into Confederate 'Black Hair Flag'new
There is nothing more common than a haircut. Curly, straight, or woven in braids, the way we wear the fibers that sprout from our heads tells the world who we are; more than social signifier, it's sculptural material, too.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
01-04-2012 |
Art
Texas Public Schools Waiting for Supermannew
The Texas Legislature has made massive cuts to public education. What are the effects in San Antonio?
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
01-02-2012 |
Education
Photog Attempts to Sidestep Gun Advocacynew
"My art world friends really thought this project was misguided on my part," said New York-based photographer Lindsay McCrum. "But I think that if you have a curiosity about something, you should pursue it."
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
12-23-2011 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Stragglers own the center of 'Before the End'new
Dagoberto Gilb's new collection, Before the End, After the Beginning, is filled with the strivers, drifters, and dreamers who inhabit the Southwest from Los Angeles to Austin, that long road of exile that runs from broken memories towards the next hopeful, bewildering horizon.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
12-22-2011 |
Fiction
Area Distilleries Putting Texas Flavors on the Mapnew
When President Jimmy Carter made home brewing legal in 1978 the newly legitimated hobby spawned fledgling brewmasters across the country.
San Antonio Current |
SCOTT ANDREWS |
12-15-2011 |
Food+Drink
Getting Dragged into Tourist Row? San Antonio's Hidden Drinking Spots to Ease the Painnew
As San Antonio denizens, we all live in fear of it. It usually happens around the holidays, or in the dastardly drought that is summer. We avoid it. But it’s always there, waiting: the Alamo.
San Antonio Current |
Ron Bechtol, Scott Andrews, Chuck Kerr, Bryan Rindfuss, Adam Villela Coronado and Veronica Salinas |
12-15-2011 |
Food+Drink
Contempt, Desire Boil Over in Weller’s ‘Fifty Words’new
Why do couples stay married? Love? Devotion? Obligation to children? Or are they held together by habit reinforced by the fear of being alone?
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
12-08-2011 |
Performance
‘Codename Doomsday’ Makes a Splash (and Other Curiosities)new
There’s something about a single-painting show that drives people nuts. When Albert Alvarez’ Codename Doomsday was shown for the first time last Friday at Sala Diaz the crowd on the front lawn chatted and drank beer as usual, but a steady stream of viewers continued to pour through the tiny gallery’s door till late to see the new work.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
12-08-2011 |
Art
Melancholianew
Melancholia opens with a series of dramatically lit, startling dream-like images: falling birds rain during the day, a collapsing horse falls painfully slow in the dark. Wrapped in a wedding dress, Kirsten Dunst floats down a stream like a waking Ophelia.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
12-07-2011 |
Reviews
