AltWeeklies Wire
Supervielle: Rêverienew
Luciano Supervielle's second solo album, Rêverie, brilliantly sequences live and studio recordings to spin a concert that is almost symphonic in scope, but the French-Uruguayan composer (and keyboardist for Bajofondo) draws his tonal pictures from a small group of instrumentalists who speak jazz, tango, and rock fluently with the sweet accents of the Río de la Plata.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
12-02-2011 |
Reviews
Family-Friendly Stocking Stuffersnew
Be nice to children, or it’s coal in your stocking and stones in your shoes. At your wit’s end and don’t know what to do?
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
12-02-2011 |
Art
Debora Kuetzpalin Vasquez Takes on Domestic Violencenew
The inside of the Bihl Haus gallery has been transformed into a house filled with color. Everywhere you look, bright, happy paintings cover the walls. Most are portraits of women, often paired with photographs. Between them is furniture, sometimes painted, too.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
11-30-2011 |
Art
San Antonio Poet Laureate goes to...new
Luminaria is next March 10, but artists who want to participate in San Antonio’s big art night only have till December 9 to submit proposals.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
11-28-2011 |
Art
School Districts Report Upswing in Homeless Studentsnew
Kristina Martinez is well dressed, articulate, and passionate about her chosen profession. As a newly minted teacher with a certificate in special education from Texas A&M University - San Antonio, she had high hopes for herself and her daughter, now eight years old.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
11-23-2011 |
Homelessness
Tags: Homelessness, Homeless Students
Group Collaboration Leans on Symbolism, Gesture in Message of Isolationnew
It’s eight o’clock at night at the Sterling Houston Theater at Jump-Start, and the cast of “Stranger” is in dress rehearsal.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
11-17-2011 |
Theater
In Memory of the Alameda’s Local-Artist Shows?new
Well, I owe myself five dollars. I had bet against Museo Alameda opening another show. But last Wednesday we received a newsletter announcing the new exhibition, “Día de los Muertos: Mexican Tradition,” on view November 2 through December 3.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
11-10-2011 |
Art
NPR vs Lisa Simeone: politics, opera, and Occupynew
While musing on this week’s review of “The Orient Expressed,” the large survey show now at the McNay that focuses on the congruence of Japanese and Western art known as Japanisme, a recent quote by music critic Lisa Simeone — recently punished by National Public Radio for her involvement in the Occupy DC protests — jumped to my attention.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
11-03-2011 |
Art
How Warships and the Floating World Led us to Art Nouveaunew
While politicians and pundits continue to rail about the need to secure our border to the south, offering helpful suggestions like an alligator-infested moat paired with a big, big fence, perhaps we should all just stop for a moment and remember that other gate we left wide open.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
11-03-2011 |
Art
Tags: art nouveau, border control
Daniel Lee’s Modern-Day Chimera Haunting SAMAnew
It is comfortable to think that we are a species apart from the animal world. Deep in your heart, you know better. Daniel Lee’s retrospective “Animal Instinct” at SAMA presents digital manipulations by the Chinese-born photographer that meld human with beast to form chimeras, hybrids that seem to have appeared from the realm of myth, or last night’s broken sleep.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
10-27-2011 |
Art
Bring Out Your Deadnew
Día de los Muertos celebrations are being held throughout the city this week, and though the public events began at Centro Cultural de Aztlán in 1977 and at the Instituto Cultural de México shortly thereafter, the festivity’s roots go deep into Mezoamerican culture.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
10-26-2011 |
Art
Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller Evoke a Sense of Trespassnew
During the 15 years that Canadian artists Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller have been in collaboration, sculpture has come into new prominence.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
10-20-2011 |
Art
Advice to the Children’s Museum from a Past Directornew
Last Friday the Express-News broke the story that the San Antonio Children’s Museum had received $20 million from Charles Butt, CEO and chairman of H-E-B, to build a new facility on Broadway in Alamo Heights. Butt’s gift provides almost half of the $45 million needed to construct the new complex that will almost double the museum’s size, from 40,000 to 70,000 square feet.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
10-20-2011 |
Art
Peddling Forerunners Already Prepared SA Streets for Two-wheelersnew
Last Sunday’s Síclovía, the mass ride that brought 15,000 people to bicycle, skateboard, and jog down a four-mile stretch of Broadway for four hours while autos were rerouted, was the first SA edition of the international ciclovía movement (Spanish for “bike path”), a fresh-air party celebrating fitness through human-powered transportation.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
10-06-2011 |
Recreation
Peter Calthorpe Takes on Climate Change with His Vision of Urbanismnew
Peter Calthorpe is probably the most respected urban planner in the world, which has led municipalities from California to China to ask for his assistance in creating livable, sustainable cities.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
09-29-2011 |
Environment
