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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

CineFestival Wants YOUnew

The 34th annual edition of Cine-Festival (the longest-running Latino film festival in the country) will take place at the Guadalupe from February 25 - March 3. The early deadline for entries is Friday, November 4, and films will be accepted in the following categories: Latino features, shorts, documentaries, animation, experimental films, and youth works.

San Antonio Current | Enrique Lopetegui | 10-19-2011 | Art

The Struggle to Save the Museo Alamedanew

When Museo Alameda opened its doors in April, 2007, as an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institute, it was the realization of a dream for many artists in San Antonio.

San Antonio Current | Scott Andrews | 09-22-2011 | Art

McPhee Exposes Nature’s Human Interfacenew

Of the many photography shows in Fotoseptiembre this year, one of the most compelling is Laura McPhee’s “River of No Return” on view at Southwest School of Art.

San Antonio Current | Scott Andrews | 09-15-2011 | Art

Con Safo Artists Bring El Movimiento to Canvasnew

You may have seen this emblem marked in the corner of a mural or on street art: C/S.

San Antonio Current | Scott Andrews | 09-14-2011 | Art

There was New Yorknew

A trickle of snapshots from the day the towers fell, on display at the Southeast Museum of Photography, accumulates into a relentless flood of memory.

Orlando Weekly | Richard Reep | 09-08-2011 | Art

ISTORIA at UTSA Satellite Spacenew

Regardless of how it’s done, storytelling has always been a big part of photography’s role.

San Antonio Current | Scott Andrews | 09-08-2011 | Art

LH: The biggest art lab in townnew

“The words aren’t there yet, this is hard to talk about,” said Penelope Boyer, director of the Land Heritage Institute.

San Antonio Current | Scott Andrews | 09-01-2011 | Art

Photo-Driven Event Heavy on Taiwanese Lensesnew

Fotoseptiembre, now one of the largest photography festivals in the country, began 17 years ago as an effort to bring photographers from Latin America to exhibit in San Antonio next to local talent, to join North with South.

San Antonio Current | Scott Andrews | 09-01-2011 | Art

Charles Anselmo Finds Beauty in Decaynew

Charles Anselmo has been traveling to Cuba for more than a decade, photographing the effects of economic deprivation and tropical fecundity on the colonial architecture of Havana (and also championing the work of Cuban photographers here on the big island). His large-format color photographs on paper and silk banners and his small-format black-and-white studies of Cubans in Deconstructions: La Habana pose Macaulay's questions anew for contemporary viewers.

East Bay Express | DeWitt Cheng | 08-25-2011 | Art

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