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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
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
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
Intentionally or Not, Political Art Month Breeds Rabbits and Maizenew
It’s been two years since Contemporary Art Month decamped from its traditional summer home for the tourist-friendly month of March, but Gene Elder claims he doesn’t give a damn.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
07-14-2011 |
Art
Artifacts: Deborah Kuetzpalin Vasqueznew
One of the artists in the NALC show at R Gallery is Deborah Kuetzpalin Vasquez, whose paintings and drawings deal with themes of feminine empowerment from an Out Queer Latina and Indigenous viewpoint.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
07-14-2011 |
Art
The Hidden Dandelions in Gudjon Bjarnason’s Wreckagenew
The current exhibition “DySTOPic ProgressiONs” fills the main room at Blue Star Contemporary Art Center with Gudjon Bjarnason’s trademark sculpture made of blown-up building materials. The works on view were made recently with C-4 and other explosive materials and the assistance of a team of pyrotechnicians supervised by the San Antonio Police Department Bomb Squad.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
06-10-2011 |
Art
Art for Autonomynew
David Zamora Casas wants to be understood as he inflames.
San Antonio Current |
Roberto Ontiveros |
10-20-2010 |
Art
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