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Unclothed: Exposing the Art Nudenew
Gary Mitchell's "Symmetry" will be the talked-about photo of "Unclothed: Exposing the Art Nude."
Review: The Wood Shownew
Gallery 924's latest show - a collection of wood-based and wood-inspired artwork - is highlighted by a sculpture by Tom Tedrowe and a beguiling painting by April Schafer.
John Casey's Talent Poolnew
A collaborative affair at Swarm Gallery.
East Bay Express |
DeWitt Cheng |
11-07-2011 |
Art
Teach the kids well...about Seurat and Chihulynew
The pilot to Nate Heck's atypically hip children's TV show 'Artrageous with Nate' is airing on WFYI, with plans for syndication and a Pepsi Refresh grant afoot.
OTB: Serving the Developmentally Disablednew
Clients of Outside the Box will showcase their artwork at the “A Cause for Elegance” event at the Athenaeum ArtSpace to raise funds for 20 local nonprofit causes.
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
Guadalupe Helps Keep Day of the Dead Thrivingnew
The day of the dead — which has one foot in ancient Aztec culture and another in the exploitation of Misfits T-shirts — is all about being alive. At its most secular dia de los muertos, with its sugar skulls, sweet day of the dead bread, and those colorful paper offerings to the underworld, may easily be written off by the uninitiated as about as spiritual as that Tim Burton claymation movie Corpse Bride.
San Antonio Current |
Roberto Ontiveros |
11-03-2011 |
Art
Review: Charles Gick's 'Involving the Sky'new
Charles Gick, whose work is on view through November at the Indianapolis Art Center, makes the upper atmosphere seem palpable in his depictions of skies.
Review: Cuarteto Casalsnew
Ensemble Music's season opener Cuarteto Casals played Schubert and Shostakovich with zip and panache, though the second violin was buried in the mix.
Don't Quit Your Day Job?new
New and unique artist residency in Summer Lake, Oregon, offers safe haven for aspiring artists.
Eugene Weekly |
Dante Zuñiga-West |
10-27-2011 |
Art
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
Maxwell Anderson’s Indianapolis Museum of Artnew
Like him or not, we’ll miss Maxwell Anderson in the director's seat at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. He didn’t just make the IMA vibrant — he made it indispensable.
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
