San Antonio Current

Mi Casas ain’t necessarily your Casas

Love and rockets for one of SA’s most misunderstood (performance) artists

In Art By Pablo Miguel MartÍnez
A few pages into The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, an astute observer cautions Roussel, one of several young artists gathered in the gallery of the influential art dealer Vollard, against craving membership in a club that won’t have him or his ilk. He ends by reminding the eager Roussel: “No, my dear young friend, there is art and there is official art, there always has been and there always will be.”

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Truth in advertising
Art
By Sarah Fisch
Click for complete CAM Calendar The exhibition Sign Language dominates two San Antonio art spaces through the end of the summer, and it’s not to be missed. Chicago-based artists Michael Genovese and ...

2008’s Art of Fashion would’ve made Vreeland swoon
Art
By Leigh Baldwin
Click for complete CAM Calendar I always love to cover the Art of Fashion show during CAM, both because I think CAM needs more fashion and design events, but because I also feel it’s San Antonio’s on ...

Speakeasy (dance, not so much)
Art
By Thomas Jenkins
“The worst Best Musical ever!” So goes Forbidden Broadway’s deadly quip about Thoroughly Modern Millie — and it isn’t as cheap a shot as one might suppose. Though Millie captured the top Tony Award in ...

ARTIFACTS
Artifacts
By Elaine Wolff
If you spend your Thursday evening at Blue Star, you can go ahead and scratch Einstein off the list of deceased eminences you wish you’d had the opportunity to charm over a Weller and water (you are s ...