Arts & Culture:
Two weekends ago, it almost seemed like First Friday was back at the Blue Star Arts Complex. For months, foot traffic at the Complex, which relied on...
By Scott Andrews
4/17/2013
Arts & Culture:
Ceramics, with its base in utilitarian objects — cups, bowls, and other vessels — has long been regarded as a stepchild to the arts, a craft.
By Scott Andrews
3/6/2013
Arts & Culture:
The CAM opening party last Thursday had decent attendance, about the same as the usual previews at Blue Star the night before the First Friday...
By Scott Andrews
3/6/2013
Arts & Culture:
Luminaria, San Antonio's version of the Nuit Blanche (White Night) art event that began in Paris in the 1982, is happening again this Saturday...
By Scott Andrews
3/6/2013
Arts & Culture:
Originally mounted in 2011, "Real/Surreal: Selections from the Whitney Museum" was not originally intended to be a traveling show, but we're...
By Roberto Ontiveros
3/6/2013
Arts & Culture:
Though we might mention dead insects when speaking of overpowering forces ("squashed like a bug" and "smashed like a fly on a windshield" come...
In "Micr
By Scott Andrews
3/6/2013
Arts & Culture:
Growing up on Manhattan's Upper West Side was an advantage for graffiti kids in the early '80s, but the street action seldom built fine art chops.
By Scott Andrews
3/6/2013
Arts & Culture:
Every day we make choices that are so habitual we barely notice them. Tacos or tuna for lunch might warrant a moment of thought, but that job you're not...
By Scott Andrews
1/23/2013
Arts & Culture:
Mummies of the World, the world's largest collection of real mummies and related artifacts, is a must-see exhibition now open at the Witte Museum...
By Scott Andrews
1/16/2013
Arts & Culture:
Looking at art made by a couple — in this case Richard and Maria Mogas — can be problematic. Of course, you know there is a hidden conversation. Currently...
By Scott Andrews
12/12/2012
Arts & Culture:
San Antonio lost a bright light in the local art scene last week. Krisanne Frost, well-known local artist and gallery liaison at...
By Scott Andrews
12/12/2012
Arts & Culture:
Raised in the Midwest in a multilingual family speaking English, Swedish, and German, Linnea Gabriella Spransy received her MFA at...
By Scott Andrews
12/5/2012
Holiday Issue:
Artpace's current International Artists-in-Residence presents works by three artists who share a common interest: photography. Indeed, the residency's guest...
By Scott Andrews
11/28/2012
Arts & Culture:
Bronze statues of warriors have gone out of fashion and it's a rare day that Big Art acknowledges those who serve in the military and that after...
By Scott Andrews
11/7/2012
Arts & Culture:
Enticing aromas of dosas and tandoori flavors, a rainbow of Indian jewelry and clothing, an array of mesmerizing performances suitable for...
By Vyjayanthi Vadrevu
11/7/2012
Artifacts:
Artpace has its celebrated International Artist-in-Residency program. Sala Diaz has its new Casa Chuck Residency Program for critics and...
By Scott Andrews
10/31/2012
Last Words:
Albert, every time I see you, you're such a cheerful guy. You look like you're having a great time. Then I look at your artwork and think — maybe not. Are we...
By Scott Andrews
10/24/2012
Arts & Culture:
Painting in pastels (dry pigments mixed with a binder to make chalk), goes way back — Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) mentions the practice in his...
By Scott Andrews
10/10/2012
Arts & Culture:
I may have been biased in the enchantment I felt as I watched Lisa Perello's All Flamenco Fashion Show at Say Sí's Black Box Theatre due to my...
By Vyjayanthi Vadrevu
9/26/2012
Arts & Culture:
Two decades after 1,150 garment workers lost their jobs when Levi Strauss closed its San Antonio factory, a handful of the original craftswomen — aided by some of...
By Scott Andrews
9/26/2012
Arts & Culture:
Local photographer Scott Martin and Massachusetts shooter Lance Keimig are masters of moonlight. Their haunting Fotoseptiembre...
By Scott Andrews
9/19/2012
Arts & Culture:
Blink, and you missed the first act of the RJP Nomadic Gallery's performance on First Friday.
By Isis Madrid
9/19/2012
Arts & Culture:
Though many art works declaim loudly about the acts of perception, Canadian photographer Adad Hannah's exhibition sited within the small gallery
By Scott Andrews
9/12/2012
Arts & Culture:
"Mixed Metaphors," a suite of seven exhibits curated by Fotoseptiembre's founder and director Michael Mehl, presents elaborately constructed works...
By Scott Andrews
9/5/2012
Arts & Culture:
"I want it to look over the top, I want it to look crazy, I want it to be very fun," declared Trina Bacon, as she and fellow artist Agosto Cuellar...
By Vyjayanthi Vadrevu
8/29/2012
Arts & Culture:
Last Thursday, Christa Brothers' Bismarck Studios celebrated "Franctober-Fest in August" with "Wunderbares," the latest art happening orchestrated by Rome...
By Bryan Rindfuss
8/15/2012
Arts & Culture:
Small works under glass line the walls of the exhibition's first room, their deft lines and bold pools of dark colors laid down with a sure hand. Several pieces depict the bullfight, an honored Spanish...
By Scott Andrews
7/25/2012
Arts & Culture:
"You know how the good Lord wasn't popular in his hometown? That's kind of the way it is with us." So says Lawrence Jetter from his Southside earth-building...
By GREG HARMAN
7/18/2012
Arts & Culture:
All three shows in Artpace's second 2012 International Artists-in-Residence Exhibition use, or make comment on, photography. But that wasn't an intent in...
By SCOTT ANDREWS
7/18/2012
Arts & Culture:
Wrenching percussive sounds, like something very large breaking up, emanate from a conch shell. The gratings of a ship ripped by an ocean storm, perhaps. Nearby, the floor swells...
By Scott Andrews
7/3/2012
Arts & Culture:
Ana, you have a huge painting in "¡Queers, Presente!" you painted this year. It reminds me of your other recent works, but is different somehow.
By Scott Andrews
6/27/2012
Arts & Culture:
There is a 1990 painting of yours in "¡Queers, Presente!," the current show at the Esperanza Peace & Justice Center. It is a retablo-like triptych. Since then you have...
By Scott Andrews
6/27/2012
Arts & Culture:
Group art shows are notoriously fickle in their outcomes. When curated as a collection of themed works, the results may express a single attitude or aesthetic as part of a...
By Scott Andrews
6/27/2012
Arts & Culture:
In 2004 British artist Isaac Julien heard of the drownings at Morecambe Bay. Misled by incompetent gang bosses, Chinese migrant workers were caught in...
By Scott Andrews
5/23/2012
Arts:
Regardless of how it’s done, storytelling has always been a big part of photography’s role.
By Scott Andrews
9/7/2011
