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San Antonio weekend Art updates: December week 1
San Antonio Art Events, exhibits, concerns, activities and general info for the first week of December. Blue Star Arts Complex – First Friday Holiday music courtesy of Boneshakers Bicycle Pub (featuring The Circle School & Blessed Sacrament Elementary, The Weetles). Phillip King Exhibit “Four Decades with Colour” Dec 1- Feb 12, Main Gallery. Sculptural and [...]
Allen Keckonen | Dec 02, 2011 | Comments 0
New Image Sculpture: Subversive Intent McNay Art Museum By Linda Lewis
The New Image Sculpture exhibition at the McNay was witty, fun, funny, perplexing and intellectually engaging. The exhibition theme, of artists creating unique visions of everyday objects, was very general. Sandy Skoglund’s 1992 installation, The Cocktail Party, was tacked onto the end of the exhibition. Even though it was not specifically included, it did inform [...]
miscuser | Sep 25, 2011 | Comments 0
Social Responsibility in Contemporary Art: Luis Cruz Azaceta and Susan Plum by David S. Rubin
For the contemporary art programming at the San Antonio Museum of Art, which is encyclopedic in scope, we are responsible for exhibiting a broad range of art, some of which may be topical. During the past year, we have had occasion to exhibit two works—one a recent acquisition and the other part of a large [...]
miscuser | Sep 25, 2011 | Comments 0
The Ron English Triad at IMAS, South Texas College VAM and NAAG by David Freeman
The Ron English Triad at IMAS, South Texas College VAM and NAAG by David Freeman Ron English entered the Valley of South Texas in full force and occupied the art community and its Art institutions, demonstrating his seditious creative spirit in three independent and simultaneous exhibits. English’s approach is so pronounced that a distinctive, yet [...]
miscuser | Aug 03, 2011 | Comments 0
Gary Sweeny @ UTSA Satelite Space / Sabra Booth @ Cactus Bra by Robert B Gonzales
Gary Sweeny @ UTSA Satelite Space / Sabra Booth @ Cactus Bra by Robert B Gonzales In Gary’s Sweeney’s Take a Chance, presented at Three Walls Art Space, the artist has recycled local political signs, cutting out and arranging the pictures of the candidates. In smaller signage, written in cut vinyl, are the [...]
miscuser | Aug 03, 2011 | Comments 0
The Golden Ass/Curo de Oro at Blue Star Project Space by Robert B Gonzalez
The US-Mexico border has always been a place of exchange, but this exchange has sometimes been a sordid one, as young US males have often traveled there for cheap alcohol, pills, and sexual adventure within its Red Light districts. Julia Barbosa Landois explores issues of gender and border culture in her show The Golden Ass/Curo [...]
miscuser | Jul 27, 2011 | Comments 0
Arte De la Frontera @ International Museum of Art and Science by Rob Kolomyski
Arte de la Frontera, in Association with the 2011 Texas Biennial, was curated by Tom Matthews, STC Assistant Chair of Visual Arts & Music, and IMAS Executive Director, Joseph Bravo. The exhibit was conceived as an extension of Austin’s Texas Biennial, TX-11. There are at least sixty venues around the state showcasing what is considered [...]
miscuser | Jul 27, 2011 | Comments 0
Politics and Art by Howard Taylor
Artistic Energy in Service to the State Much of what we revere about our artistic heritage was created in service to centers of political power often to compel fear and foreboding for its enemies and servitude and adherence to a central authority by its population. Scanning a panorama of architectural monuments over a 5,000 [...]
miscuser | Jul 26, 2011 | Comments 0
Kyle Olson’s ‘Its Rigged’ Exhibit at The Blue Star Art Space
Kyle Olson’s ‘Its Rigged’ Exhibit at The Blue Star Art Space by David Freeman Kyle Olson’s exhibit, ‘Its Rigged,’ at Blue Star Contemporary Art Space, demands that the viewer discard any notion that the title posted beside each piece in the exhibit describes the literal content of the art. Instead, each title becomes a conceptually [...]
miscuser | Jul 13, 2011 | Comments 0
Susan Harbage Page Performance/Installation, Brownsville
Susan Harbage Page Performance/Installation, Brownsville. Sponsored by Galleria 409. by David Freeman Susan Harbage Page recently presented a performance/installation work at the Brownsville River directly beneath the Mexico -U.S. Gateway International Border Bridge. Galleria 409 was the patron and the community organizer for this event. The piece was a socio-political commentary protesting the border wall [...]
miscuser | Jul 13, 2011 | Comments 0