Walking through the Museo Alameda, Irene Ortiz Dieterick was overwhelmed by the artwork assembled for “Jesse Treviño: Mi Vida.”

“Painting the Town: 1920s High Style” highlights the independent spirit of many women of the day, especially New York designer Regina Kobler, whose work is prominently featured in the small show at the University of North Texas’ downtown exhibition space called Fashion on Main.

The glamour and hard labor of circus life come together in the first room of “Circus Folk: Secrets Behind the Big Top,” the latest Witte Museum exhibition culled from the Hertzberg Circus Collection.
  A peek under the big top

  Photos of the exhibit

Curator David Rubin has gathered 31 of David Halliday’s images of edibles — highly orchestrated scenes of fruits, vegetables, eggs, fish, dated 1995 to 2007 — in an exquisitely gorgeous exhibition titled “Culinary Delights.”

The artist, best-known for his photorealist paintings of the West Side and murals such as the nine-story “Spirit of Healing” downtown, is having his first retrospective. “Jesse Treviño: Mi Vida” opens Thursday at the Museo Alameda.

A new exhibit at the Institute of Texan Cultures celebrates the centennial of the first military flight at Fort Sam Houston in 1910.

Obituary: Rosemary Altgelt, a San Antonio artist, died Oct. 5. She was 77.

Combine “art” and “church” in the same sentence, and the stained-glass windows that decorate contemporary churches come to mind.

Most of the painting, sculpture, silver and other objects featured in “The Art of the Missions of Northern New Spain: 1600-1821″ were created in Mexico City, then transported to the churches, says Michael Komanecky, curator of the traveling exhibit.

Almost 20 years later, “Mexico: Splendors of Thirty Centuries” still reigns as the San Antonio Museum of Art’s all-time box office champ. But that show was about Mexico, says director Marion Oettinger. A new exhibition that explores the artistic legacy of Franciscan and Jesuit mission churches in what is now Northern Mexico and the American Southwest.
  Exhibit includes several rare works