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Jul 23rd, 2010 | By Sean Ward | Category: San Antonio Film Announcements, UncategorizedElections are approaching.
Elections are approaching.
The Texas Cultural Trust is calling for nominations for its 2011 Medal of Arts. Who, exactly, are they looking for? “Our honorees have made their mark globally, but their backgrounds are rooted locally, having either been raised in Texas, developed…
San Antonio artist Jesse Treviño is behind many local iconic murals. His works have been featured from the Smithsonian’s American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., to local spots such as the Santa Rosa Children’s Hospital and the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center. One of his favorite areas of focus is one he’s very familiar with — San Antonio’s West Side.
The biennial PBS series Art:21 — Art in the Twenty-First Century, the only prime-time show exclusively about contemporary art, is back for its fifth season, spotlighting its most international mix of artists yet.
Painting by former Aviart executive Harold Wood goes on display Wednesday
AT&T has donated more than three dozen works of art to the University of Texas at San Antonio, including paintings by early pop artist Nicholas Krushenick and abstract expressionist Esteban Vicente.
San Antonio Art League Artist of the Year 2009 Terry Gay Puckett’s retrospective chronicles more than 40 years of the painter’s long career.
Part of Adolf Hitler’s vision for the Third Reich was the Fuhrermuseum, which would be the centerpiece of a cultural district in Linz, Austria, a spectacular storehouse of the world’s art — that is, the works of art that passed the one-time painter’s “degeneracy” litmus test.
Rudy Choperena claims he “can’t dance, can’t sing, can’t draw and can’t write.” In other words, he insists, he’s not an artist. “I’m on the other side,” he says.
“The artist is anonymous,” Brooklyn artist Suzan Frecon wrote in a catalog essay for a 2007 exhibition of her big oil painting at San Antonio’s Lawrence Markey Gallery. “Then the viewer and the artwork are alone.”