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Sean Ward — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:50:00 +0000

Elections are approaching.

Know anybody who needs a medal?

Deborah Martin — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:57:11 +0000

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 a significant portion of their body of work in Texas, or supported the arts in a way that made a significant impact on arts development in our state," said El Paso gallery owner Adair Margo, who is co-chairing the 2011 awards with San Antonian Alice Carrington Foultz.

Past winners bear out that description. They include Sandra Cisneros, Walter Cronkite, Naomi Shihab Nye, Vikki Carr, Lyle Lovett, Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Rauchenberg and Bill Wittliff.

The categories are: Architecture, Arts Education, Craft, Dance, Music, Literary Arts, Visual Arts, Theatre, Film, Media/Multi-Media, Lifetime Achievement, Foundation Arts Patron Corporate Arts Patron and Individual Arts Patron. Awards will not be given in every category.

Past winners include Walter Cronkite, Lyle Lovett, Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Rauchenberg and Bill Wittliff.

March 1 is the nomination dedline. Criteria and nomination forms are available on the trust's Web site.

The awards will be given February 28-March 1, 2011 in Austin

Art Beat courtesy of the San Antonio Express News

Jesse Treviño: Artist’s work revolves around the West Side

Sean Ward — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 01:22:27 +0000

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.

Art comes of age in Twenty-First Century

Sean Ward — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:54:39 +0000

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.

Art patron’s self portrait joins McNay permanent collection

Sean Ward — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 02:53:55 +0000

Painting by former Aviart executive Harold Wood goes on display Wednesday

AT&T donates artworks to UTSA

Sean Ward — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:00:15 +0000

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.

Artist has been mixing it up since childhood

Sean Ward — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:06:02 +0000

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.

McNay displays art that was stolen by Nazis

mySA.com Visual Arts — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 13:17:38 +0000

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.

Seeing Mexico in a bend of light

mySA.com Visual Arts — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 03:05:07 +0000

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.

Color, balance and a connection to the viewer

mySA.com Visual Arts — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 03:02:22 +0000

"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."