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Art patron’s self portrait joins McNay permanent collection

Oct 6th, 2009 | By | Category: Uncategorized, Visual Arts

Painting by former Aviart executive Harold Wood goes on display Wednesday



AT&T donates artworks to UTSA

Oct 5th, 2009 | By | Category: Uncategorized, Visual Arts

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

Oct 5th, 2009 | By | Category: Uncategorized, Visual Arts

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

Oct 4th, 2009 | By | Category: Uncategorized

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

Sep 26th, 2009 | By | Category: Uncategorized

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

Sep 26th, 2009 | By | Category: Uncategorized

“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.”



Elegant, personal photos of border

Sep 26th, 2009 | By | Category: Uncategorized

Michael Berman and Julián Cardona have spent years photographing the borderlands. Their intimate knowledge of the frequently unforgiving terrain between the United States and Mexico comes through in “The History of the Future/La historia del futuro.”



Cultures forever tied by corn

Sep 20th, 2009 | By | Category: Uncategorized

Nine brightly lit transparent panels with photos of corn in shades from salmon to maroon to gold hang in an abandoned century-old stone and straw corn crib in a 1,200-acre forest on the South Side.



African American prints at the McNay

Sep 19th, 2009 | By | Category: Uncategorized

The McNay Art Museum is the latest venue for “The Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection of African American Art: Works on Paper.”



Photographer’s depictions of Mexico no longer anonymous

Sep 19th, 2009 | By | Category: Uncategorized

Leo Matiz, written out of the history of Mexican art photography for half a century, may finally be getting his due. His work, inspired by muralists, depicted artists and ordinary workers.