Alamo City

Russian-born Mark Cheikhet is a master violinist who also paints, seeking to fuse the arts into something that Wassily Kandinsky called “Gesamtkunstwerk,” or the total [...]

  Providing a behind-the-scenes peek at the work of San Antonio artists, Donna Simon, a retired Brackenridge High School art teacher, conducts guided tours of [...]

Lucky has been anything but. A 46-year resident of the San Antonio Zoo, the sixtyish, female elephant became a cause célèbre for animal rights activists [...]

Somewhere between childhood wonder and adult disillusionment, Kelly O’Connor is creating a psychic landscape from fragments of familiar movies, TV shows, vacationlands and fairy tales. [...]

For 21 days representing all the societal and environmental abuse of 21 centuries, San Antonio artist Carla Veliz beat, scraped, tore, kicked, stomped on and [...]

Before the era of car bombs and IEDs, Icelandic-born sculptor Gudjon Bjarnason began using high explosives to create unorthodox shapes and forms in his work. [...]

Emotions roil and crest like crashing waves in Australian-born artist Tracey Moffatt’s “Handmade,” seven cinematic mashups made from 1999 to 2010 on view through Sept. [...]

  Artists generally can’t afford to be too materialistic, but they can be counted on to come up with creative responses to tough economic times. [...]

  A haunted swamp, an ersatz jazz hall of fame and battling saber-tooth cats make up Artpace’s “”11.1 International Artists-in-Residence” projects, curated by Heather Pesanti [...]

From Luminara attended by 300,000 to the Cammie Awards at Chrispark and the Seventh Annual Dignowity Hill Pushcart Derby, Contemporary Art Month is an eclectic [...]

An influential figure in ceramics for 40 years, Steve Reynolds pioneered the idea that clay is supple and malleable and can be used like any [...]

A native of St. Louis who teaches at Washington University, Joan Hall is an avid sailor who is often dismayed to see plastic trash floating [...]

In 2007, the German-born artist Barbel Helmert moved from San Antonio to Alpine, drawn by the wide-open skies and austere landscape. She’s found inspiration in [...]

Mostly an armchair explorer of the human psyche, Hills Snyder journeyed to Peru in 2006 to visit the ancient temple of Chavin de Huantar, experiencing [...]

Walking into Matthew Ronay’s dense, dark “Between the Worlds” installation is like stumbling into an Edward Gorey black-and-white fairy tale forest. Mysterious striped owls sit [...]

Debra Sugerman is the creator and former co-director of the Creativity for Peace Camp, which brings together teenage girls from Israel and Palestine in an [...]

Panel (left to right): Jake Zollie Harper, artist; Beto Gonzales, artist; Ed Saavedra, curator; Justin Parr, curator; Derek Allen Brown, artist; and Jeremiah Teutsch, artist. [...]

    In his spatial intervention at Artpace, New York artist Corey McCorkle used air conditioning vents to connect his second floor artist’s apartment to his [...]

       Kyle Olson uses the simplest of materials – bubble gum, playing cards, cloth and wood – but that doesn’t make his work easy [...]

Steve Brudniak, the artist as mad scientist, or maybe vice versa, has invented a new “emanating reflection optical lens,” a dark, reflective glass that appears [...]