Contemporary Art Jewelry
San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts
February 16 through April 8, 2012
West Texas
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David Taylor: Working the Line
October 2, 2011 through March 18, 2012
Taylor’s photographs depict the borderland between El Paso/Juarez and Tijuana/San Diego as a region where guns, governments, dogs, border patrol agents, drug smugglers, and illegal immigrants collide.
The 2012 Biennial UTEP Faculty Art Exhibition
UTEP Rubin Center for the Visual Arts
January 26 through March 31, 2012
Showcases recent artwork by 27 faculty of the UTEP Department of Art, curated by Gwen Chanzit, The Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Denver Art Museum
20th Century San Angelo Artists with a Special Tribute to the late sculptor Grant Speed
San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts
February 16 through April 8, 2012
Including include Dwight Holmes, Mollie Crowther, Margaret Tupper, Ruth Matlock, Loucile Kelly Friebele, Helen Kendall and others, with a special tribute to Western sculptor Ulysses Grant Speed, who passed away on October, 2011 at the age of 81.
Contemporary Art Jewelry
San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts
February 16 through April 8, 2012
Works from Robly Glover, Nancy Slagle and the Texas Tech University Jewelry Students, and jewelry by Peggy Niño and John Runner.
Master Jeweler Bart Mann: A Celebration
San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts
February 16 through April 8, 2012
Flagons, goblets, cups, all fabricated from solid 18 karat gold and set with amethysts, diamonds, rubies, or sapphires by San Angelo goldsmith Bart Mann.
Magnificent Mexico: 20th Century Modern Masterworks
January 28 through May 27, 2012
Presented by new arts advocacy group CommUNITY en Acción, the blockbuster three-in-one show of masterworks from Mexico City contains: Magnitud Mexicana: Visions of Art; Dibujos Divinos: 20th Century Drawings from the Museo Nacional de Arte – MUNAL, Mexico City; and Diego Rivera and the Cubist Vision from the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City.
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Mientras me caso…
There are few times that I complain about living in Mexico. There are even fewer things that bother me about living here. Generally, I love everything about the country and the city. However, at times living in Mexico is like confronting gender roles as they were in the 1960s. Here it is normal to live [...]
Wonderful Thing: Indian Fly Whisk
This Mughal Dynasty (mid-18th c.) fly whisk is on view in the MFAH’s Indian art galleries. It’s an outstanding object which alone merits a visit to the museum. The MFAH purchased it in 2009, at the time of the opening of the Indian art gallery. The handle is a remarkable example of ivory carving, but [...]
Tlatelolco: A history of a city
I had the incredible privilege of visiting the community of Tlatelolco last week. Tlatelolco is one of the places in the city that has long been avoided, was falling apart, and known more for its infamous, sordid history rather than its current potential. Tlatelolco literally sits a few miles north west of the original site [...]
Chit Chat with Shepard Fairey and Pedro Alonzo
February 2, 2012. By 6:30 pm, the line waiting for the Shepard Fairey talk was already a block long. Thankfully, my RVSP and press status allowed me instant entry. After securing a seat, I went in search of a beer—finding instead another long line of people waiting for Fairey to sign their books. I spoke [...]
