Radcliffe Bailey “Memory and Medicine” and Tropical Storm Allison
Radcliffe Bailey’s show “Memory as Medicine” opened at the McNay last week. I first saw Bailey’s work in “The Magic City,” his ill-fated show at [...]
McNay’s El Greco Re-Authenticated, Re-Framed
Along with the modern art she loved, Marion Koogler McNay bought and El Greco Head of Christ, a lonely Renaissance masterwork, possibly emulating a similar [...]
Rogers Fund Buys Smith’s Woman and Sheep for McNay
San Antonio’s McNay art Museum has acquired and installed Kiki Smith’s Woman and Sheep, a bronze sculpture by Kiki Smith alongside works by Tony Cragg, [...]
McNay’s IQ (Impressionist Quotient) Upped by Three Recent Renoir Receipts
Renoir’s Lemons and Tea Cup, a late mini-masterpiece of impressionist still life that has been on loan the the McNay since the 1960′s, has finally [...]
Building a Better Texas Biennial
The fantasy goes something like this: Most everyone was pleased with the clear, focused vision for the 2011 Texas Biennial. It was a brilliant success, with [...]
Wednesday is Art Museum Day all around the world, and in Texas, too!
100+ art museums will take part in this year’s Art Museum Day on May 18, and some of them are in Texas: The Amon Carter [...]
