The artifacts, found at royal burials at a Maya site in Belize, are on public view for the first time
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San Antonio Museum of Art Announces Expansion of its Chinese Art Collection
by Glasstireby Glasstire“We are delighted to enhance the Museum’s Chinese art holdings with these stunning works, which further our ability to share narratives and develop understanding of Chinese material culture through time.”
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Works by Jennifer Ling Datchuk, Jenelle Esparza, Joe Harjo, Jon Lee, Ethel Shipton, Chris Sauter, and Liz Ward mark the artists' first entries into SAMA's collection.
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SAMA Announces $20,000 Art Bridges Foundation Grant & Artist Open Calls
by Glasstireby GlasstireThe grant will be used to develop an exhibition, mini-residency, and community mural project this year.
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The overall influence of Weaver's time in Texas cannot be overstated; she shepherded in a new era of international contemporary art to the state.
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"Exquisite Adornment," a promised expansion of SAMA’s collection, indicates an evolving approach toward displaying and contextualizing Asian art.
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I don’t know what’s going to happen. It’s a new feeling — fear with some glimmer of the unknown, actual change like light diffusing off the bend of a mountain tunnel.
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Rudolph will leave SAMA in late March to become the Nelson-Atkins Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs.
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Ruskin had called for realism, but for the group’s critics, this was too much realism, or the wrong kind of realism in the wrong place.
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The works will have a particular emphasis on art either made by Texans or made in Texas.
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Diversifying the Superhero Canon: From Mel Casas to Renée Cox and the Department of Illegal Superheroes
Ruben Cordova breaks down multiple forms of diversity on show in the "Men of Steel, Women of Wonder" exhibition at San Antonio Museum of Art.
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‘Men of Steel, Wonder Woman’ Delves Into the Ethos of the American Superhero in San Antonio
by Glasstireby GlasstireThe San Antonio Museum of Art presents a group exhibition that showcases the artists’ critical responses to comic book figures, and the accompanying artist lecture series is excellent.
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Suzanne Weaver Named Curator of Contemporary Art at San Antonio Museum of Art
by Glasstireby GlasstireToday the San Antonio Museum of Art announced the appointment of Suzanne Weaver as its new Brown Foundation Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. Good move for the museum. Weaver…
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Anna Stothart, the Brown Foundation Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA), has accepted a newly created position of Director at Lehmann Maupin…
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San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA) opened the much-talked-about exhibition 28 Chinese on September 5, 2015. On loan from the Rubell Family Collection (RFC) in Miami, this is the largest exhibition…
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The San Antonio Museum of Art has announced the appointment of Anna Stothart as The Brown Foundation Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. She’s currently Assistant Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art…
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The San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA) has announced the appointment of Merribell Parsons as Curator of European Art. The Museum has a small but choice selection of European art…