La frase “arte popular” es una pequeña pero importante redefinición de la amplia y nebulosa categoría “arte folclórico.”
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"This award is being given to recognize excellence in professional accomplishment and service by a dedicated art educator."
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“In selecting images for Modern Billings, I strove for quiet in order to stand out against the noise.”
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Works from Christina Fernandez, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Jeffrey Gibson, Edgar Heap of Birds, Kirk Hayes, Earlie Hudnall Jr., Marcelyn McNeil, and Liz Trosper will enter the museum's permanent collection.
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New Name, New Directions: The Latin American Popular Art Gallery at San Antonio Museum of Art
by Neil Fauersoby Neil FauersoThe phrase “Popular Art” is a small but important redefinition of the broad and nebulous category of folk art.
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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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With uncertainty still the rule around Coronavirus testing, cases, and a possible vaccine, a lot of reopening plans are in flux.
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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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These rocks are repositories of eons of natural forces, and are understood as “embodiments of the dynamic transformational processes of nature.”
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Most of the major Texas museums have already released statements to this effect.
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Christopher Blay talks with Dallas-based artist Liz Trosper about her work, her students (she is a lecturer at the University of North Texas), and our perspectives on what comes next.
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Brandon Zech and Christina Rees resume Glasstire's Top Five tradition, but use our Five-Minute Tours as the portal to view the art.
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Texas Museums to Merge and Consolidate, Hire Architects For New Mega-Complexes Around the State
We anticipate what some people are calling maybe the biggest capital campaigns the world has ever seen, and our Texas museums may never be the same.
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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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Luber has accepted the position of Director of the Minneapolis Institute of Art and will begin her new role in January, 2020.
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Tonight! An Arty PechaKucha, San Antonio Vol. 35 at the Empire Theatre
by Glasstireby GlasstireEmcees for the evening are News 4 San Antonio anchor Randy Beamer and artist Gary Sweeney. The welcome reception will feature live music by King Pelican and complimentary bites curated by local chefs and restaurants.
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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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Chagoya is a highly promiscuous mixer of cultures, an up-ender of artistic hierarchies, and a brilliant and caustic political satirist.
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Christina Rees and guest Jon Revett deal with high wind in Amarillo and let you in on how you can visit the only iconic work of land art in Texas.