If the 2011 Biennial was, as some claimed, too slick and shiny, the massed works by the 2013 juried artists counter with a rumbling texture reminiscent of worsted wool.
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A Rose Is A Rose, but San Antonio’s Blue Star Contemporary Art Center is now the Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum
After 27 years, The Blue Star Contemporary Arts Center is going museum. The Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum‘s programming won’t change- the primary motive appears to be adding the fillip…
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Review: Joe Harjo’s “Indian Removal Act II: And She Was” at The Contemporary at Blue Star, San Antonio
Caroline Frost reviews a show of works by Joe Harjo that confront the impacts the Trail of Tears had on Muscogee women and other Native tribes.
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Contemporary at Blue Star has announced Heyd Fontenot, Sarah Fox, Beronica Gonzales, and Jason Willome as its 2024-2025 Berlin Residency artists.
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Contemporary at Blue Star has announced Christie Blizard, Juan Carlos Escobedo, Theresa Newsome, and Rubio as its 2023-2024 Berlin Residency Program artists.
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Contemporary at Blue Star has announced that it has received the largest single financial contribution in the organization’s history.
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Contemporary at Blue Star has announced two opportunities for artists, including a residency program in Berlin, Germany and a call for artists books.
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New technologies and the Internet, as well as improved ceramics education and scholarship, have pushed ceramic artists beyond the familiar landscape of vessels and decorative ware, changing the way ceramics…
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Review: “Belonging: Contemporary Native Ceramics from the Southern Plains” at the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, Lubbock
Michelle Kraft reviews a show of ceramic works by seven Indigenous artists, on view at the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts in Lubbock.
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Lauren Moya Ford reviews Chloe Chiasson's solo exhibition at Dallas Contemporary, which shows scenes from a Texas town that is also a queer refuge.
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Unraveling the Complexities of Cotton: Jenelle Esparza at K Space Contemporary, Corpus Christi
Benjamin Ogrodnik reviews a show tracing the lineage of the recent work of San Antonio-based artist Jenelle Esparza.
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Caroline Frost reviews an exhibition at The Contemporary Austin that explores the past, present, and future of land use and labor.
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Houston and San Antonio-based artists have been selected by guest curator Christopher Blay to participate in the 2024 CAM Perennial.
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In the first essay of a four-part series, Colette Copeland writes about her time as a Fulbright Scholar in India.
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Barbara Purcell reviews an exhibition of new works by Cey Adams at West Chelsea Contemporary in Austin.
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Megan Wilson Krznarich reviews Eduardo Sarabia's immersive exhibition of ceramics, paintings, and other artworks at Dallas Contemporary.
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Competing with Lightning/Rivalizando con el Relámpago: Eamon Ore-Giron at The Contemporary Austin
Leslie Thompson reviews an exhibition featuring 20 years of work by artist and musician Eamon Ore-Giron.
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“Southwest Rising: Contemporary Art and the Legacy of Elaine Horwitch” at the Briscoe Western Art Museum
Caroline Frost reviews an exhibition featuring artists shown by the legendary Arizona art dealer Elaine Horwitch.
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Kayla Padilla, Contemporary Art Month San Antonio's Critical Writing Fellow, talks with artist and curator Gil Rocha about his own artistic practice, and about the process of curating the 2023 CAM Perennial exhibition.