In normal times, the Fiesta Arts Fair attracts an annual audience of around 12,000 people over a two-day period.
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Christina Rees and guest host Jonathan Seaborn on a show that ‘interweaves’ two Dallas museums, a new collective in Lubbock, and a show by a Houston sound artist in San Antonio.
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Rainey Knudson and guest host Joe Arredondo are in Lubbock, discussing a standing-room-only gallery at TTU, contemporary art by Caddo Nation artists, and the legacy of the controversial Documenta 5.
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Learn About Claes Oldenburg’s Mouse Museum at the Southwest School of Art
by Brandon Zechby Brandon ZechDirected by Tacita Dean, the 2011 film follows Pop artist Claes Oldenburg and his 1972 presentation of his Mouse Museum in the controversial and highly discussed Documenta 5 exhibition held in Kassel, Germany.
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Christina Rees and Brandon Zech found a thematic touchstone in Glasstire’s Best of 2018 list. We recap it here.
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Monarchs: Brown and Native Contemporary Artists in the Path of the Butterfly
by Neil Fauersoby Neil FauersoA massive group show in two San Antonio venues, curator Risa Puleo assembles a dazzling array of artists living or having histories in the corridor of the Monarch’s path.
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Altering her appearance to draw from a deep well of informed imagination and fierce and graceful determination, the artist floats in space as a character emerges from her mortal force.
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Smolleck has an incisive and warm eye. He sees both the splendor and the silliness of regalia, religion, ritual — and the reality of death and the illusion of time.
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Brandon Zech and special guest Megan Solis on the last show at Pump Project’s longtime Austin space, a San Antonio show of work you want to take home and hug, and a big group show in Fort Worth that’s worth the drive.
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Back in 2014, San Antonio’s Southwest School of Art (SSA) announced its new BFA program. Now that first class of candidates will receive their degrees with fanfare. On April 29, eleven…
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Christina Rees and guest host Danette Dufilho of Conduit Gallery on a show of artists and their mentors, the trickiness of teleportation, and a Texas artist’s evolution.
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Christina Rees and Brandon Zech present Glasstire’s top Texas picks for the coming season.
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San Antonio Will Launch a Massive Art-Centric Tricentennial in January
by Glasstireby GlasstireToday Blue Star Contemporary in San Antonio announced an unprecedented upcoming city-wide exhibition celebrating San Antonio’s Tricentennial titled COMMON CURRENTS, which sees six of the city’s major non-profit art and culture spaces…
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Graybill certainly knows how make excellent objects and installations with the kinds of things we never associate with art.
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The City of San Antonio has announced its honorees for the third annual Distinction in the Arts awards, reports MySA.com. They are saxophonist Spot Barnett; visual artist César Martínez; Belinda…
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Christina Rees and guest host Lucia Simek on modern beekeeping, men taking up space, and a photographer who's captured the psychology of fear.
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San Antonio is one of the cities that celebrate World Art Drop Day, organized through the Southwest School of Art. Now in its fourth year, Art Drop Day takes place…
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Chad Dawkins Hired as Director of Exhibitions at Southwest School of Art
by Glasstireby GlasstireThe Southwest School of Art has hired Chad Dawkins to replace Mary Mikel Stump as their director of exhibitions. Stump left the school earlier this year to become the director of audience engagement at the Washington State…
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This past Friday, April 7, was Mary Mikel Stump’s last day as director of exhibitions at the Southwest School of Art, reports My San Antonio. Before coming to the Southwest School of Art…
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Josue Romero, a second-year student at the Southwest School of Art in San Antonio, was arrested and detained by Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) on Tuesday, February 15, reported the…