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By Bill Davenport on December 11, 2012
The 5th Texas Biennial, taking place at multiple venues across the state September 5- November 9, 2013, has chosen a long list of curators: Bill Arning Director, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston René Paul Barilleaux Chief Curator/Curator of Art after 1945, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio Christian Gerstheimer Curator, El Paso Museum of Art K8 Hardy [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged Bard College, Bill Arning Director, Claremont Graduate University, College of Visual Arts and Design, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston René Paul Barilleaux Chief Curator/Curator of Art after 1945, Dallas Clint Willour Curator, Dallas Jeremy Strick Director, Denton David Pagel Art critic and Associate Professor, El Paso Museum of Art K8 Hardy Artist, Fort Worth Dario Robleto Artist, galveston arts center, Houston Noah Simblist Associate Professor of Art, Los Angeles Bárbara Perea Independent curator, McNay Art Museum, Meadows School of the Arts, Mexico City Christina Rees Curator of the Galleries, Nasher Sculpture Center, New York and University of Texas at Austin Annette Lawrence Artist and Professor, New York Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler Artists and Faculty, San Antonio Christian Gerstheimer Curator, Southern Methodist University, Texas Biennial, Texas Christian University, university of north texas, Virginia Rutledge |
By Rachel Hooper on December 9, 2012
We arrived at Blue Star Thursday night to a performance of Justin Randolph Thompson’s Tossin’ the Rag as part of his exhibition Meet Me in the Bottoms. A rag doll was being thrown in the air from a blanket while the artist performed with a group of collaborators. They were accompanied by a small band facing [...]
Posted in Blog, Wax by the Fire | Tagged ann wood, Artpace, benjamin h mcvey, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, brian fridge, catherine anspon, claudia schmuckli, claudio dicochea, dikeou collection, Esteban Delgado, ethan moore, gabriel diego delgado, gary schafter, Goya, ivan salacido, jon pylypchuk, Jonathan Leach, justin randolph thompson, liza littlefield, McNay Art Museum, Michele Monseau, nancy douthey, painting, photography, royal art lodge, sculpture, susan plum, University of houston, utsa, video, vincent valdez |
By Sarah Fisch on August 20, 2012
There’s this faction of contemporary artists who seem to feel at pains to jargonize, obfuscate and otherwise Other-ize their own work. If you need to have read Derrida and to have seen the whole canon to get what an artist is doing, that’s cool. But cool is a value of middling worth. The pernicious cycle of [...]
Posted in Article, Review | Tagged african american contemporary art, atlanta, DNA, henry louis gates jr, high museum of art, knock knock joke, McNay Art Museum, memory as medicine, middle passage, morley safer, Radcliffe Bailey, San Antonio, Sarah Fisch |
By Bill Davenport on February 10, 2012
The McNay Art Museum has received a bequest of $5 million from the estate of Dallas philanthropist Nancy Blackburn Hamon, wife of famed oil wildcatter Jake L. Hamon, which will help to endow the operation of the museum’s 45,000 square foot Jane and Arthur Stieren Center for Exhibitions, which doubled the McNay’s exhibition space in [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged jake hamon, McNay Art Museum, nancy hamon |
By Bill Davenport on September 20, 2011
The McNay’s publication, Impressions, has stepped into the digital age: starting with the current Sept/December issue, the magazine is available for download as a .pdf for viewing on computers or on a variety of mobile devices. They are still mailing out hard copies on request, but why wait when you can download it now!
Posted in Newswire | Tagged impressions magazine, McNay Art Museum |
By Sarah Fisch on September 7, 2011
Who am I kidding with the asterixes? Anyway, several months ago I began to write a review about San Antonio Draws, a “night of a thousand stars” variety show at the McNay Art Museum. Then I stopped writing it for reasons that are completely emotional and not rational at all. I’ll tell you why at [...]
Posted in Chupacabrona | Tagged contemporary Texas drawing, jayne lawrence, karen mahaffy, katie pell, kimberly aubuchon, Lawson Print gallery, Lyle Williams, McNay Art Museum, Nate Cassie, Palo Alto College, Regis Shephard, Rene Barrilleaux, San Antonio, San Antonio contemporary art, San Antonio contemporary artists, San Antonio Draws, Southwest School of Art and Craft, St. Philip's College, vincent valdez |