Art Beat
From the big museums to Southtown, Art Beat is your one-stop-shop for everything related to the visual arts in San Antonio. Hosted by Express-News arts writers Dan Goddard and Elda Silva.
Visual Art Digest, May 12, 2008
Islamic radicals are killing Iraqi singers, actors and artists in an effort to eradicate all culture associated with the West. Street art invades London. A review of the catalog for the Frida Kahlo exhibit, which closes Sunday (May 18) at...
Posted on 12 May 2008 | 10:09 am
"Having something to photograph is 99 percent of photography," says George O. Jackson, Jr. "The rest of it is just shooting it." Jackson found some something when he traveled to the Huasteca region of Hidalgo, Mexico, during Carnival when the...
Posted on 12 May 2008 | 9:55 am
May is Printmaking Month in San Antonio. Here are a few scenes from Saturday's "Building Up Steam!" steamroller print event: (Photo Courtesy StoneMetal) Alex Rubio uses a router to work on his woodcut. (Photo Courtesy StoneMetal) Volunteers carry a print...
Posted on 12 May 2008 | 9:49 am
Second Saturday: "Imagine Terror" at LoneStar Studios
As part of Second Saturday (May 10) in the South Flores art district, LoneStar Studios is presenting a one-night only event, "Imagine Terror," featuring new work by Albert Alvarez, Luis "Ay Chispas" Guerrero, Lisa Alvardo and Christian Rodriguez. Live music...
Posted on 9 May 2008 | 9:01 am
Saturday: SAY Sí at La Villita
SAY Sí's middle school and high school visual art students have painted watercolors of dream destinations for "Mind Travels," which will be presented noon to 1:30 p.m. Saturday (May 10) at La Villita in Maverick Plaza, at the corner of...
Posted on 9 May 2008 | 8:51 am
Friday: David Jurist at Sala Diaz
David Jurist, who's married to former Artpace director Kathryn Kanjo, is returning for "I'll Be There," his solo show opening 7 to 11 p.m. Friday (May 9) at Sala Diaz, 517 Stieren, (210) 852-4492. Dealing with the conversion of memory...
Posted on 9 May 2008 | 8:41 am
(Photo Courtesy StoneMetal) James Kane's "Daddy's Boots" May is for celebrating printmaking in San Antonio. Multiple print shows, a steamroller print event on Saturday (May 10) and a "PrintDance" at Cody Library are on tap. You can find a...
Posted on 8 May 2008 | 11:23 am
Saturday: Mexican prints at COSAS in Boerne
(Photo Courtesy COSAS) Alejandro Colunga's "La Banda del Carro Rojo" Alejandro Colunga, Ismael Vargas, Jose Luis Cuevas, Alfredo Zalce and Francisco Ochoa are among the contemporary Mexican artists featured in "Modern Mexico Printmaking," which opens as part of Boerne's...
Posted on 7 May 2008 | 11:41 am
Friday: "Interactions" at Bihl Haus Arts
Senior students in the Bihl Haus Art Program and middle and high school art students at Blue Star Mosaic and Jefferson High School are featured in "Interactions: Art by the Young and the Young at Heart," which opens with...
Posted on 7 May 2008 | 11:23 am
Thursday: Oliver Lutz at Artpace
(Photo Courtesy Artpace) A photo from an earlier work by Oliver Lutz, "Ascender (Video)" (2006). New York artist Oliver Lutz has painted large-scale photorealistic scenes from a NASCAR race 1151; and then completely covered them with black paint for...
Posted on 7 May 2008 | 9:52 am
Review: Charlotte Dumas at Lawrence Markey
(Courtesy Photo) Dutch photographer Charlotte Dumas took this tiger portrait at a sanctuary near Dallas. "Tiger, Tiger" Lawrence Markey 311 Sixth St., (210) 228-9966 lawrencemarkey.com Through May 30 Regally posed on shabby pedestals, Charlotte Dumas' tigers resemble prized but...
Posted on 6 May 2008 | 12:52 pm
Visual Art Digest, May 5, 2008
Isidro Blasco, the Spanish-born New York artist/architect who showed his Shanghai skyline last fall at the Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, is currently showing the work in the Chinese metropolis. Are the installations of Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliassan something better...
Posted on 5 May 2008 | 12:34 pm
Review: "Goin' Mobile" at Blue Star Contemporary
(Courtesy Photo) An installation shot of "Goin' Mobile" at the Blue Star with Mark Schatz's "Googling Mackinac" on the floor and Mark Hogensen's abstract highway scenes on the left wall. "Goin' Mobile" Blue Star Contemporary Art Center 116 Blue...
Posted on 2 May 2008 | 9:56 am
Antonio López García: Spain's greatest living artist
Read about Spain's greatest living artist on Elaine Ayala's Latino Life blog. It offers a link to a great slide show of his work, now showing at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston....
Posted on 1 May 2008 | 12:17 pm
(Courtesy) "La Llorona" ("The Mourning Woman") by René Alvarado. In René Alvarado’s painting "La Llorona" ("The Mourning Woman"), a woman's torso seems to hang suspended against a moody sky with a river of red below. A single sloping line...
Posted on 30 April 2008 | 3:03 pm