ART EVENTS

Organized as a companion exhibition to Picasso to Hockney: Modern Art on Stage, Painting for Performance presents an array of designs by five visual artists who ventured into the world of performance. This exhibition offers a unique opportunity to view rarely seen costumes and backdrops from productions created by Georges Rouault, Paul Jenkins, David Salle/Jeff Koons, and Terry Winters. Designs are complemented by paintings and prints by the artists. Among the productions featured in Painting for Performance are George Balanchine’s…

Tsuyoshi Anzai specializes in kinetic art and video. He creates simple-structured machines by making impromptu combinations of everyday items, exploring the relationships between humans and objects. “What is health? Health is undoubtedly one of the prime values of our lives. The word “health” comes from Old English “hal” which means “wholeness.” Then “health” is “complete and total condition” in the English foundational meaning…In 2007 and 2009, I was given a surgery to enucleate a brain tumor. A side effect following…

In Formal Proof, Sterling Allen and Larry Graber address established methods of display– from floor, to ceiling, to wall, to pedestal to marry them with practice and establish a dialog amongst their work. Often starting from physical and image-based debris gathered from various sources, both artists generate works responding to their materials’ histories, the language it employed in the previous context from which it came, crossed with how it confronts formalism and can exist within each artists’ established vernaculars. This…

“My artwork is a contemplation on the ways we affect the plants and animals around us, and how we may be affected by them. I approach this both from a biology background as well as from artistic printmaking methodologies. My most recent interpretation involves plastic, which I repurpose and evolve into creatures which might one day populate the congregation of trash in the ocean gyres. This is not without precedent. The bacteria, ideonella sakainsis, eats plastic. With this piece, conceived…

In Teardowns, San Antonio-based artist Joey Fauerso presents new work continuing her investigation of themes of culture, gender, family, and humor as a method of response to our socio-political climate and the destructive and reconstructive natures of humanity. The exhibition features a 50-foot mural inspired by the White House’s Diplomatic Reception Room wall paper Views of North America. The mural is presented along with sculpture, video, and performance-based works, including the wooden blocks which have served as both prop and…

Latin History for Morons is inspired by the near total absence of Latinos from John Leguizamo’s son’s American History books. Leguizamo embarks on an outrageously funny, frenzied search to find a Latin hero for his son’s school history project. From a mad recap of the Aztec Empire to stories of unknown Latin patriots of the Revolutionary War and beyond, Leguizamo breaks down the 3,000 years between the Mayans and Pitbull into 110 irreverent and uncensored minutes above and beyond his…

Amanda Hunt is Director of Education and Public Programs at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and co-curator of the 2019 Desert X Biennial in Palm Springs. Past appointments include Associate Curator at The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, and Curator at LAXART, Los Angeles, where she helped coordinate the 2012 Pacific Standard Time Public Art and Performance Festival for the Getty Research Institute, and Made in L.A. 2012, the Hammer Museum’s first Los Angeles biennial. At the…

Take a bite out of your lunch hour with a two-object tour. Enter the world of the Chinese scholar for this gallery talk on the special exhibition, Elegant Pursuits, which celebrates Wuxi, China’s friendship with San Antonio. Bring you own lunch or treat yourself to a meal at Tre Trattoria.

This lecture introduces radical artistic thinkers from the Victorian era (1837-1901), Britain's first machine age. The critic John Ruskin realized that industrial workers were treated as mere "fuel to feed the factory smoke" while William Morris demanded a revolution allowing a return to the craftsmanship and hand productiom of the middle ages. As industrialization created what Ruskin, a pioneering ecological campaigner, called "the storm-cloud of the nineteenth century" made of "dead men's souls," Pre-Raphaelite artists painted the natural world with…

Opening reception: Friday, December 13, 5:30-7:30 On display: December 13 - April 5 Guest curated by Aissatou Sidime-Blanton Re/Devaluing Colorism: Intersections of Skin Color and Currency addresses questions of skin color in historic and contemporary social hierarchies. Colorism, as a discriminatory impulse, has a long history and is evident across cultures and countries. This group exhibition comprised of ethnically and socio-economically diverse female artists will respond to this phenomenon and its deleterious outcomes ranging from self-loathing to the sexualization of…

The lecture will examine the aesthetic and social transformations of two well-known typologies in the field of Peruvian folk art: the narrative wooden boxes known as retablos Ayacuchanos and the painted boards known as tablas de Sarhua. Both typologies were originally produced for ritual and social purposes in rural communities in the highlands of Ayacucho during the nineteenth-century. Since then retablos and tablas have circulated between the folk art system and the tourist market. However until recent times, they have…

Take a bite out of your lunch hour with a two-object tour. Bring you own lunch or treat yourself to a meal at Tre Trattoria. The longest, coldest night of the year is approaching, but dawn always breaks again. This gallery talk will examine how various cultures celebrate the return of the sun.

Our Voices of Recovery Workshops are 2-day weekend workshops in which participants are guided by professional writers in crafting the story of their unique cancer journey, and then sharing their stories the next weekend in a private celebratory evening of storytelling and inspiring live musical selections. These workshops are open to anyone affected by cancer: Fighters, Survivors, Caregivers, Physicians, Family, or Friends. No previous writing experience required. Workshops run two weekends and are held quarterly. Space is limited.