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FOTOSEPTIEMBRE USA
September 2009
City-Wide
Big Bugs
Sept 5 - Dec 6
SA Botanical Garden
Diez y Seis de Septiembre
Parade & Festival
Sept 12
Avenida Plaza Guadalupe
Abelardo Morell
Sept 17 - Nov 8
Southwest School
of Art & Craft
Carmina Burana
& Gil Shaham
Sept 19
Majestic Theatre
¡American Sabor!
Music Fest
Sept 19
Market Square
Jazz'SAlive
Sept 19 - 20
Travis Park
TeatroFest
October 2009
Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center
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 Frida Kahlo: Through the Lens of Nickolas Muray
July 29, 2009 - December 6, 2009
Museo Alameda
During his long career, Nickolas Muray photographed many important people from the political, artistic and social arenas. His work was regularly featured in Harper's Bazaar, Vanity Fair, McCall's and the Ladies Home Journal. Approximately fifty photographic portraits taken of Frida Kahlo comprise the exhibition Frida Kahlo: Through the Lens of Nickolas Muray. The photographs, dating from 1937 to 1941, explore Muray's unique perspective; in the 1930s and 1040s he was Frida Kahlo's friend, lover and confidant. Muray's photographs bring to light Kahlo's deep interest in her Mexican heritage, her life and the people significant to her. |
 Objective Space
August 28, 2009 - September 26, 2009
Bihl Haus Arts
David Almaguer, Rex Hausmann and Russell Stephenson, members of the artists collective "Texas Cannons of Proportion" commandeer the entire Bihl Haus space - real and imagined, positive and negative. They take over the windows, the fireplace, the trap door, and even the exterior to surround a collaborative installation in the center of the gallery. |
 Juan Gabriel Forever
August 29, 2009
San Pedro Playhouse - Russell Hill Rogers Theater
A musical review of Juan Gabriel's most popular songs.
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 The History Boys
August 28, 2009 - September 27, 2009
San Pedro Playhouse
Alan Bennett's brilliant treatise on education is centered on eight students and four teachers in an English Preparatory Boys School. The winner of our Tony and England's coveted Olivier Award, it is that rare piece of literature with so much to say on so many interesting subjects told in such a diverting manner. |
 FotoSeptiembre
Small Town Texas
August 22, 2009 - October 4, 2009
Witte Museum
This exhibit examines the historical nature of small towns in Texas. As a dedicated observer of the small communities that dot the Texas horizon, Dr. Ricardo Romo embarked on a photographic journey with the goal of documenting the cultural and social features of a fading way of life. | |
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 What's up in SA
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August Artist of the Month
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 The August Artist of the Month is writer, producer and artist Victor Payan.
Victor Payan is an award-winning writer, producer and artist who uses humor and satire to address issues of border culture and social justice. A San Diego native who moved to San Antonio in 2007, he works independently and in collaboration with creative partners to create engaging multi-faceted interventions, such as the masked Mexican wrestler project Aztec Gold with Lou Chalibre, and the Keep on Crossin' movement.
Read more about Victor Payan HERE.
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What's on in SA
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  In this episode of fOCAs, Linsey & Robb visit the San Antonio Botanical Garden for Concert Under the Stars featuring Henry Brun and the Latin Playerz. They talk to Henry, check out some John Henry sculptures in the garden and even meet some ducks. |
 SA ArtsBeatTwenty-four San Antonio artists participated in the three day Creative Capital retreat held in May. The goal of the retreat was to provide artists with the tools to organize, plan and sustain their creative career. Sebastian interviews Creative Capital facilitators, 2009 participants as well as Creative Capital alumni about their experiences with the program. Sebastian also talks to Oscar Ramirez, Executive Director of the Avenida Guadalupe Association, about the 2009 Diez y Seis celebrations. |
Art News Headlines |
SAN ANTONIO
Ford to invest in San Antonio programs
San Antonio Business Journal (8/20/09)
W. Scott Bailey
"Ford Motor Co. says it will invest more than $1.5 million over the next 15 months to support community initiatives and charitable organizations through its Operation Goodwill San Antonio project. A large portion of this contribution will go to support educational efforts in the San Antonio area."
TEXAS
Andrew Marton
The Van Cliburn Foundation said Wednesday that it had hired Janice Mayer as its new director of artistic planning and communication, filling two recently vacated positions. Mayer, 51, who assumes her new position Sept. 1, will lead the artist management and public relations-marketing divisions of the Cliburn. Both jobs had been open since the midsummer departures of longtime general manager Maria Guralnik and Sevan Melikyan, director of marketing and public relations.
NATIONAL
Overnight, Guerrilla Sculpture Appears In Seattle Park
The Seattle Times (8/25/09)
Susan Gilmore
"In what was advertised as a gift to the citizens of Seattle, a gold-colored sculpture by an unknown artist turned up in Gas Works Park overnight Monday. The papier-mâché guerrilla art sculpture consists of several pieces: a full-size gold-colored man standing on the waterfront surrounded by what appear to be shells, some with the heads of people emerging from them."
INTERNATIONAL
In Beijing, The Middle-Aged Step To The Barre
The Irish Times (8/26/09)
Rosie Spencer "Ballet is generally the domain of young girls in Ireland, but in China it is becoming a pastime of choice for the middle-aged. ... Ballet has a strong focus on the individual, which does not sit easily with the mass focus of Maoist doctrine. It is also a western art form," making the popularity of ballet classes "emblematic of China's modernisation in the last 30 years of reform."
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