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Violin Sensation
Jan. 15 & 16
Majestic Theatre
In the Shadow of
Her Footsteps
Jan 15 - 17
Jump-Start
Dramatic Readers Theater
Jan 17
Southwest School
of Art & Craft
Harlem Gospel Choir
Jan. 16
Carver Community
Cultural Center
Ballet Folklorico De Mexico
Jan. 20
Municipal Auditorium
Nuevo Tango
Jan 30
Ruth Taylor Recital Hall
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Relative Distances
January 7 - 24
UTSA Satellite Space
115 Blue Star
Relative Distances showcases works of four professional ceramic artists, all recent arrivals to San Antonio from different parts of the country: Paul Northway (Montana), Wesley Harvey (Lubbock), Ryan Takaba (Hawaii), and Jennifer Ling Datchuk (Ohio). The common element is that each artist takes a sculptural approach to the medium. Yet in diverse ways, the works of these artists reveal traces of influence that may challenge or affirm our relative positions and perspectives. FREE (210) 212-7146
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Ron Adams: His Own Works
January 7 - February 27
StoneMetal Press Studio
1420 S Alamo #101
Adams' kinship with Dürer, Goya and the Mexican muralists is apparent in his work, classically rendered with proliferating detail in a manner unique to the artist. His style builds on realism, but expands into expressionism. As a Master Printer, Ron Adams collaborated with artists including Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Judy Chicago, and John Biggers. The public is invited to a free gallery talk by Adams, Sunday, January 10, at 2 pm. FREE www.stonemetal-press.com
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The True Story of the Three Little Pigs
January 8 - February 6
Magik Theatre
420 S. Alamo
In this stage adaptation of the popular book, a local news reporter is on the hunt for the real scoop about the "big bad wolf" and his supposed nemeses, the three little pigs. Audience members will be called upon to act as the story's detectives, and will even help choose the story's ending. Children and adults will enjoy this fairy tale with a twist, and will learn a valuable lesson about learning both sides to a story. www.magiktheatre.org
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Reclaimed: Paintings from the Collection
of Jacques Goudstikker
Through January 10
McNay Art Museum
6000 N. New Braunfels
On February 6, 2006, 200 old master paintings were restituted to Marei von Saher, the daughter-in-law and sole living heir of Jacques Goudstikker, 66 years after they had been looted from Goudstikker's Amsterdam art gallery by Reichsmarschall Hermann Goring as he led the Nazi onslaught into Holland in May 1940. Forty-six of those 200 works are included in this extraordinary exhibition. To view the paintings in this exhibition is to learn about one of the greatest restitution stories of our time. It also gives San Antonio a rare opportunity to see a particularly fine collection of primarily Dutch "Golden Age" paintings of the 17th century, and a fine group of Renaissance paintings that parallel the McNay's own Oppenheimer Collection. www.mcnayart.org
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The Art of Pulp Painting
Through January 24
Southwest School of Art & Craft
300 Augusta
The Art of Pulp Painting is a national exhibition of seventeen leading artists who use paper pulp to "paint" their artworks on handmade paper. This rare coming together, was organized by Hand Papermaking Inc., of Maryland, and was brought to San Antonio by the Southwest School of Art & Craft's Paper and Papermaking Chair, Beck Whitehead. FREE www.swschool.org
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 What's Up in SA
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If you missed Kennedy Center President Michael Kiser during his trip to San Antonio in December, you can listen to the complete interview during TPR's The Newsmaker Hour this Friday at 7 p.m. on KSTX 89.1 FM. For more information you can visit TPR online at www.trp.org.
If you have news or announcements, let us know! Email Linsey at linsey.whitehead@sanantonio.gov
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January Artist of the Month
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 The January Artist of the Month is Photographer Michael Nye.
Michael Nye practiced law for 10 years before pursuing photography full time. Recipient of a Mid-America National Endowment for the Arts grant in photography, and a Kronkosky Foundation grant, he participated in two Arts America tours in the Middle East and Asia, and has exhibited and lectured widely in museums and universities, including Morocco, India and Mexico.
Find out more about photographer Michael Nye, including his upcoming exhibit at the Witte.
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What's on in SA
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 SA ArtsBeat - January 2010The Office of Cultural Affairs launched three new Cultural Tours. For
the January episode of ArtsBeat, Sebastian interviews artists and
explores the murals of the West Side, Murals y Mas tour. |
Arts News
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SAN ANTONIO
Building boom marks the 2000s art scene, but future may be in artists themselves
Austin American Statesman (12/19/09)
Jeanne Claire van Ryzin
"In the past decade, Austin made the leap from overgrown college town bursting with creativity and ambition to medium-sized metropolis with destination cultural institutions. And despite starting and ending with economic downturns, the millennium's first decade is likely to be viewed as culturally epic, an era unlikely to be repeated for a generation."
TEXAS
$20,000 grant will research West Side growth
San Antonio Express News (1/07/10)
"Citi awarded a $20,000 grant for the Guadalupe Cultural Art Center's (GCAC) development of the Cultural Corridor Project. The funds will help the Guadalupe conduct initial research to demonstrate arts and culture as tools for economic growth in the West Side of San Antonio."
NATIONAL
Kenneth Noland, Abstract Painter of Brilliantly Colored Shapes, Dies at 85
The New York Times (1/06/10)
William Grimes
"Kenneth Noland, whose brilliantly colored concentric circles, chevrons and stripes were among the most recognized and admired signatures of the postwar style of abstraction known as Color Field painting, died Tuesday at his home in Port Clyde, Me. He was 85."
INTERNATIONAL
US film festival boycott over Tibet: state media
AFP (1/06/10)
"Two Chinese movies have been pulled out of the Palm Springs International Film Festival in the United States in protest at the inclusion of a film about Tibet, state-run media reported Wednesday."
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