SAN ANTONIO ART LECTURE & EXHIBITION  
SCHEDULE FOR SPRING 2010
(revised 1/10)

Below is a list of art exhibitions and lectures in town that you may write reviews on to earn 5% extra credit in this course.  Attend the exhibit or lecture and write an approximately two-page summary of the event (see “Writing an Art Review” handout).    Summaries must be turned in to me one week after attending the exhibit or lecture.  During the course of the semester students are allowed only one extra credit assignment, and no extra credit papers will be accepted after April 30, 2010.  (Check back later in the semester for more events.  ** Indicates recently added event.)  Click here for information on how to write a review of an art exhibit.

EXHIBITIONS

Artpace
445 N. Main Ave.

Opening March 18
   
New Works 10.1:  Buster Graybill (Houston), Kara Liden (Berlin), Ulrike Müller (New York)
   
Opening reception: March 18, 6-8:30 PM
   
Jan. 14-May 2
   
Alejandro Cesarco
   
Hudson(show)room

Blue Star Art Space

1420 S. Alamo
 Dec. 3 – Feb. 13
   
The Familiar Unknown (Group exhibit curated by Ovidio Giberga)

Jan. 6 - Jan. 30
   
Now That You Are Here, Begin, Works by Marc Weigand

Opens March 13
*
Amalgamation 25, group exhibit

Gallery Nord

2009 N.W. Military Hwy.
Jan. 9 - Feb. 20
    
New Works by Danville Chadbourne

Institute of Texas Cultures
801 South Bowie Street
Jan. 16 - Feb. 28
     **
Taichung City Da Dun Fine Arts Exhibition
    
Exhibit from Taichung City, Taiwan

McNay Art Museum

6000 N. New Braunfels
Jan. 20-March 14
   
Recent Acquisitions of Prints and Drawings

Feb. 3-May 9
   
An Impressionist Sensibility: The Halff Collection

Feb. 3-May 16
   
Impressionist Graphics at the McNay

Feb. 3-May 9
   
TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845-1945

March 24-June 13
   
Jasper Johns at the McNay: Past and Present

San Antonio College
Visual Arts Center Gallery

Jan. 18 - March 12
  
Visual Arts Department Adjunct Faculty Exhibit

San Antonio Museum of Art
200 West Jones Avenue

Through February 21
   
Culinary Delights, photographs by David Halliday

March 13 through August 1

   
Psychedelic: Optical and Visionary Art since the 1960s

Southwest School for Arts and Crafts

300 Augusta & 1201 Navarro
 
January 21, 2010 - April 3
     Louis Vega Trevino | Color Shift
     Ursuline Hall Gallery | Ursuline Campus
     Opening Reception: Thursday, February 11th 5:30 - 7:30 PM
 
February 11, 2010 - April 11
     Vincent Valdez | Flashback
     Russell Hill Rogers Gallery I | Navarro Campus
    
Opening Reception: Thursday, February 11th 5:30 - 7:30 PM
   
February 11, 2010 - April 11
     Bruce Metcalf | The Miniature Worlds
     Russell Hill Rogers Gallery II | Navarro Campus
     Opening Reception: Thursday, February 11th 5:30 - 7:30 PM

February 11, 2010 - April 18
     Attracted to Light
     Photographs by artists working in the Willard Lende Photography Studio.
     Express-News Photography Gallery | Navarro Campus

February 11, 2010 - April 18
    Flipping the Bird
    Navarro Lobby Gallery | Navarro Campus

Trinity University
1 Trinity Place
**March 4-April 10
   One For All:  Contemporary Perspectives on the Figure (Joey Fauerso, Emily Joyce, José Lerma, Jim Torok)
   Michael and Noemi Niedorff Gallery, Dicke Art Building, Gallery Hours: 1-5 PM Wed.-Sat.
UTSA
115 Blue Star
(Located in the Blue Star Arts Complex at S. Alamo and Probandt)
Opening Jan. 7
    
Relative Distances
    
An exhibition of four ceramic artists
Witte Museum
3801 Broadway
Through April 4
*
Table of Contents: Portraits and Stories of Hunger and Resilience, photograps by Michael Nye

LECTURES & FILMS

McNay Art Museum
6000 N. New Braunfels

Saturday, January 16, 1:00 pm
Saturday, January 30, 1:00 pm
     Film:  The Art of Barbara Hepworth
     Explores the beauty and power of Hepworth�s sculptures and the ideas that motivated her. 2003. 50 min.

(same dates at 3:00 PM)
     Lovingly Marion
     Benny Andrews, Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, Jacob Lawrence, Faith Ringgold, and Alison Saar speak about the
      black experience in America. 2004. 28 min.
    
Both films will be shown in the Valero Learning Center


San Antonio Museum of Art
200 W. Jones Ave.

Tuesday, Feb. 2, 6 PM
    Curator's Choice Gallery Talk: "Behind the Seen: Four Favorite Folk Art Pieces
    from Latin American Storage"
Marion Oetinger, Jr, Curator of Latin American Art

Tuesday, March 16, 6:30 PM
    Stimuli for a New Millennium: The Origins and Evolution of a Psychedelic
              Sensibility in Contemporary Art   
           David Rubin, Curator of Contemporary Art


Southwest School for Arts and Crafts
300 Augusta
Saturday, January 23rd | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
     ARTIST TALK | Ilze Aviks: Repetition to Revelation
     DEBBIE MCMAHON FIBER ARTS SYMPOSIUM
     Russell Hill Rogers Lecture Hall , Navarro Campus

Friday, February 12th | 6:00 PM
    
ARTIST TALK | Bruce Metcalf
     Russell Hill Rogers Lecture Hall , Navarro Campus

Trinity University
1 Trinity Place
March 4, 7 PM
    
I am Not Schizophrenic
    
Lecture by Jim Torok, portraitist/animator

March 11, 7 PM
    
First Man/Last Man: Apocalypse in Contemporary American Art
    
Katy Siegel, art historian, art critic, author and editor

**Recently added event
San Antonio Museum of Art
200 West Jones Ave.
(210-978-8100
Hours: Tues.  10 AM-9 PM
Wed.-Satu.  10 AM - 5 PM; Sun.  12 noon - 6 PM
*note that the museum is closed on Mondays


McNay Art Museum
6000 N. New Braunfels
San Antonio, TX
(210) 824-5368
Hours:  T, W, F – 10 AM – 4 PM
Thurs. – 10 AM – 9 PM; Sat. – 10 AM -5 PM; Sun. – noon – 5 PM