Latino Artists Display Borderland Themes at Chicano Park Museum
The Son de Allá y Son de Acá exhibit at Chicano Park Museum in San Diego opens at a moment when United States immigration policy is in turmoil. Reuters reported last week that President Joe Biden's administration would “add sections to a border wall to stave off...
Latino Artist Carlos Rosales-Silva Creates Gateway Museum Mural
The San Antonio Museum of Art [SAMA] has a new bright mural in its spacious Great Hall that serves as the main entrance to the museum. The SAMA mural, Pase Usted by Texas-New York artist Carlos Rosales-Silva, features “two vibrantly colored forms that evoke...
Latino Artists Featured in San Antonio’s FotoSeptiembre Festival
Michael Mehl, the founder and director of the photography festival FOTOSEPTIEMBRE-SAFOTO, describes himself as a composer, musician, photographer, digital artist, and writer. For the past two decades, Mehl has been producing, curating, and promoting many artists,...
EXIT Hosts Texas Death Metal, Other Extreme Music and Multimedia Art at Brick at Blue Star
By LPT Staff Photos by Zoe Parra Alejandro Diaz Death to Content On the last day of August, the inaugural EXIT event took over Brick at Blue Star. Produced by Cataclysm. Online and Death to Content, the multimedia experience blended a diverse lineup of contemporary...
A Photographer of Latino Culture: Al Rendon’s 50-Year Retrospective Exhibit
Al Rendon’s retrospective exhibit at the Witte Museum in San Antonio is both illuminating and fascinating. It is illuminating because the artist demonstrates a keen ability to capture available light and shadows with his lens, at times giving his images a near-magical...
Photographer Shaggy Cowboi Debuts at Nombre Gallery on Sept 9
Community arts advocate, Puro Unity, is proud to showcase the images of Shaggy Cowboi in their debut gallery show titled “Shaggy Shoots.” The public opening celebration will be held Saturday, September 9, at Nombre Gallery in the 1906 South Flores Art Complex. Shaggy...
Mexican and Latino Hidden Art Gems in San Antonio
Modern art arrived in San Antonio with Marion McNay’s collection of several impressionist paintings in the 1920s by Claude Monet, Paul Gauguin, Vincent Van Gough, and Mary Cassatt. In 1927, she bought a Mexican masterpiece, Diego Rivera’s “Delfina Flores,” a small oil...
Centro Cultural Aztlan presents: Jorge Sandoval Fotos y Recuerdos (2000-2023)
Centro Cultural Aztlan is delighted to present Jorge Sandoval – Fotos y Recuerdos. This exhibition is a culmination of the past twenty-four years documenting the world around him. Jorge Sandoval is a San Antonio local photographer, filmmaker, producer, and writer and...
Teatro Audaz -Somewhere Over the Border
Rehearsal Photos by Mason Ortiz In this new musical, Somewhere Over the Border embraces the factual and the fantastical in its depiction of one young girl's pursuit of the American dream. As Reina travels north to the Mexican border, she gathers friends, faces down...
San Antonio’s Mexican History and Culture: The Modern Process of Recovery and Rebuilding
Three hundred years ago, a small band of Spanish friars and Mexican mestizo soldiers with their families built a Spanish village near the Yanaguana River [San Antonio River] headwaters. The Spaniards named the nearby clear gushing springs San Pedro Creek. The total...