Arts/Culture/Photos

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

Photographer Frederick Preston and poet Carmen Tafolla deliver a tour-de-force overview of San Antonio’s vast reservoir of public art in the beautiful book of photos and poetry Arte Del Pueblo. Preston and Tafolla chose to focus on public art that all residents and...

Richard Arredondo’s art gained international visibility following a commission by the City of San Antonio in 2021 to provide his art as official gifts to sister cities in China and South Korea. The Alamo City has friendship agreements with eleven sister cities....

Latino art might be coming to your neighborhood soon. Cultural centers, small businesses, and non-profit organizations in large Latino communities are increasingly placing art in their prominent open spaces. Their exhibitions complement rather than compete with...

Larry Portillo, a talented San Antonio artist, has worked as an art framer for most of his life. Like many Latino artists, Portillo has never been able to earn enough money as a full-time artist, but he considers himself fortunate to work in an art supply and framing...