Arts/Culture/Photos

Jose Esquivel, one of the founding members of the Chicano art movement in America, passed away on December 12, 2022. He was 87 years old. A memorial to Esquivel is planned for Tuesday evening, January 3rd at the Centro Cultural Aztlan. Through his paintings Esquivel...

The first studios we ever visited, those of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in Mexico City, fascinated me and my wife Harriett. Fifty years later we can still picture those studios. Since that time Harriett and I have been interested in the studios where artists do their...

Art has long served as a tool to educate, inform, and persuade. Chicano artists in alliance with Cesar Chavez and the farmworkers’ movement painted murals that sought to inform and persuade the public to support the grape boycott. Mural artists in East Los Angeles...

A well executed and creative mural tells a narrative and brings something beautiful to the neighborhood. Fortunately for art lovers, the painting of murals in San Antonio is undergoing a renaissance. Public art in the city dates back to the murals at Hemisfair Park...

Texas, with its size, diverse geography, politics, and culture is many things to different people. The New York Times deputy political editor Manny Fernandez posed a series of questions recently that reveal the complexity of the Lone Star State. He wrote “Who are...

Luis Jiménez, a trail blazing artist of the U.S. Mexico borderlands, grew up in El Paso learning as a young boy how to spray paint, weld, and mold glass. His father’s electric sign company, located a few short blocks from the Rio Grande, specialized in neon signs, a...

Sylvia Orozco, Co-Founder and head of Mexic-Arte Museum in Austin, Texas, is completing her 38th year as Executive Director. During her tenure at the museum, she has established Mexic-Arte as a prestigious exhibit space for Mexican, Mexican American and Latinx visual...

Provided by The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center is proud to announce the launch of its 41st annual Tejano Conjunto Festival en San Antonio 2023 Poster Contest. The popular poster contest returns after a two-year hiatus and it will...

On Veterans Day every November 11, we recognize the men and women who have served our country in war and in peacetime. World War II stands out as a particularly challenging period when well-coordinated and well-armed armies led by sociopath leaders of Germany, Japan,...

On October 14, the San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA) opened an expansive exhibition that examines the cultural significance of La Malinche, an Indigenous girl who served as translator and intermediary to the Indigenous populations of Mexico for the Spanish conquistador...