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The Death of a Symphony
The San Antonio Symphony orchestra has been on on strike for nine months. It started with an emergency modification of the existing contract, know as a collective bargaining agreement, in the summer of 2020. I know from personal experience that by far the biggest expense for an…
Jun 19
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Gathering Civilization's Cast-offs for Art
A small exhibit by Sunni Forcier, John Mark Sager, and Ward Sanders
Jun 12
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What I Saw at the Museum Yesterday
I went to the Museum of Fine Arts here in Houston Sunday afternoon. I wandered through the galleries of European paintings, then over to the Asian galleries, and finally over to the Kinder building where the 20th and 21st century art is kept. Here are a few things that I saw:
Jun 20
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A Portrait of Rodolphe Töpffer
Cartoonist Noah Van Sciver posted a portrait of pioneering Swiss cartoonist Rodolphe Töpffer (1799-1846) painted in 1821 when Töpffer was 21. It was painted by Firmin Massot, a Swiss portraitist who lived from 1766 to 1849. Töpffer is credited by many as being the first comics…
Jun 11
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Goodbye Eve Babitz
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Ancient Greek Ceramic Vessels versus Adolescent Rage
Last Wednesday, a 21-year-old man named Brian Hernandez, broke into the Dallas Museum of Art at 10 pm at night by smashing a metal chair against a glass…
Jun 6
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Ansel Adams and Ukraine: Artist Responding to War?
David McClain
Jun 4
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Street Cop
By Robert Coover and Art Spiegelman
Jun 1
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Spoils of War
Russians Steal Art from Ukraine
May 31
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So You're Locked Down. What Next?
Gathering What's Tangible
May 20
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Love and Rockets: The First Fifty: The Classic 40th Anniversary Collection
Mentioned in case someone wants to give me a late birthday present
May 20
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Sugar Shack
In 1973, Marvin Gaye produced one of his most popular albums, Let’s Get It On. The next year, he followed it up with a similar hunk of erotic funk, I…
May 13
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A Life of Picasso: The Minotaur Years, 1933-1943
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What I Saw at the Museum Yesterday
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Viva Ukraine!
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Why Doesn't This Ever Happen to Me?
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Goodbye Eve Babitz
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