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The second part of Blue Star Contemporary’s Texas Biennial exhibitions is now on view with Quadri-Poise, work by Texas mixed media artist Jade Walker. Walker’s sewn and tufted  installations and sculptures depict the human body and its organs in piles of abstract whimsy that often look like a cross between a costume bin and...
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Hello, it’s  March 6, the first Sunday during  Contemporary Art Month. During CAM we are  posting a mystery art pic every day here at Artifacts. What is it? Where is it? We’ll get back to you on that…..if you know,  just leave a note below.
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Hello, it’s March 5, the first Saturday during  Contemporary Art Month. During CAM we are  posting a mystery art pic every day here at Artifacts. What is it? Where is it? We’ll get back to you on that…..if you know,  just leave a note below.
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Albert Alvarez’s show of drawings and a single painting at Fl!ght Gallery were, from a distance, innocent enough. Black ink drawings rendered envelope-size. But when approached, the painstakingly hatched characters — slovenly obese, wretched, and just plain disturbed — become electric.
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Hello, it’s day four of  Contemporary Art Month. During CAM we are  posting a mystery art pic every day here at Artifacts. What is it? Where is it? We’ll get back to you on that…..if you know,  just leave a note below. Nina, you’re right, of course. (see comment below). The wheels are part...
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Hello, it’s day three of Contemporary Art Month. During CAM we are  posting a mystery art pic every day here at Artifacts. What is it? Where is it? We’ll get back to you on that…..if you know,  just leave a note below.
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OK, I know this isn’t the Austin “Current,” but, honestly, if you’ve any interest at all in some of the best theater seen in America in the last five years, head up to the capitol this week to catch the rare touring production of BLACK WATCH, Gregory Burke’s astonishing chronicle of the Scottish Guard’s...
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Longtime readers of the Current know that I’m often baffled by the programming choices for theater in San Antonio: it’s as if the city’s artistic directors go out of their way to ignore America’s most talked-about playwrights. (I mean, honestly, how many more revivals of Steel Magnolias can any city require? or even survive?)...
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Scott Andrews sandrews@sacurrent.com Reading last week’s Spuriosity, I was happy to see a point being made by a sports writer that should have come from the art world. Appreciating sports or art demands similar engagement by the viewer. The two endeavors aren’t so different, though they seem to mark two sides of a cultural...
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The cleverness and theatrical savvy of Legally Blonde won me over: yes, it’s silly and hopelessly cliché, with songs that actually argue that love can get you into Harvard Law School, instead of, say, bile or a surname of Kennedy, But it’s generally well-crafted silliness.
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It’s rare for a nationally touring musical to feature a production that differs significantly from the Broadway incarnation; after all, it’s on the basis of a (usually healthy) Broadway run that a tour gets a green light at all. So it’s both an opportunity (and, to be frank, a curiosity) that San Antonians can...
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Here is the information for Chuck Ramirez's memorial service: WHEN: Thursday evening, November 11, 6:30 pm WHERE: Outdoors at the Blue Star Arts Complex 1400 South Alamo Street San Antonio, TX 78204 (210) 225-6742 The service will take place in the parking lot in order to accommodate as many people as possible. IMPORTANT TO KNOW: The entrance to the event is NOT...
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