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Stay Current with the Pick of the Day: Luminaria

March 9, 2013
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Stay Current with the Pick of the Day: Luminaria

Luminaria, San Antonio’s version of the Nuit Blanche (White Night) art event that started began in Paris in the 1982, is happening again this Saturday, March 9 in its sixth annual iteration. Since its inception in Europe, the concept of a night filled with art and light has spread to form events around the...
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San Antonio: Brian Dettmer, aka The Book Surgeon, is in

March 11, 2011
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San Antonio: Brian Dettmer, aka The Book Surgeon, is in

Dettmer explains how his work is driven by a desire "to open a conversation think about book's current role in media culture, its history and its future."
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Local Literati to Shine During Luminaria

March 10, 2011
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Local Literati to Shine During Luminaria

Luminaria isn’t just about visual arts, dance, theater, and media arts, y’know. San Anto has a fine selection of literary artists, too. In fact, quite a few well-known and budding local writers will be out in full force throughout Luminaria. A few weeks ago we spoke to Marian Aitches, one of Luminaria’s literary arts...
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Goodbye to plop: the rise of real public art

January 31, 2011
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Goodbye to plop: the rise of real public art

Scott Andrews sandrews@sacurrent.com Over the last decade or so two domains in the art world that were previously thought of as rather dull have taken on a new air of glamour. Fiber arts, once considered craft tradition and therefore (like anything with a folk or feminine heritage) not high art, are becoming the media...
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