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  Sir David Adjaye, the renowned Ghanaian architect, has received the 2021 Royal Gold Medal from the Royal Institute of British Architects in the UK. The award is one of the highest in the field. It is the first time in the award’s 172-year history that it has been presented to a black architect. The judges praised Adjaye as “a singular and timely talent and a strong reminder of the insightful and integrative role of the architect”. In September 2020, the Royal Institute of British Archi...

The Old West must not have been a very nice place. It was violent, dirty, undernourished, disease-ridden, cursed with alcoholism and venereal disease, and thickly populated with varmits human and otherwise. It was no place for a woman - not even the two kinds of women most familiar in Western movies, schoolmarms and hookers. In the opening scenes of "The Ballad of Little Jo," a young woman is discovering this for herself. Cast out by her wrathful family after giving birth out of wedlock, Little...

1of3 Yayoi Kusama. All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins, 2016. Wood, mirror, plastic, acrylic, LED. Collection of Dallas Museum of Art, TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art Fund. Courtesy of Ota Fine Arts and Victoria Miro.©YAYOI KUSAMA.Show MoreShow Less 2of3 Sandy Skoglund, The Cocktail Party, 1992. Inkjet print. Collection of the McNay Art Museum, Given anonymously.© Sandy SkoglundShow MoreShow Less 3of3 The McNay is bringing back a popular artists to its halls with Limitless! Five Women Res...

He’s visited the Alamo, waited in line at Franklin Barbecue, and cheered on the Astros (virtually).

San Antonio jumps on meme train after photo of Bernie Sanders at Bidens inauguration goes viral Posted By Kelly Merka Nelson on Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 11:49 AM click image Ruby City photoshopped Bernie into a picture of its iconic building. Wednesdays presidential inauguration was a momentous occasion, but leave it to Sen. Bernie Sanders to steal the show without doin...

With San Pedro Creeks restoration underway, San Antonio developers are snapping up property around it Jan. 14, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 1of11 Work is underway on San Pedro Creek’s rehabilitation.William Luther /William LutherShow MoreShow Less 2of11 Work continues on San Pedro Creek Culture Park. The first segment of the park was completed in 2018. The next is expected to open in 2022.William Luther, Staff / William LutherShow MoreShow Less 3of11 4of11 Neon signs are seen Jan. 12, 2021 on bu...

Skip to main content Currently Reading So many fun things: New Spare Parts art supply store in San Antonio turns castoffs into creative finds FacebookTwitterEmail 1of8 Mary Elizabeth Cantu, founder and executive director of Spare Parts, checks donations at the nonprofit’s new brick-and-mortar shop, the Spare Parts Center for Creative Reuse.Robin Jerstad /ContributorShow MoreShow Less 2of8 Mary Elizabeth Cantu, founder and executive director of Spare Parts, looks over donations of items that c...

San Antonio arts presenters, venues hopeful they can crawl out of the COVID-19 rubble in 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 1of6 The contemporary art space Ruby City, which opened to great fanfare in 2019, has now been closed longer than it was open. Staff is making plans to reopen the space with limited attendance in 2021.Express-News file photoShow MoreShow Less 2of6 The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center is making plans to revive the Tejano Conjunto Festival, which it last staged in 2019. The long-runnin...