Andy Warhol: Fame and Misfortune opens February 1 and runs through May 20, 2012. Admission fees are as follows:

• McNay Members – Free
• Children under 12 – Free
• Adults – $15
• Students (with I.D.) – $12
• Seniors (65+) – $12
• Active Military – $12

Museum admission includes access to the main collection galleries and to Andy Warhol: Fame and Misfortune.

Admission to the museum is free on H-E-B Thursday Nights (4-9 p.m.) and on AT&T First Sundays of the Month. During these special times admission to Andy Warhol is $7.

Twin World by Atsushi Fukui

Passage To The Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan
Untitled
Connie Swann
Blue Star Contemporary Art Center
March 1 through May 5, 2012

Opening reception is Thursday, March 1, 2012, from 6-9 p.m.

Blue Star Contemporary Art Center in San Antonio, Texas, has announced their spring 2012 exhibit schedule. The Exhibits include Passage To The Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan, , Untitled and Connie Swann. All exhibits open March 1 and run through May 5, 2012. All exhibits are free and open to the public.

Passage To The Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan

As part of Blue Star Contemporary Art Center’s international initiative, it has partnered with The Japan Foundation, an independent institution that serves as Japan’s main organization for international cultural exchange, to bring an internationally traveling exhibition of contemporary Japanese artwork to San Antonio.

This exhibition focuses on art produced in Japan at the beginning of the 21st century. It showcases the work of eleven artists who are presently attracting a great deal of international attention. The 1990s saw major shifts in the economic and political order of the world, and many people have responded by turning away from larger issues and concentrating on smaller and more intimate areas of life, in essence, reexamining the ground under their own feet. In contemporary art as well, there has been a worldwide tendency for artists to take a greater interest in everyday life and focus on the expression of very personal perceptions and feelings.

This exhibition presents paintings, sculptures, installations, photographs, and video works by eleven Japanese artists who are responding in a similar way to the current state of the world. They take their subject matter from their immediate surroundings and make art that strongly reflects their own personal reality. Their work has a rich visual impact and reveals a strong interest in the process of making things.

Exhibiting Artists: Maywa Denki, Miyuki Yokomizo, Tetsuya Nakamura, Yoshihiro Suda, Satoshi Hirose, Tomoyasu Murata, Tabaimo, Nobuyuki Takahashi, Atsushi Fukui, Masafumi Sanai, Katsuhiro Saiki.

Untitled

Curator of the University of Texas at San Antonio’s art collection, Arturo Almeida, will curate an exhibition featuring two Latina artists in Blue Star Contemporary Art Center’s Project Space Gallery. More details will be announced.

Connie Swann

Gallery 4 will feature artwork by San Antonio artist, Connie Swann. More details will be announced.

Blue Star Contemporary Art Center

Blue Star Contemporary Art Center is a non-profit, non-collecting contemporary art center in San Antonio, Texas that advances the growth and understanding of contemporary art, artists and the curatorial process. Through exhibitions and a variety of programs, Blue Star is an active participant in the development of regional, national and international contemporary art and provides a lively forum for the visual arts dialogue. For more information visit www.bluestarart.org.

Blue Star Contemporary Art Center is located at 116 Blue Star, San Antonio, Texas.

Twin World by Atsushi Fukui

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The San Antonio Museum of Art begins its 2012 exhibition calendar with San Antonio Collects: African American Artists – Featuring works from the Harriet and Harmon Kelley and Irene and Leo Edwards Collection. The exhibition, which opens to the public on January 17, covers more than two hundred years of Americaʼs past, and explores the unique tradition of African American artists throughout our history.

The exhibition is the first of three upcoming shows that focus on some of our communityʼs most important collectors, and their roles in defining San Antonio as a cosmopolitan city with internationally important cultural offerings. Besides San Antonio Collects: African American Artists, upcoming exhibitions include San Antonio Collects: Theodore Gentilz and Mission Life of San Antonio and Northern Mexico (March 2 – May 20, 2012) which explores the missions, landscapes, and daily life of San Antonio from the French-trained nineteenth century artist, and San Antonio Collects: Contemporary (March 24 – July 1, 2012) which displays works assembled by San Antonio collectors of some of the most important contemporary artists in the world.

According to SAMA Director and exhibition organizer Katie Luber, San Antonio Collects: African American Artistʼs opening was intentionally timed to coincide with the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Martin Luther King March in San Antonio.

“Viewing these works of art allows us the opportunity to reflect upon the struggles and triumphs of the African American artistic community and the broad range of African American identities and experiences.” Luber adds, “Our hope is that San Antonio Collects: African American Artists will provide a glimpse into the sweeping changes that have defined the experiences of African American artists, and indeed all African Americans in the United States.”

Although the exhibition opens to the public on January 17, 2012, the Museum is hosting an invitation-only event following the MLK march on January 16 from 3:00 to 5:00 for local and national dignitaries including the son of the late Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., Martin Luther King III.

The San Antonio Museum of Art is housed in the historic Lone Star Brewery along the celebrated new Museum Reach section of the beautiful San Antonio River Walk. SAMAʼs collection contains more than 25,000 works of art representing over 5,000 years of history and cultures from around the world. The Museum also conducts more than 500-guided tours annually and provides approximately 200 educational programs each year. Programs include lectures, concerts, films, childrenʼs workshops, scholarly symposia, family art activities, and special exhibitions.

The Big Great American Auction hosted by Ty Pennington

TV special features historic comics, currency, historic Ty Cobb memorabilia; filmed aboard The Queen Mary

ABC has announced that it will air The Great Big American Auction, starring Ty Pennington of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, one of America’s leading reality TV personalities, and featuring exclusively Heritage Auctions’ experts, auction services and staff, in a very special television first made-for-TV auction event, at 10 p.m. (ET) on Thursday, Dec. 8.

The special was produced by Cineflix (Auction) Inc. for ABC. Executive Producers are Lisa Levenson, Ty Pennington, Joe Houlihan and Simon Lloyd.

Ty Pennington has been transforming people’s homes and lives for several years now as the host of ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and has now found an exciting new way to change lives by turning their memorabilia and assorted hidden finds into treasures worth life-changing amounts of money.

After scouring flea markets, cellars, attics and yard sales to find one-of-a-kind items whose owners have no idea of their real value, Pennington, with a team of experts from Heritage Auctions, tags the best items and brings them to The Queen Mary oceanliner in Long Beach, CA for The Great Big American Auction. The exceptional collectibles range from first edition classic comic books to rare American currency to an early 20^th century baseball icon’s checkbook, and much more in-between, all chosen for their rarity, value and the uniqueness of the consignor’s story.

“It’s a great thrill to be part of this major network, prime time show, to work with Cineflex and ABC and a star the magnitude and class of Ty Pennington,” said Greg Rohan, President of Heritage Auctions. “We went to great lengths with our staff and experts to make sure that all these unique items have great stories and that they live up to Heritage’s exacting consignment standards. We hope that everyone will enjoy the show as much as we enjoyed being a part of it.”

Objects originally bought for mere dollars, or literally plucked right out the trash will go for thousands of dollars as their lucky owners’ lives are changed for the better.

The Great Big American Auction will air on Thursday, December 8, 2011, at 10 p.m. (ET) on The ABC Television Network.

Heritage Auctions is always seeking “consignments with a story” for possible future TV projects. If you think you might have a unique item and a unique story, email to TVShow@HA.com.

Heritage Auctions

Heritage Auctions, headed by Steve Ivy, Jim Halperin and Greg Rohan, is the world’s third largest auction house, with annual sales more than $700 million, and 600,000+ online bidder members. For more information about Heritage Auctions, and to join and gain access to a complete record of prices realized, along with full-color, enlargeable photos of each lot, please visit HA.com.

The Big Great American Auction hosted by Ty Pennington

Dallas Art News Museum Express Tour

The announced closure of The Women’s Museum reminded us how much fun we had with the Museum Express Tour in the spring of 2010. So much fun that we would like to do it again in 2012.

For those of you who don’t know, Dallas Art News put together the Museum Express Tour in April 2010. The tour went to eight Dallas & Fort Worth museums in one day using only mass transit (The T, TRE & DART) to get around. It took all day and we only had 15-20 minutes at each museum, but it was definitely an adventure.

The 2010 Museum Express Tour had about a dozen adventurous art lovers. All of them lived in the Dallas – Fort Worth area. The Museum Express Tour is more for local residents than it is for vacationers.

We would like to do the Museum Express Tour again if we can get more people to join us. We want 30 to 50 art lovers for this event.

Possible museum stops on the tour include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Dallas
  • Crow Collection of Asian Art
  • Dallas Museum of Art
  • Nasher Sculpture Center
  • Meadows Museum
  • Museum of Nature & Science
  • The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
  • Texas Museum of Automobile History

• Fort Worth
  • Amon Carter Museum of American Art
  • Fort Worth Community Arts Center
  • Kimbell Art Museum
  • Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
  • Sid Richardson Museum

The estimated cost for the Museum Express Tour will be about $100 per person, which will include a mass transit pass, access to all the museums on the tour, lunch and a t-shirt.

Before we start doing any serious planning, we would like to gauge how many people would be interested. If you would like to spend a Saturday traveling from museum to museum with a couple dozen new friends, then please let us know by filling out the sign-up form below.

Completing the below form does not in any way mean you are registered for the tour. The official tour registration will come in January 2012.

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Canopic coffinette of Tutankhamun, ca. 1332-1322 B.C. (photo by Sandro Vannini)

Day Trip to See King Tut
San Antonio Museum of Art
Saturday, February 18, 2012

The San Antonio Museum of Art’s Curator of Art of the Ancient Mediterranean World, Jessica Powers, and Nicolle Hirschfeld, vice president of the Southwest Texas Archaeological Society, will take a day trip to see the exhibition Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, on Saturday, February 18, 2012.

The itinerary also includes a visit to the Menil Collection to see Imprinting the Divine: Byzantine and Russian Icons from the Menil Collection.

Participants will depart via bus at 7:15 a.m. from the SAMA parking lot and return around 8:15 p.m. The cost is $85 per person. Seats are limited, and priority will be given to SAMA and SWTAS members.

To reserve your space, please call 210 978 8120.

This trip is jointly hosted by the Friends of Ancient Art and the Southwest Texas Archaeological Society.

Bear, Late Western Han to Early Eastern Han dynasty, 1st c. BC - 1st c. AD (image courtesy Arthur M. Sackler Gallery adn Smithsonian Institution)

5,000 Years of Chinese Jade
San Antonio Museum of Art
October 1, 2011 through February 19, 2012

The San Antonio Museum of Art is pleased to announce the forthcoming exhibition 5,000 Years of Chinese Jade Featuring Selections from the National Museum of History, Taiwan and the Arthur M. Sackler Collection, Smithsonian Institution. This major international exhibition organized by SAMA opens in the Museum’s Cowden Gallery on October 1, 2011. The exhibition is held in conjunction with the City of San Antonio’s yearlong celebration of Taiwan.

With its broad historical approach, the exhibition provides an opportunity to experience the great breadth of Chinese history through outstanding works of art. The exhibition and accompanying catalog for 5,000 Years of Chinese Jade is arranged chronologically. Principal subjects represented in the exhibition include ritual objects, weapons, scholar’s objects, adornments and jewelry, vessels, and figural objects.  The jades vary greatly in color, size, date, and function. An Education Gallery located in the exhibition allows visitors to further explore the subject through videos, books, and computer resources.

The primary lender to the exhibition is the National Museum of History, Taiwan. The National Museum of History, Taiwan has generously lent forty-five outstanding jade works of art to the exhibition. Of particular interest are five jades from the Spring and Autumn period (770 – 476 BC) classified as Important National Treasures of Taiwan. Most of the jades from Taiwan, including the National Treasures, will be on view in America for the first time.

Another prestigious lender to 5,000 Years of Chinese Jade is the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution. Twenty-four jades from the celebrated Sackler Collection complement the jade objects from Taiwan. Highlights of the Sackler jades include the famous Han dynasty Bear (220 BC – AD 221) and Song dynasty Hound (960-1279). Two additional lenders also provide exquisite jades: the Springfield Museums in Springfield, Massachusetts, lent a number of large 18th-century jades, including a lovely Elephant Vase from the Qianlong period (1735-1796). An anonymous private American collector contributes a dozen superb jades, several of which were carved in Imperial workshops, including an elegant bird carving with Emperor Qianlong’s seal mark. The San Antonio Museum of Art contributes two jades to the exhibition, both acquired within the last two years.

The Museum is grateful for generous financial support of this major exhibition from the Helen and Everett H. Jones Exhibition Endowment, Lenora and Walter F. Brown, the Mays Family Foundation, the City of San Antonio Office of Cultural Affairs, the Texas Commission on the Arts, Rose Marie and John L. Hendry III, the Daniel J. Sullivan Family Charitable Foundation, the Council for Cultural Affairs, Taiwan and the Taipei Cultural Center of TECO in New York. This exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.

Members’ Opening Reception and Tours

Friday, September 30
Members-only afternoon tours at 2, 4, and 6 p.m.. No reservation needed.
Reception from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Reservations required by September 23. Please call (210) 978-8123
or email membership@samuseum.org.

Individual memberships admit one. All other memberships admit two.
Non-member guests may purchase a SAMA membership at the door.

Archer's Thumb Ring, Qing dynasty (1644-1911) (image courtesy the National Museum of History, Taiwan)

Schedule of Lectures, Films, and Special Events

Saturday, October 1 through Sunday, February 19
Twitter Q&A on #SAMAjade
John Johnston, Coates-Cowden-Brown Curator of Asian Art and Project Director of 5,000 Years of Chinese Jade, along with Museum educators, will answer questions on Twitter about jade and the making of this exhibition. For the duration of the exhibition you can submit questions with hashtag #SAMAjade.

Saturday, October 1, 5:30 p.m.
Special Dinner Celebrating 5,000 Years of Chinese Jade
$100 per person, space is limited.
An evening honoring donors and lenders to 5,000 Years of Chinese Jade including private exhibition tours and an exclusive dinner.

Sunday, October 2, 3 p.m.
The Louis A. and Frances B. Wagner Lecture Series: The Gentleman is Never Without His Jade: The Culture of Jade in China, Dr. Jenny F. So
SAMA Auditorium, free for members and with Museum admission.
Dr. So is the Director of the Institute of Chinese Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and a leading authority on Chinese jade.

Tuesday, October 4, 5:30 p.m.
Lecture: Dragon Motif and Arc-shaped Huang Pendant Sets in the Age of Confucius, Dr. Chan Lai Pik
SAMA Auditorium, free.
Dr. Chan Lai Pik is the 5,000 Years of Chinese Jade catalog co-author and a jade specialist at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Sunday, October 9, 3 p.m.
Lecture: Jade and Chinese Cosmology, Dr. Stephen Little
SAMA Auditorium, free for members and with Museum admission.
Dr. Stephen Little, Curator of Chinese and Korean Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, discusses jade’s role in Chinese art and cosmology.

Zhang Yimou Film Series

Tuesday, November 8, 6:30 p.m.
Hero (PG-13, 2002, 99 minutes)
SAMA Auditorium, free for members, $5 non-members.

Tuesday, November 15, 6:30 p.m.
House of Flying Daggers (PG-13, 2004, 119 minutes)
SAMA Auditorium, free for members, $5 non-members.

Tuesday, November 22, 6:30 p.m.
Curse of the Golden Flower (PG-13, 2004, 114 minutes)
SAMA Auditorium, free for members, $5 non-members.

Sunday, December 4, 1 to 5 p.m.
First Sundays for Families: Jade
Free for members, children 12 and under, or with Museum admission.
Discover 5,000 Years of Chinese Jade through exciting hands-on activities. Participate in a scavenger hunt through the special exhibition, replicate animal carvings out of clay, and observe a jade carving demonstration.

Tuesday, January 24, 6:30 p.m.
Screening in SAMA’s Auditorium: Last Train Home (Directed by Lixin Fan, NR, 2009, 87 minutes)
Free for members, $5 for non-members.

Thursday, January 26, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
SAMA Celebrates the Year of the Dragon
Great Hall
Enjoy jade martinis and Chinese hors d’oeuvres as we celebrate the Year of the Dragon and 5,000 Years of Chinese Jade. Visit samuseum.org for more information.

Tuesday, January 31, 6:30 p.m.
Lecture: Dragons in Chinese Jade, John Johnston, Coates-Cowden-Brown Curator of Asian Art
SAMA Auditorium, free.
Kick off the Year of the Dragon with a talk about dragon imagery and archaism in Chinese jade by the Project Director of 5,000 Years of Chinese Jade.

Bear, Late Western Han to Early Eastern Han dynasty, 1st c. BC - 1st c. AD (image courtesy Arthur M. Sackler Gallery adn Smithsonian Institution)

Archer's Thumb Ring, Qing dynasty (1644-1911) (image courtesy the National Museum of History, Taiwan)

The ideal reporter would be an aspiring writer. Someone who enjoys attending exhibits and documenting the experience. A reporter can be a freelancer, a college or high school student, stay-at-home mom or senior citizen. Anyone with a high school degree or above can apply.

A Dallas Art News reporter should be able to contribute one news post every month depending upon location. Some areas will have less art news than others.

A reporter will be required to follow style guides (standard and Dallas Art News styles). All reports will be edited prior to posting. Reporters will be given credit for their work.

A Dallas Art News reporter is not a paid position at this time. The position exists mainly for the art and the experience and the glory.

Interested reporters should contact Dallas Art News at reporters@dallasartnews.com or use the contact form at the bottom of this post. Please send links to examples of your work.

Frequently Asked Question

1. I already have a full-time job. Can I be a Dallas Art News reporter?

Yes. Dallas Art News is looking for individuals with an appreciation for art and the ability to write an honest review for the benefit of others. We need reporter all over Texas to help report art news.

2. How much does this position pay?

Nothing. Dallas Art News is starting-up slowly and is not making any money. We are doing this for the love of art. Not even the managing editor is being paid.

When Dallas Art News starts making money, we will consider rewarding our reporter, especially reporters who joined us during our development period.

3. I don’t live in one of the cities mentioned. Can I still be a Dallas Art News reporter?

Yes. If you live close enough to one of these big Texas cities, then you can be a Dallas Art News reporter.

4. Are there any benefits to being a Dallas Art News reporter.

Yes. Dallas Art News often gets invited by museums and galleries to preview their exhibits. This is a great opportunity to meet museum directors and curators, artists, gallery owners and special guests.

Dallas Art News added another perk this year. We paid the membership fee for each exhibiting artist for the McKinney Avenue Contemporary. This allowed our artist staff members to show their work in The MAC Annual Member Exhibit. The MAC arranged for all our works to be hung together.

5. I am an artist. Can I be a Dallas Art News reporter?

Yes. Dallas Art News definitely wants the viewpoint from an artist.

You will not be allowed to review your own art, but we definitely would like you opinion on other exhibits and artists.

6. I am not sure my writing skills are strong enough to be a Dallas Art News reporter. How will reporters be selected?

The best way to determine your ability to write is to send you out on a writing assignment. Instead of reading a writing sample, we would like to see a current review. With a little editing, we will probably publish it on Dallas Art News.

Don’t panic. We will give you some pointers and discuss the standard flow of an art review.

7. Can I also post the review I write for Dallas Art News on my  blog or website?

Yes. Since this is not a paid gig, you can post your work where ever you like. The only limit we impose is that you don’t post your review to other art news sites that compete with Dallas Art News.

If you are even considering being a Dallas Art News reporter, then use the following Contact Form to send us a message.

The Shops at La Cantera Art Festival is a weekend event featuring 75 fine art and contemporary artists from Texas and around the United States all showing and selling their original and limited edition works. The exhibition comprises signature works of art in a wide variety of media including clay, metal, glass,jewelry, leather, painting, photography, sculpture, fiber, wood and more.

Admission is free and the event is open to the public. Professional art educators from San Antonio’s acclaimed international contemporary art non-profit, Artpace, will lead free hands-on creative activities for children and families in the Kids Zone. For more information about Artpace visit www.artpace.org.

The open-air shopping environment of The Shops at La Cantera with its lush landscaping and tranquil water elements provides a unique and sophisticated setting for an international arts festival. This is the ideal opportunity for the art lover hoping to find that perfect one-of-a-kind piece. The Shops at La Cantera is the perfect setting to bring artists and patrons together.

For more information visit www.theshopsatlacantera.com or www.bluelotusartshowtour.com.

Time and Location

10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Friday, October 21- Saturday, October 22
Noon to 6 p.m.
Sunday, October 23

The Shops at La Cantera
15900 La Cantera Parkway
Exhibitions will be located on Main Street between Barnes & Noble and The Yard House.