Holiday Discount

Come stay at A Yellow Rose any time in December and get a discount. Call 8009509903 for details.

San Antonio is a Top 10 Holiday Light Destination

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Free Tickets for King William Home Tour

King William Historic District Home Tour is December 3. Stay the weekend with us and get free tickets.

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Soli Chamber Ensemble Concert

Greetings! Please join us for QUANTUM CHANGE, SOLI’s first concert of the 2011-2012 season, PEAK EXPERIENCE!   Quantum Change is all about the journey, where it leads, and the transformation that comes with it. We will head downstream on a legendary Red River with Mason Bates, experience Peter Lieuwen‘s vision of the Western US in Overland Dream, and weave the threads together on a journey through colorful Peruvian landscapes with Gabriela Lena Frank‘s new work Hilos (Threads). Let Quantum Change transport you someplace new.   For more information and complete program notes please click here   Monday, November 14, 2011 @7:30 PM     Gallery Nord (2009 NW Military)    Tuesday, November 15, 2011 @7:30 PM Ruth Taylor Recital Hall, Trinity University   Join us @ 7:00 PM for Pre-concert talks both evenings     Red River (2007)                      Mason Bates (b. 1977) for violin, clarinet, cello, piano, and electronics   I.         The Continental Divide             II.        Interstate 70             III.      Zuni Visions From The Canyon Walls             IV.       Hoover Slates Vegas             V.        Running Dry On The Sonoran Floor   Overland Dream (2011)          Peter Lieuwen (b. 1953) for violin, clarinet, cello, and piano Hilos (2010)                     Gabriela Lena Frank (b. 1972) for violin, clarinet, cello, and piano Canto del Altiplano Zapatos de Chincha Charanguista Viejo Danza de los Diablos Zumballyu Juegos Yaravillosa Bombines

QUANTUM CHANGE 1   DATE: Monday, November 14 TIME: 7:30 p.m. Pre-Concert talk:  7:00 p.m LOCATION: Gallery Nord, 2009 NW Military     QUANTUM CHANGE 2   DATE: Tuesday, November 15 TIME: 7:30 p.m. Pre-Concert talk:  7:00 p.m LOCATION: Ruth Taylor Recital Hall, Trinity University

We hope to see you at the concert.  Come travel with us on this incredible journey!   Sincerely,   SOLI CHAMBER ENSEMBLE

Wurstfest

October 27-November 8: Wurstfest A unique celebration rich in German culture and full of Texas fun! During this 10-day salute to sausage, you’ll find a variety of entertainment options including a polka contest, games, rides, food and drinks on the Wurstfest Grounds in Landa Park as well as special events throughout New Braunfels and Comal County . New Braunfels at Landa Park . Admission. Get Details

We lived here for many years before we finally went to this event.  I’m not sure why it took us so long, but we drove up to New Braunfels last year when friends were visiting from New Mexico.   Guess who is coming back this November so they can go to the Wurstfest?  It’s a blast.  A word of warning!  The Wurstfest is fried food heaven.  Our favorite was the fried pickles.  Our friends love the fried oreos.  If fried food isn’t your thing, you’ll love the sausage and latkes and beer and…..

International Accordion Festival

I know.  It sounds weird or hokey or goofy or whatever your idea is of accordion music is -IF you are not familiar with it.  I thought the same until I went.  Now, the accordion festival is one of my favorite events.  Accordions are part of a huge variety of music and talented musicians come from all over the world.  Give it a shot.  I bet you like it! — and, it’s free.

http://www.internationalaccordionfestival.org/

Egyptian Exhibit at San Antonio Museum of Art

 

 

 Mummy Mask of a Man
Roman Period, early 1st century AD
stucco, gilded and painted, 20 1/4 x 13 x 7 7/8 in.
Egypt, Africa
Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund
72.57

 

 

Here is a copy of the post at the museum website.  http://www.samuseum.org/exhibitions/detail.php?uid=43

To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum

October 16, 2010 to January 9, 2011. Cowden Gallery

 

SAMA will host an exhibition of ancient Egyptian art for the first time in ten years when To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum arrives this fall.  The ancient Egyptians’ belief in a life after death led them to mummify their dead and bury them in elaborate tombs. To Live Forever explores how Egyptians from all levels of society–from prominent officials to workers of modest means–prepared for death, burial, and the dangerous journey to the afterlife.  After introducing Egyptian beliefs about the afterlife with images of the gods and papyrus texts containing magic spells, To Live Forever focuses on the mummification process and the objects created to decorate and furnish the tomb. 

The exhibition features objects from the Brooklyn Museum’s renowned Egyptian collection, including impressive stone and painted wood coffins, a remarkable linen shroud, jewelry and protective amulets, and the mummy of a wealthy man named Demetrios.  During the exhibition’s run, the Museum will offer a range of exciting programs, including lectures by prominent Egyptologists, Egypt-themed films, activities for families, and more.

To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum has been organized by the Brooklyn Museum.  In San Antonio, generous support has been provided by the Ewing Halsell Foundation. Additional support has been provided by the Sue E. Denman Memorial Fund and the Russell Hill Rogers Fund for the Arts.

TEXAS FOLK LIFE FESTIVAL COMING SOON

McNay Art Museum Exhibits

An Impressionist Sensibility:
The Halff Collection

February 3 – May 9, 2010

We are pleased to begin the new year with a remarkable private collection of American paintings of the Impressionist era formed by San Antonians Marie and Hugh Halff. The 26 paintings in their collection are notable for both their range and quality and include superb examples by leading masters of the period from the 1870s to 1930.

Although their collection is not large, it is characterized by a surprising depth. Key artists, among them John Singer Sargent, William Merritt Chase, Childe Hassam, and Theodore Robinson are represented by multiple works. The collection is also marked by a variety of subjects and individual styles that reflect the era, beginning with Winslow Homer and ending with Edward Hopper. As Eleanor Jones Harvey, author of the catalogue of the Halff Collection and Chief Curator of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, has aptly written: “Whether under the spell of French impressionists, James McNeill Whistler, Near Eastern romance, or Japanese prints-these worldly artists shaped American taste, and helped bring American art into the modern era.”

The Halffs have been extraordinarily generous for many years in lending individual works to important exhibitions of American art at leading museums across the country and abroad. Therefore it is particularly exciting for the McNay to be able to show their entire collection this winter in the beautiful light of the Stieren Center.

The exhibition catalogue An Impressionist Sensibility:
The Halff Collection by Eleanor Jones Harvey is available at the Museum Store. $45.00/$40.50 for members

TruthBeauty:
Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845-1945

February 3 – May 9, 2010

Pictorialism was simultaneously a movement, a philosophy, an aesthetic, and a style, resulting in some of the most spectacular photographs in the history of the medium. Drawn from the rich collections of the George Eastman House, TruthBeauty shows the rise of Pictorialism in the late 19th century from a desire to elevate photography to an art form equal to drawing and painting, and extends the historical period generally associated with it by including its influential precursors, its persistent practitioners, and its seminal effect on photographic modernism.

TruthBeauty presents over 130 masterworks from such wellknown photographers as Alvin Langdon Coburn, F. Holland Day, Robert Demachy, Frederick Evans, Gertrude Kasebier, Heinrich Kuhn, Edward Steichen, and Alfred Stieglitz, and that illustrate the Pictorialism movement’s progression from its early influences to its lasting impact on photography and art. Stunningly prescient photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron, Peter Henry Emerson, and Hill & Adamson show the precursors later claimed by the movement as their spiritual ancestors. The exhibition also examines the ways Pictorialism informed the photographic movements that followed it, with surprising early works by Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, Edward Weston, and others. A broad historical selection of Pictorialist journals including Camera Work is included, underscoring their importance to the international dissemination of Pictorialist ideas.

The depth of the Eastman House collections also provides a rare opportunity to examine the signature printing processes used by Pictorialists. Multiple unique prints made from single negatives by photographers such as Paul L. Anderson, Alvin Langdon Coburn, and Gertrude Kasebier invite a comparison of works in gelatin silver, gum bichromate, and platinum.

TruthBeauty is a smaller version of the exhibition of the same name produced by Vancouver Art Gallery. Both versions were curated by George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film.
As of November 4, 2009, funding at the McNay is generously provided by the William and Salome Scanlan Foundation and the G. A. C. Halff Foundation.

A richly illustrated 160-page color catalogue, TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845-1945, edited by Thomas Padon, is available at the Museum Store. $60.00/$54.00 for members

Impressionist Graphics:
at the McNay

February 3 – May 16, 2010

This exhibition was organized by the McNay Art Museum. Funding is provided by the Elizabeth Huth Coates Exhibition Endowment and the Endowment Fund for Exhibitions. Drawn entirely from the McNay’s collection, this exhibition of 20 prints and drawings complements An Impressionist Sensibility: The Halff Collection. Included are prints and drawings by American artists represented in the Halff Collection as well as some of their French contemporaries and precedents. Late 19th-century French and American printmaking has long been one of the areas of collection strength at the McNay and this exhibition is a great opportunity to see some of our masterpieces, including graphic art by Americans Mary Cassatt, Childe Hassam, Maurice Prendergast, and John Singer Sargent. Additionally, wonderful and rarely seen prints by Edgar Degas, Jean-Louis Forain, and Edouard Manet illustrate the origins and development of French Impressionism.

This exhibition was organized by the McNay Art Museum.
Funding is provided by the Elizabeth Huth Coates Exhibition
Endowment and the Endowment Fund for Exhibitions.

Recent Acquisitions
of Prints and Drawings

January 20 – March 14, 2010

In the early 1990s the McNay assessed its print and drawing collection to determine its strengths. Several areas stood out qualitatively and quantitatively: 19th-century French and American prints, 20th-century American prints and watercolors, German Expressionist prints, modern Mexican printmaking, and post-1960 American graphics. Recognizing the importance of these collection areas led to the adoption of an accessions policy of adding to existing strength. In the past 15 or so years, the collection has grown by more than a third following this policy. This exhibition, including 36 prints and drawings, illustrates the dynamic growth of the collection in just the past three years.

The exhibition features some especially noteworthy acquisitions of contemporary Texas art, including a preparatory drawing and two major lithographs by Luis Jimenez and a group of promised gifts from Marvin Watson, formerly the director of the Watson de-Nagy Gallery in Houston. Also on view for the first time is a suite of lithographs by the American conceptual artist Fred Sandback. Other artists represented in the exhibition are Burgoyne Diller, Leopoldo Mendez, James Siena, and Anders Zorn.

San Antonio Art Museum Calendar

Culinary Delights September 5, 2009 through February 21, 2010 Culinary Delights features the photographs of nationally acclaimed photographer David Halliday, who lives and works in New Orleans, Louisiana.  The work is presented in conjunction with 2009 FotoSeptiembreUSA Collection Spotlight Birds Katie Pell “all of the birds will come to you” 2007 Vine charcoal and pastel on paper; mirror frame 50 x 38 in. (127 x 96.5 cm.) As a conceptual artist, Pell works with a variety of themes and media. This drawing is from a project that celebrates humanity by inviting viewers to become part of the artwork. Look towards the drawing, and you will see yourself reflected in its mirror frame. Stand in front of the work with your back to it and you will become enveloped by adoring birds that have flocked to greet you. See Katie Pell’s work, and the rest of the  Contemporary Art collection at the San Antonio Museum of Art. Upcoming Events First Sundays for Families at SAMA – The Ancient World - The Ancient World Sunday, February 7, 1 to 5 pm Enjoy creative activities and interactive fun discovering the ancient cultures of Egypt, Pre-Columbia, and Ancient Near East. No need to make a reservation; just stop by as we explore a new gallery each month. Supported by the Alturas Foundation. SAMA Screens: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) Tuesday, February 9, Wine at 6:30 pm, Film at 7 pm Join us for the inauguration of the SAMA Screens, the cinema program at the San Antonio Museum of Art that features both vintage and contemporary films and film series throughout the year. SAMA Screens focuses on topics relating to permanent collections or special exhibitions at the museum. Free for members, $5 for nonmembers. Tickets available at the door one hour prior to screening. SAMA Screens receives generous funding from Fidelity Investments. San Antonio Investor Center 139 N. Loop 1604 E. Suite 103 210.490.1905 Psychedelic: Optical and Visionary Art since the 1960s Saturday, March 13th, 2010 through Sunday, August 1st, 2010 This exhibition and accompanying catalog will document one of the first significant trends of the 21st century, that is, the prevalence of a psychedelic aesthetic sensibility in contemporary art, characterized most often by extreme color and kaleidoscopic space.

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