A colorful installation towers above a previous Luminaria festival.

Arts fest Luminaria to light up San Antonio’s St. Paul Square this weekend

The free gathering will feature an array of film, dance, performance and installation art along with live music, poetry and more.

by Anjali Gupta October 15, 2025October 15, 2025

Sandy Skoglund's Revenge of the Goldfish is on display at the McNay.

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Fall Arts Cheat Sheet: Exhibitions San Antonio art fans need to experience this season

San Antonio’s fall arts calendar is as diverse and fascinating as the scene that makes it tick.

by Bryan Rindfuss September 18, 2025September 18, 2025

Bedroom Paintings is a complex four-channel video installation.

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San Antonio visual artist Joey Fauerso’s new video installation on display at Ruby City

Fauerso is known for deeply personal and politically engaged works.

by Anjali Gupta September 17, 2025September 17, 2025

“These photographers are themselves local characters,” show curator R.E. Foerster said, “not only inhabiting a scene but documenting their view from within it."

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San Antonio’s ‘Trouble in Southtown’ group show focuses on photographic works

This Saturday’s opening reception will show off images by Anders Lilleberg, alongside featured artists Domsquiat B., Fredrick Marc-Charles, Mike Shoemaker and Patrick Zeller.

by Anjali Gupta September 11, 2025September 11, 2025

Honoré Daumier’s 1834 lithograph Ne vous y frottez pas!! Liberté de la presse leaves no question where the multifaceted artist stood on the matter of press freedom.

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New McNay exhibit examines French artists’ defiance of censorship to skewer the powerful

The San Antonio art museum’s new exhibition shows the creativity that thrived in 19th-century France despite government attempts to ban politically charged images.

by Sanford Nowlin September 5, 2025September 10, 2025

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New art exhibition ‘Huntopia’ debuts at the San Antonio Botanical Garden Saturday

The exhibition features works by internationally acclaimed artist Hunt Slonem.

by Caroline Wolff May 2, 2024July 19, 2025

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McNay Art Museum’s annual Print Fair returns this weekend

The McNay Print Fair’s goal is to appeal to a variety of tastes and budgets.

by Macks Cook May 2, 2024May 28, 2025

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Celia Álvarez Muñoz’s exhibition Los Brillantes offers heartfelt portraits of San Antonio artists

Muñoz began to document San Antonio artists in 2002, when she developed the series Semejantes Personajes/Significant Personages for her solo exhibition, Stories Your Mother Never Told You.

by Anjali Gupta April 22, 2024May 17, 2025

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The McNay embraces maximalism with the De La Torre Brothers exhibition ‘Upward Mobility’

Nodding to everything from pre-Columbian deities and Colonialism to horror classics and modern-day monsters, the brothers’ wide-ranging projects boast narratives as stacked as the objects themselves.

by Bryan Rindfuss April 5, 2024April 27, 2025

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Shared life and studio space unify the work of two San Antonio artists

Couple Megan Harrison and Jimmy James Canales have different art styles, but they have intertwined in ways no one could have predicted.

by Anjali Gupta March 28, 2024July 26, 2025

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Balancing Act: San Antonio creative Analy Diego multitasks in style

In addition to creating and selling artwork at AnArte Gallery and Feliz Modern, Diego is a busy interior designer who teaches in the Margie and Bill Klesse College of Engineering and Integrated Design at UTSA.

by Bryan Rindfuss March 8, 2024July 31, 2025

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Contemporary Art Month hits the ground running with Kickoff and CAM Perennial debut March 1

The annual CAM Kickoff at the Contemporary at Blue Star will feature the debut of two new exhibitions: the CAM Perennial and a solo exhibition by Michael Guerra Foerster.

by Dean Zach February 27, 2024August 2, 2025

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‘I’m Still Here:’ Joe Harjo’s latest exhibition addresses thorny issues around Native American identity

The San Antonio-based artist’s work is underscored by the cognitive and emotional awareness of the genocide of an untold number of human beings.

by Anjali Gupta February 21, 2024July 31, 2025

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New exhibition at the San Antonio Museum of Art gives insight into the golden age of armor

‘The Age of Armor: Treasures from the Higgins Armory Collection at the Worcester Art Museum’ will be on view from Feb. 16-May 12.

by Macks Cook February 13, 2024July 21, 2025

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Studio Visits: The idiosyncratic work of Meg Langhorne explores gods, parables and more

Langhorne’s ongoing series After Caravaggio features alterations of famous works by the Baroque painter, including Bacchus, Medusa and others.

by Anjali Gupta February 12, 2024July 6, 2025

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San Antonio artist Joey Fauerso celebrates a prolific decade with new book

You Destroy Every Special Thing I Make compiles projects and exhibitions that coincided with international residencies and high-profile grants.

by Bryan Rindfuss January 29, 2024July 31, 2025

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Annual ‘El Segundo de Febrero’ exhibition opens at Centro Cultural Aztlan Feb. 2

The exhibition commemorates the 176th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.

by Marco Aquino January 26, 2024January 22, 2025

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Caribbean Connection: San Antonio visual artists working to build cultural bridge with Cuba

Two events this month will help introduce the concept to the San Antonio community.

by Anjali Gupta January 10, 2024July 30, 2025

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Growing Collections: A brief look at what San Antonio museums acquired in 2023

Three local institutions significantly amped up their collections — with their combined acquisitions ringing in at just under 700 works.

by Bryan Rindfuss December 21, 2023August 1, 2025

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Traveling exhibition ‘Life and Death on the Border’ shines light on South Texas tragedy

The exhibition at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center’s Community Gallery opened Nov. 28 and runs through May 31, 2024.

by Marco Aquino December 15, 2023July 28, 2025

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Arts fest Luminaria to light up San Antonio’s St. Paul Square this weekend

Fall Arts Cheat Sheet: Exhibitions San Antonio art fans need to experience this season

San Antonio visual artist Joey Fauerso’s new video installation on display at Ruby City

San Antonio’s ‘Trouble in Southtown’ group show focuses on photographic works

New McNay exhibit examines French artists’ defiance of censorship to skewer the powerful

New art exhibition ‘Huntopia’ debuts at the San Antonio Botanical Garden Saturday

McNay Art Museum’s annual Print Fair returns this weekend

Celia Álvarez Muñoz’s exhibition Los Brillantes offers heartfelt portraits of San Antonio artists

The McNay embraces maximalism with the De La Torre Brothers exhibition ‘Upward Mobility’

Shared life and studio space unify the work of two San Antonio artists

Balancing Act: San Antonio creative Analy Diego multitasks in style

Contemporary Art Month hits the ground running with Kickoff and CAM Perennial debut March 1

‘I’m Still Here:’ Joe Harjo’s latest exhibition addresses thorny issues around Native American identity

New exhibition at the San Antonio Museum of Art gives insight into the golden age of armor

Studio Visits: The idiosyncratic work of Meg Langhorne explores gods, parables and more

San Antonio artist Joey Fauerso celebrates a prolific decade with new book

Annual ‘El Segundo de Febrero’ exhibition opens at Centro Cultural Aztlan Feb. 2

Caribbean Connection: San Antonio visual artists working to build cultural bridge with Cuba

Growing Collections: A brief look at what San Antonio museums acquired in 2023

Traveling exhibition ‘Life and Death on the Border’ shines light on South Texas tragedy