McNay Art Museum

The Royal Coronation with Sir Roy Strong

McNay Art Museum — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 21:40:29 +0000

The Man Who Built The Stieren

McNay Art Museum — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 22:18:06 +0000

Jean-Paul Viguier, architect for the Jane & Arthur Stieren Center for Exhibitions, returns for a special collaboration between the museum and UTSA’s College of Architecture.

Viguier’s talk marks the fifth anniversary of the opening of the Stieren Center.

Isabelle Dervaux On American Surrealism

McNay Art Museum — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 19:54:40 +0000

American Surrealism differed from the movement that originated in France in the 1920s as artists reinterpreted Dalí's dreamlike imagery in the context of the Great Depression and under the influence of the American realist tradition.

Contemporary Art Crash Course

McNay Art Museum — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 17:19:56 +0000

Contemporary Art is both a maligned and lauded movement. For the average person, it is taxing to try and meet an artist halfway in a piece of art that is designed to be as much a dialogue as an expression.

What is Chicano?

McNay Art Museum — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 19:57:21 +0000

Carlos Francisco Jackson, professor of chicana/o studies at the University of California-Davis, and George Vargas, professor of art history at Texas A & M University-Kingsville, discussed the meaning of the term "Chicano" in 2012. Ricardo Romo, President, The University of Texas at San Antonio, moderated the conversation.

Acclaimed African American Costume Designer Myrna Colley-Lee

McNay Art Museum — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 04:26:34 +0000

Myrna Colley-Lee discussed her designs for the production of Wedding Bands, The Ballad of Emmett Till and other plays in the Songs of Social Significance exhibition with Jody Blake, Curator of the Tobin Collection of Theatre Arts at the McNay on November 1, 2012.

Art and Commerce: Painting in 16th-Century Antwerp with John Hand

McNay Art Museum — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 17:35:41 +0000

Sunday, October 28th 6:30pm at the McNay Art Museum. John Hand, Curator of Northern Renaissance Paintings for the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC discusses the golden age of Netherlandish painting during the 16th-century boom in trade, finance, and textiles that made Antwerp the cultural capital of the Northern Renaissance.

Vincent Valdez at the McNay Art Museum

McNay Art Museum — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 13:41:04 +0000

Artist Vincent Valdez discusses the motivations, processes, and stories behind works of art in his solo exhibition.