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McNay Art Museum Presents Monet to Matisse: A Century of French ModernsRadically reconfigured exhibition galleries showcase artworks from the Brooklyn Museum’s renowned European art collection
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The Strangest Fruit 9 is a contemporary meditation on the tragic oppression of minorities across the United States. The McNay Art Museum announces the addition of Vincent Valdez’s The Strangest Fruit 9 to its collection. The painting is part of the artist’s The Strangest Fruit series featuring large-format oil paintings. The series takes its title from the 1937 poem, Strange Fruit by Abel Meeropool, made popular through a song by Billie Holiday in 1939. The original text addressed the hanging of black Americans; for his series, Valdez adapted the poem to reference the obscured history of Mexican American lynchings from the late 1800s to the 1930s.
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The 16th presentation of the McNay Art Museum’s ARTMATTERS series focuses on contemporary assemblage, sculpture, and collages by artist John Fraser.
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The McNay Art Museum opens two new art exhibitions featuring work from the Tobin Collection of Theatre Arts.
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Rich Aste comes to San Antonio by way of the Brooklyn Museum, where he was Managing Curator of the Americas and Europe. What does he have planned for the future of the museum?
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Leigh Anne Lester is the fifth artist to present work on the expansive entry wall in the McNay’s AT&T Lobby. For her year-long installation, A Variety of Forms Recovering from Transubstantiated Clarity, Lester premieres a monumental new assemblage that incorporates ideas and images of growing organic matter, a theme she has developed on a grand scale at the McNay.
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Telling Tales: Contemporary Narrative Photography features the work of seventeen artists who interpret stories through pictures, whether real or imagined. Spanning nearly four decades, this survey begins with the art of ground-breaking photographers who emerged during the 1970s and 1980s and continues through today. The images present a wide range of styles and themes—familiar, mysterious, humorous, perplexing—yet they are always compelling to view.
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The Rivard Report sat down with outgoing and incoming McNay directors inside the former Spanish-Colonial Revival mansion Friday and had them ask each other questions, provided by our freelance and editorial staff. They reflected on their shared passion for art, the museum’s transition over the years, and its bright future.
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At the Tribute Celebration for William Chiego’s 25 years as leader of the McNay Art Museum, Marie Halff, emeritus museum trustee and trustee of the G.A.C. Halff Foundation, announced a $1 million donation to the McNay to establish an endowment for the acquisition of American art.
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Rich Aste is a socially conscious cultural leader and a dynamic art historian with wide-ranging experience in managing, curating, teaching, and publishing. In addition, he bears a deep knowledge of the art market. He comes to the McNay from the Brooklyn Museum in New York, where he served as Managing Curator, Arts of the Americas and Europe, and Curator of European Art
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