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The McNay Art Museum will celebrate William J. Chiego, its longtime director, with a community-wide event on Sunday, June 5, 2016, at the museum. Free and open to everyone, the festivities will include activities for the whole family that reflect the inspiring vision, intellectual curiosity, and creative joy that have defined Dr. Chiego’s influential 25-year tenure as director of the museum.
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On April 27, the McNay Art Museum will open two new art exhibitions featuring complex ornamental works centuries apart yet sharing fascinating similarities in intricacy and design. The two exhibitions blur the lines between old world and modern.
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The spirit of Coney Island will come alive in South Texas when the McNay Art Museum presents Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861–2008, opening May 11, 2016 through September 11, 2016.
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Murder and mayhem are themes front and center at the McNay Art Museum’s current exhibition Dressed to Kill: Glam and Gore in the Theatre, a provocative look at villains and femme fatales in theatre over the centuries.
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Exposure to arts and culture is an important part of learning for a child, and at the McNay Art Museum, limited budgets don’t become a barrier. Thanks to a generous $100,000 grant from by the John L. Santikos Charitable Foundation Fund of the San Antonio Area Foundation, teens ages 13-19 will receive free general and feature exhibition admission throughout 2016 and 2017.
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The McNay Art Museum will present an exclusive look at some of the most significant German art created over the last 35 years by both masters and emerging artists in Made in Germany: Contemporary Art from the Rubell Family Collection.
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The McNay Art Museum today announced that Robert Indiana’s LOVE sculpture, a 6’ x 6’ x 3’ iconic example of Pop art, is now part of the Museum’s permanent collection.
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Rosemary Hickman, Semmes Foundation Museum Educator, Teacher & Public Programs at the McNay Art Museum, has been named the 2016 Outstanding Museum Art Educator by the Texas Art Education Association (TAEA).
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The McNay Art Museum will present a rare glimpse at the later works of Spanish-born artist Joan Mirό (1893-1983), one of the greatest innovators of 20th-century art in Europe, during Miró: The Experience of Seeing. The exhibition opens September 30, 2015 and runs through Jan. 10, 2016. The McNay is the only southwest venue and final stop of the exhibition’s U.S. tour.
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For many years, a small parcel of land belonging to the McNay Art Museum has been disconnected from the museum’s 23-acre property thanks to a divide created by Rittiman Road.
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