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Lesley Dill: Performance as Art

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​Through a dramatic use of original music, powerful visuals, and the written yet unspoken word, New York artist Lesley Dill blurs the lines between theatrical performance and visual art in a thought provoking exhibition now open at the McNay Art Museum.

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Recycled, Repurposed, Reborn: Collage and Assemblage

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​Organized as a collaboration between the McNay’s curators, Recycled, Repurposed, Reborn focuses on collages on paper, panel, and canvas, as well as wall-hung and free-standing assemblage sculptures and hybrids of the collage and assemblage aesthetic.

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McNay Art Museum Director William J. Chiego Announces Retirement

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William J. Chiego, Director of the McNay Art Museum since 1991, has informed the museum’s Board of Trustees of his intention to step down from the directorship of the McNay on September 30, 2016. By that date he will have served more than 25 years as director, only the second leader of the museum in its 62 year history.

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MCCF’s View and Vote Acquisition: Erik Benson’s Dead Air

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Erik Benson’s painting Dead Air, 2009, is the McNay Contemporary Collectors Forum 2014 purchase, it features a view familiar to the artist: the IKEA store that was built in Red Hook, Brooklyn, in 2008. Dead Air highlights the struggle implicit in the gentrification of this industrial neighborhood.

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OPENING THIS FALL: Miró: The Experience of Seeing

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Featuring more than 50 remarkable paintings, drawings, and sculptures created by Joan Miró between 1963 and 1981, Miró: The Experience of Seeing is drawn entirely from the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, Spain

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ArtStrolls Featured in Rivard Report

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Writer Bekah McNeel describes ArtStroll programs for infants and toddlers. ArtStrolls occur every Friday morning in November.

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McNay Art Museum Presents the Work of Pop Artist Robert Indiana

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San Antonio, TX- The McNay Art Museum presents Robert Indiana: Beyond LOVE, a survey exhibition organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, which will be exclusively on view at the McNay February 5 through May 25, 2014.

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McNay Art Museums to Participate in Blue Star Museums

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The Mcnay Art Museum is one of more than 2,000 museums across America to offer free admission to military personnel and their families this summer in collaboration with the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, and the Department of Defense

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McNay 60th Anniversary Weekend Celebrations

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MCNAY 60TH ANNIVERSARY WEEKEND CELEBRATIONS Lectures, concerts, family activities, 5K race/walk, and moreFebruary 13 to 16

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