Category Archives: SWIMMING IN ART

Sacred & Transcendent Hailed as a precious mineral with mysterious and even sacred qualities by many cultures around the world, crystal has been viewed as a substance with the power to help connect people with the divine. The luminous, ethereal, and prismatic qualities of rock crystal have inspired and facilitated spiritual and religious devotion. Many […]

A Native American Brave (detail of marble sculpture) Artist: Randolph Rogers 1825-1892 title: “Atala and Chactas” c. 1854 ART in 2016 an exhibit, titled “Changing Perspectives of Native Americans” at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art – showed how the American Indians were portrayed by European and early Euro-American artists.   In Crystal Bridges’ museum […]

ART Samurai Armor at LACMA LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) presented an exhibition of samurai armor on loan from the collection of the Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Museum in Dallas. The Barbier-Mueller has one of the largest and most important collections of its kind in the world. It is composed of nearly three […]

North Forest Lights – When it comes to a Christmas Light Extravaganzas, like at your Zoo or Botanical Gardens, “North Forest Lights” in the wooded area surrounding Crystal Bridges Museum, has set the bar VERY HIGH! It is a Wonder-Filled and a Audio/Visual Experience! As I wandered through the exhibit last week, all I could […]

Prada Marfa is a permanently installed sculpture by artists Elmgreen and Dragset, situated about 26 miles northwest of the city of Marfa, Texas. The installation was inaugurated on October 1, 2005. The artists called the work a “pop architectural land art project”. Literally in the middle of nowhere, I came across this PRADA storefront along the […]

    The Witte Museum, established in 1926 in San Antonio, is dedicated to telling the ‘Stories of Texas” from prehistoric times to the present. It is best known for it’s dinosaur exhibits. This article is about their unique (one venue only) history of Texas through Artworks where Texas or Texans are the subject and […]

  Above: the t-shirt graphics for “McNay Art Museum”, sold in the Museum’s shop.     The McNay Art Museum, founded in 1954 in San Antonio, was the first modern art museum in the State of Texas. The museum was created by Marion Koogler McNay’s original bequest of most of her fortune, her important art collection […]

  The Briscoe Museum of Western Art in Downtown San Antonio has a magnificent collection focused on Western Art. The day ARTS&FOOD® spent in the museum was a relaxing and excellent learning experience – filled with both contemporary and traditional western art, plus the history of life in the frontier West and in the early […]

The Dale Chihuly ceiling in the connecting hall from SAMA’s main building to the Cowden Gallery is one of the favorite pleasures of the museum. (Look Up, when you are in the connecting hallway!) The San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA) is an art museum in Downtown San Antonio, Texas, USA. With a collection spanning […]