Category Archives: SWIMMING IN ART

The McNay – A Private Collection Becomes a Modern Art Museum in San Antonio

  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 […]

BRISCOE Western Art Museum – George Catlin’s Native American Life

  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 […]

San Antonio Museum of Art – The City’s Encyclopedic Art Museum

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 […]

ARTS&FOOD® ASKS: IS MARFA TEXAS AN ART DESTINATION?

ANSWER: ONE MAN – DONALD JUDD – Marfa Texas is an unlikely art oasis in a small desert town in the desert S/W of Texas. In the 1970s, minimalist artist Donald Judd moved his studio to this dusty town where everything was cheap and where he could afford space. He build several art compounds here for his studios and to display […]

A Photo Essay of New Orleans

Lagniappe  [Lahn-yop]: Something extra. Everywhere one turns in NOLA there is a photograph worth taking. Here are a few pics that did not make it into our current magazine issue focused on New Orleans, Louisiana (there are many more great photos which will never be published). – We put together a photo essay/slide show of […]

Denver Cherry Creek Arts Festival

Artist Mick Madzo from Excelsior, MN  ART: Street Arts Festivals! (Note: from our past issue files.) The Denver Arts Festival brings together artists from across the USA Every Fourth of July weekend, Denver Colorado hosts the Cherry Creek Arts Festival in it’s upscale Cherry Creek shopping district. It is a very competitive, juried festival and […]

Benny Andrews: Artist Holding Onto His Roots @ Ogden Museum

Artworks are the intellectual property of the individual artists and © (copyright 2019) by the individual artist, fabricators, respective owners or assignees, Used with permission. The Life and Times of Benny Andrews (1930-2006) One of ten children, Benny Andrews was born on November 13, 1930, in Plainview, Georgia, a light-skinned, blue-eyed, blond-haired baby. James Orr […]

George Rodrique’s Cajun ‘Blue Dog’ Story

Cajun Blue Dog with Crawfish by George Rodrique   Louisiana Artist George Rodrigue (March 13, 1944 – December 14, 2013) In the mid-1990s George Rodrigue’s Cajun Blue Dog paintings, which started with a painting illustrating a Cajun legend called loup-garou (ghost dog), eventually it morphed into his memorable signature image and brand The Blue Dog […]

Historic New Orleans Collection (Museum) – French Quarter

Artworks are the intellectual property of the individual artists and © (copyright 2019) by the individual artist, fabricators, respective owners or assignees. Used with permission. THE HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION • MUSEUM & RESEARCH CENTER 520 Royal Street, Frech Quarter, New Orleans, LA PRESENTS A R T   O F   T H E   C I T […]