News Roundup The biggest event this weekend is surely the opening of Ruby City, the brand-new museum just south of downtown conceived by the late artist/philanthropist Linda Pace and built by the Linda Pace Foundation. The $16 million building – which is red as the name implies – was designed by the respected British architect David Adjaye who met with …
By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor – How does it feel to be the star of an original new production? It’s very exciting; I feel very honored. I was rather surprised when Mr. Enos (the guest choreographer) picked me because the role is somewhat out of my norm. This ballet has a lot of flowing, fluid movements and I am usually the …
By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor – Jane Dunnewold is the first fiber artist to be named artist-of-the-year in San Antonio Arts League’s 74-year history of honoring exceptional San Antonio artists. Asked about how she felt about this significant moment in her career and in the history of fiber arts, Dunnewold admitted that “It was thrilling.” But she didn’t believe she was …
By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor – October is Museum Month in the U.S. and 15 San Antonio institutions are participating. Throughout the month, members of any of the participating organizations can enjoy two free admissions in all the other places. It’s a good incentive to become a member at the museum of your choice and then enjoy free visits at the …
By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor – You were quoted as saying “There’s nothing more exciting than creating a new hall,” implying that an orchestra can mold the concert hall’s acoustics to create a unique sound. Could you elaborate on that? As the violin is the instrument of the violinist, the instrument of an orchestra is the hall. The hall that melds …
By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor – Tish Hinojosa, Patricia Vonne and Stephanie Urbina-Jones are three San Antonio natives with beautiful voices, creative minds and successful individual careers in multiple musical styles, each enjoying a substantial following not only in Texas but across the U.S. and abroad. But now, the three artists have cooked up something new and intriguing: they have joined …
By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor – Your current exhibit at the Ruiz-Healy Art gallery shows your work inspired by the time you spent in Berlin as one of the Kunstlerhaus Bethanien residency artists, selected by the Blue Star Contemporary. How has the Berlin experience impacted you as an artist? Since, until recently, I always had to have a day job to …
By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor – The San Antonio Symphony is marking a couple of important anniversaries this year: its 80th season and the 10th and last season for its celebrated music director Sebastian Lang-Lessing. Fittingly, Lang-Lessing will conduct the orchestra in the season opener featuring Gustav Mahler’s Symphonie No. 2 in C Minor, Resurrection. The orchestra played the same symphony …
By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor – Nowadays, many stage directors try to present classical theatrical works in contemporary setting to make them somehow more relevant, but E. Loren Meeker had no desire to go in that direction with her current staging of Giacomo Puccini’s opera Tosca, produced by Opera San Antonio. The show will premiere Thursday at the Tobin Center for …
By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor – The beloved nanny, Mary Poppins, is paying a longish visit to San Antonio and you’ll be able to spend time with her at the Public Theater of San Antonio from Sept. 13 through October 13. And, yes, she will be flying and performing her usual magic, plus singing and dancing, and helping the Banks family …
