Professor Elam

Friday Nov 4, 2011

San Antonio is quite a City for the Arts, although on one outside the City ,and particularly in Austin, seems to know it. Consider some current exhibits. Folks go all around the world to see the world, heck you can stay right here and do the same thing. 

Griff Smith has been shooting for Texas Highways for  25 years. 58 of his images like the one at left are featured at the Institute of Texan Cultures through March 25, 2011. I certainly look forward to exploring this exhibit and probably multiple times. The Institue is on Hemisfair Plaza.  That's just west of US 281 I 378 south of downtown. 

Practice serene meditation in the Japanese Art Gallery on Saturday mornings. Participants will meet in the Great Hall and then proceed to the Japanese Galleries for a session led by a qualified instructor. Cushions and stools are provided and attendance is limited to 30.

That would be  the San Antonio Art Museum downtown. I was stunned at the collection of both Japanese original art as well as historic Egyptian art. The pottery in the Egyptian exhibit looks brand new. 

Commodore Perry visited Japan in 1854. This led to a Western interest in everything Japanese, men were even wearing kimonos over here. This Exhibit at the McNay features the western fascination from 1854 to 1918.