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From the website :

Calling all Texas artists! Visit www.artpace.org to submit your Open Call application for the 2010 International Artist-in-Residence program. Every year Texas artists are invited to submit material to be considered for a shortlist that will be reviewed by Artpace�s guest curators. Shortlisted artists� material will be examined by three curators, who may also conduct studio visits. From this process each curator identifies an innovative Texas artist to become an International Artist-in-Residence. 

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I know it’s short notice, but we are toasting our late friend in front of his house in King William. Uninhibited dancing in San Antonio will never be the same.

7:30 pm
Tonight (Weds)
8-20-08

407 Wickes. (Blue house on the right side if you’re coming from S. Alamo.)

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I saw Werner Herzog’s new movie, Encounters at the End of the World, last night. I’ll just say briefly that this is one of the funniest movies I’ve caught in a while, despite the fact that it’s a documentary about Antarctica. Herzog displays his usual keen eye, sense of levity with weighty subjects, and managed to pull off another great soundtrack (Henry Kaiser plays much of the music, and also did the underwater cinematography).

For those of you in San Anto, today is the last day it shows at the Bijou, so try to check it if you can.

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Russia and Georgia are at war; the Olympics start; John Edwards confesses his affair; but the biggest news this week for those of us in San Anto: serrano chiles are back!

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Hey! Congrats to local artist/musician Ken Little for getting into the Texas Biennial ‘09. He’s the only artist from San Antonio to be selected by the Corresponding Editor for Art In America, Michael Duncan. The other artists include: Stevie Nicks-lover Jill Pangallo, Ryah Christensen, Bill Davenport, Sasha Dela, Colin McIntyre and the coolest name on the list, Buster Graybill. It will be interesting to see how each artist takes the local Austin park landscape into consideration for their public art projects. The jury is still out on the list of Individual and Group Exhibitions for the Biennial, but we’ll keep you posted. Executive Director Xochi Solis said they pushed the deadline back to Sept. 1st.

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MAN has the details on Robert Irwin’s forthcoming permanent installation at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa. Construction begins in 2010.

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(Ben Judson)

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Since we’ve been incredibly lazy with the upcoming events list lately (please don’t hate us), I thought I’d highlight a couple of events happening tonight that should be fun: the Hometown Artist’s Rodeo at the Cove and Exhibit with a “Z” at SoHo.

The Hometown Artist’s Rodeo was once a monthly event featuring performances by many of San Antonio’s more talented artists and musicians. Ken Little resurrected the show just for July. Performers will include Ken Little with Rodeo Ho Ho, The Mark Little Jazz Experiment, Hills Snyder, Gary Sweeney, Chris Sauter & Rick Frederick, and Jason Trevino. There’s a $5 cover and the show goes from 8 pm to midnight. The Cove is located at 606 W. Cypress.

Exhibit with a “Z” includes new work by Alejandro Diaz, Kristy Perez, and Hector Ruiz, with appearances by tequila and empanadas. The show is organized by Franco Mondini-Ruiz and David Shelton. This one also runs from 8 pm to midnight. SoHo is located at 214 W. Crockett.

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Jimmy Kuehnle blows back onto the Texas art scene, fresh from his Japanese Fulbright stint, to bring new inflatable sculptures to San Antonio and the borderlands of Laredo. Check out one of his ridiculous performances on Friday, the Fourth of July, at Bluestar.

And don’t forget to mark your calendars to see Jimmy “The Big Ball of Red Delight” Kuehnle next week at the Laredo Center for the Arts.

Welcome back, weirdie!

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Chuck Ramirez made it through his open heart surgery on Monday, and was released from the hospital on Thursday. He’s back at home recovering. Background here.

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(photo by Justin Parr)
Anne Wallace’s sidewalk stamping project, originally commissioned to her in 1999, is finally able to come to a close with the completion of Florida Streets new sidewalks all the way from 281 to S. St. Marys (San Antonio, Texas). The work includes a range of quotes from neighborhood people about their memories of the area, as well as images of traditional crops grown in the area, which was once the farmland for the Alamo. The corn, beans, frogs, hands, snakes, and text panels are totally worth a bike ride down Florida next time you are down this way.

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(photo by Justin Parr)
Everyone here at Emvergeoning sends our best wishes to local art star Chuck Ramirez, who will be having open heart surgery this week. Doctors discovered late last week that his aorta has swollen to an astonishing 10 cm due to a congenital heart defect. A couple of Chuck’s pieces after the jump for those who aren’t familiar (more here).

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A few days ago Dan Goddard posted some interesting details on the museum that will house the contemporary art collection of Linda Pace:

By this fall, the foundation expects to select a site in San Antonio for the construction of a permanent home for Pace’s contemporary art collection, including works by Willem de Kooning, Olafur Eliasson, Isaac Julien, Richard Tuttle and Rachel Whiteread. British architect David Adjaye, who designed the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, is working on the project.

Some are anticipating that the museum, when completed, will be as important as the Menil in Houston (we’ll see…). Adjaye has already created a model for the museum which was sort of viewable through the glass of a locked office door in the Linda Pace Foundation offices during an event last night. I just caught a quick glimpse, but the model seemed less boxy than some of Adjaye’s more well-known projects, such as the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver (above).

An exhibit of Adjaye’s work will be traveling to the Hudson (Show)Room at Artpace in September. The show, organized by London’s Whitechapel Art Gallery, is called “Making Public Buildings” (a catalog is ). As usual with Hudson shows, Adjaye will be giving a walk-through at the opening on September 11. In addition to high-end London homes and public buildings such as museums and libraries, Adjaye has collaborated with artists Olafur Eliasson (see here) and Chris Ofili (see here) on projects that blur the line between visual art and architecture. Adjaye’s buildings are noted for their experiential sensitivity and their ability to respond to the surrounding environment.

We’ll give you more details as we get them…

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