Tue, May 5
4:00 pm	to	9:00 pm

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Fri, May 8
6:00 pm	to	9:00 pm

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Sat, May 16
11:00 am	to	1:00 pm

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Thu, May 7
7:00 pm	to	11:00 pm

Savor the Arts

A moveable feast, Savor the Arts is a delicious and fun look at the annual All-School Exhibition, a juried show of the best student, faculty and guest work held each spring in the Russell Hill Rogers Galleries on the Navarro Campus.

Patrons enjoy food donated by a wide variety of San Antonio’s best restaurants and caterers, live music and the opportunity to be the first to purchase works of art in the All-School Exhibition.

First-time patrons also obtain a complimentary one-year Family Membership, and proceeds benefit the Young Artist Programs.

The eighth annual friendraiser event to benefit
The Young Artists Program

Thursday, May 7, 2009
7 p.m. to 11 p.m.
Navarro Campus

Complimentary libations plus culinary creations
by some of San Antonio’s finest chefs!

MUSIC
DJ JJ Lopez

ART
The SSAC’s Juried and Invitational All-School Exhibition
in the Russell Hill Rogers Galleries
offers for sale over 75 works of art by faculty, students and
friends of the school.

TICKETS
$55 per person, $80 per person or $125 per person

All attendees at the $55 level receive a Family Membership for one year
All attendees at the $80 level receive a Patron Membership, and
those at the $125 level receive a Bronze Angel Membership.

RSVP
Please call Stephanie Peché Canales at
ext. 306

$2,500 CHEF D’ CUISINE SPONSORS

$1,000 GOURMET SPONSORS
Krause Family Foundation
James G. Lifshutz

Special Thanks to:
Kim Burke and Joe Baker
The Gambrinus Company

Alamo Beer Company

Bin 555/The Lodge Restaurant of Castle Hills

Columbia Culinary Team

Cool Café

Madhatters Tea House & Café

Mangos at El Tropicano Hotel

Neiman Marcus Mariposa Restaurant

Orderup

Page Barteau Catering

Paloma Blanca/Vela Wine Bar

Paloma River Walk

Patty Lou’s Restaurant

Picante Grill

Sweet Designs Bake Shop

Tiago’s Cabo Grill

True Flavors Catering

Tycoon Flats

Twin Sisters Bakery & Café

Ricky A. Garza
Libby D. Tilley
Co-Chairs

Kimberly and Tom Archer
Cynthia and Taylor Collins
Paula Cox
Debra and Terive Duperier
Courtney and Brad Duphorne
Carra Garza
Jerry L. Gore
Charles Haile and Joyce Janota
Anne and Paul Krause
Ana Montoya
Cynthia Muñoz
Brad Parman
Caroline and Robert Schupbach
Josie and Frates Seeligson
Rob Simons
Suzanne Taranto
Jose Vega

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Sat, May 2
3:00 pm	to	5:00 pm

Six Years Later Unit B gallery May 2 – May 2, 2009 “Six Years Later reunites artists and friends Matt Hanner and Stephen Lapthisophon for a second time at Unit B. Both artists originally exhibited Autumn Almanac (2003), a collaborative mixed-media installation that was shown at Unit B in its Chicago years.”

Unit B gallery http://www.unitbgallery.com/ 500 Stieren San Antonio, TX 78210

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My review of the current Unit B show has been posted over at Glasstire:

While [Matt] Hanner tells us exactly what he means to convey with his symbol (which he refers to as “the 8th element”), [Stephen] Lapthisophon lets us gather meaning from his free-form visual associations. One potato lies in a nest, conjuring the idea of a particularly large and lumpy egg; others are scattered around as if they were stones gathered by Robert Smithson for one of his non-sites. Hanner’s symbol, rendered in three sculptures using neon, coiled metal wire and burnt incense sticks respectively, asks how materials influence meaning. We are asked on the one hand to synthesize meaning from the repetition of a simple object in various contexts, and on the other to analyze shifting signification as an abstract concept is made material.

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Fri, May 1
8:00 pm	to	11:59 pm

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Tue, Apr 28
4:00 pm	to	9:00 pm

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Thu, May 14
6:30 pm	to	8:00 pm

Opening Reception and Walk-Thru: Jonathan Monk: Rew-shay Hood Project
Join us on opening night of the 09.2 Hudson (Show)Room exhibition debuting a new body of work by Berlin-based British artist Jonathan Monk. He has transformed Ed Ruscha’s celebrated photographs of gasoline stations from the early 1960s into a series of painted hoods taken from muscle cars made in the same year as Ruscha’s original pictures. Gallery walk-thru with the artist at 7pm. On view through September 6.

WindowWorks: Mimi Kato
Peruse the Main Avenue windows from outdoors or step inside for an art experience! Mimi Kato creates computer-generated self-portraits and animations informed by the folk tales she heard as a child. By photographing herself dressed in costume with animal masks, she explores the implications of her dual heritage. On view through September 20.

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Sat, May 9
7:00 pm	to	10:00 pm

Suburban Fragments – John Davis @ FL!GHT Gallery

Second Saturday

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Sat, May 2
2:00 pm	to	3:00 pm

Conception/Realization: James Hetherington Recent Works
Bihl Haus Arts
Gallery talk Saturday, May 2, 2 pm
Through May 16.
“Although he began his career as a painter, in recent years James Hetherington has primarily exhibited sculpture. He has said that while continuing to investigate abstract formal issues, he has moved his focus more and more toward public sculpture. By contrast, the current exhibition highlights two-dimensional works that contribute to the conceptualization and realization of the larger public commissions and includes artist’s documents, sketches and maquettes for those works.”

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Tue, Apr 28
8:00 pm	to	10:00 pm

Tuesday

Slab Cinema Slab across from La Tuna Icehouse, Probandt and Cevallos streets, . Slab Cinema screens classic and cult films. This week: “House on Haunted Hill” (1959). 8 p.m. Bring lawn chairs and blankets. Donations appreciated. Visit www.slabcinema.com.

House on Haunted Hill

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

House on Haunted Hill
Original theatrical release poster
Directed by	William Castle
Produced by	William Castle Robb White
Written by	Robb White
Starring	Vincent Price Carolyn Craig Elisha Cook Jr. Carol Ohmart Alan Marshal Julie Mitchum
Music by	Richard Kayne Richard Loring Von Dexter
Cinematography	Carl E. Guthrie
Editing by	Roy V. Livingston
Distributed by	Allied Artists
Release date(s)	17 February 1959
Running time	75 min (1h and 15m)
Country
Language	English
Budget	$200,000 (estimated)

House on Haunted Hill (1959) is a horror film B movie directed by William Castle, written by Robb White, and starring Vincent Price as eccentric millionaire Fredrick Loren. He and his fourth wife, Annabelle, have invited five people to the house for a “Haunted House” party. Whoever stays in the house for one night will earn $10,000 each. As the night progresses, all the guests are trapped inside the house with ghosts, murderers, and other terrors.

Exteriors shots of the house were filmed at the historic Ennis-Brown House in Los Feliz, California.

Contents [hide] 1 Plot Synopsis 2 Style 3 Release 4 Cast and characters 5 References 6 External links

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[edit] Plot Synopsis

House on Haunted Hill is the tale of five people invited to stay the night in a haunted house by an eccentric millionaire, Fredrick Loren, who is throwing the “party” for his fourth wife, Annabelle, with the stipulation that the power will be out and all doors will be locked at midnight, allowing no accessible escape. Anyone who stays in the house for the entire night, given that they are still alive, will each receive $10,000.

The five guests all arrive in hearses, which he explains may be empty now, but they may be in need of them later. He explains the rules of the party and gives each of the guests a gun for protection. Loren’s wife tries to warn the guests that her husband is psychotic, causing them to be very suspicious of him, especially Nora Manning, who becomes convinced that he’s trying to kill her when she keeps seeing mysterious ghouls, including the ghost of Annabelle, who had hung herself after being forced to attend the party.

After being driven into a fit of hysteria by the ghosts haunting her, Nora shoots Mr. Loren, assuming he is going to kill her. Dr. Trent, another guest, tries to get rid of the body by pushing it into acid, but the lights go out, and when they come back on, both of the men are gone. Annabelle emerges, having faked her death with the help of Dr. Trent, and having successfully tricked Nora into killing Loren. Suddenly, the skeleton of Loren emerges from the acid, approaching Annabelle and mourning how she’s killed him. In a panic, a screaming Annabelle accidentally backs into the acid herself. The real Mr. Loren walk out of the shadow, holding the pully that he was using to control the skeleton with, and watching Annabelle disintegrate.

Nora tells the other guests that she’s shot Loren in the cellar, and they all rush down there. When they arrive, they see that he’s actually alive, and he explains to him that his wife and Dr. Trent were having an affair, and they’d planned to trick Nora into murdering him so that they could get away with his money. Unfortunately for them, he had not loaded the guns with bullets, but powder, and he had not been killed. Just when everyone thinks the trauma is finally over, Mr. Pritchard, the house owner, looks up, a terrified expression on his face, and announces that the ghosts are finally coming for them.

[edit] Style

The theatrical trailer promoted the film as The House on Haunted Hill, although all advertising material, and the title on the film itself were simply titled House on Haunted Hill. The film is best known for a famous promotional gimmick used in the film’s original theatrical release called “Emergo”: William Castle placed an elaborate pulley system in some theaters showing the film; allowing a plastic skeleton to be flown over the audience at the appropriate time. ^{[1] [2]} In the late 1980s, the Film Forum in New York City had a revival of the film (along with several other Castle pictures) that included the original gimmicks.

Thanks to Castle’s gimmickry, the film was a huge success. Alfred Hitchcock took notice of the low-budget film’s performance at the box office, and set out to make his own low-budget horror film, which became the critically acclaimed hit Psycho (1960). Ironically, Castle himself was a Hitchcock fan, and tried to imitate Hitchcock’s work in later films such as Homicidal (1961).

[edit] Release

House on Haunted Hill was originally released by Allied Artists Pictures Corporation. The film has since become public domain, and is available in a number of issues. Two major studios have released the film in remastered versions. Warner Home Video released the film on DVD as a tie-in to promote the release of the 1999 remake. In 2005, the film was colorized by Legend Films. The color version was released on DVD the same year by 20th Century Fox. Extras prepared by Legend Films for the Fox DVD release included an audio commentary track by comedian Michael J. Nelson, of Mystery Science Theater 3000 fame, two versions of the trailer, and a slideshow of images from the film’s original press book. Johnny Legend released a 50TH Anniversary DVD containing a whole slew of Extras such as both Original Theatrical Trailer and TV Spot plus several William Castle and Vincent Price Theatrical Trailers, A Carol Ohmart profile and Golden Age TV Shows starring Vincent Price. A DivX file of the colorized version with the commentary embedded is available as part of Nelson’s RiffTrax On Demand service.^[3] In 2009, a newly-recorded commentary by Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett was released by RiffTrax.^[4]

[edit] Cast and characters

• Vincent Price – Frederick Loren, a millionaire whose first three wives all died suspicious deaths.
• Carolyn Craig – Nora Manning, a mother whose husband died in a car accident.
• Richard Long – Lance Schroeder, a pilot
• Elisha Cook Jr. – Watson Pritchard, a man whose sister in law and brother were murdered in the house
• Carol Ohmart – Annabelle Loren, Frederick’s fourth wife.
• Alan Marshal – Dr. David Trent, a psychiatrist.
• Julie Mitchum – Ruth Bridgers, a columnist with a gambling problem.
• Leona Anderson – Mrs. Slydes, a housekeeper.
• Howard Hoffman – Jonas Slydes, another housekeeper.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• At Internet Archive [1]
• House on Haunted Hill at the Internet Movie Database
• House on Haunted Hill at Allmovie
• at Google Video
• Film at Free Full Videos .co.nr [2]

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Sat, Apr 25
5:00 pm	to	8:00 pm

Danny Kamerath, George Schroeder, & Linda Suggs Gallery Nord Opens Saturday, Apr. 25, 5-8 pm Through May 30.

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Fri, Apr 24
9:00 pm	to	11:00 pm

meeting spot has been moved to SAMA (san antonio museum of art) on JONES St. due to Alamo being blocked off for fiesta events.

9PM as usual.

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seems to be one of the few people to really grok the medium. (This is apparently the guy behind the hilarous Chris Walken Twitter feed).

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Fri, Apr 24
9:00 pm	to	11:00 pm

Host:	Hills Snyder
Type:	–
Network:	Global

Start Time:	Friday, April 24, 2009 at 9:00pm
End Time:	Monday, May 25, 2009 at 5:00pm
Location:	Sala Diaz
Street:	517 Stieren
City/Town:	San Antonio, TX
	MapQuest Microsoft

Phone:	2108524492
Email:

Dave Bryant: Don’t Get Caught

Description

Wash your face before entry.

The Rules:
1. No questions.
2. No answers.

The squirrel is squished under the tire. There are footprints in the snow. A reward is being offered for the details. You can put $1 in the box. She is glowing for the Starman. The rags are covered in patina. The black cat is watching you. Plus several other things, including: a colorful drawing and frames with both regular and plexi glass.

Dave Bryant lives in south Austin but works in north Austin. Sometimes he may question whether he is actually ‘living’. But he never gets around to questioning the ‘working’. Probably because someone is always calling to talk about work and no one wants to call and talk about ‘life’ (thankfully).

Sala Diaz is a 501 (C)(3) non-profit space supporting the San Antonio community with exhibitions of local, national and international artists and is located at 517 Stieren, near the intersection of South Alamo and South Saint Mary’s Street in the heart of the Restaurant Supply District. Open weekly, Thursday – Saturday from 2 – 6 PM and every First Friday at 9 PM. Sala Diaz is sponsored by Fluent Collaborative, Liberty Bar, The National Endowment For The Arts and numerous private individuals.

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Fri, Apr 24
6:00 pm	to	9:00 pm

Dear Friends,
Please join us!!

what:      the annual UTSA New Media Program: Spring Show!

when:      this Friday April 24, 6-9pm
installations and sound art opens at 6pm
screening of new videos 7-8pm

where:    UTSA Downtown Campus
Buena Vista Assembly Room, Community Room, and Theater

it’s free : )

Parking at the downtown campus is going to be a challenge on Friday due to Fiesta.

If you have a UTSA parking pass, its no problem to park in the UTSA lots,
which also happen to be open to the public for a fee of $10.
Why not car-pool with someone who has a pass or can share the parking fee,
or come very early to figure out where to park?

The work in the show is great, so we all hope you can join us!!

what:      the annual UTSA New Media Program: Spring Show!

when:      this Friday April 24, 6-9pm
installations and sound art opens at 6pm
screening of new videos 7-8pm

where:    UTSA Downtown Campus
Buena Vista Assembly Room, Community Room, and Theater

it’s free : )

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When I was working on my first art review back in 2006, I saw a version of Edgar Arceneaux’s video “Old Man Hill” at the Artpace potluck that launched his residency there. The residency project (which later wound up in the Whitney Biennial) wasn’t as impressive as this simple homage to a man he never met: his father’s father. Arceneaux spelled out the only thing he ever knew about this man — that he was called “Old Man Hill” — in silver balloons, which hovered over the war-torn hills of Sarajevo. One by one the balloons released and twisted toward the sky. The cameras followed the balloons wistfully, clinging to these insubstantial forms seeking oblivion. Occasionally the cameras cut to people going about their lives in the city below, people looking away from these hills with their burned out buildings and piles of rubble.

Linda Pace, who had not yet embarked on her battle with cancer, purchased this piece for her collection. Other than that potluck, the video had never been shown publicly; but before she died, Linda asked that it be screened at a special time, with the artist present. The Linda Pace Foundation arranged to screen the final version of this video for Linda’s birthday, last Thursday. Arceneaux was flown in to stage a performance along with the screening. The site selected for the project was the Mission Drive-In, a once-popular drive-in theater now dilapidated, graffiti-strewn, and slated for destruction. (It will be replaced with a new public library).

The evening of the event was overcast, windy, threatening rain. We got there early, and wandered around the old drive-in, its pavement giving way to grass, but its screens still fully intact. One by one, silver balloons were filled up and placed in front of the main screen, spelling out words that were unfamiliar to us, apparently a translation of “Old Man Hill” into Serbian Bosnian.

The translation of words hinted at another translation: the bombed-out hills of Sarajevo where snipers once found cover were translated into a theater in San Antonio, equally desolate, undergoing a wholly other kind of violence. This isn’t to equate the devestation of war to the disappearance of a drive-in, but to translate loss between cultures. Nearby the old theater, the Mission San Jose holds memories of a violence closer to that of Sarajevo: genocide, slavery, subjugation. But to most of us living in San Antonio today, the loss of place is felt more fully than the tragic, large-scale loss of life experienced by those who lived in Sarajevo in the 1990s or San Antonio in the 1700s. The slow erosion of the identities of our cities happens to be the kind of loss we are stuggling with now, the loss that we still don’t quite know how to grapple with.

Eventually, as it grew dark, Arceneaux introduced the video, speaking of his search to learn something of his grandfather, a man neither he nor his father ever knew. This was a search to connect his identity to something larger, something more historically rooted. He spoke of his brief relationship with Linda Pace, who worked to create places in San Antonio that connect to what came before them: an old car dealership downtown becomes an artist residency space. This is the act of translating place — it doesn’t make sense to have car dealerships downtown anymore, but these spaces can be translated into something that is meaningful today, that turns loss and emptiness into another kind of value.

The video started, and as we watched Old Man Hill float away into the hills of Sarajevo, we also watched indecipherable words from another place float away into the San Antonio night, sometimes brushing slightly against the aging screen. And even as they disappeared from view, these words became embued with meaning. This was the final screening at the Mission Drive-In.

(Photos by Justin Parr, courtesy Linda Pace Foundation)

UPDATE: I’m honored to have Devin King respond to this in the second post on his new blog, Dancing Young Men From High Windows. Hopefully I’ll have time to respond to his post soon, but in the meantime I’ll point yall that way for an interesting reaction.

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Sun, Apr 26
3:00 pm	to	4:00 pm

Images of Suffering and Hope: Portraits of Latina Women in the Caras Vemos Exhibition
Sunday, April 4/26, 3pm

Free on Sundays

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Mon, Apr 20
10:00 am	to	2:00 pm

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Mon, Apr 20
6:00 pm	to	8:00 pm

Viewing of award-winning documentary ‘El Corrido’

April 20, 2009 6:00 PM University of the Incarnate Word Mabee Library Auditorium

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Sat, Apr 25
9:00 pm	to	11:59 pm

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Tue, Apr 21
4:00 pm	to	9:00 pm

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Sat, Apr 18
6:00 pm	to	9:00 pm

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Fri, Apr 17
5:30 pm	to	7:30 pm

Bihl Haus Arts 2803 Fredericksburg Road, . “Conception/Realization,” sculpture by James Hetherington. 5:30-7:30 p.m. opening reception. Exhibit is featured in the Monticello Park Historic Home Tour on Saturday. Local poets will perform “Pomes About Home,” from 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
Conception/Realization: James Hetherington Recent Works
Bihl Haus Arts
April 17 – May 16, 2009

“Although he began his career as a painter, in recent years James Hetherington has primarily exhibited sculpture. He has said that while continuing to investigate abstract formal issues, he has moved his focus more and more toward public sculpture. By contrast, the current exhibition highlights two-dimensional works that contribute to the conceptualization and realization of the larger public commissions and includes artist’s documents, sketches and maquettes for those works.”

http://www.bihlhausarts.org/

2803 Fredericksburg Rd.

San Antonio, TX 78201

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