Movies by Moonlight Continues July 2 with Superman

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A Conversation with Marilyn Lanfear

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Focus: Wojciech Fangor & Sensual Color
Thursday, July 16, 6:30 pm, Tobin Exhibition Galleries
In this first in a series of interactive discussions on an artist or work of art, Curator of Education Rose M. Glennon leads this Focus on Fangor’s abstractions and similar works at the McNay. Space is limited. Reserve space at .

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Backstage at the McNay: Gorey Stories
Thursday, July 9, 6:30 pm, Chiego Lecture Hall
A is for Amy who fell down the stairs
B is for Basil assaulted by bears
-Edward Gorey, The Gashlycrumb Tinies
Satisfy your darker side with Gorey’s highbrow yet naughty humor. Rick Frederick and Tim Hedgepeth, in a creepy collaboration with a gruesome gaggle of San Antonio artists, present a macabre medley of Gorey songs, tales, and limericks.

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McNay Art Museum Tour: Highlights of the Museum
FIRST SUNDAY EVERY MONTH (Month of July – Sunday, 7/5)
Join us on the first Sunday of every month for a special tour featuring the highlights of the McNay. The tour begins at 3:00pm in the AT&T Lobby of the Stieren Center for Exhibitions. The McNay is located at 6000 North New Braunfels, San Antonio, TX 78209. This event is free and open to the public. Parking is free in the visitor parking lot. For more information on the tour, please refer to www.mcnayart.org or .

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Exhibition Talk: In Their Own Right: Contemporary Women Printmakers
Thursday, July 2, 6:30 pm, Lawson Print Gallery
Lyle Williams, Curator of Prints and Drawings

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Death of CAM Parade

Venue:

San Antonio River

Dates and times:

Sunday, Jul 26, 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm

Join this costumed, musical procession, commemorating the last offices of our dearly departing Contemporary Art Month (as it is celebrated in July, that is).

Everyone is invited to participate in any form that suits them, in this contemporary art cortége, making its less-than-solemn way along the newly-renovated Museum Reach of the San Antonio RiverWalk. We begin at Sundown, congregating at the Josephine Street tunnel inlet, and march for forty to sixty minutes, south along the RiverWalk, to the El Tropicano Hotel and Tiki Bar, where we’ll share a drink.

Bring an instrument–a bell or bucket will suffice–and contribute to the percussive dirge, nodding to 23 years of aesthetic indulgence, while celebrating CAM’s March rebirth.

If you have an interest in assisting in parade planning, or in being a cavalcade captain, please drop us a line!  There will be a preparation workshop on the Sunday one week earlier, to practice percussion and put finishing touches on costumes.

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Death of CAM Parade!!

Say goodbye to CAM July!! Say it in STYLE!

Host:	CAM
Type:	–
Network:	Global

Date:	Sunday, July 26, 2009
Time:	7:45pm – 10:00pm
Location:	meet at the San Antonio River Tunnel Inlet
Street:	Josephine Street at the San Antonio River
City/Town:	San Antonio, TX
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Hear Ye, Hear Ye, and Hullabaloo! A proclamation is in order! Let us celebrate the deep and cherished D-I-Y spirit of these many years of hot, sweaty Contemporary Art Months, hardcore arts celebration like no other on the planet! Let us salute, strut, and swagger in step along the river. We’ll meet at the Tunnel Inlet and promenade southwards to El Tropicano.

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Potter-Belmar Labs interviews Franco Mondini-Ruiz

May 22, 2009, San Antonio TX

Years ago, Franco Mondini-Ruiz quit a high-paying job in law, paid off his bills, took an extended self-desribed rite-of-passage-trip into Mexico, and then opened his infamous salon and art installation, the Botanica Infinito, on Flores Street in his hometown of San Antonio.  With this was launched an art career that took him all over the world, moving to New York City, contributing to the 2000 Whitney Biennial, winning the Rome Prize, lunching with the Queen of Egypt, and certainly much more.

A decade later, in 2006, San Antonio’s glamorously irreverent bad boy returned home to roost, establishing a lush and bountiful hacienda pregnant with beauty, poetry and art.  Faint echos of the Warhol Factory hang in the air with a swirl of beautiful assistants, dangerous pleasures, and wild, opulent parties, all in the service of and made possible through Mondini-Ruiz’ art making practice.

The son of an upper-middle class Italian Air Force man and a Spanish/Mexican beauty, Mondini-Ruiz is known by many as a generous, yet social boundary-pushing, provocateur.  He has both struggled through and reveled in the myriad contradictions of class, culture, and ethnicity that infuse and enrich his life.  A model hybrid who lives the reality of being “not quite one nor the other,” he owns the differences, fuses them together and enshrines them within his art.

Potter-Belmar Labs interviewed Franco Mondini-Ruiz at his west side domicile, in the bedroom he claims to have been his great grandmother’s.

[This interview is part of a three-part series.  Read Potter-Belmar Labs interview with ArtPace Director,  Matthew Drutt, also on Emvergeoning.]

Emvergeoning:  Tell us a little about the Botanica Infinito.

Franco Mondini-Ruiz: The Botanica was a readymade when I bought it.  It was a pre-existing botanica and it had inventory all the way from the 60’s.  Beautiful place. It was called Infinito Botanica, and underneath, it said “Amor, Dinero, y Paz y Tiempo de Gozarlo,” in my very best Spanish, which I think means “Love, Money, and Peace, and Time to Enjoy It.”  Unfortunately, some architects bought the building — friends of mine whose names will go unmentioned — and they painted out that gorgeous little mural, which was featured in the Whitney Biennial catalog.

Emvergeoning:  How does being from Texas affect your work?

More specifically than being from Texas, I have made a living being an artist from San Antonio.  Texas scares people ’cause there’s, you know, they think of Bush, they think of wealth.  They’re fascinated by it.  They’re interested in it.  But San Antonio is very intriguing to a lot of people all over the world.  There’s enough mystery to it that people are intrigued.  I really have made a career of it, and I don’t mean that facetiously or to be cavalier.  A lot of us from San Antonio, who either were born here or moved here, we love it.  It’s the love of my life, and it even breaks my heart, sometimes.

I have to watch out and not over-romanticize it, and not to just say, “oh, because San Antonio is part of me, I want to build it up.”  I’m haunted by the sense of place here.  I mean, my father’s from Rome, an ancient city with millions of layers.  San Antonio can’t compare, perhaps, with that– or maybe it can.  San Antonio probably has older indigenous populations even than Rome does.  You know, San Pedro Springs is one of the oldest continually-used centers of human inhabitation in the world.

Something intrigues me here, as a metaphor for a lot of things that I’m interested in and love, like cultural hybridity, class, industrialization versus agricultural society, castas, history, cosmopolitanism.

Emvergeoning:  You’ve described San Antonio as your muse.  How can a city be a muse?

I love it.  It makes me create.  It inspires me, and stimulates me.  Turns me on, like a muse.  It happens every two minutes!  And it might be so subtle, like:  Leslie [Raymond, of PBL] came over today, and she had her first menudo.  She sucked it down like her body needed that.   And it’s fascinating, that here she is, sophisticated, but she comes to the west side of San Antonio, and she’s eating this ancient food.  I mean, when you’re eating a tripe soup, you’re eating like an ancient Roman.  And here it is, just a few blocks away in a poor neighborhood in San Antonio.

It’s a mixture of high and low culture that doesn’t stop.  And while Leslie is eating the menudo, you know, this gorgeous guy covered in San Antonio iconography all over his gorgeous body is rolling a blunt, while his sister is serving us delicious dishes of food, while this white cowboy is painting the most delicate paintings and had just made this huge flower arrangement for me, and Carlitos is turning my little yard in the middle of one of the poorest neighborhoods in the poorest cities of the United States into Versailles, with the last few pennies I have in the bank!  I love it!  [laughs]

And it’s like that every minute, if you let it!  With the slightest nurturing, with the slightest investment.  It’s like all those cactus in front:  they need so little, and they bloom so exquisitely.

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screenprinting poster workshop con bar-b-q potluck

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Last CAM Jam Shlam in July

rain party / art opening

Host:	the SMART consortium
Type:	–
Network:	Global

Date:	Saturday, July 11, 2009
Time:	7:00pm – 10:00pm
Location:	1906 building (the mustard colored building on the oldest throughfare in town)
Street:	1906 S. Flores
City/Town:	San Antonio, TX
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one9zero6 Gallery – Ruth Buentello
SMART Art Project Space (formerly Salon Mijangos Gallery) – Carlos Hernandez

FL!GHT Gallery – enough to make it float – Derek Allen Brown, Andy Benavides, Daniel Saldana, Kerri Coar, Jung Hee Mun

JAM CAM SCHLAM

Most of the In and Outlaws
Demitasse (half of Buttercup)
Marcus Rubio and the Gospel Choir of Pillows
and possible surprise guest appearance by mystery ukulele band.

enough to make it float. (Exhibit)

Venue: FL!GHT Gallery

Artist(s): Derek Allen Brown Kerri Coar Daniel Saldana Andy Benavides Jung Mun

Reception(s): Saturday, Jul 11, 7:00 pm – 11:00 pm

Runs through: Monday, Aug 3

Houston’s Carlos Hernandez “Day of the Dead Rockstars” (Exhibit)

Venue: SMART Art Project Space

Artist(s): Carlos Hernandez

Reception(s): Saturday, Jul 11, 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm

Runs through: Saturday, Aug 1

This is my neighborhood (Exhibit)

Venue: 1906 Gallery

Artist(s): Ruth Buentello

Reception(s): Saturday, Jul 11, 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm

Runs through: Saturday, Aug 1

Two divided by Dos

July CAM Second Saturday

Host:	LoneStar Studios
Type:	–
Network:	Global

Date:	Saturday, July 11, 2009
Time:	7:00pm – 11:00pm
Location:	LoneStar Studios
Street:	107 Lone Star Blvd.
City/Town:	San Antonio, TX
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Two divided by Dos
Art by:
Tommy Gregory
Juan de Dios Mora
Devon Moore
Carlos Don JuanMusic by:
Blowing Trees
The Heavy Feathers
Merykid

Humanness Thereafter (Exhibit)

Venue: Gallista Gallery

Artist(s): Alejandro Padilla

Reception(s): Saturday, Jul 11, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Runs through: Wednesday, Aug 5

The 3D art party on July 11th has been moved to the Lava Lounge found on 2702 N Saint Marys. It is going to be a blast and its only 5$. It is going to have a fashion show, Dj’s, 3D art(glasses provided), and live bands. Midi Fister, I OK, Analog Love and Saturday Nite Shockers. All the info is on our page.

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Rio de Seda/River of Silk (Exhibit)

Venue: Bihl Haus Arts

Artist(s): Carolina Flores

Reception(s):

Friday, Jul 10, 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Saturday, Aug 1, 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

Saturday, Aug 8, 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

Runs through: Saturday, Aug 15

Paintings-Sculptures-Ceramics at St Mary’s & Josephine & Dewey (Exhibit)

Venue: Art on the Hill in Tobin Hill

Artist(s): Luis Lopez Paco Felici Raul Servin Blas Lopez James Wyatt Hendricks Enrique Gutierrez Sid Van Zandt Roberto James Ben Mata Daniel Garcia Wesley Harvey Diana Kersey Taaffe Caton Lyn Woods Cindy Palmer Joe Raines Tony Richardson Maggie Looney Elva Salinas Rebecca De Leon Almazon Joseph M Almendariz James Saldivar Rabbit McLernon Vanessa Puente Steven Da Luz Lisa Bacic Susan M Oaks Margaret Craig

Reception(s): Friday, Jul 10, 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm

Runs through: Friday, Jul 10

Black, White, and Red (Exhibit)

Venue: HighWireArts

Artist(s): Cindy Palmer Joe Raines Tony Richardson Maggie Looney Elva Salinas Rebecca De Leon Almazon Joseph M Almendariz James Saldivar Rabbit McLernon Vanessa Puente Steven Da Luz

Reception(s): Friday, Jul 10, 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm

Runs through: Monday, Aug 3

ART ON THE HILL

2nd Friday Art Walk JULY 10th

Host:	TOBIN HILL ARTS ALLIANCE
Type:	–
Network:	Global

Date:	Friday, July 10, 2009
Time:	6:00pm – 10:00pm
Location:	Tobin Hills
Street:	326 W. Josephine
City/Town:	San Antonio, TX
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Second Friday “Art On-The-Hill” art walk on July 10, 2009

The Alliance kicked off its first very successful public art activity on June 12, 2009 where hundreds of people flocked the streets near the triangle in Tobin Hill. The community came out to celebrate the viewing of fine art from over 20 artists and witnessed the unveiling of the sculptured installations in the neighborhood. The second art walk is scheduled for July 10th and will feature paintings, sculptures and ceramics of over 25 artists, all near the intersection of West Josephine – N. St. Mary’s – E Dewey Place in Tobin Hill and is expanding to other locations as interest is growing.

The event will begin at 6pm and run until 10pm. Admission at each location is FREE. Light refreshments will be served and music will be provided.

The Tobin Hill Arts Alliance was created to promote fine arts in the historic Tobin Hill neighborhood. The goal is to increase visibility of artists and art galleries in the Tobin Hill Community.

Name of Location Address Artists

High Wire Art Gallery 326 W Josephine
Cindy Palmer, Rebecca Deleon Almazan, Toni Richardson, Joe Raines, Elva Salinas, Maggie Looney, Joseph M Almendariz, James Saldivar, Rabbit McLernon, Vanessa Puente, Steven Da Luz

The Josephine Theatre 339 W Josephine
Ben Mata, Susan M Oaks, Lisa Bacic

M4 Dance Studio 2300 N St Mary’s Suite B
Donna Bland, Sid Van Zandt, Roberto James, Enrique Gutierrez

621 Screen Printing 2300 N St Mary’s Daniel Garcia

La Casa Rosa Art Studio 527 E Dewey Place

Luis Lopez, Paco Felici, Raul Servin, Blas Lopez and James Wyatt Hendricks-sculpture installation

G2 Art Sight 601 E Dewey Place
Sarah Jones, Larry Graeber-sculpture installation

Tycoon Flats 2926 N St Mary’s

Taaffe Caton, Wesley Harvey, Diana Kersey, Lynn Woods-ceramic artists

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Host:	Chuck Kerr
Type:	–
Network:	Global

Date:	Saturday, June 27, 2009
Time:	8:00pm – 11:00pm
Location:	Music Town
Street:	4174 Broadway
City/Town:	San Antonio, TX
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Friday, Jun 26 — Vanessa Centeno: “Leather + Metal+ Stones / SMARTart Project Space”

Vanessa Centeno

Visual Arts – 3D, Visual Arts – Galleries
6/26/2009 – 7/7/2009
One9Zero6 Gallery

Vanessa incorporates leather, metal and stones in her creative process resulting in organic, confident pieces. We are excited to be hosting her first show and sharing her work with you.

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Singlets for a Practical Society

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Gevers Street Studio 718 S. Gevers St., . “Spoken Woods” wood art, plus live ice sculpting by Buddy Rasmussen, a film screening and open-mike poetry. 7 p.m.-midnight. Free.

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I’m sure I’m late to the party on this one, but a friend just turned me onto French Belgian street artist Bonom (a play on bon homme?), who has worked in Paris and Brussels. Lots of good photos here.

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Network:	Global

Date:	Friday, June 26, 2009
Time:	7:30pm – 9:30pm
Location:	The Historic Guadalupe Theater
Street:	1301 Guadalupe Theater
City/Town:	San Antonio, TX
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Centro Cultural Aztlan 1800 Fredericksburg Road, Suite 103, . “Mole, Micheladas y Mas,” bid on works by nearly 80 artists while enjoying live music, food and drinks. 6-10 p.m. $25.

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Dan Goddard, the Express-News’ long-time art critic who was recently canned in a round of layoffs, has just published two good articles dealing with Linda Pace properties. In the San Antonio Current, he discusses the fate of Pace’s storied art collection, and it’s forthcoming permanent home. Designed by British architect David Adjaye specifically for the Pace collection, the project is on hold due to the economic downturn. Apart from that news, which I’ve been hearing unofficially for a while, Goddard reveals many interesting tidbits about the collection, Linda’s personal relationships with various artists, and the ongoing activities of the foundation. I was excited to learn that the Linda Pace Foundation is funding a public work by Jesse Amado to be installed at the downtown library (it will surely be a welcome contrast to their Chihuly).

On Glasstire, Goddard reviews Jonathan Monk’s “Rew-Shay Hood Project Part II” at Artpace. There’s some good context here for understanding the subtleties of the show, from Monk’s history with appropriation to Rucsha’s Catholic background, right down to curator Matthew Drutt’s obsession with vehicle-related art. That Goddard brings up Dave Hickey’s discussion of Ruscha is interesting, given Hickey’s interest in custom cars as an artistic medium. Some people I’ve talked to about the show come away with the impression that Monk is having the Ruscha photos painted on car hoods from the same period; Goddard points out this isn’t the case, the hoods come from one or two decades later than the photos. Perhaps what’s going on here is a contrast between the beginning of the idea of an “artist’s book” (the move away from the artist creating singular, unique objects) and the end of the era of the custom muscle car. As Goddard points out, the push for more efficient, less polluting cars using computer technologies pushed out custom car hobbyist culture to a large extent. But the rise of these computer technologies also empowered artists to move into their own mass production, at the same time allowing the kind of appropriation that Monk himself uses. Although Ruscha wasn’t using computers to produce Twentysix Gas Stations (and I don’t know if Monk used them in his reproductions), they are the descendents of the mass-production technologies that printed Twentysix Gas Stations, and Monk’s relevance certainly has a lot to do with them. Thus in the show we have the suggestion of a kind of ebb and flow, technology and the markets at certain points inspiring very personal expression, at other points depersonalizing art even to the point that it becomes design. And isn’t Monk here acting more like a designer than an artist, if by design we mean depersonalized visual communication?

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Host:	Art Palace Gallery
Type:	–
Network:	Global

Date:	Saturday, June 27, 2009
Time:	8:00pm – 10:00pm
Location:	Art Palace Gallery
Street:	2109 Cesar Chavez
City/Town:	Austin, TX
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Get Reel Film: Inch’ Allah Dimanche
Thursday, June 25, 6:30 pm, Chiego Lecture Hall
In the aftermath of World War II, France attempted to replenish its weakened work force by recruiting men from North Africa. In the mid-1970s, the French government relaxed its immigration policy to allow families of Algerian men to join them. Inch’ Allah Dimanche provides a deeply moving memoir of the isolation and vulnerability that an immigrant family experienced at a time when racial integration was virtually non-existent. 2001, France, English subtitles, 98 min.

Inch’Allah Dimanche

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Inch’Allah dimanche
Directed by	Yamina Benguigui
Produced by	Bachir Deraïs Philippe Dupuis-Mendel
Written by	Yamina Benguigui
Starring	Fejria Deliba
Cinematography	Antoine Roch
Distributed by	ARP Sélection Divisa Home Video (Spain) Film Movement (USA)
Release date(s)	September 14, 2001
Running time	96 min.
Country	France Algeria
Language	Arabic, French

Inch’Allah Dimanche (Arabic: إن شاء اللأحد‎, English: Sunday God Willing) is a 2001 French/Algerian movie by Yamina Benguigui about the life of an Algerian immigrant woman in France. The film won a variety of international awards, including the 2001 International Critics’ Award at the Toronto International Film Festival.^[1] Although Benguigui was urged to change the name of the film after the September 11 attacks, she chose to keep the original title, a portion of which is in Arabic.^[2]

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[edit] Plot synopsis

Zouina’s husband, Ahmed, left Algeria in the 1970s to work in France. As part of the French government’s family reunification scheme Zouina is allowed to move to France from Algeria in order to join her husband. Leaving her mother behind, she lives with her husband, his mother and their three children. While she struggles with the physical abuse of her husband and verbal abuse of her mother-in-law she meets French friends who help her cope with life in a different culture. She becomes more confident by the end of the movie, which ends optimistically.

[edit] Music

The film contains a variety of French, Arabic, and Kabyle language music. Many of the tracks are performed by Algerian musician Idir.

1. “Ageggig” – Idir (A. Mouhed, Idir)
2. “Al Laïl” – Alain Blesing (Alain Blesing)
3. “Apache” – The Shadows (Jerry Lordan)
4. “Isefra” – Idir (M. Benhammadouche, Idir)
5. “Djebel” – Aziz Bekhti
6. “Cenud” – Nourredine Chenoud
7. “Snitraw” – Idir
8. “Le Premiere Bonheur du Jour” – Françoise Hardy (Franck Gerald, Jean Renard)
9. “Djin” – Alain Blesing
10. “Temzi (Mon Enfance)” – Hamou (Hamou, Ben Mohamed, Eric Amah, Caroline Pascaud-Blandin)
11. “Sssendu” – Idir
12. “Raoul” – Souad Massi

[edit] References

1. ^ “Amelie wins at low-key Toronto”. BBC News. September 17, 2001. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1548101.stm. Retrieved on 2009-03-26.
2. ^ “Inch’ Allah dimanche au cinéma d’Aubergenville” (in French). Le courier de Mantes. January 22, 2002. http://www.courrierdemantes.com/news/fullstory.php/aid/7105. Retrieved on 2009-03-26.

[edit] External links

• Official website
• Inch’Allah dimanche at the Internet Movie Database

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Host:
Type:	–
Network:	Global

Date:	Saturday, July 18, 2009
Time:	1:00pm – 2:45pm
Location:	The Guadalupe Theater
Street:	1301 Guadalupe Theater
City/Town:	San Antonio, TX
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