From SAMA: "Lovers & Fighters: Prints by Latino Artists in the SAMA Collection highlights works featuring imagery and subjects related to concepts of love, power,…

04.20.24 | 04.18.25

From the San Antonio Museum of Art: "The San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA) is thrilled to announce teamLab: The World of Irreversible Change, a…

03.23.24 | 03.23.25

From the San Antonio Museum of Art: "This year, SAMA honors the legacy of Ángel Rodríguez-Díaz (born San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1955–died San Antonio, Texas,…

04.08.24 | 01.26.25

From SAMA: "This fall, SAMA will host the first retrospective exhibition of the influential Chicana artist and cultural critic Amalia Mesa-Bains, who pioneered the genre…

09.20.24 | 01.12.25

From the San Antonio Museum of Art: "Lovers & Fighters: Prints by Latino Artists in the SAMA Collection highlights works featuring imagery and subjects related…

11.04.24 | 01.05.25

From the San Antonio Museum of Art: "This summer, artist and educator Carlos Rosales-Silva will visit SAMA to install a site-specific mural in the Museum’s…

08.23.23 | 09.14.24

From the San Antonio Museum of Art: "From the warriors of ancient Greek legends, to the knights of the Middle Ages, to the superheroes of…

02.16.24 | 05.12.24

From the San Antonio Museum of Art: "The town of Tonalá, Mexico, has a long history with clay, dating back to the pre-Hispanic period and…

03.18.22 | 03.24.24

From San Antonio Museum of Art: "Learn about the Japanese samurai and their appreciation of finely honed skills in forging and polishing steel to make…

01.06.24 | 01.26.24

From the San Antonio Museum of Art: "SAMA will host American Made: Paintings and Sculpture from the DeMell Jacobsen Collection, an exhibition spanning over 250…

10.14.23 | 01.07.24

From the San Antonio Museum of Art: "This summer, artist and educator Carlos Rosales-Silva will visit SAMA to install a site-specific mural in the Museum’s…

08.21.23 | 09.14.23

From the San Antonio Museum of Art: "The San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA) announced that it will present Roman Landscapes: Visions of Nature and…

02.24.23 | 05.21.23

An ongoing exhibition of Latin American Folk Art. From the Museum: "In the spring of 2017, there was a confined flood in the Latin American…

09.12.20 | 04.27.23

From San Antonio Museum of Art: "Traitor, Survivor, Icon: The Legacy of La Malinche examines the historical and cultural legacy of La Malinche and her representation…

10.14.22 | 01.08.23

From the San Antonio Museum of Art: "The San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA) is pleased to announce that it will present American Made: Paintings…

10.14.23 | 01.07.23

From the San Antonio Museum of Art: "Type: Lecture Title: Super Macho: Superheroes and Performing Gender Date: Tuesday, Jun 28, 6:00 PM–7:00 PM Location: John…

06.28.22 | 06.28.22

From the San Antonio Museum of Art: "Wendy Red Star: A Scratch on the Earth is a mid-career survey of the work of Portland artist…

02.11.22 | 05.08.22

From the San Antonio Museum of Art: "Our new exhibition 40 Years, 40 Stories: Treasures and New Discoveries from SAMA's Collection opens on October 16.…

10.16.21 | 01.02.22

From the San Antonio Museum of Art: "The latest installation at the San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA), Photography: Recent Acquisitions, is now on view…

04.29.21 | 11.15.21

From the San Antonio Museum of Art: "America’s Impressionism: Echoes of a Revolution, an exhibition that explores the development of Impressionism in the United States.…

06.11.21 | 09.05.21

To register for this online performance event, go here. From the San Antonio Museum of Art: "The San Antonio Museum of Art presents an orchestral…

09.03.21 | 09.03.21

From the San Antonio Museum of Art: "No Ocean Between Us: Art of Asian Diasporas in Latin America & The Caribbean, 1945–Present features approximately 65 works…

02.12.21 | 05.09.21

From the San Antonio Museum of Art: "Nature, Power, and Maya Royals, an exhibition of thirty-four artworks and objects discovered by the University of Texas at…

07.15.21 | 02.27.21

Note: This event is online only. For registration, go here. An online discussion with Yohanna Tesfai, SAMA's Public Program Manager. "Free Join SAMA and invited…

01.19.21 | 01.19.21

An exhibition of jewelry and craft from across the world. From the Museum: "How are two distinct Asian cultural identities expressed through ornament? To honor…

10.09.20 | 01.03.21

Note: This event is online only. From SAMA: "Enjoy an intimate, casual evening online with artist Annette Lawrence, currently featured in our special exhibition Texas…

08.11.20 | 08.11.20

Enjoy an intimate, casual evening of conversation with artist Margo Sawyer, currently featured in our special exhibition "Texas Women: A New History of Abstract Art."…

05.19.20 | 05.19.20

Join us for a live conversation between local artist, Hiromi Stringer, and curator Dr. Yinshi Lerman-Tan! Stringer’s works explore topics from time travel and cross-cultural communication to…

05.12.20 | 05.12.20

While Texas is well known for its representational and figurative art, during the mid-twentieth century a number of artists began to explore the possibilities of…

02.07.20 | 05.03.20

"This exhibition celebrates the unveiling of a large, twelve-foot tall, Taihu rock, a gift of the Chinese Sister City, Wuxi, honoring the tricentennial anniversary of…

11.06.19 | 02.23.20

"One of the Museum’s newest—and quite possibly heftiest—acquisitions will be unveiled on November 6. The six-and-a-half-ton Taihu rock from the Lake Taihu region in Jiangsu…

11.06.19 | 02.23.20

Most collectors seek to preserve and document each piece in their collection. In some cases, their study and documentation add value to their collection, and…

01.24.20 | 01.24.20

Rocks appealed to the scholars’ love of mountains and, when placed in a garden, brought the mountains into an urban setting. In the scholar’s study,…

01.21.20 | 01.21.20

In late imperial China, carefully selected rocks were admired on a par with the finiest manmade arts, including painting, calligraphy, and porcelain. This lecture takes…

01.14.20 | 01.14.20

"The exhibition focuses on three generations of young and rebellious artists, designers, and makers who revolutionized the arts in Britain from 1840 to 1910. Organized…

10.11.19 | 01.05.20

"Roessel shares lessons garnered from her fifteen-year long career in the museum field and how arts organizations and individuals can rise to the challenge of…

09.17.19 | 09.17.19

A group show of works featuring artists responses to Wonder Woman and Superman. Including Laylah Ali, Dara Birnbaum, Renée Cox, Mary Beth Edelson, Fahamu Pecou,…

06.21.19 | 09.01.19

"Capturing the Moment celebrates a major gift of over five hundred photographs from collectors Marie Brenner and Ernest Pomerantz and features approximately seventy primarily black-and-white…

02.22.19 | 05.12.19

A festival organized by the San Antonio Potters Guild, featuring ceramic, glass and fiber art work.

05.11.19 | 05.11.19

A lecture about the evolution of color photography as an accepted art form by John Rohrbach, PhD, Senior Curator of Photographs at the Amon Carter…

05.10.19 | 05.10.19

An artist talk by Nic Nicosia at the San Antonio Museum of Art "Free, Seating is limited. Doors open at 6:00 The talk is followed…

03.19.19 | 03.19.19

A show of works by American modernist aritst John Marin (1870–1953). "Selected primarily from the collection of 290 drawings and watercolors donated to the Arkansas Arts…

10.27.18 | 01.20.19

From the museum: "Motivated by personal family history and the urge to preserve memories, Marilyn Lanfear’s body of work is a testament to her rich…

08.24.18 | 11.11.18

From the event's organizer: "Explore music and performance art in all corners of the San Antonio Museum of Art on Saturday October 6th from 3pm…

10.06.18 | 10.06.18

An exhibition featuring more than forty masterpieces of Spanish painting drawn from major collections in Madrid—including the Prado, San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts Museum,…

06.23.18 | 09.16.18

An exhibition featuring bronze reliquaries designed to hold animal mummies presented alongside the museum's collection of cat, crocodile, ibis, and falcon mummies. This show "focuses on…

03.23.18 | 07.01.18

"San Antonio 1718: Art from Viceregal Mexico tells the story of the city’s first century through more than one hundred landscapes, portraits, narrative paintings, sculptures,…

02.17.18 | 05.13.18

A show featuring thirty-one photographs from Timothy Greenfield-Sanders' series The Latino List. For more information on the works, please go here.

10.06.17 | 12.31.17

An exhibition exploring the museum's "ancient Roman portrait depicting Antinous, the beautiful youth beloved by the emperor Hadrian."

09.01.17 | 11.26.17

A show featuring paintings, sculpture, and decorative objects that explore the concepts of heaven and hell, ideas that are central to Pure Land Buddhism. From SAMA: "Heaven…

06.16.17 | 09.10.17

"Using photographs and video footage taken onsite, this lecture will outline Palmyra’s significance as a key trade post along the Silk Road, describe its major…

05.16.17 | 05.16.17

A show of more than 100 artworks created by Aboriginal artists since the mid-1990s. The exhibition focuses on contemporary works that emphasize the artists' connections to land,…

02.24.17 | 05.14.17

An exhibition of works by Texas landscape painter Julian Onderdonk (1882–1922). Onderdonk is a San Antonio native and is best known for his paintings of bluebonnets.

01.20.17 | 04.23.17

Curators from the San Antonio Museum of Art talk about objects from the museum's collection.

09.16.16 | 02.17.17

An exhibition of works by artist Carlos Merida. Merida worked as an assistant to Diego Rivera and studied in Paris where he was influenced by the art of Modigliani…

07.08.16 | 01.29.17

"Highest Heaven highlights the role of art in the establishment of new city centers in the Spanish Empire, and the propagation of the Christian faith…

06.11.16 | 09.04.16

A screening of the 2012 film No. The movie follows "a brash young advertising executive, Rene Saavedra, during the 1988 Chile Referendum."

08.26.16 | 08.26.16

An outdoor sculpture and design installation by Mexican designers Hector Esrawe and Ignacio Cadena. The project is meant to explore "how engagement with art and design…

06.17.16 | 08.21.16

A lecture by Thomas B. F. Cummins exploring the art and architecture of Colonial Cuzco.

07.10.16 | 07.10.16

An exhibition of wooden bas-relief panels by Mexican artist Roberto de la Selva.

01.29.16 | 06.26.16

An exhibition in commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of Auguste Rodin's death. The show includes 32 bronzes from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Collections.

03.05.16 | 05.29.16

An event featuring curator of Latin American Art, Marion Oettinger, in conversation with contemporary mixed-media artist Carlos Betancourt.

05.22.16 | 05.22.16

An exhibition of work by artist, educator, and Catholic nun Corita Kent. Kent's work will be on view with that of her contemporaries, including Andy Warhol and Roy…

02.13.16 | 04.12.16

An exhibition of works by twenty-eight contemporary Chinese artists. The pieces in the exhibition are drawn from the Rubell Family Collection in Miami.

09.05.15 | 01.03.16

Jinli He, a Trinity University Assistant Professor of Modern Languages and Literature, will talk about the exhibition 28 Chinese.

10.27.15 | 10.27.15

An exhibition of multidisciplinary works happening across San Antonio "from Maverick Park, along East Jones Avenue, and throughout the grounds of the San Antonio Museum…

10.23.15 | 10.24.15

An exhibition of over 140 works by Mexican artist Miguel Covarrubias. Working as a painter, caricaturist, writer, cartographer, and illustrator, Covarrubias was awarded two Guggenheim Fellowships to produce…

07.18.15 | 10.18.15

A panel discussion on the life of Miguel Covarrubias. The panel will be moderated by Marion Oettinger, Jr., curator of the exhibition, and includes María Elena Rico…

10.11.15 | 10.11.15

A Socratic seminar based on an excerpt from I Ching: The Book of Changes and inspired by the exhibition 28 Chinese.

09.29.15 | 09.29.15

Learn about Islamic art from art historian Dr. Annie Labatt.

09.18.15 | 09.18.15

The first comprehensive retrospective of works by artist Jamie Wyeth, this show features 100 paintings, works on paper, illustrations, and assemblages (including his portraits of…

04.25.15 | 07.05.15

A number of large Picasso tapestries, commissioned by Nelson A. Rockefeller between the 1950s and 70s, woven by Madame J. de la Baume Dürrbach at…

12.20.14 | 03.08.15

If you can't make Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs at London's Tate Modern this summer, head to San Antonio to enjoy more than eighty paintings, sculptures,…

06.14.14 | 09.07.14

Kuhn's detailed paintings of animals in landscapes made him a popular wildlife illustrator.

03.15.14 | 06.08.14

Curator David S. Rubin interviews four artists who run exhibition spaces in San Antonio at The San Antonio Museum of Art in March 2013 as…

06.20.13 | 07.20.13

Curator David S. Rubin interviews four artists who run exhibition spaces in San Antonio today.  Panelists include Kimberly Aubuchon (Unit B), Rex Hausmann (Hausmann Millworks),…

03.15.13 | 03.15.13

In the 1970s, three pioneering young artists, Norman Rene Avila, Donjon Evans and George Horner, formed the San Antonio Museum of Modern Art (SAMOMA), which…

02.09.13 | 03.11.13

Examples of The Roman Catholic cult of Mary, rooted in Old Testament and pre-Christian ritual associated with fertility, fecundity, maternity, nourishment and other core human…

08.18.12 | 02.20.13

125 works from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and  seven from the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Naples reveal this most popular ancient goddess in…

09.15.12 | 02.17.13

Canadian artist Adad Hannah creates staged photographs that reinterpret Artworks from the SAMA collections for Fotoseptiembre.

09.01.12 | 12.30.12

Twelve prints by Okumura Masanobu, dating 1710-15, depict sexual encounters in the pleasure quarters of Edo (near present-day Tokyo), Osaka and Kyoto. For mature audiences.

09.07.12 | 11.11.12

Curator David S. Rubin interviews artist Joey Fauerso about her life and art.

07.17.12 | 07.17.12

Curator David S. Rubin interviews artist Jesús Moroles about his life and art.

07.06.12 | 07.06.12

Crickets have been kept as pets in China for at least 1,000 years. Dr. Ernest Lee'S large, diverse, and impressive collection of cricket cages and…

12.23.11 | 06.15.12

The second exhibition in SAMA's three-part San Antonio Collects series. The sketching and paintings of French-born Theodore Gentilz, one of the earliest professional artists in…

03.02.12 | 05.20.12

Works from the Harriet and Harmon Kelley and Irene and Leo Edwards Collections, covering 200 years of African American art. It's the first of three…

01.17.12 | 05.06.12

Curator David S. Rubin in conversation with artist Ross Bleckner about his art and life.

04.10.12 | 04.10.12

Art Historian/Critic and celebrated author Barbara Rose takes her  Menil/Morgan lecture on the road: she will discuss the influence of medieval Apocalypse manuscripts on Picasso,…

04.05.12 | 04.05.12

The premiere screening of a 20-minute video documentary by Ray Santisteban on the 2010 SAMA exhibition Psychedelic: Optical and Visionary Art since the 1960s.  Includes…

03.02.12 | 03.02.12

5,000 Years of Chinese Jade featuring selections from the National Museum of History, Taiwan and the Arthur M. Sackler Collection, Smithsonian Institution, arranged chronologically.

10.01.11 | 02.19.12

The San Antonio Museum of Art's new exhibition is called, La Feria - Folk Art from Regional Fairs in Latin America. Regional fairs have been…

04.08.11 | 08.31.11

A cutting-edge contemporary exhibition that includes heavy-hitters Marina Abramovic, Laurie Anderson, Jenny Holzer, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Mike and Doug Starn, Pat Steir, Bill Viola,…

03.11.11 | 07.31.11

A survey of  Lee's digital photography from 1993-2000. Chinese-born New York artist Lee was an early adopter, exploring the possibilities of digital manipulation nearly as…

09.02.11 | 02.19.11

San Antonio Museum of Art mounts an exhibition of psychedelic art from the Op Art of the 1960s to the abstract and visionary works of…

03.13.10 | 08.01.10

David Halliday, a nationally acclaimed photographer who lives and works in New Orleans, LA exhibits his new photographic works in "Culinary Delights". This exhibition is…

09.21.09 | 02.21.10

Japanese woodblock print artist, Taiso Yoshitoshi (1839-1892), has lavish prints depicting nightmarish ghosts to scenes of domestic harmony in his series "Thirty-two Aspects of Daily…

11.03.09 | 01.17.10

In celebration of the opening of the newly expanded Museum Reach of the Riverwalk this May, SAMA presents Waterflow, an exhibition of recent works by…

05.13.09 | 08.23.09

One of three concurrent exhibitions featuring the work of artist Marcia Gygli King, SAMA is exhibiting King's “Botanical Paintings,” a body of work she began…

02.03.09 | 04.12.09

George O. Jackson has been photographing the indigenous people of Mexico since 1977. For El Cuerpo Adornado: Exploring the Aesthetic Spirit of Mexico, Jackson presents…

03.15.08 | 05.25.08

These "Audubon-on-Viagra" watercolors are too cool for words.

10.26.07 | 01.06.08

A revival of contemporary art is happening at SAMA! Rubin plans to install some never-before-seen gems in the museum's contemporary galleries including Hans Hofmann, Frank…

07.07.07 | 01.01.08

Allen's site-specific installation in the Great Hall responds to the particular characteristics of the architecture, while also taking into account the conditions of light within…

07.07.07 | 10.14.07

Upon purchasing a Kodak Retina camera in 1953, Ginsberg began taking pictures of his friends. From 1953-1964, Ginsberg chronicled his buddies, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs,…

08.04.07 | 10.14.07

06.02.07 | 07.22.07

Japanese lacquer painter Shibata Zeshin's life and work spanned most of the 19th century, particularly the two eras that most define Japan to Western collectors,…

02.17.07 | 05.06.07

02.03.07 | 04.15.07