I don’t think about the differences between art and craft. It gets in the way of seeing what is there. Did I teach them anything? No, Las Hormigas did not need me to teach them anything…. working together confirmed that we are more the same than different.
Curator Marietta Bernstorff paired 13 artists from throughout North America with artisans from workshops engaged in traditional crafts in Oaxaca for an exhibition currently displayed at Museo MACO, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Oaxaca. Tinwork, ceramics, gourd-carving and stitchery are among the forms of art employed in “Bajo la bóveda azul cobalto/Under the Cobalt Blue Sky.”
The majority of these photos reflect the results of these collaborations that can be viewed through March 20, 2019.
Fred Escher and Taller Hormigas Bordadoras
Fred Escher and Taller Hormigas Bordadoras
Fred Escher and Taller Hormigas Bordadoras
Fred Escher and Taller Hormigas Bordadoras
Andy Medina
Fred Escher and Taller Hormigas Bordadoras
Fred Escher and Taller Hormigas Bordadoras
Fred Escher and Taller Hormigas Bordadoras
Fred Escher and Taller Hormigas Bordadoras
Fred Escher and Taller Hormigas Bordadoras
detail of “El Artista,” Sandra Del Pilar, 2017
This exposition is a demonstration of what can happen when we accept our differences and our similarities; it is an example of coexistence under the same blanket of stars.
You need hold your breath no longer. That much anticipated list revealing most-read blog posts over the past year is here.
While the brutally murdered Helen Madarasz was a real person, at one time I believed I invented her ghost refusing to leave the site of her former home in Brackenridge Park. So many keep reading the post six years later, even I am starting to think she might really be haunting the park.
My readers seem to be as Alamobsessive as I am, fretting over proposed plans for Alamo Plaza. Every time I think the plaza will remain fence-free and historic gems on the west side of the plaza will be spared, renewed threats arise. That barely watercolored-in white rail in the background of the image above is a fence. Just to be safe, please consider signing the San Antonio Conservation’s Society petition at change. org.
venison at Fricska Gastropub in Budapest
Thanks for taking trips with me; you seem particularly drawn to food. We fell hard for Fricska Gastropub in Budapest, and our taste buds feel vindicated with its recent receipt of Bib Gourmand recognition from Michelin. (And, yes, sister Susan, I promise to get to food posts from Italy soon. She has been whining about being sent into so many churches first. But it takes a long time for postcards to arrive from Italy, and the Alamo keeps interrupting.)
Margarita Cabrera
Like many of you, cannot wait to see Margarita Cabrera’s ‘Tree of Life’ take root on the Mission Reach of the San Antonio River near Mission Espada.
So here’s your top 12, with the numbers in parentheses representing the rankings six months ago:
La Virgen de la Soledad, above, is the patron saint of Oaxaca. The miraculous story of the burro who brought her to the city can be read in an earlier post.
This cluster of photos was grabbed from several churches throughout Oaxaca.
Postcards from Barton Springs 