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A detail from Ballroom Luminoso. The installation of color-changing chandeliers made with recycled bicycle parts by Blessing Hancock and Joe O Connell is located under Interstate 35 at the intersection of Theo and Malone streets./Courtesy City of San Antonio
Any local who loves posing in front of the city’s wide variety of public art can now do so with more ease than ever.
The city’s Department of Arts & Culture knows how much locals love exploring art throughout the 2-1-0, so officials decided to compile a map of all of its public art pieces. Now, because the map is from the city department, it won’t include every mural or creative tagging you can find throughout the city, but it does include more than 600 pieces of art that are the product of the city’s efforts.
Cheech Marin isn’t just a comedian, movie star and ’80s-era pot icon. He’s also one of the most notable collectors of Chicano art in the world today. Two things attest to this: his upcoming museum in Riverside, California officially called the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art, Culture & Industry, but already nicknamed The Cheech ; and his traveling show,
“I want to encourage everyone in Colorado to come and see it,” Marin says. “It’s a wonderful collection of works on paper by amazing Chicano artists. This is our second volume of it, and we’ve traveled all over the country and played over fifty museums with this collection. It’s unheard of a lot of museums don’t like showing private collections. But people just love it.”