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Suzanne Weaver was appointed as the San Antonio Museum of Art’s new Brown Foundation Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Museum officials announced Wednesday.

Anna Stothart, the San Antonio Museum of Art Brown Foundation Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, recently announced she is taking her talents to New York, where she will assume a newly created position as director at Lehmann Maupin Gallery.

While many San Antonians refer to the San Antonio Museum of Art as “SAMA,” the Museum staff is concerned that people outside of San Antonio, especially tourists, draw no connection between the acronym and the Museum.

Historically speaking, manufacturing jobs don’t have the best reputation.

The opening of the new Matisse: Life in Color exhibition at the San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA) on Saturday morning drew modest crowds of locals and out-of-towers coming to see the modern master’s work, on view now through September 7.

I have spent my life training to be an art historian and museum director.

San Antonio is a city that loves color, yet on more than one occasion, has allowed color to become a citywide lover’s quarrel.

Editor’s Note: Below is letter sent to SAISD employees today from SAISD Superintendent Sylvester Perez, published with permission.

A fixture in the San Antonio art scene and picture of success, Bill FitzGibbons demonstrates that it is possible to have a flourishing career as an artist in the city.