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The Arts Intel Report

A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler

What You See is What You See

Nov 21, 2019 – May 17, 2020
6000 N New Braunfels Ave, San Antonio, TX 78209, United States

Since purchasing four woodcuts by the artist Donald Judd in the 1990s, the McNay has been building up its repertoire of minimalist and conceptual graphics. The build was slow and steady. Enter John M. Parker, Jr., an Austin philanthropist who in 2017 gifted the entirety of his collection to the museum. McNay meets Parker in this exhibition, which takes the merged and enhanced collection out for its first spin. —E.C.

Sol LeWitt American, “Bands of Lines in Four Directions, Square,” 1993. Courtesy of McNay Art Museum.