On quiet days, most museums can feel a bit like ancient mausoleums, cool chambers full of precious things that once belonged to the rich and deceased. Ruby City, opened in 2019, is San Antonio’s newest, most architecturally notable, and most contemporary-focused art museum. It is also, thanks to its unusual origin story, probably the most haunted-feeling art space in Texas. The new exhibition “Tangible/Nothing,” up now through July 2023, plays into Ruby City’s otherworldly ambience with an array of conceptual artworks that deal in spectral presences and evocative absences. Ruby City is the only museum I know of constructed according to a dream vision of a dying megacollector—the salsa heiress, art patron, and lucid dreamer Linda Pace, who died in 2007 at age 62. Ruby City…
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