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Jordan Casteel at New Museum (Feb. 2020)
Harlem-based painter Jordan Casteel shared the marquee of a dual solo, two simultaneous one-artist painter shows that opened More …
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What was adobeairstream, anyway?
Today is January 25, 2022. Adobeairstream first took shape over a small table where Leanne Goebel and I More …
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Juvenile Life without Parole, Captured in Natural Life
Juvenile Life Without Parole (JLWOP) will one day hopefully be as obsolete as pillories, bilboes, brands and branks. Until More …
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Abstract Expressionist Women at DAM in Review
The 2001 edition of The 20th-Century Art Book defines Abstract Expressionism as a post-World War II art movement in American painting, More …
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Currents New Media Festival in Review
Currents New Media Festival this year augmented what new media artist Julia Scher has called “appearances in screens” More …
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Dystopia Files, Five Years After, Makes Past Prologue
About five years ago I interviewed artist Mark Tribe on microphone. (Podcast archive here.) We talked about his More …
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SFMOMA Cruise Ship Makes Port With Trophies Aboard
Rich donors are to shiny new art museums what electricity is to Teslas. In San Francisco, companies like the More …
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New Topographics in Santa Fe
On Friday, January 29th, 2016, Caterpillar announced the closure of its Santa Fe factory. In a move to More …
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Susan York at the O’Keeffe Museum
Most of the time one doesn’t think of painting as volume, because a volume implies a third dimension. More …
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How to View the Mexican Revolution
In the photograph “Felicistas in the YMCA,” snipers crouch near a window in a rubble-strewn room and train More …
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Nick Cave on Practice, Performance and Violence
Twigs are unassuming, irregular, trodden-upon nuisances to be swept up with the leaves in the fall. However, in More …
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Postcommodity Threads Indigeneity into Border Narrative
The U.S. Border Patrol presence in and around Douglas, Arizona, is so ubiquitous that it’s banal. Even an More …
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John Connell: Works and John Connell: Earth-Touching Buddha, A Review
Coming face to face with John Connell’s art, both in person and in reproduction, imparts a sense of quizzicality. More …
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Living Blue: Reflections on Indigo from Hand/Eye’s Editor
Nilpharmari, a word coined by the British for the growing of indigofera tinctoria, means “the cultivation of blue.” More …
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Intimacy and Experience at Currents New Media Festival
A museum docent put a “special” ring on my finger and touched me intimately at Currents: The More …
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Facts vs. Emotions on El Rio and Affordable Housing
Editor’s Note: This opinion piece in favor of El Rio and affordable housing by affordable-housing proponent Daniel Werwath More …
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Mother-Skin: Liminality in Maternal Space
mother-skin multimedia installation Exhibited at Peters Projects Santa Fe, NM 2015 Undergraduate BFA Thesis, SFUAD Woman’s, daughter’s More …
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Matt Peterson On Abe Makes A Movie
The words Albuquerque and comedy are not frequently heard in the same sentence, but the city has come a long More …
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Marylou Reifsnyder: Artist as “Awed Spectator”
While Georgia O’Keeffe in Abiquiu captured the rugged austerity of red rocks and of white and black places, and Agnes More …
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Radical Abacus: Off Sites, Arte Povera and the Persistent Object
As I drive toward Calle Comercio from Siler Road to see Utilities, the first exhibition by curator John More …
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Santa Fe Minus Thirty Years: An Interview with Cissie Ludlow
“It’s very hard to tell the difference between the set of Desperate Living and the De Vargas Hotel.” More …
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Groovey TV at Comic Con: The Lou Ferrigno Interview
Groovey interviews the Incredible Hulk at Denver Comic Con, for Groovey TV.
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Groovey TV at Comic Con: Legends of Orkney Author Alane Adams
Groovey TV met up with Legends of Orkney author Alane Adams at Denver Comic Con, talking about her latest More …
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Visible Sound — Brief, but Cool
Andrea Polli’s N. is the first work you see when visiting Visible Sound, the current exhibition at Central More …
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The New Whitney Museum
En route to the new Whitney Museum press preview, I take the 14th Street crosstown bus to Ninth More …
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Scott Rothkopf on The New Whitney
Scott Rothkopf discusses Love Letters from the War Front, the part of the new Whitney exhibition, America Is More …
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Performance as Empathy: Fusebox Festival 2015
How can a festival be used as a tool? “Is it possible to tap into the collective intelligence More …
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Minding the Future: John S. Gordon and CCA Santa Fe
John S. Gordon is interim executive director for the Center for Contemporary Arts Santa Fe. I interviewed him on April More …
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An Interview with Santa Fe Mayor Javier Gonzales
I spoke by phone to Santa Fe Mayor Javier Gonzales on April 1st to elicit his comments on More …
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Santa Fe Land Use, the Past and the Future
SANTA FE—As the Santa Fe City Council prepares to vote on April 8th to approve or reject Mayor More …
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The “Making” of Albuquerque
Standing outside the installation “Agoojiganan,” I watch as two other visitors enter the 8-by-12-foot mass of dangling white More …
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AXLE Indoors at Peters Projects — Edie Tsong, Steina, Charlie Carrillo
Matthew Chase-Daniel and Jerry Wellman discuss Charlie Carrillo’s work. Matthew Chase-Daniel describes Steina’s video installation and appreciation for More …
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AXLE Indoors at Peters Projects — Christy Georg and Marion Wasserman
Matthew Chase-Daniel describes works by Christy Georg and Marion Wasserman, part of AXLE Indoors at Peters Projects through More …
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AXLE Contemporary at Peters Projects — Joan Zalenski
Jerry Wellman and Matthew Chase-Daniel discuss Joan Zalenski’s elaborate gameboard-sculpture, titled Breaking Up is Hard to Do. Featured More …
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IAIA Revitalizes Its Performing Arts Program
Performing arts education at the Institute of American Arts, dormant for 20 years, has reawakened in this 2014-15 More …
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AXLE Indoors at Peters Projects — Paula Castillo
Matthew Chase-Daniel describes installing the sculpture by Paula Castillo, part of AXLE Indoors at Peters Projects, viewable at More …
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AXLE Indoors at Peters Projects — Patrick Nagatani
Matthew Chase-Daniel and Jerry Wellman discuss video stills by Patrick Nagatani, part of AXLE Indoors at Peters Projects More …
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AXLE Indoors at Peters Projects — Gerry Snyder and Dianne Stromberg
Jerry Wellman discusses works by Gerry Snyder and Dianne Stromberg at AXLE Indoors at Peters Projects, through March More …
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AXLE Indoors at Peters Projects — Eliza Naranjo Morse
Matthew Chase-Daniel of AXLE Contemporary discusses a sculpture and painting by Eliza Naranjo-Morse, part of the exhibit AXLE Indoors at More …
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Tamarind Institute’s Cuban Project Kicks Off
Cuban artist Osmeivy Ortega’s residency at Tamarind Institute in February, where he printed lithography editions and shared woodcuts More …
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AXLE Indoors at Peters Projects — A Series of Conversations
Axle Indoors at Peters Projects opened to a capacity crowd in Santa Fe on February 13th. The exhibit More …
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Composer Barbara Monk-Feldman’s Opera to Premiere at Canadian Opera Company
In October, the Canadian Opera Company will present the Canadian world premiere of Pyramus and Thisbe, an opera by Canadian composer More …
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Crowdfunding Succeeds for Meow Wolf’s House of Eternal Return
Santa Fe arts collective Meow Wolf has successfully funded House of Eternal Return on March 2nd through a More …
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Improvising Rachel Rosenthal, Always Avant-Garde
The contemporary art world’s performance fervor and cross-pollination of artistic media are a throwback to the late 1950’s More …
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Thanks for the NAMMemories
NAMM is the National Association of Music Merchants. Good people doing good things for weirdo musicians. The NAMM More …
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Jennifer Joseph Discusses Sculpture As Portals, at PhilSpace in Santa Fe
PhilSpace is one of the most dynamic gallery spaces in Santa Fe judging by its vital gallery exhibitions More …
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SouthwestNET: Postcommodity Brings Disruptive Metaphor, Purposefully, to SMoCa
The four members of Postcommodity collective are Raven Chacon, Cristóbal Martínez, Kade L. Twist and Nathan Young. Raven More …
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Preponderance of the Evidence: Airstream Parks, Bars and Motels
It’s not exactly the very beginning of the year but it’s the end of the beginning. On January More …
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Wistful “September,” Odd Strangeways at Revolutions Theater Festival
Try to remember the kind of September when life was slow, and oh so mellow. I kept thinking More …
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Films to See at Sundance
As the Sundance Film Festival is about to open on Jan. 22, the film audience is declining. Making More …
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Kama Sutures, a Two-Piece, Plays Eclectic Sounds
It’s fairly rare these days to find musical artists who aren’t completely obsessed with how fast they can More …
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Antigona en la Frontera: A Missed Opportunity at Revolutions Theater Festival
In Sophocles’ tragedy Antigone, the figure of Antigone confronts the unburied body of her brother Polyneices. Creon, king More …
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Rape Culture, Rolling Stone, and the Homesman
There is nothing new about rape culture although some of its purveyors are indeed new. Britons’ radicalizing extends to More …
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The Enigma Performance
The unmistakably tattooed and body modified The Enigma was a founding member of the Jim Rose Circus. In More …
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Prospect.3 Opens in New Orleans with New Staff, New Philosophies
As Prospect.3 gets under way in New Orleans (opening to the public on October 25th), the state of the More …
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IMPACTS! Cute, Grotesque and Almost Perfect
In the 1990s, some seven years before Sofia Coppola released “Lost in Translation” — and we got to More …
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Michael Cook Ponders Obscured Layers of American Landscape
Curated in conjunction with September’s tenth annual Gila River Festival, held in Silver City, New Mexico, Michael Cook’s More …
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Wavelengths at TIFF: Grand Shorts Tell Epic Stories
The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) was mass urbanism once again this year, as closed streets formed a More …
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Jody Guralnick’s Subject to Change: Painted Explorations
The plant materials that attach the surface of Jody Guralnick’s new paintings in Subject to Change: Unnatural Selection More …
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Report from Aspen: Aspen Art Museum, Design by Shigeru Ban, Opens
Shigeru Ban is this year’s winner of the Pritzker Prize; has an upcoming appearance in Prospect 3, the More …
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Hockey, Pasolini and Another Serial Killer at Toronto International Film Festival
With 300 films, some 150 of them world premieres, the Toronto International Film Festival resists being reduced to More …
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Walt Pourier: Artist Stronghold for Native Youth
Walt Pourier’s head and his pillow must rarely meet. He is the executive director of the Stronghold Society More …
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The Horror, The Horror: Lucy Taylor Talks to Groovey
Lucy Taylor, who now lives in Santa Fe, has traveled the real world many times over and developed More …
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Unsettling, Unsettled Landscapes: SITElines in Review
One of the ways a culture responds to unsettled landscapes is to create architectural space. SITE Santa Fe’s More …
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Dancers’ Workshop in Jackson Hole Commissions Work by Bill T. Jones
New York-based choreographer Bill T. Jones remembers what dancers from the Western United States used to say when More …
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Getting Your Groove Back with Land Ho!
When Colin (Paul Eenhoorn) is invited to travel in tandem with his ex-brother-in-law, Mitch (Earl Lynn Nelson), on More …
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Painters Point the Way at Richard Levy Gallery
Painting, inextricable from human and social evolution, continues as a ready target for provocateurs lobbing the contention that More …
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Patronage At Home — Laila Farcas-Ionescu at Santa Fe’s Atelier 55
In what could become something more than a trend, for the second summer in a row architect and More …
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Border-blurring Illuminations: “Luz Restirada” at UNM Art Museum
The University of New Mexico Art Museum (a satellite site for 516 Arts’ “Digital Latin America”) has capitalized More …
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A New Biennial at SITE Santa Fe Spotlights the Americas — and Alt Strategies
Four curators plus five advisers scout new art by scouring geographies from northern Canada to southern Argentina. This More …
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Young Ancients Perform Live
Groovey catches Young Ancients at a live backyard concert in Fort Collins. The Young Ancients are a three-piece More …
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Albuquerque’s “Digital Latin America” Etches Parallel Visions
The kickoff of “Digital Latin America,” headquartered at the nonprofit 516 Arts with satellite venues across Albuquerque, N.M., More …
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Young Ancients Talk to Groovey in Fort Collins
Groovey interviews John Magnie and Cary Morin of Young Ancients (formerly of the Subdudes) at a private party More …
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Reflections on the Public Space of CURRENTS New Media Festival
On the surface of CURRENTS new media festival, that’s what there is: surface. Surface flexes the critical joint of a More …
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Phoenix: An Art Travel Diary
A Salty River Phoenix doesn’t care about art. That’s the way I felt growing up there, and that’s More …
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Two New Pop-Ups and a “Project Space” Enliven Local Arts in Santa Fe
Pop-ups are a phenomenon for contemporary art and contemporary design across the U.S. and around the world. In Santa Fe, More …
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Is Arts Incubator of the Rockies Imperiled by Rent Default?
The future of Fort Collins’s national grant-winning arts organization Beet Street/Arts Incubator of the Rockies may be imperiled More …
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Currents 2014 New Media Festival Preview
Currents: Santa Fe New Media Festival 2014, celebrating its fifth year from June 13-29, is one of the pre-eminent More …
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Will Wilson’s Year-Long Survey Opens at Wheelwright Museum
This compelling survey of the last 10 years of Diné photographer Will Wilson’s practice is replete with visual More …
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37 Mind-Blowing Reasons Why You Should Stop Being a Centipede
Hi….my name is Groovey and I am a hyperbole addict. The editor of this publication has been trying More …
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A Conversation on “Enveloping Space” with Jane Lackey
Artist Jane Lackey’s Enveloping Space: Walk, Trace, Think, was at the Center for Contemporary Art from April 11 More …
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Asia Week New York As Seen by Asia Society Texas
Asia Week New York, which concluded March 22nd, is a forum for the burgeoning markets in Asian art More …
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An Economic Cultural Engine in Albuquerque’s Rail Yards
The sprawling industrial holdover in the heart of Albuquerque remains a 27-acre question. The former Atchison, Topeka and More …
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Kawasaki Plus Yoga Equals Kawashokachakraboom
Phil Space in Santa Fe was the site of a pop-up performance/installation by Hannah Hughes on March 21st and More …
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On Abstract Painting and Impulse: A Talk with Natalie Smith
While the widening inventions in contemporary abstraction have renewed an interest in painting, abstraction’s recent ascension has also More …
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A Master Grower Speaks
The Denver Post reported that so much tax money has been raised from the legalization of marijuana in More …
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The Allure of Serialized TV and What It’s Doing to Movies
Last year, the busiest “retired” filmmaker in history, Steven Soderbergh, claimed for the umpteenth time that he was quitting More …
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Artist and Designer Collaborate for “Ode to Modernism”
An art show curated by Jennifer Ashton of paintings by Jason Appleton with interiors designed to evoke 1920s-’30s More …
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Drunktown’s Finest: Why Not A Documentary?
Drunktown’s Finest takes you to Navajo and into a knot of intersecting lives. It’s a mosaic of compounded More …
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Fotofest Biennial Showcases “Contemporary Arab” Art
Houston, Texas – long the epicenter of the U.S. oil industry, and expanding rapidly with a 385-acre, 14-building new campus More …
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Letter from Houston: Lee Bontecou at the Menil, Dan Gorski at Wade Wilson
Lee Bontecou: Drawn Worlds on view at the Menil Collection through May 11th, is the first drawing retrospective More …
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Why Indie Cinemas Rule Santa Fe, or the Film-to-Digital Conversion
Rewind to 15 years ago. George Lucas is putting the finishing touches on Star Wars: Episode One. Famously More …
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On Cultural Extinctions and Conscientiousness
Cultural extinctions, small and large, persist and seem intractable. Most public lately is the destruction of the Ai More …
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Is this Heaven? Reflections on Barthes and Facebook
Editor’s Note: The following article won the 2014 Semionaut New Writer’s Award. The contest is designed to foster new More …
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RedGorilla, Coincident with SxSW, Features Emerging Musicians
RedGorilla Music Fest in Austin is a free festival designed to promote the independent and up-and-coming musical artist. More …
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Geographies of Memory Launches Indigenous Art Series
In “Melanie Yazzie: Geographies of Memory,” at UNM Art Museum now through May 17, the artist exhibits an More …
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Nancy Holt Remembered: A Review of Sightlines
Editor’s Note: Nancy Holt died in New York of complications of leukemia on February 8, 2014. This post More …
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New Affordable Housing, When the Working Poor Are Artists
On January 8th, Artspace, the Minneapolis-based developer of affordable artists’ housing nationwide, visited Santa Fe for a public More …
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Is Gender Bias in Denver Arts in Transit — Or Fixed?
When I first read Ray Mark Rinaldi’s review of “The Transit of Venus” exhibition at RedLine, I was astonished More …
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Going Iron Maiden-y on Illegal Downloads
In our 50s-pulp-science-fiction world of incessantly marching into the next technology there is one undeniable fact: we must More …
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Powerful, Painful Comedy Abounds at Tricklock’s Revolutions Fest
Imagine if The White Stripes and Mike Myers’s Saturday Night Live character Dieter had children. The result might More …
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Godfrey Reggio’s Visitors Return Life to A Legend
I first met Godfrey Reggio when I was 10 years old. I was fascinated at the time with More …
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An Etched Image of Philip Seymour Hoffman
I’m certainly not going to tell you anything you don’t already know about Philip Seymour Hoffman. I’m not More …
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Saving Llewyn Davis – A Review
If ever a character needed the Coen brothers, it is Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac), a folk singer with More …
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Must-Sees at Sundance
The truism about Sundance is that it has grown — in all sorts of directions. During the festival, More …
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Remembering Robin Rule, Denver Gallery Owner
Robin Rule, the passionate and complicated Denver gallery owner, died of cancer on December 29, 2013, age 55. More …
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Symbol and Appropriation: New Visions in Contemporary Native American Art
Art museum as site that reifies majority-culture prerogatives of acquisition, appropriation, display and narrative underpinned a contemporary Native American More …
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“Lady Gaga, We’re Through!”
Editor’s Note: This email was found by technicians nearly ten years after Lady Gaga entered a convent following More …
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Rare Prints and Drawings from Spain in Santa Fe
Organized by the British Museum in 2012, and seen previously at Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid and More …
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Front Range Women, Abstract Line and More: Denver Art Preview
A Denver Art Preview. From a focus on women artists of the Front Range, through painting and sculpture More …
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Hockney in Frisco, The West on Fifth, Swartz at SMOCA
Three Exhibits To See in January. David Hockney: A Bigger Exhibition Through January 20, 2014 Years, they start More …
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Art for the Few? Or Art for The Many? Year-End Reflections
If media coverage at the end of a year can seem like a redux of sameness — big More …
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Marijuana as Usual
I have been a very strong believer in the legalization of marijuana for a few decades now. Back More …
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Atomic Surplus — Against Compassion Fatigue
Atomic Surplus runs at CCA Santa Fe through January 5, 2014. I interviewed Erin Elder, CCA’s Visual Arts More …
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On a Truth Quest in Afghanistan
The equivalent word for truth in Dari is: حقیقت. Dari and Pashto are the primary languages spoken in More …
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The Light Years: James Turrell’s Retrospective at LACMA
Nearly 50 years of James Turrell’s holograms and geometries of light comprise the restless and revelatory retrospective at More …
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Led by the Desert with Angela de la Agua
Coinciding this year with High Desert Test Sites’ week-long art event, HDTS 2013, was artist Angela de la Agua’s More …
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Making a Handmade Difference in Pagosa Springs
Living in Pagosa Springs, a small town in the San Juan Mountains of southern Colorado, I have participated More …
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American Beauty — Three Folk Stories on Film
One great American genre is the tale of “what almost was and what might have been.” In Hollywood More …
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Zaytoun: Unlikely Buddy Movie Might Change Hearts
(Zaytoun opens October 18th in November at The Screen in Santa Fe.) A war movie becoming a buddy movie More …
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Decipher with Difficulty: Toadhouse (aka. Allan Graham) at David Richard Gallery
Allan Graham’s exhibit of recent work “Toadhouse aka. Allan Graham” at David Richard Gallery induces your mind to More …
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Novelty, Ingenuity, Response: Machine Histories’ Jason Pilarski on Design
Machine Histories is the Los Angeles design collaborative of Jason Pilarski and Steven Joyner. Machine Histories has collaborated More …
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The Death of the Indie Clubs in Denver
Denver was a cow-town fly-over city. Then a crap ton of bands got signed, and then some more, More …
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“We Misfits Are Still Needed”: A Performance Conversation with Frank Moore
Editor’s Note: Frank Moore died on October 14, 2013. The writer dedicates this interview to Moore, “a brave More …
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Comic Future Makes Me Feel Blue
Comic Future, an exhibition curated by Fairfax Dorn and installed at Ballroom Marfa in Texas through February 2, More …
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Station to Station’s Fantasy Train Kept ‘A-Rollin
Station to Station, a cross-country excursion of handpicked creatives billed as a “nomadic happening” on a fantasy train, More …
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Fusion “Newgrass” with Warren Hood and Band
What are your strategies for landing tours? Most of my playing career (15 years) I have been a More …
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“Endurance” Counseling, “Durational” Art
SITE Santa Fe presented Always Creative, a retrospective of Linda Mary Montano’s 40-year career. Montano, who lives and More …
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On the Set, Close to Home
Nic Nicosia, (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2012) the 256-page survey of Nicosia’s printed and moving images, is More …
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What Is Contemporary Art Actually Mapping?
A map, which is usually thought of as a fixed, 2-D object, has become something else entirely in More …
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Artist-Technologist Re-Animates Extinct Species
“New media” is actually middle-aged. It’s been half a century since The Kitchen’s debut in New York; Mark More …
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Telluride Fest: Docs On Rumsfeld, Iranian Exiles, French Radio
One of Telluride Film Festival‘s many idiosyncracies is that the festival does not announce its program in advance. The More …
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Santa Fe Opera Neuters Oscar Wilde
Little of Oscar Wilde’s wit or queer hunger is evident in Oscar, which world-premiered at the Santa Fe More …
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Is Art As Essential As Food?
Is art as essential as food? Or is there something in contemporary art’s asset status (viz. the Detroit More …
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Two Weekends of Home and Garden Tours in Santa Fe
Held over two weekends, August 9–11 and August 16–18, Design Santa Fe 2013’s annual Home & Garden Tour More …
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Fruitvale Station – A Perennial Story Echoing the Trayvon Martin Killing
One of the films of the moment — the film, if you listen to the pundits — is More …
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The Venice Biennale – Small Countries on the Extremes
Venice isn’t far away from Vogue in the days when the Biennale comes around. The hype is, to More …
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The Great Gatsby – Part Bonfire, Part Moulin Rouge 2
Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation of the much-adapted novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald looks a lot like The Bonfire of More …
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SITE Santa Fe Announces Biannual Series on Art of the Americas, Tilts on North-South Axis
“A radical rethinking of SITE’s signature exhibition,” and a “reimagined series,” were just two of the phrases that More …
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Darius Brubeck Plays Benefit Concert for Humankind Foundation
On May 5th in Santa Fe, jazz pianist Darius Brubeck will play a concert, “Darius Brubeck and Jazz More …
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Michelle Wilmot, The Desert Warrior, Practices Art as Combat Healing
What do you call an Iraq woman combat veteran – yes, Virginia, there are some – who speaks More …
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Tribeca – Big Men, Big Oil, Big Money
Big Men (at the Tribeca Film Festival) drills away at the exploitation of the oil riches of two African More …
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Contemporary in Santa Fe: Kris Cox at LewAllen
Kris Cox is a Basalt, Colorado painter whose first solo show in Santa Fe, Failure, runs through April More …
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White Snake Ritual Performance Animates Parse Gallery in NoLA
On view at Parse Gallery, through April, is an interactive ritual and healing art performance, presented by artists Amanda More …
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ArtPlace Announces America’s Top 12 Small-Town Art Places
Crested Butte, CO.; Taos, NM; Marfa, TX and Saratoga, WY made the list of the Top Twelve Small-Town More …
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AIPAD – Disasters, Abstraction and Vintage Gems
The annual AIPAD (The Association of International Photography Art Dealers) show at the Seventh Regiment Armory in New York, More …
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US Is Still an Art Superpower: TEFAF Report
Just after The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) closed its annual event in Maastricht – it is the More …
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TEFAF — More than a Few Museums in Maastricht
It’s often said that The European Fine Art Fair in Maastricht, Netherlands is like a museum. True enough, More …
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Month of Photography Denver
MoP – Month of Photography Denver is a celebration of fine art photography with hundreds of collaborative public More …
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Ten Colorado Artists You Should Know About – They Happen to be Women
It happens to be International Women’s Day. Here are ten artist’s I think should be more well-known. They More …
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Art Week in NY – Street at the Met – The Slower the Better
Just turn a camera on a New York street, and you’re likely to get drama or characters, maybe More …
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How Many Websites Now Cover the Arts in Colorado?
Last September, I was invited as guest art critic to give an update on the status of art More …
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Dark Blood – Cry Me a River
River Phoenix gets an afterlife in Dark Blood, a modern western exhumed by the Eye Netherlands Film Institute. More …
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Boulder’s DiMe Taps Entrepreneurs and Environmentos
The St. Julien Hotel ballroom in Boulder was bustling February 15th with an all-star cast of start-up entrepreneurs, More …
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Art and Activism with Shepard Fairey in Santa Fe, on the SFUAD campus
Launched in 2011 by the Now in its second year, the theme is “Art and Political Activism.” Behold More …
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On Georgia O’Keeffe, Annie Leibovitz, and the Calculated Cliche
Our age has a “my sister-my daughter” relationship with celebrity. Is it our twin or our spawn? An More …
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From Sundance to Berlin to the Public
Look hard at the Berlin International Film Festival, and you will see where many of these films premiered More …
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A Feminist Print Show at Tamarind; A New Fine Arts Dean for UNM
I first encountered Sue Coe’s lithograph, The Unspeakable Pursuing the Uneatable (1996), near to the date when it More …
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Ordinary and “Lifelike” Objects: A Debut Review from the City of New Orleans
In the city of New Orleans, two exhibitions that ran concurrently, as cogeneration extends from one source, appeared More …
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Dana Schutz’s Grotesque and Fantastical Works Linger
Dana Schutz’s work was recently featured in two Denver museums. A 10-year survey, Dana Schutz: If the Face More …
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Teatret OM Production Creates Primal Story of Exploration
Count on Tricklock Company to find unusual fare for the Revolutions International Theatre Festival. I can definitely say More …
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War Satire Kicks Off Tricklock Revolutions Festival
War has a long and rich history as a subject for satire and absurdity. That tradition continues with More …
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Sundance Prepares for an Avalanche of Austinites
Everyone knows that Richard Linklater is the keystone of Austin’s independent filmmaking community; he is also an integral More …
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El Anatsui: When I Last Wrote to You about Africa
In 2008, the Denver Art Museum commissioned El Anatsui to create Rain Has No Father?, a metal sculpture More …
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Here Far Away – Pennti Sammallahti’s Nomadic Photographs
In 1991 the Scandinavian photographer, Penti Sammallahti, was awarded a 15-year grant from the Finnish government to go More …
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“Texas Chainsaw 3D” — Slashing for Dollars, Past the Critics
Texas Chainsaw 3D wasn’t mentioned at the annual awards dinner of the New York Film Critics Circle last More …
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The Man from Orlando Arrives in Austin
If there was one film that I had really hoped that I could have included on my Roll More …
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The “Les Mis” Mess Misses
The best thing you can say about Les Miserables, now piling up box office numbers all over the More …
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Django – Chains and Guns
The key to a film’s success may be casting — yet the timing of a film’s release can More …
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Free Week Equals Eleven Days x Free Music!
First of all, HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! So, for those of you in the Austin area whose New Year’s More …
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Best of 2012: Art Talk
My Film Stills Are Still Big. It’s the Walls That Have Gotten Small.” I somehow managed to see More …
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What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve?
So, what are you doing New Year’s Eve? After all of the fun I had last year at More …
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Best of 2012: Colorado Art in Review
Looking back over the year that was 2012 what strikes me is the resiliency and determination of artists, More …
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Amour — Best Film of the Year
Beware of a film called Love. In Amour, Michael Haneke takes you to an end of life inevitability More …
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Best of 2012: Santa Fe
Just in case the Mayan Calendar holds true, A2 recognizes the cream of Santa Fe for making 2012 More …
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Roll Call: Best of Austin Film 2012
In my mind, 2010 was the year that the current independent filmmaking scene in Austin broke big with the More …
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Notable New Art Books of 2012
Editor’s Note: We will be adding to this post in the coming days. But to augment your list, More …
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Best of Austin Music 2012
I never thought the independent music scene in Austin could ever top the late 1990s, when I was More …
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Design Miami: Youthful Vibe, Design Orthodoxy, and Liminal Spaces
The annual design and limited-edition furniture fair Design Miami was held in a vinyl tent inside the parking More …
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Zero Dark Thirty — The Long Game
Zero Dark Thirty is a tautly constructed account of the pursuit by the US military of a terrorist More …
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The Impeccable Tastes of The Good Music Club
There is really no greater proponent of the Austin music scene than Laurie Gallardo. Not only does Gallardo More …
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Alan Berliner’s First Cousin Once Removed: On Dementia and Poetry
Does poetry run deeper than perception? Alan Berliner spent five years examining how Alzheimer’s disease closes down a More …
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CU Art Museum Sends “Through Soviet Jewish Eyes” To New York
The image is horrific. Dozens of men lie dead in a barren, muddy landscape. A silver, snow-filled trench More …
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Santa Fe Art in Review: “Useless Things”, Canned Snow and Zachariah Reike
SFUAD BFA Thesis Show Useless Things & Other Stuff, the SFUAD BFA Thesis show, opened on November 30th, with a solo show More …
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Rust and Bone: An Elemental Taste for Jacques Audiard
Rust and Bone (France, 2011) is director Jacques Audiard’s sixth feature-length movie since 1994. It follows A Prophet, an More …
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Undoing Boredom at Lawndale Art Center, Houston
I am preparing myself for something very dull—an exhibition Staring at the Wall: The Art of Boredom at More …
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Barry McGee Tags Berkeley Art Museum–and MoMa Acquires Video Games
As I approach the Berkeley Art Museum up Bancroft Avenue my attention’s distracted between a glimpse of sculpture More …
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Lordy Rodriquez Gets Art Swapped
Lordy Rodriquez is the living definition of an American. Born in the Philippines, raised in Texas and now More …
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Steel and Graphite at James Kelly
The latest show at James Kelly presents two artists, Aldo Chaparro and Wes Mills, whose work couldn’t be more More …
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Play Questions Idea of Trying to Find “the Truth” of History
It can be exciting to deconstruct history and expose false narratives that have been repeated so often they More …
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Cinema Six Finally Screens in Austin!
In the opening scene of Cinema Six, Chad (Chris Doubek) resigns as manager of Stanton Family Cinemas, leaving Mason More …
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Giving Thanks for Lincoln
David Brooks wrote that Lincoln shows the nobility and malleability of politics, politics as the one change agent More …
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Austin Musicians Revisit The Last Waltz
On Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 1976, The Band performed — what was advertised as their “farewell concert appearance” More …
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Study: Arts Generated $91.9M for Albuquerque Economy
If ever there was an incentive to practice it was the Shame Flute. Lousy musicians in the Middle More …
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$1.76 Billion in Arts and-Cultural Economic Activity in Denver in 2011
According to the Colorado Business Committee for the Arts–the numbers don’t lie: In 2011 Denver metro-area arts and More …
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Broad Ambitions in the Heartland: Zaha Hadid Designs Broad Art Museum at MSU
Ninety minutes from Detroit, the home of the hard-core MC5, heavy metal has risen its graceful stubborn head. More …
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Becoming Van Gogh at the Denver Art Museum
Becoming Van Gogh might be Dr. Timothy J. Standring’s defining exhibition. Standring is the Gates Foundation Curator of More …
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Jens Lekman Knows What Love Isn’t
I was living in Brooklyn in early 2004 when I first heard Jens Lekman‘s Maple Leaves EP. It More …
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Alma Thomas, Garden Seen from Space, at Aaron Payne Fine Art
About a week before Election Day I encountered, at Aaron Payne Fine Art, a painting titled Circle of Flowers More …
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Spielberg’s Lincoln Memorial: Decency, by Whatever Means Necessary
The conclusion of Lincoln by Steven Spielberg (USA 2012, 165 minutes) is that Abraham Lincoln is a saint. Why More …
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John Barker at Eggman and Walrus: Practicing Distractionism
Eggman & Walrus’s new show Paint Forward opened last Friday with a live performance by Santa Fe University More …
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A Wrap on Fun Fun Fun Fest
There were several times during this year’s Fun Fun Fun Fest that friends asked me what shows I More …
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Congress Since the Civil War; The Op-Ed Project; and The Million Puppet March
It is presidential election day at last (along with major elections for Congress and Senate) and cartoonist XKCD More …
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Behind the Digital Curve: What The Creative Abq Symposium Got Wrong
I attended part of a daylong Creative Albuquerque symposium on October 19th. Titled Profit: From Striving to Thriving, More …
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Seal Team Six – Pulp Truth?
Will Screen Seals Seal the Election? No one ever accused Harvey Weinstein of lacking a flair for marketing. More …
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Dia de los Muertos: Celebrations, Remembrances, Culture
Dia de los Muertos happens to fall on my mother’s birthday (or vice versa). She passed away in More …
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Fun Fun Fun Fest Promises Three Times the You Know What
Are you looking to have some fun this weekend? Well, you do not need to look any further More …
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Dave Hickey to Art World, Via Guardian: “I Quit”
The Guardian (UK) two days ago published this article in which critic Dave Hickey recites the reasons he More …
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Dallas Contemporary Loves-Hates Fashion: Inez & Vinoodh and K8 Hardy
Almost alien, skinny, young white women hardly clothed with a look of wanting in their faces and perfectly More …
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With Contemporary Eye, Merry Scully Curates New Mexico Museum of Art Alcove Shows
Merry Scully is the curator of special projects at the New Mexico Museum of Art. This year she More …
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Why Sarah Thornton Will Stop Writing About the Art Market
Sarah Thornton has a BA in Art History and a PhD in Sociology. Her highly acclaimed book Seven More …
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David X Levine Gets Personal at Eight Modern
An exhibition of drawings by David X Levine opened October 19th at Eight Modern, the gallery’s second show of More …
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Urban Design: Living Solar, in Small Spaces (Albuquerque)
Albuquerque architect Bruce Warren Davis moved from a roughly 1700-square-foot home in the Nob Hill area to a More …
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The Iran Job – The Jock-umentary: A Review
Just as foreign policy only makes it to the presidential debates in gaffes, The Iran Job isn’t getting More …
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Guest Post: Hacking and Alt Economies at ISEA2012
Upon entering the ISEA2012 main exhibit venue, the Albuquerque Museum, I felt as though I was in a More …
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The Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival Blossums Into Polari
This being its 25th year, the Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival (aGLIFF) opted for a major More …
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M12 – The Big Feed: On Rural Contemporary Art and Community Engagement
In small towns across America, a tradition of throwing a big social gathering at the end of harvest More …
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Texas Contemporary: A Visual Preview
I was planning to attend the Houston art fairs this fall but life has intervened, and finds me More …
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Design Lab Awards Pre-Fab Architecture and Digital Dresses
Design Lab at Zane Bennett Contemporary Art last Friday night presented entries including a tornado house fantasy design More …
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Austin City Limits Alternatives: All Tamara’s Parties 2.0; Ditch the Fest Fest 3
Unless you have been living totally off the grid for the last few months, you probably know that More …
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CCA’s Dust in the Machine Asks If Then Is Now, But Quietly
Dust in the Machine opened on September 21st at the CCA, in conjunction with ISEA2012 Albuquerque: Machine Wildnerness. The show More …
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Vincent Van Gogh and Clyfford Still – Painterly Reinventions Explored in Denver
David Anfam has spent 40 years of his life studying Clyfford Still. On September 14, he gave a More …
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Consensus “Has Failed”: ISEA2012 Artist Marina Zurkow on Gila 2.0, Animals and Land
Marina Zurkow is a Brooklyn-based artist who makes media works about humans’ relationships to animals, plants and the More …
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SFUAD Cuts Tuition in Four Programs: An Interview with President Larry Hinz
Santa Fe University of Art and Design will lower tuition by 38 percent across four of its arts More …
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Holy Motors and Hail at Fantastic Fest
I wish I had more time to see more films at Fantastic Fest 2012. That’s the bad part More …
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What Laurie Anderson Said: The ISEA2012 Blog
Laurie Anderson said that Occupy Art was responsible for life imitating art when a police cordon (tipped off More …
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Rediscovering Ant Farm’s Media Van: The ISEA2012 Blog
Loading up on the 7:13 am train last Monday to get to the KiMo Theater in time for More …
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Rocket Scientists on “Big Data” and Representing Things: The ISEA2012 Blog
There’s got to be a joke in here somewhere. An astro-physicist walked into a room full of artists. More …
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Review: Scuba’s Inside the Outside
Art is how you project it. Marshall McLuhan said the road is our most significant architectural form. The More …
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Experience Musical Perfection at UTOPiAfest
Music festival lovers must really love September and October in central Texas. With ACL, Ditch the Fest Fest, More …
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Sironia Takes One Last Victory Lap Around Austin
Thomas (Wes Cunningham) is a talented singer-songwriter who finds himself on the verge of releasing his first major More …
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Same As It Never Was: Re-Visionizing St. Michael’s Drive through Re-MIKE
There has probably been no more sparky political question in our home burg than “what’s the future for More …
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AHA Fest, Santa Fe’s New Art Fair for the People, by Young People
The AHA Fest was an all day event this past Sunday, September 16, starting at 11am with booths More …
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At Toronto International Film Festival: Leviathan, A Fish Story
If you thought the handheld camera that’s so much in vogue these days was dizzying, prepare yourself for More …
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Roman’s Holiday — and Priests Forever
He’s back. Roman Polanski, the fugitive from US law enforcement, is back on the screen in Marina Zenovich’s More …
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You Like the Nightlife? AHA Fest Invites You In Daylight (Sunday, 11-9)…
AHA Fest is days away (Sunday, September 16th, 11 a.m.-9 p.m.) and after last year’s huge success, this More …
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A Performance Preview of ISEA2012: Machine Wilderness
When ISEA2012: Machine Wilderness opens in Albuquerque on Thursday, September 19th, some performative and heady international electronic artists will More …
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Austin’s Fall Film Festival Season Delivers the Best in Genre and LGBT Films
Ever since the carnivalesque tomfoolery of the Fantastic Fest 2011 closing party, I have been anxiously awaiting Fantastic More …
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ALOTTATHISALOTTATHAT – Art Intersecting “Innovation” and Equaling Nothing
Described as “part freestyle musical theater, part dessert reception,” the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver created a special More …
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Thoughts on Santa Fe’s Legendary Zozobra, An Historic to Modern Spectacle
He’s been burned and rebuilt since 1926. He hangs from his pole, a large-scale marionette, and watches through More …
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Wild Frontier Fest Turns Three
A couple of years ago, Vagabond Collective found itself smack dab in the middle of an intoxicating local More …
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William Morrow Named Associate Contemporary Art Curator at DAM
The Denver Art Museum has announced the appointment of William Morrow as the Polly and Mark Addison Associate Curator More …
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License to Steal — The Ambassador
The Ambassador (Mads Bruggen, Denmark, 2011, 93 minutes) is a documentary that stands Graham Greene, V. S. Naipaul and More …
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A Conversation with Hamilton Fish on The Marfa Dialogues: Politics and Culture of Climate and Sustainability
The Marfa Dialogues get under way tonight, August 31, in Marfa, TX, with an opening of an art More …
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What’s Up, Marfa? : August 30-September 2
Rebecca Solnit is a writer’s writer, one of those voices on art and environment and atomic weapons and More …
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Writing on the Wall: Tom Joyce Fabricates for the National September 11 Memorial Museum
Ten words and thirty-seven forged steel letters, their material having had genesis as World Trade Center steel, spell More …
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Working in Mysterious Ways, “Continental Drift” Spotlights Contemporary Coloradans
On June 30, 2011 I received a request for proposals and call to artists from Nora Burnett Abrams, More …
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At Play in the Fields of Fat Boy: Three Wyoming Artists at CLUI Wendover
Wendover, Utah is a town on US 80, on the state line between Utah and Nevada, situated in More …
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The Book of Mormon Debuts in Denver (and leaves one thinking politics)
You and me, but mostly me Are gonna change the world forever ‘Cause I can do most everything More …
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Wild Nothing Does More Than Just Gaze at Shoes
Virginia native Jack Tatum first began home-recording songs under the moniker Wild Nothing during the summer of 2009. More …
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Jennifer Joseph, Nancy Sutor and Fujino Sachiko: August Gallery Hop in Santa Fe
Seven paintings by Jennifer Joseph hang at Turner Carroll Gallery in a group show called Color RX. At More …
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Three Contemporary Finds at Indian Market: Nipshank, Lasiloo and the Edds
Among the most inventive things I saw at Santa Fe Indian Market this weekend (from a discrete selection): Glen More …
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Cinema East’s Summer Program Concludes With Girl Walk // All Day
Cinema East‘s 2012 outdoor summer film series has featured some of the best independent films of the Spring More …
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Up to and Including Indian Market, Picks Under $15 for August 16-19 in Santa Fe
Tomorrow night, August 17, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival hosts a Salute to Indian Market Program, at 6:30 More …
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Now Boarding: Fentress Architects and The Architecture of Flight
Leanne Goebel interviews Curtis Fentress of Fentress Architects, at Denver Art Museum.
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David Kimball Anderson’s Roman Ascetism at Bellas Artes
David Kimball Anderson is a metallurgist whose new show at Bellas Artes Gallery, Travel: Rome, Namche is full of steel More …
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Boulder International Fringe Festival on the Fringe Continuum, August 15-26
Presenting for your inspiration, celebration, and entertainment, Boulder’s 12-day International Fringe Festivalof 2012. August 15 ignites the festival with More …
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Miró in (Almost) Full — at The National Gallery of Art
Joan Miró was not Picasso. That’s the bad news. The good news was that he was Joan Miró. The More …
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Can Creative Placemaking Be Proven? The (New) State of the Arguments
It’s become a trope of creative placemaking, one of the most discussed new forms of art funding that More …
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Filmmaker Stan Brakhage Inspires “Visual Rhythm” at BMOCA
Visual Rhythm at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (BMOCA) eases viewers into the world of experimental film, video More …
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Belaire’s DIY Integrity – And a Free Show Saturday at Frontier Bar
If you were cognizant of the Austin indie rock scene circa 2003-2010, then you have probably heard of Voxtrot. Admittedly, More …
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“Myth of the City” Asks Participants to Create Better Ones
As part of Artfest12 at the Santa Fe University of Art and Design, Gabrielle Guerin and Bruce Matthes More …
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Irving Blum’s Ferus Gallery Announcements (and Interview with Dave Hickey)
Tonight, July 30th at 6:30 SITE Santa Fe presents critic Dave Hickey interviewing Irving Blum. I was going More …
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Jimmy Mirikitani’s Nine Lives, at Eight Modern
Jimmy Mirikitani could probably teach a workshop on the intricacies of crayon-color mixing and its affinity with Bic More …
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World Architecture Festival Finalists
Consider that perhaps the vitality of new design is actually coming from the continent where the World Architecture More …
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Jennifer Joseph in Santa Fe
Opening this Friday night, July 27th at Turner-Carroll Gallery, 725 Canyon Road, is a show of new work More …
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I Have No Clue What the Question is, but Die Antwoord is Dangerous
Like most people I know who have been mentally damaged by big-corporation-cubicle-life one screen is just not enough More …
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Phenomenal: Light Maestro James Turrell Paired with Colorado Sculptor Scott Johnson
Trace Elements: Light Into Space by James Turrell pairs the internationally known light-and-space artist with Colorado College professor More …
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When Life Imitates TV – Hating the Real-Life Consequences
Of the many things written (including this early post on the movie industry’s response) about the devastating and More …
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The Turin Horse, a Crafted Storyboard of Angelic Light
Slow the gears way down and go back to cinematography 101. Back to the mesmerizing glow on the More …
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CAMH’s Curator of It is what it is. Or is it? Talks Readymades – and Houston
Marcel Duchamp’s readymades are an unmistakably radical gesture in the history of modern art. First produced in 1913, More …
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Follow the Dots to Yayoi Kusama, at the Whitney
The tribute to Yayoi Kusama at the Whitney Museum of American Art is intended to bring some fun and whimsy to More …
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Fourteen Bands Kick-Off The Sour Notes Tour
When we last featured The Sour Notes on AdobeAirstream, we talked with them about their constant state of More …
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Taking Truthiness Seriously (Really), at SITE Santa Fe
Truthiness—Stephen Colbert’s clever coinage- holds that our culture lives not according to fact but according to one’s feelings More …
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Burgess Meredith: The Retro Pop Band, Not Batman Actor
It seems appropriate that I write about Burgess Meredith in the week leading up to the release of More …
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Nic Nicosia Stages the Psychological at James Kelly Contemporary
Exposing the somewhat humorous turmoil of psychodramas has been a recurring theme in photographer Nic Nicosia’s works, many More …
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Maometto II at SFO: Structuralist Opera Design
Maometto II tells a 15th-century story of a Byzantine-era war in which the Venetian city of Negroponte is More …
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“Free of Earth’s Gravity”: Space-Travel via the Internet
The Yowayawa Camera Woman diary has evolved from a website in which Tokyo photographer Natsumi Hayashi displays levitating More …
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Savages – Behind the Orange Curtain
In Savages, director Oliver Stone turns a David and Goliath story into drama by adding sex, drugs and More …
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Greg Lynn Talks “Disorientation Space” at More Real
Venice, California architect Greg Lynn played off the quality of adobe architecture in creating a “disorientation space” in an More …
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Knifight Revives Goth Dance in Texas
When I was in my late teens, one of my favorite places to hang out was in a More …
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Contemporary in Santa Fe: Four Art Shows to See Before July 15
Lee Mullican’s clay figures at The Capriccio Foundation feel like little earthen creatures about to spawn a new More …
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Interrogating Heroic-Ness – and Judy Chicago’s Cultural Powers
July 7th at St. Francis Auditorium found artist Judy Chicago sharing a stage with art historian and queer More …
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10th Annual Woman’s Bust! Freedom on Stilts
Teenagers, hard-working mothers and courageous grandmothers of New Mexico may have found a new form of expression in More …
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On Remix and Glitch: Game Designer Rick Silva Talks Art and Tech
Rick Silva is a new media artist whose recent works explore landscape, remix and glitch. He makes new More …
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Men of God, Men of Nature Makes Denver Art Museum A Mecca
The Fuse Box Gallery on level four of the Denver Art Museum’s Hamilton Building is all angles with More …
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Scientific Animation Shortfest: Weighing Bigness and Smallness
Yet another meeting of science and art coalesced in Santa Fe last Wednesday, when the Scientific Animation Shortfest More …
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Santa Fe Takes on International New Media Festival
Last Friday was the grand opening of the International New Media Festival (a.k.a. Currents) and the Plaza was packed More …
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Tiny Park’s Greatest Hits Exhibition and New Gallery + Preview Photos
Tiny Park, a previously small gallery in north Austin, expanded this year. I first visited the gallery, which More …
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Interview with Matt Hines of The Eastern Sea
The Eastern Sea just kicked off their national tour in Austin with a show at Stubbs (with Dana More …
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ArtNet Magazine – First and Oldest Online Art Magazine – Closes
Yesterday came news that ArtNet magazine, 16 years old and the “first and longest running online art magazine More …
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James Havard Stays Ahead of the Beast, Just Barely
James Havard is a painter whose new show at Zane Bennett Contemporary boasts an extensive archive of his More …
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PREVIEW: Currents International New Media Festival Opens Tonight
Today, Currents—the international new media festival—hosts 90 artists including 26 international participants, also 11 venue partners this year, More …
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REVIEW: Here and Now, Choreographers Presented in Austin
Choreographer–dancer Katherine Hodges, with her producing organization Ready|Set|Go!, in is her fourth season of presenting plurality. What sets More …
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Playing with Fire: Charles Ross at Gerald Peters Gallery
As if playing at demigod status, Charles Ross’s show at Gerald Peters Gallery, Solar Burns, is a collection More …
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Louis Grachos Announced as AMoA-Arthouse Director
Louis Grachos has been named executive director of the Austin Museum of Art-Arthouse, and will take on his More …
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Marina Abramovic, The Artist Is Present: Silent Stare, Vanity Movie
MARINA ABRAMOVIĆ THE ARTIST IS PRESENT is now present in movie theaters. The release comes after a long More …
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Dallas Museum of Art Receives $500,000 Grant to Expand Conservation Department
The Dallas Museum of Art received a $500,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, they announced yesterday. More …
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I Got the Hots for TheCoolTv
I hate cable. Do you remember when The History Channel had programming about stuff that happened in the More …
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Abstract Angus – Theodore Waddell at Denver Art Museum
Theodore Waddell arrived in New York to study at the Brooklyn Museum Art School in the early 1960s, More …
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“You Don’t Know Jack”: The Best Art Enabler (That’s Fabricator, to You)
Take my word for it after just, this spring, teaching a class called “Thinking About Art Now”: Fabrication, More …
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Blinding with Sparkle – Anna Tsouhlarakis Questions Our Future
Anna Tsouhlarakis’ installation Edges of the Ephemeral is currently on exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts More …
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The Kid With a Bike in Review
If you’re used to film fluff-lights, fast cuts, CGI, stunts, movie scores—I dare you to sit through the More …
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The Coveted Barnes Collection
The striking impression of the sleek modernist box on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway that now houses the Barnes More …
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VIP Art Fair Tries Again to Be Huge
Artforum told us that the “VIP MFA Awardees Announced” yesterday, and that “The panel of six judges was More …
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Georgia O’Keeffe and the Faraway: “Touch Relics” on Display
Georgia O’Keeffe and the Faraway: Nature and Image, at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, continues the positive trend begun More …
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Santa Fe Complex Closes. Stephen Guerin on Hybridity’s Lessons.
When the Santa Fe Complex closes this Friday night in Santa Fe, it will be capping off a More …
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New Nature for Animal Reuse, Co-Lab Austin
New Nature, an exhibition by Austin-born Calder Kamin, opens this Saturday, June 2. “Fabricated ceramic fauna” and collected More …
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Public School, a New Model for Design Collaboration
Public School is a new generation design collective, located in east Austin. Comprised of seven members with two More …
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Remotely Sensing William Betts (at Plus Gallery in Denver)
William Betts is getting noticed. At least that’s what a recent announcement in Artdaily.org tells readers. Betts is a More …
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Chaos in Tejas, Austin
I will always feel a unique kinship with Chaos in Tejas being that it was the subject of More …
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Oscar, A Co-Production, To Premiere at Santa Fe Opera’s 2013 Season
When the 2013 Santa Fe Opera season gets under way , its big ticket will be the world More …
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New Mexico Experimental Glass Fellows Address Waste Through Art
Let’s talk about New Mexico Experimental Glass Workshop (NMEGW)—an innovative, non-profit organization founded by artist Stacey Neff in More …
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Saul’s Universe – Pard Morrison at James Kelly
Pard Morrison’s sculptures, currently on view at James Kelly Contemporary in Phantom Limbs, defy cubic assembly. Each spread More …
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AMoA-Arthouse Texas Prize Winner Announced
As of May 18, 2012 AMoA-Arthouse announced its Texas Prize winner Jeff Williams—University of Texas faculty member. Jeanne More …
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Attendance Records Releases Benefit Album
Last Thursday, some of my favorite local bands gathered at the Mohawk for an Attendance Records benefit/CD release More …
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Well Somebody Has Discovered a Cash (Sea) Cow
I have too much data inbound at any time and here is proof. I was working on some More …
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SXSW-Award Winning Film Dragonslayer, Worthy or Worthless?
Nick Schager of Slant Magazine wrote of Dragonslayer in his review, “…it’s a film that makes a strong, More …
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Placemaking in Santa Fe: Are We Artists or Monkeys?
About seventy people gathered on May 10th to hear Creative Santa Fe’s presentation on affordable live/work spaces for More …
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Creative Santa Fe: Coals to Newcastle?
Four speakers for Creative Santa Fe’s inaugural “Imagined Futures” IF event, told a New Mexico History Museum auditorium More …
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Barbara Buhler Lynes Resigns as O’Keeffe Museum Curator in Santa Fe
Barbara Buhler Lynes, who became curator of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum when it opened in 1999 1997, resigned More …
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School’s Out Forever Rockaway Beach Party (May 19 – 20)
With an impressive line-up of over 50 bands on four stages — including Sleep Over, The Long Tangles, More …
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Original Readymades at the Contemporary Art Museum Houston
Original readymades? Hm. Oxymoron? Not if they are slightly altered readymades, like Duchamp’s. The Contemporary Art Museum Houston More …
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Silencing My Linear Self: Richard Tuttle on the Spiritual in Contemporary Art
Rational thought is overrated. Structured. Ordered. Sequential. Converging to find that one right answer. This was not the More …
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Red Rocks 2012: Somebody Better Put a Dome on that Sucker (Bird Poop Alert)
I could be wrong but there seems to be a lot more Red Rocks shows this year than More …
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Urban Untitled Opens Capriccio Foundation in Santa Fe
Fabrication and myth-busting about making and its categories, all are part of the refreshing “Urban Untitled,” the inaugural More …
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Chihuly’s Glass Sculptures Grace Dallas Arboretum (May 5)
Dale Chihuly installs his large-scale glass sculptures at the Dallas Arboretum, on exhibit May 5 – November 5. More …
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Munch at Sotheby’s — $119 Million of ‘Despair’
Edvard Munch’s “The Scream,” a fourth version of that Nordic icon, conjured up fears about solitude in the More …
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Photos of UT’s First Site-Specific Installation for Landmarks
As of 4:30 pm on April 19th, the University of Texas amassed its latest piece for Landmarks public More …
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Heart-to-Heart at Outdoor Vision Fest
Santa Fe University of Art and Design‘s Arts Complex, on the night of April 27th, electrified numerous senior-thesis More …
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Fusebox Festival’s Last Week in Austin
Fusebox is the “hybridized” art festival that is mashing-up all things art-related in the Austin this week. Founder More …
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Best Documentaries from Tribeca 2012
In addition to The Revisionaries (check out David D’Arcy’s review), the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival (April 18 – More …
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New Director – and New Gallery in Marfa – for Gerald Peters Gallery
Mary Etherington is the new director of contemporary art at Gerald Peters Gallery in Santa Fe, filling a More …
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Texas Art in Support of Wildfire Recovery Effort
Art from the Ashes, a benefit exhibition for Lost Pines Recovery, opens tomorrow April 28-May 5, 2012. In More …
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Ged Quinn at The Modern, Fort Worth
Ged Quinn opened this week at the The Modern in Fort Worth with works described by the museum More …
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Tribeca Doc Made in Austin: The Revisionaries
Remember Waiting for Superman, Davis Guggenheim’s documentary about the crisis in American education that focused on Washington DC, More …
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Modern Home Tour New Mexico Reveals Edgy Design in Santa Fe
As Santa Fe marks the newest addition to a 27-city Modern Home Tour, organized by Architectural Record contributing More …
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Mindy Bray: The Geography of Looking
Mindy Bray’s ink and gouache works on stretched paper explore the physical and psychological experience of landscape. Images More …
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A SoFa New York Photo Album
Allan Baillie shot these photos for us of Santa Fe gallery booth displays at SoFa New York. The More …
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Austin Psych Fest (April 27-29)
Produced and curated by The Reverberation Appreciation Society (Christian Bland, Alex Mass, Oswald James and Rob Fitzpatrick) and More …
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Leonardo’s Flying Machine – And Jamie Hamilton
Arrhythmic Visions, Jamie Hamilton’s show at the Center for Contemporary Arts, alongside Alison Keogh‘s, titles itself with an adjective suggesting More …
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The Revival Tour
That’s it. I have had it. Either my geriatric alarm clock has finally gone-off or the elasticity of More …
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Alison Keogh on Cracked Earth, “Cloaked Earth,” and the Artist’s Journey
Alison Keogh’s show, Arrythmic Visions (on view concurrent with new work by Jamie Hamilton) can be seen at More …
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The Total Destruction of the National Museum of Anthropology: Eduardo Abaroa
In his recent installation at Kurimanzutto Gallery in Mexico City, Eduardo Abaroa imagines that the only response to More …
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Dallas Art Fair Preview Photos
The Dallas Art Fair boasts growing numbers over the past three years, and in its fourth year seems More …
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Philip Glass and Jon Gibson Perform at Dwan Light Sanctuary
The maxim holds true: There is no substitute for experience. And when it comes to modern music the More …
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Yves Saint Laurent: 40 Years of Fashion, Yes, at Denver Art Museum
Fashion as art is nothing new. The first exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New More …
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Slow Furniture at Shift Build Austin
If you’re not familiar with Shift Build and the work of Jesse Hartman in Austin, Texas, then you More …
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Anticipating the Fourth Dallas Art Fair
Postminimalist, and popular newcomer to the auction market, Jacob Kassay is a highly anticipated artist this year with More …
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Peter Sarkisian, The After-School Special
Peter Sarkisian grew up in Cerillos, New Mexico in the early seventies on what sounds like a hippie More …
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9 Recommendations for the Dallas International Film Festival
The Dallas International Film Festival presented by Boardwalk Auto Group Volkswagen Dealers will run April 12 – 22. More …
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Jaune Quick to See Smith: Environment, Friend or Foe?
At the very back of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum are two small rooms of works by Jaune Quick-to-See More …
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Nasher Sculpture Center Exhibits Local Talent During Dallas Art Fair
Dallas art venues are gearing up for the Dallas Art Fair and Biennial, of course, which promises to More …
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Tom Holland: The World’s Not Flat
Epoxy on aluminum. Fiberglas machined so that in painted strips it makes up a relief surface, Pop art More …
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Threadgill’s Celebrates Merle Haggard’s 75th Birthday
At Threadgill’s in Austin, a celebration of the legendary Merle Haggard will take place at 6 pm tonight. More …
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Whit Stillman Still Urbane, in Damsels in Distress
Whit Stillman’s Damsels in Distress comes 14 years after the director’s last movie. It’s clever, it’s urbane – More …
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Placing Bets on the Careers of the Latest Radio Darlings
Print this out and store it in your time capsule, nuke bunker, or with your wedding video and More …
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Arthouse-AMoA Five x Seven SPLURGE Tonight
For several years prior to the Arthouse-AMoA merger, the Arthouse hosted its annual Five x Seven Fundraiser. Only More …
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Cheer Up Charlie’s Turns Two
I have never written about a bar and/or music venue before, so this feels a little strange and More …
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UT Austin Opens Design and Art Exhibitions
The University of Texas, Austin, Visual Arts Center opened four new exhibitions Friday, March 30, as several fine More …
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20-Second ArtBreaks, Coming to an IPad Near You
Move over Justin Bieber; art wants your MTV. Widely reported, a collaboration between MTV and P.S. 1, on More …
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AIPAD 2012 – Crowds and Buyers
AIPAD 2012, New York — If you haven’t noticed, the one percent has money, and it’ s buying. More …
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Christo Gets Thumbs-Up for Over the River Installation
The Fremont county commissioners on March 27th granted the artist Christo permission for his Over the River project, involving More …
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Project Rowhouses Opens Round 36
At Project Rowhouses in Houston’s Third Ward, Round 36, names a new sequence of installations in which 2505 to More …
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A “Bounty” Message at Louis Vuitton? Plus, Urban Outfitters Sued
I was in Palo Alto last week and at the Stanford Shopping Center came across a display in More …
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Blow-Up Holds Up
The image accompanying this post (and the original poster of the movie Blow-Up is of actor David Hemmings, playing More …
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David Richard to Move to Santa Fe Railyard
David Richard Gallery, at 130 Lincoln Avenue in Santa Fe, will open at 554 South Guadalupe Street on More …
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Tiny Park Gallery, a New Art Space in Austin
An innovation of Thao Votang and Brian Willey, Tiny Park Gallery is the newest contemporary art space in More …
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“The Radical Camera” Remembers the Pre-McCarthyism Doc Era
The Radical Camera: New York’s Photo-League 1936-1951 remembers a 15-year period in New York in which Harlem, communist More …
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The Early Stages, Beerland (March 28)
The Early Stages — no, they are not a Marillion cover band — are part of a long-standing More …
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All About Time: Lucy Lippard and Seth Siegelaub at SITE Santa Fe
Seth Siegelaub’s disembodied voice echoes through the futuristically decorated, cement-floored chamber of the Time Capsule Lounge, part of More …
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Vivian Maier’s Humanist Eye: An Overdue Introduction
Monroe Gallery’s exhibit of photographs by the recently “discovered” Vivian Maier is a is a long overdue introduction More …
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TEFAF – The Russians Are Coming …and Buying
Maastricht (Netherlands) – If art follows capital, then much of it is headed toward the former epicenter of More …
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Place-less-ness in Suburbia at GOCA Colorado Springs
The downtown annex of the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Gallery of Contemporary Art is featuring Phil More …
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San Antonio Celebrates Contemporary Art (March 22)
The San Antonio Museum of Art celebrates contemporary art today, March, 22 with an annual gala event that More …
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Maastricht in the Tulips – Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom, Let a Thousand Buyers Buy
Bookies in London, where you can bet legally on anything, are giving three to one odds that Edvard More …
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Virtual Keith Haring Tour
If Brooklyn wasn’t cool enough already, Flavorwire hosts a virtual tour of Keith Haring’s surviving New York City More …
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Colorado Gov. Hickenlooper Certifies Two Creative Districts
On Friday, March 9th, Gov. John Hickenlooper announced the formal certification of two new Colorado Creative Districts: Downtown More …
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Artist Celia Rumsey Dies in Santa Fe
Illness is the night-side of life a more onerous citizenship Susan Sontag Artist Celia Rumsey died in Santa More …
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Dallas Museum of Art Adds Three New Positions
The Dallas Museum of Art looks to “lead the museum into the next phase of its service to More …
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SXSW 2012 Awards: Film and Interactive
The reports are out about SXSW Film and Interactive awards, 2012. In film, everyone is clamoring about Jay More …
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Fotofest Biennial Opens Tonight in Houston
In Houston, Texas, the largest photography biennial–founded by documentary photographers and journalists Fred Baldwin and Wendy Watriss–opens tonight. More …
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Art Feasting in Santa Fe
Place: Santa Fe. Time: A crisp winter’s evening the end of February 2012. It isn’t snowing, the air More …
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Whitney Biennial 2012: Angelina Jolie Authentic
Tender is not typically a word one applies to biennials anywhere much less the Whitney biennial but this More …
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Designing New Narrative Coverage of SxSW: Two Picks
Among the myriad new ways that people are communicating about real time events (like the ever-interactive SXSW) we More …
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Two Outstanding Films by Female Directors at SXSW 2012
Unlike the Academy Awards and Golden Globes — which both seem to deny the existence of talented female More …
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Pina: The Movie
Pina is an extraordinary film, an inspiring 3D ‘documentary’ that should be mandatory viewing for anyone who doesn’t More …
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SXSW Interactive Recap
There’s so much SXSW happening right now, and tomorrow marks the end of this year’s banquet of activities More …
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Slacker 2011 at SXSW Film 2012
Armed with a globe and a bag loaded with cans of Lone Star, a beery Bob Ray (Hell More …
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New Finds: Mike Bayne
Artist Mike Bayne lives in Toronto. He is exemplary of an artist whose work in reproduction – because More …
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5 Submerging in Eldorado
Like travelling south of the Thames or traversing the East River to get to Brooklyn, I took the More …
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Eli Broad in the House. John Waters in the House. Armory Arts Week.
I keep wondering if it’s a first line or a last line that this is not a crowd More …
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Beauty is Embarrassing at Domy Books, March 11
Beauty is Embarrassing, one of this year’s documentary films slated to debut at SXSW–featuring the art of Wayne More …
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Robert Mangold, Colorado’s Contemporary Sculptor, Goes Kinetic
An impressive array of Robert Mangold’s artistic oeuvre, from 1955 to the present, is on view at The More …
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Axle Contemporary, Art for the Masses
Santa Fe’s Axle Contemporary is only a year and a half old and already it seems like it’s More …
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“Cherry”: A Masterpiece of Unintentional Humor
The porn film business is notorious for ruining generations of its actors. But Cherry, which premiered in Berlin, More …
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Nic Nicosia Installation at Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston
Santa Fe photographer and recent Guggenheim Fellow Nic Nicosia exhibits three, large-scale installation works in light…in black and More …
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SXSW 2012 Film Festival Preview
The 2012 South by Southwest Film Festival is quickly upon us—March 9 – March 17. AdobeAirstream’s music writer More …
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Rez Car at Museum of Contemporary Native Arts
Even in Española, the lowrider capital of the world, lowriders look a bit odd–they pump and glow when More …
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Grimes — February 29th at Lamberts, Austin
Montréal-based musician Claire Boucher fascinates me. Born in 1988, the story goes that Boucher had very little exposure More …
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Nazis in Space: Iron Sky at Berlinale
In Iron Sky, the most hyped movie at the Berlin International Film Festival, Nazis who hid out on More …
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Doodle 4 Google – At Three Western Museums
The Nicolaysen Art Museum in Casper, Wyoming has been chosen to team up with Google for the fifth More …
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The Artist Wins Best Picture at 2012 Oscars
Written and directed by French filmmaker Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist is a silent, black-and-white film, which premiered in More …
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Jody Guralnick: Prescience in Nature
Before science, there is nature; before investigation, the phenomena to be observed and described. In her Aspen studio, More …
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Learning Secrets Presents Teengirl Fantasy and Jacques Renault
We didn’t think we would ever recover from that bombastic 8th anniversary party Learning Secrets threw for themselves More …
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Funding Pulled and Art Chicago Dies
AdobeAirstream recently learned that NEXT and Art Chicago—which as of 2011, combined into one fair, Next Art Chicago—have More …
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Notes From The Uncanny Valley, (At) Boulder’s DiMe
At the Digital Media Symposium at the St. Julien Hotel ballroom in Boulder, the room’s vibe is outdoorsy More …
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Caldera Gallery Brings Some New (Cool) Heat to Santa Fe
We in Santa Fe, have been suffering from an epidemic of awful, unimaginative, hotel-ready art. Neon coyotes, sad More …
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Mardi Gras 2012, the Mediated Version
We’ve all been there, deep amidst the mayhem of too many people on a crazy New Orleans street, More …
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Meow Wolf at SITE Santa Fe’s Time-Lapse Opening
I am five minutes late, walking through the doors of SITE Santa Fe’s new show, Time-Lapse, to see More …
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Sleigh Bells, Comeback Kid
After Saturday night’s appearance on SNL, Sleigh Bells are everywhere. Admittedly, they (or she with the guy in More …
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Francine: A Houseful of Dogs and Cats, at Berlin
In Francine, Melissa Leo plays a casualty from the low end of the 99 percent who tries to More …
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Political Art and Tom Molloy’s New World
When we think of murals on public walls, we might imagine childlike portraits stretched across city blocks—or, the More …
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Idiot Glee at St. David’s Episcopal Church (2/17/2012)
James Friley — a.k.a. Idiot Glee — makes fuzzy, lo-fi doo wop that would not sound out of More …
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E.A.S.T. Goes West in Austin
I received an email this week from the EAST people, telling me that, “Yes, the rumors are true…Big More …
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Night of Silence Premieres In Berlin
In Night of Silence, the Turkish director Reis Celik takes an old formula and an old tradition, and More …
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Santa Fe Artist Susan Begy Exhibits in Brooklyn
Santa Fe artist Susan Begy soon to have drawings in exhibition at B. Conte—167 N. 9th St in More …
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Annie Leibovitz Turns Into Sherrie Levine?
Annie Leibovitz was the recipient of a “woman artist of distinction” honorific bestowed on her at the Georgia More …
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Grammys: Not Just Adele, But Brian Wilson!
I spent the better part of last night watching the Grammys and of course, it was bad, but More …
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Learning to Share: On Candy, Art, and Independence
After school in Santa Fe, I would go to the candy store on Canyon Road (now Nüart Gallery), More …
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Is Film History? New Media Film Fest Might Say So.
Film is (maybe) almost history. Soon, it looks like, those hot reels–romanticized in the 1980s vehicle, Cinema Paradiso–may More …
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Ultimate Love Party Jamz with One Hundred Flowers & Elaine Greer
What I like most about One Hundred Flowers is that they are utterly impossible to pigeonhole into any More …
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Ricardo Legorreta, 1931-2011
Ricardo Legorreta, perhaps Mexico’s best-known architect, died in Mexico City on December 30, 2011. In the month since More …
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Steven Holl Architects To Design Expansion for MFAH
Steven Holl Architects has prevailed over architecture firms Snøhetta and Morphosis to design an expansion for the Museum of More …
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Ion Ionescu: AGTA Award-Winning Jeweler
Santa Fe jeweler Ion Ionescu was awarded the prestigious AGTA Spectrum award for evening-wear jewelry last October. He More …
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BOX Gallery in Santa Fe To Close
Wow. More serious news from the gallery closing world. BOX Gallery, at 1611 Paseo de Peralta, owned by More …
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Mike Kelley Dies, Apparent Suicide
The New York Times has reported that artist Mike Kelley was found dead Wednesday, age 57, at his More …
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Pop West – Ed Ruscha Elucidates Jack Kerouac
During three weeks in April 1951, Jack Kerouac famously wrote On The Road by typing continuously onto a More …
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Joel Shapiro Installation Opens at Rice Gallery
Texas’ beloved New York artist Joel Shapiro opens in solo exhibition at the Rice University Gallery today, February More …
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Austin’s Ink Tank Survives Last New Year
Ink Tank is the latest cooperative, contemporary art lab in Austin—home of DIY. Projects from the new artist More …
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Lauren Weedman’s “No, You Shut Up,” at the Lodge
When a handsome widower tells Lauren Weedman that her stories aren’t ‘funny, they’re sad’, she lets her guard down More …
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“Consumer Grade” Art Moves on eBay – Says Skates Global Art
While European Union leaders meet in Brussels today on bulwarking “a firewall” to the eurozone crisis, Skate’s Global More …
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Paint Arrest: Emil Bisttram on the Flip Side
I had a floor glue moment the other day at Aaron Payne Fine Art when I turned around More …
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BANDHAPPY Founder Matt Halpern Talks Techno
BANDHAPPY is the natural progression of everyday technologies, combined with a heaping wheelbarrow-full of paradigm shifts and ingenuity, More …
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Sundance Live: The Imposter
The Imposter, a documentary by Bart Layton, revisits the trail of a missing child, and the con-man who More …
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Craig Anderson Resigns from Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe
Craig Anderson has resigned as executive director of the Center for Contemporary Arts in Santa Fe to “focus More …
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OH SNAP! Festival In Memory of Sergio Machado
Originally from Mozambique, Africa, Sergio Machado studied at Southwestern University (Georgetown, TX), where he graduated with honors. During More …
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Artpace Announces New Director Regine Basha
Regine Basha is scheduled to assume post March 1 as the new director of Artpace. The non-profit arts More …
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To Calatrava or Not To Calatrava
In November, The Denver Post reported that the City of Denver had settled with starchitect Santiago Calatrava, agreeing More …
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CAMH Presents the Women Artists Behind the Curtain
The Contemporary Art Museum of Houston hosts The Desconstructive Impsulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power, 1973-1991—not More …
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Occupology, Swarmology … On Artjournal by Gregory Sholette
Gregory Sholette writes: Things have changed since we witnessed the power-scrubbing of Zuccotti Park’s People’s Library[1] and the More …
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Having Fun at The Affordable Art Fair
The Affordable Art Fair opened yesterday, January 18, in Los Angeles. Boasting cheap price tags for art—far lower More …
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The Mountain Goats at Antone’s (January 19)
It all began during the summer of 1994. I was Sebadoh’s biggest fan — at least in my More …
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Creative Capital Offers More to 2012 Film/Video and Visual Arts Grantees
Creative Capital announces the 2012 film/video and visual arts grantees, which amounts to “46 adventurous projects representing 56 More …
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Rex Rays on Adobe Walls in the Southwest
In 2009 I saw Rex Ray’s Discolaria (96” x 304”) at MCA Denver. Shortly after returning from Denver More …
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American Photographer Jan Groover, 1944-2012
Jan Groover, recognized American photographer, died shortly after the new year at 68 years old, reports Richard Woodward More …
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New Dallas Bridge to Light Up Tonight
Driving down I-35, heading into downtown Dallas, I see a giant…I don’t know what. What is that? Later More …
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Pissing On (or Near) Art at the Clyfford Still Museum
First, there was Duchamp’s “Fountain,” and since then piss, dung, feces, even menstrual blood have been handy tools More …
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Dwight Hackett Projects to Cease Exhibitions
Dwight Hackett Projects, one of Santa Fe’s leading contemporary exhibit galleries, will cease hosting public exhibitions this year, More …
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Daphne Guiness Show Closes, With A Diamond Dealer Controversy
Yesterday at Fashion Institute of Technology Museum in New York closed a three-month run of Daphne Guinness: Fashion More …
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Interview with Dana Falconberry
Originally from Michigan, Dana Falconberry went to a small college in Arkansas and then blindly moved to Austin More …
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DiverseWorks Houston Names Executive Director Elizabeth Dunbar
DiverseWorks—non-profit art space in Houston—announces Elizabeth Dunbar as the new Executive Director, following William Betts, according to HoustonPress More …
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First Museum Show For McArthur Binion Opens at CAMH
McArthur Binion, a Chicago artist born in Mississippi, who came of age in Detroit as the eleventh child More …
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Architecture and Art Grads Unemployed, Occupy the Arts Protesting
As Mitt Romney who is said to be the richest presidential hopeful we have ever had squeaked out More …
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Colorado Releases Creative District Guidelines
In yet another effort to boost creative placemaking, the state of Colorado has released the guidelines in support More …
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Austin Art, Surviving in 2012
Although we continue to see reports that Austin cannot sustain its art scene, as financial matters continue to More …
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Drive Your Electric Car to Pflugerville, Texas
Pflugerville, Texas is a small town, 17 miles north of Austin—a straight shot on I-35. Following efforts in More …
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Disaster, as in Unfavorable Star: Von Trier, Hodges, Khorramian
Current exhibitions by Jim Hodges at Barbara Gladstone, and Laleh Khorramian at Nicole Klagsbrun, along with Lars Von More …
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2012 Preview: Yves Saint Laurent, as Apres-Ski?
The Denver Art Museum is the only scheduled U.S. venue in 2012 for two exhibitions imagined as crowd-sources: More …
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2012 Preview: Austin Free Music Week
What better way to start 2012 than with one of our favorite annual traditions in Austin — Free More …
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Review: The Iron Lady (Thatcher), Starring Streep
Meryl Streep Makes Margaret Thatcher mythological in The Iron Lady — will Thatcher (or Streep dressed as Thatcher) More …
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MCA Denver, Exploring the Counterculture (West Coast Style)
The counterculture movement was in essence a western phenomenon. That’s the premise of West of Center: Art and More …
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2012 Preview: Foreclosed! Rather, Solutions.
The Issues in Contemporary Architecture series continues at New York’s Museum of Modern Art with Foreclosed: Rehousing the More …
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Cardboard to Build Offices and Stores
Talented designers can use anything as a medium—including office furniture from reconstituted cardboard. (Maybe, offices of the future More …
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2012 Preview: Francesca Woodman Retrospective at SFMOMA
Okay, well, we’re cheating a little bit because this exhibit of Francesca Woodman photographs has already opened, and More …
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2012 Preview: Three Weeks in January
LACE, or Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions,on January 27th will re-present Suzanne Lacy’s 1977 performance work then called Three More …
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Best of 2011: Clyfford Still in Denver, De Kooning at MoMA
On November 22, I visited the newly opened Clyfford Still museum in Denver, which for the first time More …
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Best of 2011: Austin Music
I cannot recall a single calendar year in which Austin was privy to a deep well of varied, More …
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Best of 2011: A Pop-Up Development in Hayes Valley
When I lived near the corner of Market and Castro in San Francisco in the ’70s, I’d enter More …
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Best of 2011: David Foster Wallace Leaves One
This April’s literary publication of The Pale King, the last book written by David Foster Wallace, had that More …
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In Memoriam: Hitchens, Havel – and Cesaria Evora
Writer and thinker Christopher Hitchens (center, above) died last Thursday night, December 15, at MD Anderson Cancer Center More …
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Best of 2011: Julie Heffernan at Catharine Clark Gallery
A famous art critic (true story) waiting for light in front of Delacroix’s Jacob and the Angel in More …
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AdobeAirstream Gift Guide 2011: Stuff-Givers Unite
I’m thinking: affordable gifts that are also meaningful; gifts produced by talented artists—music that makes you feel alive, More …
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Cowbird, Wikipedia for Real Life
Cowbird is the latest from artist/programmer Jonathan Harris. If you’re not familiar with his work already you can More …
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Gold Beach Interview
Gold Beach is a town in Oregon where the Rogue River meets the Pacific Ocean. Gold Beach is More …
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Creative Santa Fe Announces New Board Chair, Executive Director, and Initiative
Creative Santa Fe, a nonprofit that emerged in 2005 out of the University of New Mexico BBER economic-impact More …
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Taking Pleasure Seriously: A New Eames Documentary
For those who may have sat in Eames chairs a good portion of their life, but are unfamiliar More …
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James Drake on Salon of A Thousand Souls
James Drake‘s Salon of A Thousand Souls, a one-man show curated by New Mexico Museum of Art curator More …
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Documentaries: From IDFA to Sundance
As the year of film festivals gives way to a stampede of hype for annual awards, eyes are More …
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Arlene Shechet In The Thick of It At James Kelly Contemporary
While viewing Arlene Shechet’s compelling show, In the Thick of It, at James Kelly Contemporary, the term beginner’s More …
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Jonathan Faber Talks Art at Champion Gallery
Log cabins, pine trees, abandoned boat docks, and supernatural light might seem like hackneyed imagery. However Jonathan Faber, More …
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Wish We Were There: Bubble Ballet at SwissNex (San Francisco)
Swiss design studio Greutmann Bolzern is on tap tonight at Swissnex San Francisco with an installation-event, Bubble Ballet, More …
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Ocote Soul Sounds Concert and Ticket Giveaway, Albuquerque
While Antibalas was reigniting the underlying fire of the Afrobeat scene,Grupo Fantasma and Brownout! were making Latin grooves More …
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The Virtual Dinner Project: Guess Who’s Coming?
The Santa Fe-based Virtual Dinner Guest project is only in its first year, but its conception traces to More …
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Clyfford Still: Part Menace and Yes, Part Majesty
At the top of stairs, which rise elegantly from the lobby of the Clyfford Still Museum, is a More …
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Miami Art Week, As Trashy As Saatchi’s Tirade Suggests?
For Andrew Berardini, Art Basel Miami Beach 2011 was stressful, according to his report in Artforum from the More …
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AdobeAirstream Gift Guide 2011: More Experiences, Less Stuff!
Okay, well maybe a little stuff enters into our first writer’s AdobeAirstream gift guide. Such as (above): A More …
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Armchair Eye Candy from Art Basel Miami Beach
Art Basel Miami Beach has 206 exhibitors this year. I am not there but have spent the better More …
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Mavis Staples Tours with You Are Not Alone
One of the most ideal descriptions of Mavis Staples music is that she reaches down into herself pulls More …
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Design Miami Increases Exhibitors but Wins A Smaller Public Than Art Miami
Design Miami opened with its vernissage last night and 50% more participants than in precious years. This time there More …
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Nationwide Day With(out) Art Initiative on World AIDS Day
In observance of World AIDS Day tomorrow, December 1, nationwide screenings of the film Untitled by Jim Hodges, More …
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2012 Hugo Boss Prize Finalists Announced
New York Times’ Carol Vogel reported earlier today that the six artist finalists for the Solomon R. Guggenheim More …
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The O’s in Austin This Saturday
One of my favorite discoveries of 2011 has been The O’s, and I have Tiger Darrow to thank More …
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The Bankers Were There, Talking Art, Money – and China
The Art Newspaper reported Thursday that a one-day private conference in Florence, Italy in October convened bankers, collectors, More …
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Thunderbird Jewelry as Contemporary Art Form
Thunderbird Jewelry of Santo Domingo Pueblo, curated by folklorist J. Roderick Moore and by Wheelwright Museum curator Cheri More …
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Guest Post: Zeitgeist San Francisco; Community Arts Under Attack, by Guillermo Gómez-Peña
I left San Francisco 2 months ago for my last tour of 2011. I started my journey in More …
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Bastard Offspring of Johnny Cash Plays Mohawk Austin
Like the bastard offspring of Johnny Cash and Lightnin’ Hopkins, blues-punk rocker Scott H. Biram‘s raucously raw sound More …
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Tower Heist: Revenge Saga
It took eight screenwriters to make Tower Heist. After a few minutes, you’ll wonder what it takes to More …
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Global Art and the Museum Commissions Designers to Interpret the Art Market
Sometimes art and design marry, and it’s a beautiful thing. trans_actions is one such wedding, in which art More …
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Nic Nicosia Curates Sarah Canright at CUE
Opening tomorrow in New York at CUE Art Foundation, a show of work by artist Sarah Canright, curated More …
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Marmalakes Celebrate Album Release in Austin
Austinites Max Colonna, Josh Halpern & Chase Weinacht — collectively known as Marmalakes — released their sophomore EP More …
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Clyfford Still Museum Opens Friday (Nov. 18) in Denver
The Clyfford Still Museum opens in Denver Friday and becomes, along with Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, More …
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Occupy Wall Street Booted From Zuccotti Park
Update: A state judge in New York issued a temporary restraining order that would allow protesters back into More …
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Margin Call: Boardroom with a View
David D’Arcy reviews Margin Call, a long dark night in the offices of an investment bank that cheats More …
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Sherrie Levine and the Critics
Roberta Smith writing in The New York Times Friday about Sherrie Levine: “Mayhem”, at New York’s Whitney Museum through More …
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Fun Fun Fun Fest Wrap-Up
On Friday, I saw one set: Ocote Soul Sounds. What a set it was! The live incarnation of More …
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Get Mad and Get Even: Laura Dern in Enlightened
Laura Dern in Enlightened (HBO) is my latest favest TV heroine – through episode 3 of season 1, More …
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Fort Collins to Make a Rocky Mountain Regional Arts Incubator
Fort Collins, Colorado, tasked with creating a Rocky Mountain Regional Arts Incubator, won a $100,000 “Our Town” grant from More …
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Still Standing at Sotheby’s – Abstract Pays for Concrete
Clyfford Still still lives – in bigger numbers than ever. Tonight at Sotheby’s in New York, four paintings More …
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Nazi-Looted Klimt Brings $40 Million at Sotheby’s Auction
A Klimt landscape that that hadn’t been since the late 1930’s by the man whose family owned it More …
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Does the Monster Grow Up?
A recent New York Times headline about waning American influence in the context of the G20 summit caught More …
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ISEA, More Than Just Another Cool Acronym
I love acronyms. ISEA is pronounced like a word, which—according to my college Linguistics professor—distinguishes it from initialism, More …
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Denver Arts Week In Review
The Mayor’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts were awarded November 3 to kick off Denver Arts Week. More …
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“It Is All About the Local”: ArtPlaceAmerica Deadline
New letters of inquiry (LOI) are due to the next and second phase of ArtPlaceAmerica grants due on More …
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The Must-Sees at Fun Fun Fun Fest
If you are looking to have a lot of fun this weekend, there is really no need to More …
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Arthouse-AMoA Merge to Become New Entity
Not that this makes anything clearer from the public’s perspective, but the Arthouse at the Jones Center and More …
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Top Five Films from the Austin Film Festival
The 18th Annual Austin Film Festival ended last week, and Austin is still reveling in the films, conferences, More …
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Theaster Gates Rising
On October 25th an invitation-only crowd celebrating the artist Theaster Gates filled the Rose Bar at the Gramercy Park Hotel More …
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Wanted: Concert Sketch Artists
So here’s the question: How much fame do you have to have to rewrite the US Copyright Law? More …
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Mexic-Arte Museum’s Dia de los Muertos Procession
Candy, witches, bats, pumpkins, altars, marigolds, and most importantly people in the streets in costume—October is the best More …
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“Transmedia” and Storyworld: How “Story” Evolves in Entertainment
Transmedia is one of those new words (birthdate: 2007) you may not have heard of: Here’s the wiki. And More …
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Renowned Textiles Expert Mary Hunt Kahlenberg Dies
Mary Hunt Kahlenberg died at her home in Santa Fe on October 27th, aged 71, following a long More …
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Rembrandt’s Jesus – “From Life”
In 1656, Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn (1606-69) went bankrupt. These were the pre-Gagosian days, when artists themselves mismanaged More …
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Pacific Standard Time, Or Biding Time in New Mexico?
Often, for artists, a move to New Mexico from Los Angeles or New York has been perceived as More …
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Contemporary Design, Baby Boomer Lives
Edy Keeler of Core Value Inc. is a Santa Fe interior designer whose work spans residential and commercial More …
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Report from Texas Contemporary, A New Art Fair
Brooklyn-based managing partner of artMRKT Productions and heir to the Forum Gallery “throne” built by Bella Fishko, Max More …
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New Orleanian Songstress Alexis Marceaux Discusses Music-Making Post Katrina
Alexis Marceaux’s sophomore release — Orange Moon — was recorded upon moving back to the Crescent City after More …
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Nils Folke Anderson at Dikeou Collection Pop-Up
Nils Folke Anderson’s styrofoam sculptures are “reciprocal linkages”, a term borrowed from website connections. The works are all More …
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New Formula: Grassroots Arts Philanthropy Booms
Long ago, “friend” was a noun and “city” was a location: Santa Fe, at the weary end of More …
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Maxwell Anderson In as Dallas Museum of Art Director
Dr. Maxwell L. Anderson has been appointed as Eugene McDermott Director of the Dallas Museum of Art. He More …
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Smiling Sugimoto at Chinati
Hiroshi Sugimoto’s talk at Chinati, where he had an exhibition opening, revealed intelligence and humor of a time More …
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Mourning Becomes Television: Breaking Bad
I had a dream in which Breaking Bad’s Bob Odenkirk was following me on Twitter. Bob Odenkirk for More …
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REVIEW: Hystrionics and the Forgotten Arm
Hystrionics and the Forgotten Arm, by Margaret Meehan, opened on October 6th at Women and Their Work. The More …
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Tribute Bands Have the Strictest Dress Codes
My first (and last, until recently) experience with a tribute performer was at a mighty fine establishment called Nick’s More …
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D*Haus, a Transformer House that Adapts to the Weather
The D*Haus moves to accommodate the weather. How? On rails and organized by the principles of Haberdasher’s Puzzle, More …
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Peter Plagens at Rule Gallery
Explosions of color are presented in the solo-exhibition of collage paintings by Peter Plagens at Rule Gallery. Vivid More …
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Almodovar: The Skin I Live In
From the New York Film Festival, David D’Arcy reviews The Skin I live In, the latest camp-horror tale More …
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Interview with Grace London of Residual Kid
Ben Redman (drums, 12-years old) and his brother Max (bass, 11-years old) began playing gigs around Austin in More …
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Gallery Fridays: Austin, Denver, Santa Fe
AdobeAirstream’s “picks” — art events and happenings in Austin, Santa Fe, and Denver for October 14-23, 2011. AUSTIN More …
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Globes, Maps, Flags (and Annie Lennox)
I have a thing for globes, maps and flags and, of course, for books, even while not proving More …
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Richard Florida Discusses the Great Reset
Richard Florida Discusses The Great Reset of Urban Development in Economic Downturns on Reason.TV.
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Marfa Sidelights, Chinati’s 25th Anniversary Weekend
This year’s pilgrimage to Marfa on the occasion of Chinati’s 25th Anniversary Weekend was well worth the effort, More …
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Art Outside, Austin
This past weekend, October 7 – 9, 2011, marked a few great events. One involved just over an More …
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Is the Creative Class Surviving the Recession?
On October 1, 2011 the Salon wrote that the “Creative Class Is a Lie;” no less than 5 More …
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Clyfford Still Museum to Open with Fanfare, and Controversy
On September 22, I took a hard-hat tour of the Brad Cloepfil-designed Clyfford Still museum in Denver. The More …
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The Future Cities Lab Pop-Up
This temporary public art installation in San Francisco is by Future Cities Lab, in Hayes Valley at Octavia More …
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The Chinati Foundation Celebrates 25 Years
The Chinati Foundation turned 25, celebrating its anniversary last weekend, October 7-9th with ongoing exhibitions by the founder, More …
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UTOPiAfest, Newcomer to Central Texas’ Music Season
Autumn in Central Texas — specifically Austin — has developed into a music festival frenzy, with what seems More …
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Seeing Is Believing: Images for Change
Writing in The New Yorker in October of last year, Malcolm Gladwell queried the influence of social media More …
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A Natural Predicament, Sustainability in the 21st Century
Two of the most prominent aspects of human nature are the survival instinct and the impulse to make More …
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Fred Sandback at MCA Denver
One building and 16 ounces of string, that’s what one finds at MCA/Denver. Of course it’s much more More …
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Gallery Fridays: Austin, Denver, Santa Fe
Openings and closings for Austin, Denver and Santa Fe for the weekend of October 7-9, 2011. AUSTIN More …
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Past Alive, Trinity Site 2011
The Trinity Site opens only twice per year for public tours. Because, today, it’s “now only mildly radioactive,” More …
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The Willingham Case, Rick Perry and the Death Penalty in Texas
With Governor Rick Perry throwing his proverbial hat into the race for Republican presidential nominee, Texas has been More …
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Steve Jobs (1955-2011): “Tools For All”
Tools for All was the motto of Stewart Brand’s Whole Earth Catalog. Just take a pause and think More …
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Greg Sholette and Monika Bravo at Santa Fe Art Institute
As part of SFAI’s seasonal program, Half Life: Patterns of Change, Greg Sholette and Monika Bravo exhibit two More …
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Bicycles–Fashion Statement, or Political Stance in Austin?
I’m not sure when bicycles became a fashion statement. But, I’ve seen bikes that are so well designed More …
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Moneyball, Not a Movie About Baseball
Moneyball isn’t a film about playing baseball. And after re-watching a little of Meet Joe Black the other More …
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George, by Scorsese
George Harrison: Living in the Material World, a documentary by Martin Scorsese (at the New York Film Festival- later More …
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Eiko and Koma Dance Their Retrospective in Abq.
Collaborators Eiko and Koma performed three dances from their Retrospective Project Saturday night at the North Fourth Arts More …
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Karim Rashid and Tom Dixon: The Poetics of Product
On October 6 Karim Rashid speaks on a poetics of “product” at the World Design Insight Forum in More …
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Robert Adams Photography at DAM: A Bodhisattva Sees the West
Photographer Robert Adams is a bodhisattva to the American West: “I want to make accurate photographs of the More …
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Gallery Fridays: Santa Fe, Austin, Denver
Gallery events, exhibition openings/closings, and lectures for Santa Fe, Austin, and Denver. SANTA FE Many gallery openings More …
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Sue Graze Resigns from the Arthouse, But Why–Really?
Sue Graze resigns as the Executive Director of the Arthouse to take-up post as Director Emeritus, effective October More …
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Solyndra Bankruptcy: Why Solyndra Blood Smells So Green
Reuters reported yesterday that the bankrupt Fremont, Calif.-based solar firm Solyndra has been cleared for bankruptcy auction on More …
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Humanitarian Design Is Theme of Design Santa Fe 2011
Design Santa Fe 2011 deals in the theme of “Change Makers,” with the change question going to the social More …
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Face of Our Time: The Passing Stranger Who Moves Us
It is often possible to see terrific photography exhibitions in San Francisco and Face of Our Time: Jim More …
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Pacific Standard Time
Pacific Standard Time, a so-called “unprecedented collaboration of cultural institutions across Southern California,” tracks the recent history of More …
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AHA Festival of Progressive Arts: New Values for the Times
Befitting a “progressive” festival in recession times, or some might even say, collapse times, prices in the art More …
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Salvador Dali Sells KitchenAid Mixer
More than occasionally art history and pop culture collide—savvy advertisers, and art directors will often use iconic artworks More …
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The Sour Notes
I am usually not one to play favorites, but I will say that The Sour Notes have been More …
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Down Under – Murder on the Res, in Oz
The Tall Man (at the Toronto International Film Festival). Director Tony Krawitz, Australia, 2011. You could call Palm Island More …
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Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival, Reviewed
Fall in Austin marks not only a break from summer’s heat but also the beginning of the film More …
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How Design for the Other 90 Percent Applies to Colorado
We live in a world filled with cool products and great design. I love my iPhone, desire an More …
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Gallery Fridays: Austin, Denver, Santa Fe
What’s happening this weekend? More like, what isn’t happening! AUSTIN Well, the first event isn’t a fine More …
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Music Blowing Austin’s Eardrums This Weekend: Metro Area
There are plenty of music-related events going on this weekend; you know, with the ACL Music Festival and More …
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What Climate Change? What Maldives?
The Island President (at the Toronto International Film Festival). Director: Jon Shenk, USA, 2011, 101 minutes The Maldives should More …
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Santa Fe’s New Age Graffiti
Santa Fe may have invented its own genre of “new age graffiti,” giving further credence to Jeffrey Deitch’s More …
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“Toward the Third Dimension” Makes You An Actor with Art
David Floria Gallery in Aspen is a thumbnail-sized space, in which a show of two- dimensional works by More …
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Candy Cornbread at grayDUCK Gallery
Candy Cornbread, the most recent show to grace the walls of grayDUCK Gallery, is playful, colorful and full More …
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You Can’t Wash It Off – Contagion
Remember the line that you would come out of an over-decorated Broadway show singing the chandelier? When you More …
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Wild Frontier Fest is Bigger and Younger
In 2010, Vagabond Collective found themselves on the ground floor of a really exciting new music scene in More …
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Gallery Fridays: Austin, Denver, Santa Fe
Zozobra, fiestas in Santa Fe, and ACL and Wild Frontier Festival in Austin—so many festivals, parties and events More …
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The Church of Beethoven: Fifth Street Praise
On almost any given Sunday, musical orthodoxy and a sometimes radical creationism reconcile, if not always harmoniously, inside More …
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Huh? Meets Why?: Lou Reed and Metallica Make an Album
Most musical collaborations these days are so freaking obvious that they match up as perfectly as the zeroes More …
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Arthouse’s Rooftop Architecture Film Series
Certain things are better imagined, than actually experienced. And, I think movies out of doors might be one More …
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The Chair at Shy Rabbit Contemporary Arts in Pagosa Springs, CO
Chairs have been the subject of paintings throughout history. Van Gogh painted one, so did John Singer Sargent, More …
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Gallery Fridays
Austin – New gallery Champion OPENS Wild Beasts a group exhibition, downtown Austin—E 8th and Brazos. Although the More …
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Archaeology and the Shape of Time: A Photo Show In Search of Itself
“Archaeology and The Shape of Time” at Fisher Press (August 26-Sept. 27) is an exhibition of small scale More …
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The Dodos Play Austin Tonight
No one can do a rimshot as well as the Dodos’ drummer, Logan Kroeber; however, if you would More …
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Dallas Museum of Art Announces New Associate Curator of American Art
Sue Canterbury, who holds a Master of Arts degree in Art History from Williams College in Massachusetts, begins More …
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Message in a Mexican Suitcase – Close-Ups of the Spanish Civil War
Robert Capa said that if your photograph was no good, you weren’t close enough. In the Spanish Civil More …
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Burning Man 2011 Opens
You know you’re in a new world order when the New York Times gives Burning Man three appearances More …
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Lisa Fancher of Frontier Records Talks to Groovey
Lisa Fancher founded the legendary punk label Frontier Records in 1980 and helped to launch the careers of More …
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Green and Cinema East Reviewed
The 2011 summer comes to a close, and Cinema East wraps up its second, annual summer film series. More …
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“Extreme” Shopping to Designs for Living, A-Z
Perhaps the theory that says nothing is wasted is correct, especially if (like me) you’ve never been able More …
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Guy Tillim: A Fantasy
Guy Tillim’s color photographs (2007-8) of quotidian African life in and around late-modern colonial buildings in cities of More …
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Denver Selects Sotheby’s to Sell Clyfford Still Paintings
Bloomberg reports that the City of Denver, where the Clyfford Still museum will open November 18, 2011, has More …
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Of Bodies Of Elements: “Mending the Sacred Hoop”
Rulan Tangen’s Of Bodies of Elements presented to a packed house at the James A. Little Theater on More …
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Red Nation Music Fest
The 2011 Red Nation Music Fest has a very good chance of living up to their tag lines More …
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Contemporary Indian Market- A Short Selection
Indian Market weekend brings a particular glut of art events of which the contemporary need to be culled More …
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Your Loss, Our Gain — The Museum of Broken Relationships
We all know how it feels to incur the pain of a broken heart—and perhaps artists know the More …
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Art-Crush: “Lips, boobs, shoes.” And Sales.
The word from Aspen this month proves to nobody’s amazement that Aspen remains the Rockies resort town where More …
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15 Artists at Kirkland Museum Not Radical At All
Art Exhibit at Kirkland Museum, featuring artists who broke with tradition, closed on August 14th. “The influence of More …
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Charles Wyly Dies in Aspen; Impact on Anderson Ranch Speculated
Billionaire Dallas businessman and art patron Charles Wyly died in a car accident when his Porsche was T-boned More …
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Interview with Classixx
It all began in a basement apartment in Echo Park, Los Angeles, where hundreds of people appeared at More …
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The Best Bands on the 2011 Warped Tour
I have sung Kevin Lyman’s praises for years now but even successful geniuses completely blow it on occasion. More …
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Gallery Fridays
What’s going on this weekend—August 12-14—in terms of art openings, closings and events? Let’s start with Santa Fe More …
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Pay The Devil Later? This Faust Transacts Silliness
Doctor Faustus, who originated with the German writer Goethe, is that character for whom the phrase, “Faustian bargain” More …
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Last Film of the 101X Summer Cinema Series, Austin
Summers in Austin provide a wide range of outdoor activities from swimming at Barton Springs to seeing a More …
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Aspen Art Museum Announces New Curator Jacob Proctor
The Aspen Art Museum recently announced Jacob Proctor as their new Curator. Proctor received his MA from Harvard More …
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New Leader for Paolo Soleri’s Cosanti Foundation
Cosanti Foundation, whose principal project is Arcosanti, architect Paolo Soleri’s mesa-top urban laboratory in Paradise Valley, AZ, has More …
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Low-Impact, Artist-Designed Campers
The coolest, new eco-friendly campers on the market— designed by Jay Nelson, artist from San Francisco. Certainly, if More …
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The Road to Enlightenment on the Magic Bus
By 1964, Ken Kesey had already written two novels that helped define his generation. He was also convinced More …
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Up-and-Comer Tiger Darrow Knows Who She Is
Chances are you’ve probably seen Tiger Darrow in at least one of the many films in which she More …
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SoFa West In Year Three: The “New Paradigm” Here To Stay
Fairs are art dealings’ “new paradigm.” So 30-year veteran Chicago dealer Douglas Dawson told me at SoFa West More …
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Gallery Fridays
The following are openings/closings for Austin, TX and Santa Fe, NM for the weekend of August 5, 6, More …
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SOFA West, Preview Photos
If you missed the opening night preview of SOFA West, August 3rd, at Santa Fe’s convention center, enjoy More …
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New Typeface Makes it Easier for Dyslexics to Read
When I came across the new typeface Dyslexie, designed to make it easier for those with dyslexia to More …
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Interview with Nik Freitas
I have known for quite a while that I wanted to write about the show at Stubb’s happening More …
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It’s (Almost) Fall – And New Art Fairs Are Frolicking
From September 16th through October 23rd – only four and a half weeks- three brand new dogs will More …
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The Spell of Schubert at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival
There is undoubtedly a serious air of music-making that happens after sundown during the justly celebrated Santa Fe More …
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Contemporary (Latin) American Art in Austin
HEIR today, gone tomorrow is currently on view at the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center (MACC), More …
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Gallery Fridays, Austin
In Austin, catch Domy Bookstore’s Dylan Reece and Carlos Rosales-Silva exhibit, which OPENS JULY 30, showing through September More …
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Gallery Fridays, Santa Fe
In 1976-78 while the rest of us were watching Saturday Night Fever and listening to Stayin’ Alive, some More …
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Overconsumption, Contemporary Art’s Perspective
In 2005 when Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s “air” reportedly sold on Ebay for $529.99, I was shocked. More …
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Making Treasure from Trash: Reclamation at Center for Visual Art
Who knew my recycling pile could be turned into an object of beauty? Fodder for the formal narratives More …
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Interview with Erick Crosby of Yourself and the Air
Starting in 2006 with the release of their first EP ¡Hola Mi Cielo!, Chicago’s Yourself and the Air More …
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$16.7 Million Sold at Coeur D’Alene Art Auction
ALBERT BIERSTADT (1830-1902) Mount Rainier (1890) oil on canvas, 54″ x 83″ Sold at Auction: $2,143,000 The Coeur More …
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From Motown to Ghost Town – Detroit Wild City
No, this isn’t the name of a band. Don’t let this new doc (dir. by Florent Tillon) fall More …
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A Lounge Cruise with the Due Return
The Due Return – the 75-foot-long beached ship-interactive installation that dominates Munoz-Waxman Gallery at CCA Santa Fe, and around which an elaborate narrative, constructed by the Meow Wolf collective, and populated by the public, is taking place. The exhibition with related special events has been extended til August 21.
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Griselda – The Harried Wife and Peter Sellars – The Great Director
Griselda, the tale from which Vivaldi’s Opera (and its brilliant new interpretation by director Peter Sellars and conductor Grant Gershon at Santa Fe Opera) derives, is an old one: 14th century, from Bocaccio’s Decameron, with an overlay of Canterbury Tales and wives harried beyond measure.
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Built Like Amy Winehouse
There’s only 2 types of deaths that really matter to the average person: 1) People you actually knew More …
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Wall of Sound, A Vintage Radio Show
What, you may ask, are vintage radios doing in a contemporary arts and crafts gallery? It’s a good More …
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Austin Museum of Art Closes Downtown Location
The Austin Museum of Art has been in several headlines recently for two reasons. The first is the More …
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Country Mice’s Jason Rueger Talks Music
AdobeAirstream spoke with Country Mice front-man Jason Rueger as he and his bandmates were in Brooklyn, NY preparing More …
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Paying For Nazi Art Crimes at London Auction – and in NY in the fall
In London on June 22, a landscape by Egon Schiele set a world auction record price for the More …
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TypeCon 2011: Surge
Surrounded by hand-painted signs, rare bookstores, and vibrant art culture, TypeCon 2011: Surge went-off in New Orleans, a More …
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Art Santa Fe, and the Market from an Artist’s Perspective
The last night of Art Santa Fe, I asked critic and historian Peter Frank about his experience here. More …
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Art Spiegelman at The High School of Art & Design
NEW YORK. Art Spiegelman, who chronicled his father’s experience in Auschwitz in a then-improbable medium, a comic book More …
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5 Propositions for the Phenomenon that is “Buck”
1. Because a talking cowboy is even better than a laconic cowboy The myth of the ranch man More …
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Presenting the Psychoterratic Disorder, Solastalgia
Within the entire spectrum of what Australian professor Glenn Albrecht calls “psychoterratic disorders”, solastalgia describes the “form of More …
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John Sonsini at James Kelly Contemporary: Review
In Santa Fe day laborers congregate near the Guadalupe Chapel at the north end of town. In Los More …
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Interview with The Wooden Birds’ Frontman Andrew Kenny
The last time I saw Andrew Kenny perform was at a wedding at the Elks Lodge in Austin, More …
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“The Champagne-Tinged” Art Santa Fe Falls Flat
Art Santa Fe is a Charlotte Jackson joint; the art dealer based in the Railyard business district has been at this running of the fair for 11 years.
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Global Dance Festival at Red Rocks
The ninth annual Global Dance Festival starts this Thursday July 14th at Red Rocks and with over 60 More …
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A Not-Typical Texas Band: Centro-Matic
Centro-matic’s tour concludes at The Mohawk in Austin, TX (with Sarah Jaffe opening) on Sunday, July 10th. And, More …
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3 Reasons Why Facebook is Toast
Why yes! I do know that I am declaring Facebook’s Myspace land (like descent into Pets.com) immediately after More …
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A Tribe Called Quest Releases Movie
A Tribe Called Quest, iconic hip-hop group, releases a movie “Beats, Rhymes, and Life: The Travels of a More …
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Jack Strange’s Within Seconds Closes This Week
The video works that comprise Jack Strange’s Within Seconds, on view in the 1st Floor Gallery at Arthouse, More …
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Quilting for their Lives: Pakistani Women at Santa Fe International Folk Art Market
In a remote village in the Thar desert of Pakistan, the women are primarily Hindu in a Muslim More …
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Interview with Evan Way of The Parson Red Heads
AdobeAirstream caught up with The Parsons’ singer-songwriter Evan Way as the band made their way across the U.S. More …
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Art Perception Through Reading: Robert Miller, Gallery Owner
While reading the paid NY Times obits yesterday I read Robert Miller’s with interest. He was a gallery More …
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Emmylou Rock My Soul
Was searching the Bosom of Abraham lyric and here is this, for a mellow Monday offering. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44JQce5o4L8
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New, Zero-Waste Grocery Store in Austin
In.gredients, a new grocery store located in Austin, Texas, will launch this year, and tackle a fundamental design More …
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The Effect of Red On The Seeing Body
Hie yourself over to David Richard Contemporary at 130 Lincoln in Santa Fe before June 26th, where RED (Force More …
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Anaïs Mitchell Meets Austin
Anaïs (pronounced “uh-NAY-iss”) Mitchell is the daughter of “hippie back-to-the-landers”. Her father was a novelist and English professor, More …
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The Cool Weirdness that is Black Lips and “Arabian Mountain”
If the late 70’s punk scene had been born decades later, in Atlanta, Georgia, and decided to play More …
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Currents 2011: New Video Reviewed
Santa Fe was unrecognizable June 10, for the opening night of Currents 2011, a festival for international, new More …
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Margaret Neumann at Rule Gallery
Margaret Neumann is a painter. Some might classify her as a Neo-expressionist, a la Philip Guston, but rather, More …
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Mormon II – Beyond the Tonys
Here come the Mormons. Forget about the campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, where two of the aspirants More …
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Libby Lumpkin Picks Urbane and Quirky Art for New Mexorado
From the Harwood Museum Website: Libby Lumpkin, art historian, curator, and professor of contemporary art history and art More …
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Nerd Done Well, Simon Pegg in Austin
What do people love about Simon Pegg? I venture to guess it’s his willingness to represent the Nerd More …
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The There Is Here: Currents 2011 (at Digital Dome)
On Friday night you could hear a lot of people talking at El Museo Cultural about how incredible More …
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The Score’s The Thing in Herzog’s Cave
During Warner Herzog’s odyssey into glittering Chauvet Cave, whose walls are graced with startlingly fresh images of woolly More …
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Pepper Rabbit Plays Austin’s Mohawk
Xander Singh and Luc Laurent, aka Pepper Rabbit, currently reside in Los Angeles, but they are originally from More …
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Dia’s Statement on Spiral Jetty Lease
Dia was stunned to read “Control of iconic sculpture Spiral Jetty in dispute,” in the online edition of More …
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The Last Mountain – Another Landscape Demolished
Artists like Robert Smithson or Christo who use the earth as a medium have nothing on the mining More …
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Dunn and Brown Split Leaves Talley Dunn Gallery Standing
Dunn and Brown Contemporary, a 12-year-old Dallas gallery focusing in high-end contemporary art, is changing its name in More …
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Did You Say Tree Frog? Unimog?
Okay, the Unimog is 60. So I’ve learned from the mighty Wired magazine and the New York Times More …
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The Thirsty Ear Festival Starts June 10
It’s time again for the festival that wins my gold medal award for “Best Named Festival” the good More …
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Black Sheep: The Point of An Art Exhibition (in Spain) About Stigma and AIDS
I’ve been reflecting the last few days on the question of sheep (baa, baa) and the mainstream media. More …
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Now, Would You Call This Ridiculous?
According to Money magazine, Smart cars (which have sold 750,000 in the EU) topped off in the US More …
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If The Internet is So Incredible, Why Are There Guys Still Dancing Around with Sandwich Boards?
Click play on the video below so you can read this with a soundtrack. I know a guy More …
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Dikeou Collection Denver a Quirky Find
One of the top private art collections in the world is located in the historic Colorado Building on More …
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Austin’s New Arthouse Cinema, Violet Crown
As I’ve mentioned before, Austin has a wonderful movie palace. But the latest theatre in town is Austin’s More …
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I Write the Songs: Drawings in Flux Quartet’s Musical Inbox
Sunday May 29th found SITE Santa Fe on the Santa Fe Plaza to co-produce, with artist Suzanne Bocanegra More …
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Chaos in Tejas, 2011 Line-up
My music tastes have significantly mellowed since the late 1980s when bands such as the Cro-Mags (Emo’s, June More …
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The Tree of Life: Blame the Architect?
The Tree of Life takes you from creation to heaven – I’m not kidding – with a long More …
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Wild Dancing Seeds Grassland in Abq.
In the dance beginnings of Grassland, performed by ODC Dance Company at Wild Dancing West! Friday, nine dancers clad More …
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Picks: Summer Classic Film Series, Austin
Austin is a film town. We have film festivals year round, as well as resident actors and directors. More …
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A Bear? Where? Over There
I am a real sucker for charcoal drawings when they are good, and when they are very good, More …
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Devon Dikeou, Insider, Aims to Re-Democratize Jazz History
Devon Dikeou began her art career in the basement of Tibor de Nagy Gallery. She was sent down, More …
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Like a Bigger Bull in a China Shop
Denver is slowly recovering from the Jerry-Bruckheimer-hangover that was the U2 360 show this past Saturday that could More …
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Lars von Trier Botches 64th Annual Cannes Film Festival
Danish director of The Five Obstructions Lars von Trier brings another beautifully crafted movie to the 64th Annual More …
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Heather McGill’s Clowns, Not Pale, But Unsatisfied
Heather McGill’s new art show at Dwight Hackett Projects features recombinant laser-cut works on paper that erupt in More …
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Then and Now: A Road of Trials To A Contemporary Art Scene in New Orleans
I was made almost unbearably happy by my interlude at Then and Now, Dan Cameron’s latest curatorial effort More …
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So it Goes: Another Astounding Exhibition at Lora Reynolds Gallery
I walked into what appeared to be an unpolished exhibition when I saw Susan Collis’ ‘So it goes’ More …
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Shivkumar Sharma and Zakir Hussain in Telepathic Rhythm
Years ago, I grabbed a ticket to my first classical Indian music concert and somewhere halfway through entered More …
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Farm to Table, a Local Necessity
I tagged along with Rowan Ogden to meet John Lash, owner of Austin’s Farm to Table, a few More …
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Poster Cabaret Celebrates National Bike Month
Poster Cabaret is an online poster design shop, with a physical studio in Austin, Texas, which is operated More …
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“Refusal to Compromise Drives Innovation”: Make It Right
Building affordable houses that are fast to construct, ready for storms, LEED-platinum-certified, and beautiful is a lofty goal More …
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Kermit Ruffins Still Plays Vaughn’s (NoLa) Every Thursday
That’s what you call a mellow Thursday. So what if it’s Monday? And here’s another just because we More …
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Peter Mulvey: The Best Musician I Have Ever Stabbed
Peter Mulvey is truly a world class guitar player, singer-songwriter, and storyteller. If you haven’t heard his music More …
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Urs Fischer – Was Christie’s Too Bullish on the Bear?
Who says that business on Park Avenue is cut-throat? Just look at the enormous 20-ton teddy bear (with More …
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Tom Friedman Warns About ‘Global Weirding’
There Is “exactly enough time, starting now” for American architects and engineers to marshal a new invention – More …
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A New Design Experience: AIGA Design Ranch 2011
Since 1999, the AIGA Austin chapter has been holding Design Ranch (DR) biyearly. This year’s gathering took place More …
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Dario Robleto: War’s “Life Instinct” in Memento Mori
A garden, while associated with the natural world, is actually a human creation. A place where humans exert More …
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Geronimo, Mascots and Meaning
The assignment of code name Geronimo, and code phrase Geronimo E-KIA to mean that Navy Seal Team 6 More …
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Wheatpaste and Paper: Anne Staveley
[nggallery id=22] These images by Anne Staveley are on the side of Warehouse 21 in Santa Fe celebrating More …
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Support DIY at Handmade Austin Women
Handmade Austin Women presented their 6th Annual Spring Show and Sale this past weekend, April 30th-May 1st at More …
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Austin Contemporary on the Decline?
It’s been one year since I wrote Austin Contemporary on the Rise, and within that time the “mashup” More …
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Red Rocks: The Coolest Pain-in-The-Ass-Venue in the World
I totally love Red Rocks as a venue because it has the prestige of Madison Square Garden and More …
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Tribeca Post-Script: Puncture, Portland and Paradise
Puncture sounds like a horror film, and it is, if you think that putting your health in the More …
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Eveli Sabatie on Hopi Inlay and Egyptian Jewelry
In 2006, writing for Metalsmith magazine, I had the opportunity to review the Charles Loloma jewelry show that More …
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Ordinary Wonders and ‘Imbricated” Surfaces for Jody Guralnick
Artist Jody Guralnick lives in Aspen, Colorado in a stone-and-glass house above a glacier-fed river. Once, while I More …
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Mass Media in Freefall, “Pirate Radio” Likes Its Air Thin
My first foray into radio was with a local talk station in Denver. Right after the job offer, More …
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Phoebe Snow Dies At 60. R.I.P.
Phoebe Snow had that angel voice thing going. She died yesterday of a brain hemorrhage, age 60. Here’s More …
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Why the Texas Roller Girls Remind Me of My Grandma
TEXECUTIONERS rolled against the Cincinnati Rollergirls on Saturday, April 17th. As I watched the bout, I began to More …
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Don’t Blink Or You’ll Miss Electronic Art at Denver Art Museum!
Denver Art Museum ends its first exhibition ever of electronic media, Blink! on May 1. The exhibition, curated More …
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The Magic Art School Bus Rolls Coast-to-Coast
The Bruce High Quality Foundation sends five young people on a coast-to-coast road trip engaging communities in conversations about higher arts education, the craze for credentials, and what’s the point exactly.
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When Surveillance Is Your Friend – Or Doing “Geo-Spatial” One Better
A Longmont, Colorado company, Digital Globe, that specializes in satellite imaging (or taking pictures of earthlings from space) More …
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“I, Shithead” and Other Things Middle-Aged Musicians Say to Themselves
I, Shithead by Joey Keithley of D.O.A. (his stage name is Joey Shithead) is the lead dude in More …
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New Guatemalan Film Headlines An Austin Festival
Marimbas del infierno (Marimbas from Hell), a Guatemalan film written and directed by Julio Hernández Cordón, had its regional More …
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James Surls Curates Chinese and American Women
“The idea of homegrown” and “mustering the force” are two of the ways that sculptor James Surls described More …
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“Restrepo” Director Tim Hetherington Killed in Libya
Today came news that the director of the acclaimed documentary Restrepo Tim Hetherington died of injuries sustained while More …
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Ai Weiwei’s Detention Incites International Protest
If you follow art news, youre well aware that Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was detained by officials in More …
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Yes, Your Seat Cushion Is a Flotation Device, But That Basket’s No Wetsuit
Neoprene is wetsuit plastic – yes, the insulating costume that only rare humans should be seen donning; that More …
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What Do Chinese Women Artists Want? Panel at CU Boulder Spotlights Bicultural Exchange
Chinas most well-known and controversial contemporary artist, Ai Wei Wei, has been detained by the Chinese government since More …
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Ai Weiwei, Sunflower Seeds at Tate Modern
With Ai Weiweis disappearance on everyones mind, including protesters in New York and Los Angeles pleading for his More …
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The Telegraph Posts Pulitzer Prize Photography Winners’ Gallery
Yesterday the Pulitzer prizes were announced and our coverage today includes this link to work by Barbara Davidson More …
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Catholic Protesters in France Destroy Andres Serrano’s Piss Christ (but the Negative Lives On)
Its not just truck drivers from Montana who destroy art. Catholic protestors in Avignon, France have taken a More …
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Tribeca Film Festival Preview – How to Make Your Country a Punchline. The Iceland Cometh?
Remember Iceland, the island nation whose inhabitants are so beautiful that todays version of Dr. Evil tried to More …
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Silian Rail and Tartufi Play Arcade Fire After-Party at Corazon
Bay Area bands Silian Rail and Tartufi play tonight in Santa Fe at the Corazon after-party after Arcade More …
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AARP Cards in The Mail – It’s Biography Writing Time
I was recently at an old geezer punk show and I heard this one particular quote mutter through More …
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“Dead Drops” Are Some New Public Spaces And They Are Strange
Internet infrastructure exponentially grows, and the average person finds herself with a newfound, unconsciously-cultivated ability to: browse the More …
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Volta NY 2011 – International Artists of Intrigue
The reason Im just getting around to posting these images of the Volta NY is that because between More …
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Violin “Prodigy” Benjamin Beilman Inhabits Sibelius, Transfixes Popejoy
“Prodigy” is that small apotheosis reserved for the young. Mozart, Mendelssohn, Michael Jackson they have been clamored after, More …
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Mary Hrbacek’s Wounded Forests Touch the Human Heart
For the past decade or so – perhaps triggered by the accelerating environmental depradations of so many global More …
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“Plank” Sculptor John McCracken Dies in New York
John McCracken was a minimalist with a sense of humor. Possibly a decade ago, In 2000, on seeing More …
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The Guggenheim For a Guy with His Head in the Stars
The 2011 Guggenheim Fellows were announced- and part-time New Mexico sculptor Charles Ross is one. Ross who lives More …
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Why Internet Radio Will Simply Be Called “Radio” Pretty Soon
This article is a slow pitch to all the DJs sitting in the brick and mortar mega-corp offices More …
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The Future of Music is in Your Fridge
The general malaise of the recording industry is a well whipped horse cadaver in the media world–with many More …
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It’s Complex Systems in HD in “Infrastructure”
If Bernd and Hilla Becher tried to systematize industrial operations into banal presentations, flat-framed black-and-white photographs that demonstrated More …
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Kinshasa Symphony Tunes Up At the New York African Film Festival
Central Africas only symphony orchestra is the Kinshasa Symphony, an orchestra of some 200 musicians in the capital More …
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The Rumpus on High-Speed Rail in the Rockies
Politicians love to talk about the fiscal deficit, but what about Americas infrastructure and transportation deficit? Take high More …
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Dragonslayer Film Like a Tame Day in Mediocre Land
Dragonslayer isnt an important film. It wont change your life, awaken new understandings, or teach you anything. Its More …
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Wes Hempel Bares His Unease
Classical art was about nothing if not body worship. Think discus throwers and gods hurtling stars. The spirit More …
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Why Some Music Festivals are Fading Faster Than Justin Bieber’s Teen Idol Status
Live music has always been the golden rock n roll goose laying some very profitable eggs, but in More …
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Schnabel’s New Movie Is Boycotted by American Jewish Committee
Brooklyn-born Jew Julian Schnabel finds himself on the orthodox firing line after having made a new movie, Miral, More …
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Ai Weiwei “Dropping the Urn” – But “Where is Weiwei” Today?
Editors Note: Ai Weiwei has been arrested in Beijing and on April 4, 2011 there are fears for More …
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Foolin with Dan Graham at SFMOMA
The Dan Graham kinesthetic experience, on the roof of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
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SXSW: Artists, Geeks, and the Technological Future
Artists and geeks get along, right? And, its time for those personalities rise to the top, yes? Austins More …
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Andean Tunics Are Dazzling Menswear 2000 Years Old
The magnificent Andean tunics on view at the Met (March 8-September 18, 2011, Michael C. Rockefeller wing) offer More …
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Five Pavilions and Concrete at Ando’s Fort Worth Modern
Santa Fe Photographer Francesca Yorke visits The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Five flat-roofed pavilions on a More …
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Gravity in a Water Glass
Monday artist Adriana Bustos was exhibited at the Latin America focus at the Armory Show, held March 4-8 More …
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Chunky Charms From Buffalo Bill’s Pawn
Its Southwestern style gone mainstream – but Cher has nothing to do with it. This season, chunky oversize More …
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The Bloody Past – and Hermann Nitsch’s Ecstasy
In 1962, Austrian artist Hermann Nitsch crucified the carcass of a slaughtered lamb while an assistant poured the More …
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Joyce Melander-Dayton’s Pattern Language
While the title of Santa Fe artist Joyce Melander-Daytons show that closes March 29th at June Kelly Gallery More …
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Tesla’s Electric Car Revolution
Serbian-born engineer and inventor Nikola Tesla went west for a period in the late 1800s to conduct research More …
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Focus on Contemporary Latin American Art
As the 2011 Armory show, opening on Piers 92-94 on March 3d, makes its second annual Exhibitors Focus More …
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Two Oscar Contenders That Probably Won’t Win.
If you were at the Toronto International Film Festival, you probably saw both Even the Rain and Of More …
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Arcade Fire Wins 2011 Grammy Album of the Year
The Grammys are like the Santa Claus of the music industry. The situation is all bright, shiny and More …
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Loveboat for Little Dragon
Heres what I love about live music (and I dont love live music): the instantaneous feedback loop. I More …
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Interview with RAW Founder Heidi Luerra
When I first heard about RAW it sort of sounded like the arts version of the “McIndie with More …
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McLennan and Ball at David B. Smith Denver
Lauren Ball and Ryan McLennan both paint animals in their unnatural state rendered in detailed watercolor and acrylic. More …
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From Sundance to Berlin
The strength of a countrys industries is in its exports, at least thats what were told. Should film More …
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Coffee Break Video
This is one of my most favorite videos onVimeo. :) I have a thing for stop-motion.
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Sundance 2011: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
This episode of the Adobe Airstream podcast features David DArcy, still at The 2011 Sundance Film Festival, discussing More …
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Sundance 2011: The Oregonian
The Aobe Airstream podcast is back again today with David DArcy at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. This More …
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Crime After Crime – a Film at Sundance You Shouldn’t Miss
If you want a roadmap for Crime After Crime, you might try the Book of Job. The documentary More …
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Takashi Murakami at Palace of Versailles
Once again the battle between preserving classical French culture from the ugly claws of globalization has been making More …
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Dennis Hopper: Sold
It must have been fate. The single object that rose from the mix of hundreds of objects and More …
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Tales of the Road with Jeremy Deller
Monday was day 17 of the Creative Time roadtrip. It found Turner Prize winner Jeremy Deller, with compadres More …
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Wild Horses in Photography and Art As Conscience
It may seem futuristic cinema to picture men in helicopters stampeding wild horses down the Western range – More …
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Knitted Art Blankets Blanton Courtyard in Austin
Contemplating the Austin craft scene, Im reminded of a question my mom asked me once when discussing art. More …
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Obituary for Helmut Lohr 1955 to 2010
I happened just to read on Facebook that Helmut Lohr, a German collage artist, has died. He passed More …
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One Million Bones: Art Against Genocide
Photographer Naomi Natale envisions ideas for social action art projects as One Million Bones in stark images. “I More …
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Interview with Doug Haywood
Known as one the most prominent “side men” in the music business Doug Haywood has performed with many More …
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Tyler Tyler performs at Global Dancefest in Albuquerque
Tyler Tyler director Yasuko Yokoshi explained during a post-performance talk at Global Dancefests N4th Theater in Albuquerque that More …
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Art of the Americas Wing Opens at MFA Boston
The Art of the Americas Wing at Museum of Fine Arts Boston opened to the press on November More …
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Living Paintings: Tattoos by Dawn Furlong
Tattooing has come a long way since the days when it was associated mainly with drunken sailors and More …
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The Last Time I Saw Madame Chaloff
I wrote these two short pieces about my teacher, Madame Margaret Chaloff, whom I studied with twice a More …
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Velazquez: Hand of the Master
Its a revelation when a painting by a master is discovered. Its still a revelation when a painting More …
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Interview with Julian Schnabel
It is somewhat ironic that Julian Schnabels current exhibition, “Julian Schnabel: Art and Film”, at the Art Gallery More …
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Movie Review: The Fighter
Much-awaited, The Fighter takes you to the ring with the talented sensitive boxer Mickey Ward, a struggling welterweight More …
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December Texas Museum Happenings
Vernon Fisher sitting in a stuffed-animal chair designed by the Campana brothers with one leg of the chair More …
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David Wojnarowicz “A Fire In My Belly” Pulled from Smithsonian
Youve read all about it. A national museum in Washington has been pressured to remove a work of More …
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Ivan Barnett’s Mobiles: Circlings
Its hard not to notice the mobiles of Ivan Barnett, with their stark bold suspension of dark shapes More …
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Sensory Crossover: Synesthesia in American Art
Modern living can often feel like a sensorial circus. And according to an excerpt at Sensory Crossover: Synesthesia More …
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Lemon Sponge Cake Contemporary Ballet: Vertical Migration
Vertical Migration, like other works by choreographer and dancer Sher-Machherndl, is a dance about human life where momentum More …
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Movie Reviews: International Documentary Film Fest in Amsterdam
Greetings from the International Documentary Festival of Amsterdam (IDFA), the most important event of its kind in the More …
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Peter Garland at Santa Fe New Music
Composer Peter Garland had traveled so many years in Guatemala, Bali, Java, Australia, the Philippines, and for a More …
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Picasso and the Grand Theft Electrician
NEW YORK- 271 works by Pablo Picasso (including more than 200 drawings) are now in the hands of More …
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Recycle Santa Fe Art Festival 2010
This is the Festivals twelfth year and – with over 50 participants – the biggest yet, attracting artists More …
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Interview with artist Alice Leora Briggs
A lone middle-aged woman crosses the bridge to Ciudad Juárez. The short distance from El Paso, Texas to More …
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East Austin’s Studio Tour 2010 (East 9)
EAST stands for East Austin Studio Tour. Perfectly timed with the beautiful fall weather in Texas, EAST 9 More …
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What Lorca Meant to American Poetry
“This is not a book about the Spanish playwright and poet Federico Garcîa Lorca (1898-1936).” So begins Jonathan More …
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Street Arts in Albuquerque
For all of October and November, STREET ARTS: A Celebration of Hip Hop Culture and Free Expression, has More …
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Interview: Keep Adding’s Mural Project in Las Cruces
Keep Adding is a multimedia art collective of artists Brian Bixby and Noah McDonald that emerged in Las More …
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Movie Review: Fair Game
Fair Game digs up a story that should have brought the Bush presidency down – the witch-hunt of More …
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Review: 1960’s Revisited at David Richard Contemporary
Lee Krasner told Barbaralee Diamonstein in 1978, “Yellow is an extremely difficult color.” What would Lee Krasner say More …
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Art Review: Immaterial At Ballroom Marfa
Immaterial (on view at Ballroom Marfa until February), explores arts potential to transcend conscious states, while not privileging More …
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Casino Jack Abramoff – and George Hickenlooper R.I.P.
In a moment of anger two years ago, Conrad Burns, the Republican former senator from Montana who received More …
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Christopher Taylor at the Lensic in Santa Fe
Hearing that renowned soloist Murray Perahia had cancelled his October 25th recital in Santa Fe, I expected to More …
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Interview with Next Big Sound CEO Alex White
Its pretty rare, even these days, when you can spot the imminent death of a common cliché. Very More …
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NoiseFold plays at REDCAT Theater
The current status of the world is alarming: between inundation of digital data and environmental crises in the More …
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The “Piss In”: NCECA’s Critical Santa Fe symposium
SANTA FE-There was a rumble or three at the NCECA Critical Santa Fe symposium, as Garth Clark played More …
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Abu Dhabi Film Festival: Slackistan Reviewed
You dont have to go as far as Abu Dhabi to wonder about what Juan Williams was saying More …
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Le Chat Lunatique at New Mexico Jazz Workshop
Le Chat Lunatique (whose name was loosely inspired by a “Beware Of Attack Cat” sign spotted on a More …
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A Reopening for Arthouse in Austin
Doors flew open, party dresses and suits went on, as Arthouse reopened on October 21st. Who was counting More …
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Video Interview: Richard Hazel, Santa Fe sculptor
On the subject of sculpture and the thoughts of Frank Gehry and Claes Oldenburg on where art and More …
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Review: Contemporary Art & Architecture in Denver
Walking up a stretch of Santa Fe Drive Arts District past Mexican and Ethiopian restaurants and tattoo shops More …
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Chinati Open House: Time and Place, Marfa 2010
Much ado about minimalism in rural Marfa, Texas during the Chinati Foundations annual weekend October 8-10 – and More …
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Liberace Museum Closes
The Liberace Museum at Tropicana and Spencer Streets in Las Vegas closed October 17th, a casualty of the More …
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“Titty Cloud” at Domy Books, Austin
Domy Books discovers a young talent, William Gaynor. Displaying new drawings by the young Austin-based artist in “To More …
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Hickenlooper v. Tancredo and the Pinon Canyon Expansion
A long roadtrip from Santa Fe to Denver and back finds the author ruminating on how many times More …
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Interview with Maris the Great in Denver!!
This year is the tenth anniversary of the shock rock icon Maris The Great coming to be on More …
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Film Review: Conviction
I saw Conviction at the Toronto International Film Festival. Films from the festival are now opening in theaters. More …
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Film Review: Inside Job
Inside Job, the new documentary by Charles Ferguson at the Toronto International Film Festival (and now in theaters), More …
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Review: Nowhere Boy and More at the Aspen Film Festival
Aspen Filmfest opened the last week of September, just before what would have been John Lennons 70th birthday. More …
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Enrique Chagoya in Loveland, CO
On Sunday morning if you were watching “This Week with Christiane Amanpour” you would have heard the bells More …
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Santa Fe Art in Review: Cruikshank at Gebert, Sutor at Verve
Gebert Contemporarys new artist, Eric Cruikshank, excavates notions of sublimity in his Santa Fe exhibition. Nancy Sutor sees More …
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Empathy and Technology at Design Santa Fe
Citing the seminality of Daniel Pinks book, A Whole New Mind, and averring that being in Santa made More …
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9th Annual Austin City Limits Music Festival 2010
The Austin City Limits Music Festival takes place from October 8th to the 10th at Zilker Park in More …
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Interview: Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Isca Greenfield-Sanders: Light Leaks will be presented in the David & Laura Merage Foundation Gallery at the Museum More …
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Females Out Front: The Metal Evolution
DENVER- Women have always known how to rock. Im not going to try and pitch you that this More …
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Who Died and Made Victore Boss?
Ballsy new book! “Victore or, Who Died and Made You Boss?” got presented by its author, famous designer More …
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University of Colorado in Boulder unveils its new Visual Arts Complex
In 1939, the University of Colorado began amassing a permanent art collection as a teaching tool – and, More …
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“Grand Paris Texas” And A Preview of Arthouse
AUSTIN – Arthouse renovations/expansion are nearly complete this week, as the fall season ramps up in Austin. The More …
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Snøhetta To Design Museum Around Gap Founder’s Bequest
The late Donald Fisher, founder of the Gap, amassed a major collection of contemporary art. He lent some More …
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Ron Nagle: Ominous Charms
When you grok the size of Ron Nagles ceramic sculpture on view at James Kelly Contemporary in Santa More …
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Marfa Dialogues: Politics and Culture of the Border
In Charles Bowdens opening talk for the Marfa Dialogues: Politics and Culture of the Border symposium, the acerbic More …
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Faith-Based Films at the Toronto International Film Festival
Why come to a festival like the Toronto International film Festival (TIFF) if not to find what Michael More …
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Telluride Blues and Brews Sept 17 – 19
The 17th Annual Telluride Blues & Brews Festival takes place this weekend starting on Friday the 17th and More …
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The Tamarind Institute Turns 50
June Wayne is nearly 93 years old, though were it not for an occasional quiver in her voice More …
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Movie Review: The King’s Speech
In preparing for the Toronto International Film Festival and reading some of the press coverage that came out More …
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Reviews: Rule Gallery, Axle Contemporary, & 222 Shelby Street Gallery
Rule Gallery on Denvers lower Broadway is a long narrow room that, when I entered on a recent More …
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“Gasland” Movie Goes On Tour
In one county in New Mexico, archeological and eco-tourist conservation staved off fracking. But we appear to be More …
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Movie Review: The American
NEW YORK – The news came this week that The American, the latest with George Clooney, took in More …
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FOLKyTonk Plays at SITE Santa Fe
FOLKyTONKs members include T.W. Man on guitar, The Rev. Otis Moon (who wrote the song, “New Mexico Swing”) More …
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Interview with Pearl Aday
Pearl Aday (she was named after Janis Joplins “Pearl” album) was born into rock and roll royalty in More …
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Richard Carter: “Future Beauty” Paintings on Exhibit at David Floria
ASPEN–Richard Carters New Paintings: Future Beauty, constitute a 44-painting series, exploring fire in its contemporary apocalyptic forms””forest fires, More …
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Taos Mountain Music Festival Preview
The second annual Taos Mountain Music Festival happens Sunday Sept. 5, with 6 great acts that will make More …
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Postcommodity at Museum of Contemporary Native Art
While driving from Denver back to Santa Fe, I was listening to the Wisconsin Public Radio show, “To The More …
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I Petition To Save the Paolo
As we have reported here, the Paolo Soleri Ampitheatres future has been uncertain. If you are a reader More …
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Review: “Past As Presence”: Joanne Lefrak
White images, scratches on Plexiglas, reflecting on the white light of history, the urge to indelible amid the More …
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Movie Review: The Tillman Story
Remember Pat Tillman? He was the NFL star for the Arizona Cardinals who gave up a $3.6 million More …
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Art Review: Cordy Ryman At Lora Reynolds in Austin
Robert Ryman painted white surfaces which hid other colors. His son Cordy with a recent show at Lora More …
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Slideshow: Furniture as Art at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque
The many interpretations of furniture and their installation as art. A slideshow of the show being held at More …
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Art Review: Jacci Den Hartog at Felsen
In Esquires “Impossible” special issue, published this August, some of the unachievables they give are licking your elbow, More …
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Denver’s Mile High Music Festival: Groovey’s Picks
The Mile High Music Festival at Dicks Sporting Goods Park in Denver, Colorado this weekend is exactly what More …
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Albuquerque: Handling Various Small Fires at Generator Exhibitions
Handling an artist book meant to be ordinary, but now a super de luxe object, was the first More …
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The Vans Warped Tour 2010 in Denver: The Line-up
This year marks the 16th year of the “Tour That Wont Die” which is The Vans Warped Tour. More …
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First Art-Aspen Brings Internationals
August 6–Art Dealer (and author) James Barron of Rome and New York brought Sol LeWitt fiberglass sculptures to More …
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“Countdown to Zero” Opens in Santa Fe
Not to miss is Lucy Walkers new documentary, which ran at Sundance 2010 – Countdown to Zero, a More …
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Film Review: Waste Land
Remember the myth of Sisyphus – story of a man whos condemned to push a boulder up a More …
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Let’s Talk About Arthouse
AUSTIN, Texas–I recently sat down with Sue Graze, executive director of the Arthouse at the Jones Center in More …
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Lyle Lovett Plays the Paolo in Santa Fe
The rumor is Lyle will open with Vince Bells Sun and Moon and Stars when he plays the More …
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Face to Face at the Denver Arts Museum: Portraits Up Close
It is no coincidence that Richard Phillips “Mirror,” a 1998 charcoal and chalk on paper drawing from the More …
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Rebate Report: Will Prague Be the New Albuquerque?
No longer. Prague hasnt had that status and a $250 million annual film economy since 2003. Now the More …
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Rockstar Mayhem Tour in Denver 2010
The modern-day model for all successful festival tours was created by a man named Kevin Lyman. If hes More …
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Art Review: Energy Effects at MCA Denver The Art and Fictions of Excess
Is a Titan IV Stage II rocket engine a work of art? It was designed to fly to More …
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Report from Santa Fe Art Fairs Season
“I would congratulate the organizers because they really did a fabulous job,” said Linda Durham talking about SoFa More …
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Hoarding Is Subject of Objectophilia: Artist Lauri Lynnxe Murphy exhibits and curates
Excess can also be found across the street from MCA Denver in the smaller of two venues that More …
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Edward Ranney’s New World Landscapes: Shaping Culture
Edward Ranney is a visual artist who has learned as much as he possibly can about ancient cultures More …
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The Dropskots at Larimer Lounge in Denver
The Larimer Lounge in Denver is held up by stickers (see above). I am very sure that whatever More …
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Hawthorne Heights at the Launchpad in Albuquerque
The Launchpad in Albuquerque is one of those cool places that manages to pull in a lot of More …
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Documentaries from Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
The US may have led the way in championing the feature documentary ““ non-fiction film, as some like More …
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Big Head Todd Launches Tour in Colorado
Before Colorado had The Fray, The Flobots or 3OH!3 there was Big Head Todd and The Monsters. Which More …
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Interview with Fred Mascherino of Terrible Things
The one thing I have learned over the last few years about bands is that no matter what More …
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Paper, Rock, Scissors: The Shape of New Design
PAPER Last month I encountered Myung Ursos work at Patina Gallery. A Korean artist, her work incorporates paper, More …
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The Santa Fe International Folk Art Market
In conjunction with the July 9-11 Santa Fe International Folk Art Market, the largest market of its kind More …
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Nude Alterations by Marie Vlasic at Walker Fine Art in Denver
Malcolm Gladwell in his book Outliers proposes that greatness and success require an enormous amount of time””10,000 hours. More …
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Bill Evans Dance in Albuquerque
Watching Bill Evans dance reminded me of playing handball with my 80-year-old grandfather. I would fling myself around More …
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Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper Says Art Is Good Business
Leanne Goebel caught up with Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper before he won the Colorado gubernatorial election, back in More …
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Interview with Paola Santoscoy
When Paola Santoscoy met Adam Lerner in Autumn 2008, she had no idea that the encounter would lead More …
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ZZK Summer Tour Hits Denver
Record label ZZK Records which comes out of the Buenos Aires club scene at Zizek where a lot More …
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DJ Lyrics Born in Taos
Lyrics Born is a DJ and soundmaster hailing from Berkeley who got a torrid tweet scene going from More …
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Interview with Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper
Editors Note: “Culture first, commerce follows.” So Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper told adobeairstream senior editor Leanne Goebel in More …
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Was There Art Before Video?
Summers come and go, but in Santa Fe, SITE biennial summers corral a lot of activity in a More …
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David Adjaye on Temporary Architecture and “The Dissolve”
Architect David Adjaye discusses his work designing temporary architecture for The Dissolve, SITE Santa Fes 2010 video biennial More …
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Sweet Sunny South plays Palisade Festival in Aspen
When Sweet Sunny South, Western Colorados most beloved old-time bluegrass band, played the Palisade Bluegrass and Roots Festival More …
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Why The Paolo Must Stay Standing
The Paolo Soleri Amphitheater stands eccentric in a world of increasingly generic architecture. The late Lloyd Kiva New, More …
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Round Mountain’s Windward, NM grown
In the heart of New Mexicos Pecos Wilderness, Round Mountain rises to a height of 10,700 feet, offering More …
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Stephen Hannock, Painter-Conservationist New work installed at DAM
A Stephen Hannock landscape is more than a painting, its a place of discovery, a dimensional plane that More …
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Do Science and Art Really Meet?
Despite several formal high points, and some strong visuality, another show purporting to have artists talk deeply on More …
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Interview with The Beats’ Dave Wakeling
I cant imagine anyone not liking the music Dave Wakeling writes. Im a total metal head and if More …
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Clayton Porter’s “Deer Hart, Dog Dick” Opens at LAUNCHPROJECTS
A prominent thinker on ecological economics, Nate Hagens, explains consumerism in terms of evolutionary biology and evolutionary psychology, More …
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Movie Review: Splice, Sci-fi’s New Frankenstein
One truism of the sci-fi world is that youll never know what will come out of a test-tube More …
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Movie Review: Breathless
This week Breathless celebrates its 50th anniversary with the release of a restored version in the US. Shot More …
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Movie Review: Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s “Micmacs”
Micmacs by Jean-Pierre Jeunet is an improbably zany answer to the war on terror, from the director of More …
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Shoja Azari Icons & Shirin Neshat’s Women Without Men
In the largest room at LTMH Gallery, Shoja Azaris images of Iranian holy martyrs striking poses of power More …
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Artists Gather at Colorado Art Ranch in Salida
In late April, Colorado Art Ranch, a nomadic outfit that hosts artist residencies throughout Colorado, gave seven talented More …
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Mierle Ukeles: Garbage and Ritual
Mierle Laderman Ukeles has performed as an artist for 40 years, setting up her work as situations that More …
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Can A Triennial Do New Design Justice?
There was a time when the Museum of Modern Art had an annual exhibition of the best designs More …
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Austin Street Art
MAY 17, AUSTIN–A few weeks ago David Ellis painted an improvisational mural on the side of Co-Labs warehouse More …
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Albuquerque’s Thirsty Ear Festival Preview
The Thirsty Ear Festival is obviously the focus of this article but I absolutely have to geek out More …
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Is Albuquerque Studios In Freefall?
Abq. Studios came to New Mexico in 2007 with what I reported in January was a $91.5 million More …
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Interview with Raam from Hypernova
Most bands talk about “paying their dues” and basically what that means is playing their music for months More …
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Art in Review: Santa Fe Contemporary
While spring in Santa Fe can toss rogue winds that seem to fool with your equilibrium, as they More …
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The Walls Behind the $106 Million Dollar Picasso
It took Picasso one day to paint the portrait of his lover, Marie-Therese, which sold at Sothebys in More …
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A 1969 Oakland Museum Gets $62m Renovation
In 1969, it looked more like something from Babylon or Teotihuacan than any museum people had seen. Yet More …
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Theater Review: Damon Faulke play at Armory for Arts Theater
The Sun is in the West is an atmospheric play about the importance of place and the roots More …
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Austin Contemporary on the Rise
There are several progressions occurring in the Austin art scene. Not the least of which the Blanton Museum More …
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Shepard Fairey’s Newest Work
Shepard Faireys new mural, photographed on Houston Street, Manhattan, by mate Janette Beckman, partly in the rain.You go More …
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The Art of Selling Art on the Web
DENVER, June 2 Art is a business. On websites like 20×200 art aficionados can purchase limited editions for More …
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Harryette Mullen, Naomi Shihab Nye, at Round Top
In April (cruelest month) news came in that Harryette Mullen, inspiration for the song below by X (lyrics More …
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Art Dealers Converge on Art Chicago
Thursday night is the opening preview for Art Chicago at the Merchandise Mart featuring 150 galleries and dealers More …
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Reviews: Documentaries from The Tribeca Film Festival
Documentaries are always a reliable strength at the Tribeca Film Festival. This year, they are led by what More …
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Ian Ingram Mapmaker-Draftsman
Ian Ingram works standing with a large magnifying glass on his left attached to a retractable stand and More …
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Movie Review: No One Knows About Persian Cats
No One Knows About Persian Cats (a film by Bahman Ghobadi) is, among many other things, a band-on-the-run More …
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Posters and the Art of Social Protest
A set of new shows at UTEPs Rubin Center links poster art to its history as populist agitprop More …
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Aspen Shortsfest Awards Announced
Second to the last shot: Late Sunday afternoon in the Wheelers elegant second floor lobby, three of the More …
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Movie Reviews: Short Films at Aspen Shortsfest 2010
April 6th –As ground blizzards raged around the mostly packed Wheeler Opera House in Aspen, Colorado, Laura Thielen, More …
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Movie Review: The Square
The Square takes us to a quiet middle-class neighborhood on the outskirts of Sydney. Its Christmas time, theres More …
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Short Films at Aspen Shortsfest-Rites of Passage to Poseurs
From black-and-white dramas set in hot Connecticut summers to rites of passage in which kids know too much, More …
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Creative Time Picks Global Residents
Being an artist in todays global art market means logging lots of frequent flyer miles with projects in More …
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FIFA in Montreal: Framing Design in Films on Art
Why arent more films about design made or shown in the US? Ill let readers, designers and filmmakers More …
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Museum Design in the 21st Century Reviewed
Museum design opened the arena for innovative architecture beginning with Richard Rogers and Renzo Pianos Pompidou Center (Paris, More …
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New American Photography at Fotofest: Aaron Schuman Selects 11 Photographers
Photographing the present as if it were already the past may well be what many photographers aspire to More …
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John Tinker at Linda Durham Contemporary
I have loved John Tinkers work for years. The first time I saw it was back in the More …
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Progress in Texas: Wind Farms and Where to Be a Liberal
The American Southwest still conjures images of rugged terrain, ancient civilizations, and hidden treasure. Mapping a course from More …
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Film Review: A Prophet
A Prophet is the prison drama that won Cannes and was the French contender to win an Oscar More …
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Movie Review: Greenberg
Greenberg, Noah Baumbachs new semi-comedy about a 40-ish former musician in a rut who meets a sweet girl More …
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Spyfrost Project Is Cold War redux: David Trautrimas’s Digital Work
There are plenty of chronicles of the post-industrial landscape. Few are as allusively eerie as David Trautrimass. David More …
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The Artist Is Present, with Doubt
In the late 1960s in Belgrade, Marina Abramović began thinking up rebellious unrealizable performances for public spaces, just More …
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Hasan Elahi at SITE Santa Fe: Watching the watchers
On June 19, 2002, Bangladeshi born U.S. Citizen Hasan Elahi handed his passport to a TSA Agent at More …
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Movie Review: The Runaways
In The Runaways, the debut feature for music video director Floria Sigismondi, the early tempestuous days of Joan More …
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Art Critic for Denver Post says ‘Bienniel in Good Hands’
Kyle McMillan, art critic for the Denver Post, says the dubious Denver Biennial is now in good hands More …
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The Whitney Biennial’s Controversial Snapshot: Lorraine O’Grady and Michael Jackson
You have to stay through 1:08 of the video below (and see also 6:59) to see in situ More …
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Tino Sehgal Activates the Guggenheim
Entering the Guggenheim Museum in New York, I expected a child to approach me, having been forewarned about More …
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RIP Howard Zinn, Wake Up Progressives
Howard Zinn believed in our ability to change the world through acting, speaking and writing. Zinn encouraged us More …
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Imagining and Witnessing the Whitney Biennial: A First Look
Theres no theme to the recently opened Whitney Biennial, in a year when the themes of collapse and More …
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The Strange Forests of John Bonath
“Blurring the Edges,” a digital photographic project by John Bonath accompanied by a book of the photographers work, More …
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Talking Radical Performance with Gómez-Peña, Part 3
Guillermo Gómez-Peña, and Roberto Sifuentes of La Pocha Nostra talk with Ellen Berkovitch about the decade past and More …
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Guillermo Gómez-Peña: “A Decade of Fear”
La Pocha Nostra ensemble works to define and describe “radical,” “performance,” “identity,” and so on, without falling prey More …
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Guillermo Gómez-Peña Talks Radical Performance
Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Roberto Sifuentes were at Santa Fe Art Institute working on a book, Radical Performance Pedagogy More …
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Polanski Wins Silver Bear at Berlin
A jury of Roman Polanskis peers, led by director Werner Herzog, honored him for the film. But can More …
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Polanski’s “The Ghost Writer” premieres at Berlin Film Festival
Anticipated at the Berlin International Film Festival was the premiere of The Ghost Writer, Roman Polanskis adaptation of More …
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Review: Scorsese’s ‘Shutter Island’ premieres at Berlin International Film Festival
There are plenty of themes in this year at the Berlin International Film Festival, the 60th anniversary of More …
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Slideshow: Essence of the Desert Architecture
That “life thrives” in the shadows of desert boulders roots the concept of Amit Upadhyes house in the More …
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New Video and Drawings Flaunt Dystopias
Layers characterize work now on view in Denver by video artist Cliff Evans, and muralist-draughtsman Bill Amundson. One More …
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Interview with Retrepo’s Sebastian Junger
The top documentary prize at Sundance this January went to Restrepo, the film by writer Sebastian Junger and More …
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Marvels of Palm Springs Modern
For California Modernism aficionados the annual Palm Springs Modernism Week, Feb. 12-21 this year, makes a valuable pilgrimage. More …
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Klimt and Giacometti Hit New Records
Trophies in demand will always sell, but does it mean the art market is back? At Sothebys in More …
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From Bunnies to BMW: Jeff Koons and the Art Car
There are definitely second acts, even 35th acts, in the art world. BMWs Art Car turns 35 this More …
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Sundance 2010 R.I.P.
As the Sundance Film Festival closed its 2010 edition Jan. 31, the top dramatic prize for a US More …
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Felix Gonzales-Torres Plasters Texas
Artpace organized a show of 13 seminal billboards by Felix Gonzales-Torres, the Cuban born Puerto Rican New Yorker More …
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Native American and World Cinema Films at Sundance
Tungijuq (above), directed by Félix Lajeunesse, Paul Raphaël is in the short film competition at the Sundance Film More …
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Pat Kikut’s Own Art House
Artist Pat Kikut takes us on a tour of his own art house. And a collection of paintings More …
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Letter from San Francisco
A few days remain to see the exhibit of works on paper by Nelleke Beltjens at Hosfelt Gallery. Betljens More …
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Movie Review: Freetime Machos
In Invictus (2009), Clint Eastwood looked at two simultaneous phenomena – the release from prison and rise to More …
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David Hockney on A Cold Day
It was a cold day in Manhattan and on seeing the first Twiggy green-orange hues of David Hockney More …
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O’Keeffe: Abstraction, In Review
In 1938, Life Magazine called Georgia OKeeffe “the worlds most famous woman artist.” Intended no doubt as a More …
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The Greening of Las Vegas
City Center in Las Vegas is touting itself as the largest green and sustainable development in the world. More …
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Colorado Watch List 2010
1. The Denver Biennial of the Americas happens July 1-31, and “The Dissolve” SITE Santa Fes 8th International More …
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New Mexico Film in Gray and Black
A panel at Santa Fe Film Festival found Albuquerque Studios COO Nick Smerigan talking production in New Mexico More …
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The Divine Jane Austen
Was the wit of Jane Austen more pronounced when she observed, in a letter to her sister Cassandra, More …
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Snagged Ensnares Human Behavior
In a landscape architecture show recently closed at UTEP, Snagged underscores the grim cultural and aesthetic repercussions of More …
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Movie Review: Avatar
James Cameron has been making Avatar for 15 years, longer than the US has spent in Iraq. Thats More …
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Tom Ford’s Directorial Debut ‘A Single Man’
Tom Fords directorial debut, A Single Man, is a stylishly personal adaptation of a Christopher Isherwood novel that More …
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Arts Attendance Drops in Mountain Region
A greater percentage of adults attend arts events in the Mountain Region than the US average artgoer, but More …
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Frederick Hammersley, Albuquerque Signman
Art Santa Fe Presents (Charlotte Jackson) and the Museum of New Mexico Press have just published Frederick Hammersley, More …
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Sir Richard Heralds New Rocketship for New Mexico
Satellites gone up to the sky. Things like that drive me out of my mind. I watched it More …
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Bruce Mau Out Of Denver Biennial
Bruce Mau is out as Denver Biennial of the Americas artistic director. His studio says In Good We More …
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Movie Review: Reitman’s “Up In the Air,” Loved by Critics, Delivers Limbo
As bank misadventures hold the unemployment rate at 10 percent and companies cut costs mercilessly to survive the More …
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The Heretics, from Prince Street to Galisteo
Pat Steir was a heretic. So were Ida Applebroog, Harmony Hammond, May Stevens, Carolee Schneeman, Cecilia Vicuña, Lucy More …
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Donald Rubinstein House Concert
Composer and musician Donald Rubinstein performs a concert at his house in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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Ellen Kuras Wins Cinematography Honor at Santa Fe Film Fest
In The Summer of Sam, Ellen Kuras took us back to the look and feel of the sweaty More …
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Movie Review: Remake of “Grey Gardens”
It was Thanksgiving weekend. Or, days shortening, snow threatening, turkey leftovers torpor-inducing, a good time to lie around More …
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Movie Review: The Road
The Road is a walk-through a post-apocalyptic landscape of rags, grey skies, and desperate survivors eating the flesh More …
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Movie Review: Pedro Almodovar’s “Broken Embraces”
For cinephiles, Broken Embracess story, told by a movie director who was blinded in a car accident that More …
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Elephant Butte dam
This dam is at Elephant Butte Lake where among the things I am preparing for Monday, for post More …
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New Art in Denver
There is something cowgirlish in traversing Denver. Up this draw is Rhino, behind that canyon is LoDo, and More …
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Creative Time Slumber Party
Channeling the twelve year old in all of us, with a shadowy twist, Creative Time hosts their benefit More …
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Slideshow: Cuban Artist Roberto Diago at Santa Fe Art Institute
Day before yesterday a friend who spent many years living in Brazil remarked, as I was extracting something More …
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Susan Rothenberg at Modern of Fort Worth
“Moving in Place” opened at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (through Jan. 3, 2010), with future, More …
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At the Galleries: Santa Fe
Graphite is what pencil leads are made of. Soft, opaque and dense (and electrically conductive), it is a More …
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Money Brings Signs of Hope at NY Auctions
If you think the art market was dead or dying, think again. Sothebys Impressionist and Modern Auction this More …
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At Thornburg Campus, Contemporary Architecture Prizes
The three winners of the Jeff Harnar Award for Contemporary Architecture shared a stage Thursday night in Santa More …
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Movie Review: “Untitled”
No one could be more unfulfilled than Adrian Jacobs (Adam Goldberg), a composer who fits all the Grand More …
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A Chicken Coop in Every Yard
Sustainable living and art collide in Boulder where a cooperative group of art students under the guidance of More …
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New Art From Cuba, in Albuquerque
“Confluencias: Arte Cubano Contemporaneo,” at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, assembles what organizers are calling the More …
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Robert Frank at Metropolitan Museum of Art
Last Saturday Robert Franks film Cocksucker Blues (CSB) (1972) played at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where a More …
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The Provoke Era: SFMOMA Photography
Provoke, was the Japanese magazine and collective founded in November 1968 by a group of photographers and critics More …
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Chip Thomas Puts Public Art Around Navajo Lands
The exhibit by artist Chip Thomas, “Culture Clash,” is over at the Center for Contemporary Arts Muñoz-Waxman Gallery More …
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Site Santa Fe Biennial of 2010, Described
Site Santa Fes eighth biennial, “The Dissolve,” harkens a glorious return to the imaginal the retinal and the More …
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Movie Reviews: “Lebanon” and more at the Haifa Film Festival 2009
A major event at Haifa had nothing to do with the festivals competitions. It was the screening of More …
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Chinati: Judd’s Concretes Re-open
“Society is basically not interested in art,” Donald Judd said. “Art has a purpose of its own.” That More …
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Interview: James Drake, Strange Beauty Walked In
I first wrote about James Drake for a catalog essay accompanying his 2005 City of Tells show at More …
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Interview with Artist James Drake
AdobeAirstream’s Ellen Berkovitch interviews artist James Drake at his studio in Santa Fe, New Mexico, about drawing, literature, More …
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Globalquerque
Globalquerque! is Albuquerques every-September world music fest organized by AMP Concerts. Performers in this video include Kusun Ensemble More …
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Denver’s First Perplexing Biennial
The Denver Biennial of the Americas has some awesome growing pains. Denver artists and art dealers are getting More …
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Starchitect Goes On a World Tour in October
I heard Neil Denari speak last September in Santa Fe, connected with his giving a class at Santa More …
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First Person From Burning Man
It is not easy to explain the Burning Man experience. This is something I have wanted to attend More …
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A Woman with a Past: Georgia O’Keeffe and Abstraction
The Whitney Museum opens Georgia OKeeffe: Abstraction, a new look at the artists abstract works. Works include photographs More …
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Shipping Container Building in Santa Fe
Molecule Design begins as a shipping container building and concludes five years later as Santa Fes most contemporary More …
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Movie Review: City of Life and Death
Lu Chuans City of Life and Death, which made its world premiere in Toronto, takes us back to More …
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The Price of Being Damien Hirst
Reader Mail Correction: Dear Ms. Goebel, I recently read your article, “The Price of Being Damien Hirst” from More …
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Why Minneapolis Outranks Denver Culturally
Forbes, the magazine that loves to categorize things, came out with a new ranking August 20th – The More …
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Sundance Finds Second Home in New Mexico
Sundance has found a new home, or at least a second home, in New Mexico. Call the picture More …
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Pietro Belluschi: Portland’s Sustainable Maverick
The Equitable Building, a 12-story office tower for the insurance company of the same name, always caught my More …
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Public Art and Sports Teams: Is Denver Trapped in the Safety Zone?
Im not a big fan of Jerry Jones, the hovering owner of the Dallas Cowboys who thinks hes More …
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Upstart Costume Dramas: From Benjamin West to Michael Jackson
Where did it all begin? The Philadelphia native Benjamin West was known for irreverent remarks and upstart costume More …
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Movie Review: Baader-Meinhof Complex
From 1967 to 1977, a clutch of hardened former student protesters, led by an earnest journalist (Ulrike Meinhof), More …
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Movie Review: Inglourious Basterds
So begins the operating assumption of Inglourious Basterds, a Holocaust film that thrusts the unthinkable on the audience More …
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Jay De Feo Show, by Artist of “The Rose”
Artist Jay De Feo was for the duration of her life associated with the Bay Area, and sometimes More …
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The West Is Out There
A long wait at the DMV, while my 17-year-old son took his driving test, was interrupted by a More …
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Ron Arad Design Revolution
“No Discipline” is a journey through Ron Arads designs, from battle-worn chairs and sound systems to his steel-ribboned More …
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Movie Review: Earth Days
Robert Stones new documentary, Earth Days, opens this week, as opponents of global warming seem to have found More …
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Movie Review: Julie & Julia
And you thought you knew Julia Child, the ageless cookbook author who giggled over French recipes on television More …
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Fantastic Architecture by David Trautrimas
David Trautrimas conjures imaginary “machines for living” caught somewhere in the space between celebration and nightmare. Le Corbusiers More …
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Movie Review: California Company Town
Utopia never looked so empty in the documentary California Company Town, which visits places that once were communities, More …
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New Iranian Art in Marfa, TX
“We hardly ever have a real experience.” So the post-gesturalist Hadi Tabatabai, an Iranian artist living in Berkeley, More …
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Movie Review: “The Cove” by Boulder’s Louie Psihoyos
The Cove by Louie Psihoyos of Boulder Colorado stands out as an exemplary personal journey tale in what More …
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Rockstar Mayhem Festival Diary
Groovey wisdom: Put a comb through that thing. And: our music buzz man cuts in line, experiences one More …
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Movie Review: In the Loop
As Donald Rumsfeld liked to say, “There are known unknowns, and unknown unknowns.” Apply that to the secret More …
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SIGGRAPH 2009 Preview
Not many festivals that are conferences and shows of new computer graphics and virtual interactivities have jukeboxes. SIGGRAPH More …
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Photographer Julius Shulman, passes in Los Angeles, age 98
Julius Shulman, who died in Los Angeles last week at 98, lived most of his life in the More …
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Hasta La Vista Frank McCourt
Years ago, Frank McCourt reflected on his success after his story of oppressive humiliating poverty became virtually eternal More …
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KVIFF 2009 in Czech Republic An Indie Feast
You thought Carlsbad was in New Mexico? The original one is in Bohemia, in the Czech Republic, where More …
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Colorado’s Dueling Summer Music Fests
Summer is classical music festival season in Colorado. No matter the destination one is sure to find some More …
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Electronica Deejays Make Denver A Scene
Denver has an Electronica scene that began really developing about a decade ago and now has fully reached More …
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Aspen Art Report
When I walked in to David Floria Gallery the morning I left Aspen I had the sense I More …
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Movie Review: Bruno
Bruno, the gay Alpine protagonist of his own drama, states that his goal is to become “the most More …
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Over The River, Land Art Disputes in Salida, Colorado
The naysayers of Colorados Arkansas River valley surely do not mark the first time in the career of More …
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Movie Review: The Hurt Locker
At a screening of the Hurt Locker that I paid to attend on the west side of Manhattan, More …
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ArtWeek Colorado: Contemporary Art Shows in Denver and Aspen
“Confluence” at William Havu Gallery in Denver is the first of two group shows the gallery will host More …
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Movie Review: Afghan Star
There is a specter haunting Afghanistan – the ghost of Simon Cowell (British talent judge on such wannabe-famous More …
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Art in New Mexico
The paintings by Matthew McConville in the project room of Richard Levy Gallery in Albuquerque read a little More …
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Hilary Swank in Albuquerque
While out in New Mexico in early June, I heard about an unlikely film being shot there: The More …
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The Womb of the Bomb, Baby
It must have been poetic justice that Conrad and I sat in the very back of the bus. More …
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Wright Again
When you are in rainy New York this summer, one of the exhibitions to see is “Frank Lloyd More …
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Bruce Mau to Curate Denver Biennial
Originally conceived of as a survey of contemporary art “from the tip of Tierra del Fuego to the More …
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Betty Woodman, Revisited
Clay is an impulsive medium. It begs to be touched, formed, and shaped. At the Institute of Contemporary More …
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Unit 7 Drain: Down the Drain
All relationships have expiration dates and bands are no different. This is a eulogy from a distance to More …
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Adam Lerner, MCA Denver’s Animator
“The board set me up in a really great way,” Adam Lerner told me by telephone from Denver More …
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Movie Review: Woody Allen’s “Whatever Works”
Whatever Works is Woody Allens best film in more than a decade. Echoes of Manhattan, Annie Hall and More …
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Costumes from Ethnic China at the Museum of International Folk Art
Although I dislike sewing (and actually dont know how) I have always liked rickrack. Rickrack in concept (to More …
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Mile High Bands Get Signed
Denvers music scene finds Seattle panting to keep up. It used to be a joke to ask your More …
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Save the Paolo Soleri: Fate of Ampitheater on Santa Fe City Council Agenda
Since demolition began in 2009 at the Santa Fe Indian School, many watchers have wondered if the Paolo More …
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Movie Review: Séraphine
Séraphine follows familiar contours. It is the story of Seraphine de Senlis, the self-taught painter (1864-1942) who broke More …
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Bruce Nauman in Venice
Examining the continuity of space amid changing conditions is one way the Philadelphia Museum of Art curators responsible More …
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Movie Review: Food, Inc.
It sounds too easy to describe Food Inc. (Dir., Robert Kenner, 2008, USA) as a movie that you More …
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Wendell Harris Jr. on Chameleon Street
The filmaker who won he Sundance Film Festival in 1990, Wendell Harris Jr, talks about life underground.
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Nic Nicosia Photographs
Nic Nicosia began early this year creating photographs on canvas. The effect of the archival inks on this More …
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Soderbergh
Steven Soderbergh shot his new low-budget movie, The Girlfriend Experience, on a digital Red Camera. It melds epicurean More …
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Bud Shark’s Inkers
Printmaking is a very fine art. Whether lithography, monoprints, woodcuts, or chine collé, the act of making a More …
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Chameleon Street Director Wendell Harris Jr. On Invisibility
Wendell Harris Jr. talks about his independent movie, Chameleon Street, that won Sundance in 1991 and got re-screened More …
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New Public Art in Albuquerque
MIKE WHITING, represented by Denvers Plus Gallery, installed “Kickflip” in Albuquerque last week. The sculptural triptych takes the More …
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The blue hour and a sequence of indeterminate order
Collision of human design and the natural world and mercurial memory explored in exhibitions at Robischon gallery by artists Trine Bumiller and Reed Danziger.
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Indigenous Arts Foundation opens doors
“We needed our own endowment for native arts and culture in this country,” said Elizabeth Theobald Richards, a program officer at Ford who has overseen the project and who is a Cherokee. “The indigenous peoples…have an incredible wealth of cultural heritage and cultural expression that very few people know about. And its also incredibly underfunded.”
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Contemporary Architecture as Hot Topic
Below, a selection of architectural work by Harry Teague, Stephen Dynia and Ricardo Legorreta–three of the seven panelists More …
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Hopper dines in Taos
Dennis Hopper and friends from 1967 reassemble in the art colony of Taos. An art show proves their resiliency.
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JG Ballard is not really dead
On the Santa Fe Plaza April 13 I suggested to Jeremy Deller that his trailering a bombed Iraqi More …
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New York’s New Mexico Trifecta
Susan Rothenberg, Bruce Nauman and Richard Tuttle make up the New Mexico trifecta in New York.
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Rocket Men and the Students who Help Them
The New Mexico Education Launch May 2 brings rocketships to a place theyve already been, but will be spending more time in.
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DAM passes on critically acclaimed design exhibition
Denver Art Museum passes on ambitious European design exhibition for display of rock posters from the 1960s.
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L.A. never so photogenic as in Julius Shulman’s lens
Julius Shulman at 98 is the man responsible for forging a relationship between photography and the built environment.
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“Overhead” a glimpse into Kate Petley’s wonderland
“Overhead,” new work by Kate Petley at Rudolph Projects, Houston, TX
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Contemporary architecture as hot topic
Below, a selection of architectural work by Harry Teague, Stephen Dynia and Ricardo Legorreta–three of the seven panelists More …
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Tales of the road with Jeremy Deller
Jeremy Deller and his Creative Time cohorts have conversations about Iraq.
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Jeremy Deller Travels with Creative Time, Talks Hearts and Minds
Traveling with Creative Time across the US in spring 2009, the Turner Prize winner, Jeremy Deller, stopped at More …
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Owen Meany converts Denver
Michael Wartella stars as Owen. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR_C_8v-skE&feature=related I have read John Irvings novel A Prayer for Owen Meany four More …
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Gadgetheads unite: will Plastic Logic punch out Kindle?
Digital readers that may change media forever.
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Get motivated you writers
Can Jack catch flak? I think that maybe 24 should be called 18 or 20 because it looks More …
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Tricia? Tricia Nixon?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ir9n115CC9o Actor Jenn Gotzons Vegas debut involved the prefab prop of the KT 1.5, a fab if pricey More …
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Best last lines for now
Best darkly funny lines on last nights season finale of Big Love. Sort of like an evil country More …
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words in black
I was out for a walk when I saw crows harass and finally flush a redtail out of More …
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Denver Art Museum Hamilton Wing
Conrad Skinners videotape of the Hamilton Wing at Denver Art Museum by architect Daniel Libeskind.
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Back to earth for the old Indian School
The history of unmaking in the making, at Santa Fe Indian School.
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What We Can Learn from Denver’s “Blue Mustang”
Vicious hatred for a public sculpture might just be a misunderstanding.
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Is this really Madonna?
Madonna has had a lot of plastic surgery but shes still the hottest thing on legs.
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$25 million for Jeff Koons’s Train about as ridiculous as a fur-lined trash can
LACMA breaks the bank on a $25 million artwork as the state of California goes broke.
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Durango Film Festival screens 80 films
Highlights from the Durango International Film Festival, March 4-8, 2009
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CONCEPT OF THE WEEK-Gary Hill
Love Your Work!”A 26-pound gold bar valued at $270,000 has been stolen from an installation by the American More …
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Andrew Novick obsesses the Lab at Belmar
A February show at the Lab at Belmar, one of the contemporary art orgs last, spotlights the obsessive collections of Andrew Novick.
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Frederick Hammersley’s Hunches
Around 2000, the year of the Dave Hickey biennial at SITE Santa Fe, Conrad bought a lithograph by More …
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