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Craig Anderson Resigns from Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe
January 25, 2012, 1 Comment

Craig Anderson has resigned as executive director of the Center for Contemporary Arts in Santa Fe to “focus on curator ...

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Interview with Rulan Tangen of Dancing Earth
January 17, 2012, No Comments

Rulan Tangen is the artistic director and choreographer of Dancing Earth, the foremost contemporary indigenous dance com ...

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Interview with Dana Falconberry
January 6, 2012, No Comments

Originally from Michigan, Dana Falconberry went to a small college in Arkansas and then blindly moved to Austin about se ...

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DiverseWorks Houston Names Executive Director Elizabeth Dunbar
January 5, 2012, No Comments

DiverseWorks—non-profit art space in Houston—announces Elizabeth Dunbar as the new Executive Director, following Wil ...

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New Formula: Grassroots Arts Philanthropy Booms
October 24, 2011, 4 Comments

Long ago, “friend” was a noun and “city” was a location: Santa Fe, at the weary end of the Santa Fe Trail, from ...

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Smiling Sugimoto at Chinati
October 21, 2011, No Comments

Hiroshi Sugimoto’s talk at Chinati,  where he had an exhibition opening, revealed intelligence and humor of a tim ...

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Steve Jobs (1955-2011): “Tools For All”
October 6, 2011, No Comments

Tools for All was the motto of Stewart Brand’s Whole Earth Catalog. Just take a pause and think about those three word ...

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Pacific Standard Time
September 26, 2011, No Comments

Pacific Standard Time, a so-called “unprecedented collaboration of cultural institutions across Southern Californi ...

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“Toward the Third Dimension” Makes You An Actor with Art
September 14, 2011, 1 Comment

David Floria Gallery in Aspen is a thumbnail-sized space, in which a show of two- dimensional works by 11 artists, often ...

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The Chair at Shy Rabbit Contemporary Arts in Pagosa Springs, CO
September 5, 2011, 1 Comment

Chairs have been the subject of paintings throughout history. Van Gogh painted one, so did John Singer Sargent, Henri Ma ...

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Archaeology and the Shape of Time: A Photo Show In Search of Itself
September 1, 2011, 1 Comment

“Archaeology and The Shape of Time” at Fisher Press (August 26-Sept. 27) is an exhibition of small scale black-and-w ...

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Austin’s Hottest Summer on Record
August 29, 2011, No Comments

I read somewhere that the highest temperature in a public sauna is 106 degrees Fahrenheit. I can top that. The city of A ...

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Of Bodies Of Elements: “Mending the Sacred Hoop”
August 22, 2011, 1 Comment

Rulan Tangen’s Of Bodies of Elements presented to a packed house at the James A. Little Theater on Friday night, Augus ...

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Contemporary Indian Market- A Short Selection
August 18, 2011, 1 Comment

Indian Market weekend brings a particular glut of art events of which the contemporary need to be culled out, and that&# ...

ASPEN ART MUSEUM 2011 "AfterpartyCrush"
Art-Crush: “Lips, boobs, shoes.” And Sales.
August 17, 2011, 1 Comment

The word from Aspen this month proves to nobody’s amazement that Aspen remains the Rockies resort town where hedge-fun ...

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15 Artists at Kirkland Museum Not Radical At All
August 17, 2011, 1 Comment

Art Exhibit at Kirkland Museum, featuring artists who broke with tradition, closed on August 14th. “The influence of d ...

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Charles Wyly Dies in Aspen; Impact on Anderson Ranch Speculated
August 17, 2011, 2 Comments

Billionaire Dallas businessman and art patron Charles Wyly died in a car accident when his Porsche was T-boned by an SUV ...

Classixx en mexico at Frau Prau
Interview with Classixx
August 17, 2011, No Comments

It all began in a basement apartment in Echo Park, Los Angeles, where hundreds of people appeared at semi-regular Hush H ...

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Gallery Fridays
August 12, 2011, No Comments

What’s going on this weekend—August 12-14—in terms of art openings, closings and events? Let’s start with Santa ...

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Pay The Devil Later? This Faust Transacts Silliness
August 12, 2011, No Comments

Doctor Faustus, who originated with the German writer Goethe, is that character for whom the phrase, “Faustian bargain ...

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Last Film of the 101X Summer Cinema Series, Austin
August 10, 2011, No Comments

Summers in Austin provide a wide range of outdoor activities from swimming at Barton Springs to seeing a play at the Zil ...

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Up-and-Comer Tiger Darrow Knows Who She Is
August 8, 2011, No Comments

Chances are you’ve probably seen Tiger Darrow in at least one of the many films in which she has appeared. Her acting ...

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Gallery Fridays
August 5, 2011, No Comments

The following are openings/closings for Austin, TX and Santa Fe, NM for the weekend of August 5, 6, and 7, 2011. In Sant ...

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SOFA West, Preview Photos
August 4, 2011, No Comments

If you missed the opening night preview of SOFA West, August 3rd, at Santa Fe’s convention center, enjoy photos fr ...

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Interview with Nik Freitas
August 3, 2011, No Comments

I have known for quite a while that I wanted to write about the show at Stubb’s happening on Saturday, August 6th. Avi ...

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It’s (Almost) Fall – And New Art Fairs Are Frolicking
August 2, 2011, 1 Comment

From September 16th through October 23rd –  only four and a half weeks- three brand new dogs will fire up the art ...

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Contemporary (Latin) American Art in Austin
August 1, 2011, No Comments

HEIR today, gone tomorrow is currently on view at the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center (MACC), curate ...

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A Lounge Cruise with the Due Return
July 25, 2011, 2 Comments

The Due Return - the 75-foot-long beached ship-interactive installation that dominates Munoz-Waxman Gallery at CCA Santa ...

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Griselda – The Harried Wife and Peter Sellars – The Great Director
July 25, 2011, 1 Comment

Griselda, the tale from which Vivaldi’s Opera (and its brilliant new interpretation by director Peter Sellars and cond ...

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Wall of Sound, A Vintage Radio Show
July 21, 2011, No Comments

What, you may ask, are vintage radios doing in a contemporary arts and crafts gallery? It’s a good question and the an ...

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Interview with Evan Way of The Parson Red Heads
June 28, 2011, 1 Comment

AdobeAirstream caught up with The Parsons’ singer-songwriter Evan Way as the band made their way across the U.S. The P ...

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Pepper Rabbit Plays Austin’s Mohawk
June 14, 2011, 1 Comment

Xander Singh and Luc Laurent, aka Pepper Rabbit, currently reside in Los Angeles, but they are originally from New Orlea ...

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The Black Atlantic – “Fragile Meadow”
April 12, 2011, No Comments

From The Black Atlantic website: The Black Atlantic is the Groningen (The Netherlands) based acoustic pop band formed ar ...

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The Bloody Past – and Hermann Nitsch’s Ecstasy
March 21, 2011, 2 Comments

In 1962, Austrian artist Hermann Nitsch crucified the carcass of a slaughtered lamb while an assistant poured the animal ...

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Wild Horses in Photography and Art As Conscience
January 6, 2011, No Comments

It may seem futuristic cinema to picture men in helicopters stampeding wild horses down the Western range – but ra ...

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The Last Time I Saw Madame Chaloff
December 18, 2010, No Comments

I wrote these two short pieces about my teacher, Madame Margaret Chaloff, whom I studied with twice a week for nine mont ...

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Velazquez: Hand of the Master
December 13, 2010, No Comments

Its a revelation when a painting by a master is discovered. Its still a revelation when a painting is newly attributed t ...

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Interview with Julian Schnabel
December 11, 2010, 1 Comment

It is somewhat ironic that Julian Schnabels current exhibition, “Julian Schnabel: Art and Film”, at the Art ...

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Picasso and the Grand Theft Electrician
November 20, 2010, No Comments

NEW YORK- 271 works by Pablo Picasso (including more than 200 drawings) are now in the hands of a French cultural police ...

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Ron Nagle: Ominous Charms
September 19, 2010, No Comments

When you grok the size of Ron Nagles ceramic sculpture on view at James Kelly Contemporary in Santa Fe to 9/25 — o ...

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FOLKyTonk Plays at SITE Santa Fe
September 6, 2010, No Comments

FOLKyTONKs members include T.W. Man on guitar,  The Rev. Otis Moon (who wrote the song, “New Mexico Swing”) ...

The sound and multimedia installation of "If History Moves At the Speed of its Weapons, Then the Shape of the Arrow is Changing (2010)"
Postcommodity at Museum of Contemporary Native Art
August 30, 2010, 2 Comments

While driving from Denver home to Santa Fe I was listening to the Wisconsin Public Radio show, To The Best of Our Knowle ...

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I Petition To Save the Paolo
August 25, 2010, No Comments

As we have reported here, the Paolo Soleri Ampitheatres future has been uncertain. If you are a reader of adobeairstream ...

Jacci Den Hartog exhibit at Rosamund Felsen Gallery
Art Review: Jacci Den Hartog at Felsen
August 13, 2010, No Comments

In Esquires “Impossible” special issue, published this August, some of the unachievables they give are licki ...

Mile HIgh Music Festival 2010
Denver’s Mile High Music Festival: Groovey’s Picks
August 13, 2010, No Comments

The Mile High Music Festival at Dicks Sporting Goods Park in Denver, Colorado this weekend is exactly what it sounds lik ...

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Albuquerque: Handling Various Small Fires at Generator Exhibitions
August 11, 2010, No Comments

Handling an artist book meant to be ordinary, but now a super de luxe object, was the first installation offered to new ...

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The Vans Warped Tour 2010 in Denver: The Line-up
August 6, 2010, No Comments

This year marks the 16th year of the “Tour That Wont Die” which is The Vans Warped Tour. Started in 1994 b ...

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First Art-Aspen Brings Internationals
August 6, 2010, 1 Comment

August 6–Art Dealer  (and author) James Barron of Rome and New York brought Sol LeWitt fiberglass sculptures to A ...

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“Countdown to Zero” Opens in Santa Fe
August 2, 2010, No Comments

Not to miss is Lucy Walkers new documentary, which  ran at Sundance 2010 – Countdown to Zero, a warning about the ...

Let’s Talk About Arthouse
August 2, 2010, No Comments

AUSTIN, Texas–I recently sat down with Sue Graze, executive director of the Arthouse at the Jones Center in Austin ...

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Big Head Todd Launches Tour in Colorado
July 11, 2010, No Comments

Before Colorado had The Fray, The Flobots or 3OH!3 there was Big Head Todd and The Monsters.  Which to this day is stil ...

Fred Mascherino of Terrible Things
Interview with Fred Mascherino of Terrible Things
July 5, 2010, No Comments

The one thing I have learned over the last few years about bands is that no matter what level of success they have, whet ...

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Round Mountain’s Windward, NM grown
June 10, 2010, No Comments

In the heart of New Mexicos Pecos Wilderness, Round Mountain rises to a height of 10,700 feet, offering panoramic views ...

Marina Abramović and Ulay. Relation in Time.
The Artist Is Present, with Doubt
March 22, 2010, No Comments

In the late 1960s in Belgrade, Marina Abramović began thinking up rebellious unrealizable performances for public sp ...

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Movie Review: Avatar
December 20, 2009, No Comments

James Cameron has been making Avatar for 15 years, longer than the US has spent in Iraq. Thats proved enough time to con ...

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New Art From Cuba, in Albuquerque
October 28, 2009, No Comments

“Confluencias: Arte Cubano Contemporaneo,” at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, assemble ...

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The Provoke Era: SFMOMA Photography
October 26, 2009, No Comments

Provoke, was the Japanese magazine and collective founded in November 1968 by a group of photographers and critics inclu ...

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Denver’s First Perplexing Biennial
September 30, 2009, No Comments

The Denver Biennial of the Americas has some awesome growing pains. Denver artists and art dealers are getting nervous. ...

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Why Minneapolis Outranks Denver Culturally
September 7, 2009, No Comments

Forbes, the magazine that loves to categorize things, came out with a new ranking August 20th – The top 10 America ...

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Jay De Feo Show, by Artist of “The Rose”
August 19, 2009, 1 Comment

Artist Jay De Feo was for the duration of her life associated with the Bay Area, and sometimes mistaken, by her name, fo ...

Hadi Tabatabai "Thread Painting # 12Wood"
New Iranian Art in Marfa, TX
August 2, 2009, No Comments

“We hardly ever have a real experience.” So the post-gesturalist Hadi Tabatabai, an Iranian artist living in ...

Philip Beesley, "Hylozoic Soil"
SIGGRAPH 2009 Preview
July 26, 2009, No Comments

Not many festivals that are conferences and shows of new computer graphics and virtual interactivities have jukeboxes. S ...

Strings Music Festival Presents: Simon Boyar, Classical Meets Jazz
Colorado’s Dueling Summer Music Fests
July 19, 2009, No Comments

Summer is classical music festival season in Colorado. No matter the destination one is sure to find some of the finest ...

Christo Over The River, Project For Arkansas River, State of Colorado
Over The River, Land Art Disputes in Salida, Colorado
July 12, 2009, No Comments

The naysayers of Colorados Arkansas River valley surely do not mark the first time in the career of Christo and Jeanne-C ...

Los Alamos "The Black Hole"
The Womb of the Bomb, Baby
June 30, 2009, No Comments

It must have been poetic justice that Conrad and I sat in the very back of the bus. It made a good vantage from which to ...

Model of Pittsburgh Point Park Civic Center (1947), unbuilt. Model by Kennedy Fabrications. Photo: David Heald.
Wright Again
June 26, 2009, No Comments

When you are in rainy New York this summer, one of the exhibitions to see is  “Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Ou ...

Costumes from Ethnic China at the Museum of International Folk Art
June 15, 2009, No Comments

Although I dislike sewing (and actually dont know how) I have always liked rickrack. Rickrack in concept (to a non-sewer ...