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OH SNAP! Festival In Memory of Sergio Machado
January 25, 2012, No Comments

Originally from Mozambique, Africa, Sergio Machado studied at Southwestern University (Georgetown, TX), where he graduat ...

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Having Fun at The Affordable Art Fair
January 19, 2012, No Comments

The Affordable Art Fair opened yesterday, January 18, in Los Angeles. Boasting cheap price tags for art—far lower than ...

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The Mountain Goats at Antone’s (January 19)
January 16, 2012, No Comments

It all began during the summer of 1994. I was Sebadoh’s biggest fan — at least in my own mind — and I had ...

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Pissing On (or Near) Art at the Clyfford Still Museum
January 10, 2012, No Comments

First, there was Duchamp’s “Fountain,” and since then piss, dung, feces, even menstrual blood have bee ...

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Daphne Guiness Show Closes, With A Diamond Dealer Controversy
January 9, 2012, No Comments

Yesterday at Fashion Institute of Technology Museum in New York closed a three-month run of Daphne Guinness: Fashion Ico ...

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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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Austin Art, Surviving in 2012
January 3, 2012, No Comments

Although we continue to see reports that Austin cannot sustain its art scene, as financial matters continue to worsen, o ...

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2012 Preview: Yves Saint Laurent, as Apres-Ski?
January 1, 2012, No Comments

The Denver Art Museum is the only scheduled U.S. venue in 2012 for two exhibitions imagined as crowd-sources: Yves Saint ...

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2012 Preview: Austin Free Music Week
December 31, 2011, No Comments

What better way to start 2012 than with one of our favorite annual traditions in Austin — Free Week!!! From Januar ...

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2012 Preview: Three Weeks in January
December 27, 2011, No Comments

LACE, or Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions,on January 27th will re-present Suzanne Lacy’s 1977 performance work ...

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Best of 2011: Austin Music
December 22, 2011, 1 Comment

I cannot recall a single calendar year in which Austin was privy to a deep well of varied, talented musicians. If 2011 w ...

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Nic Nicosia Curates Sarah Canright at CUE
November 18, 2011, No Comments

Opening tomorrow in New York at CUE Art Foundation, a show of work by artist Sarah Canright, curated by Nic Nicosia. Nic ...

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Sherrie Levine and the Critics
November 14, 2011, No Comments

Roberta Smith writing in The New York Times Friday about Sherrie Levine: “Mayhem”, at New York’s Whitn ...

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Fort Collins to Make a Rocky Mountain Regional Arts Incubator
November 10, 2011, 6 Comments

Fort Collins, Colorado, tasked with creating a Rocky Mountain Regional Arts Incubator, won a $100,000 “Our Town” gr ...

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Nazi-Looted Klimt Brings $40 Million at Sotheby’s Auction
November 9, 2011, No Comments

A Klimt landscape that that hadn’t been since the late 1930’s by the man whose family owned it before the Nazi Era s ...

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Maxwell Anderson In as Dallas Museum of Art Director
October 21, 2011, No Comments

Dr. Maxwell L. Anderson has been appointed as Eugene McDermott Director of the Dallas Museum of Art. He leaves his job a ...

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Judy Chicago Talks Feminism, The Dinner Party, and Through the Flower
October 17, 2011, 1 Comment

In 1971 Judy Chicago wrote in her diary that she wanted to document the “first” feminist art before “t ...

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Gallery Fridays: Austin, Denver, Santa Fe
October 14, 2011, No Comments

AdobeAirstream’s “picks” — art events and happenings in Austin, Santa Fe, and Denver for October ...

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Gallery Fridays: Austin, Denver, Santa Fe
October 7, 2011, 1 Comment

Openings and closings for Austin, Denver and Santa Fe for the weekend of October 7-9, 2011.   AUSTIN October 6 R ...

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Robert Adams Photography at DAM: A Bodhisattva Sees the West
October 2, 2011, No Comments

Photographer Robert Adams is a bodhisattva to the American West: “I want to make accurate photographs of the western l ...

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Carol Stakenas of LACE Talks Performance Art in Southern California
September 22, 2011, 3 Comments

[display_podcast] Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), is one of some 60 participating arts organizations in Los ...

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Lisa Fancher of Frontier Records Talks to Groovey
August 29, 2011, No Comments

Lisa Fancher founded the legendary punk label Frontier Records in 1980 and helped to launch the careers of many bands in ...

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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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Paying For Nazi Art Crimes at London Auction – and in NY in the fall
July 19, 2011, No Comments

In London on June 22, a landscape by Egon Schiele set a world auction record price for the Austrian artist (1890-1918), ...

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A Not-Typical Texas Band: Centro-Matic
July 7, 2011, 1 Comment

Centro-matic’s tour concludes at The Mohawk in Austin, TX (with Sarah Jaffe opening) on Sunday, July 10th. And, AdobeA ...

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The Last Mountain – Another Landscape Demolished
June 13, 2011, 1 Comment

Artists like Robert Smithson or Christo who use the earth as a medium have nothing on the mining companies that are out- ...

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Dennis Hopper: Sold
January 18, 2011, No Comments

It must have been fate. The single object that rose from the mix of hundreds of objects and pictures and posters from th ...

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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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Interview with Doug Haywood
December 30, 2010, No Comments

Known as one the most prominent “side men” in the music business Doug Haywood has performed with many of r ...

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December Texas Museum Happenings
December 9, 2010, No Comments

Vernon Fisher sitting in a stuffed-animal chair designed by the Campana brothers with one leg of the chair in Texas, Mex ...

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Sensory Crossover: Synesthesia in American Art
December 2, 2010, No Comments

Modern living can often feel like a sensorial circus. And according to an excerpt at Sensory Crossover: Synesthesia in A ...

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Faith-Based Films at the Toronto International Film Festival
September 16, 2010, No Comments

Why come to a festival like the Toronto International film Festival (TIFF) if not to find what Michael Lewis calls ̶ ...

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“Gasland” Movie Goes On Tour
September 7, 2010, No Comments

In one county in New Mexico, archeological and eco-tourist conservation staved off fracking. But we appear to be the luc ...

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Richard Carter: “Future Beauty” Paintings on Exhibit at David Floria
September 6, 2010, No Comments

ASPEN–Richard Carters New Paintings:  Future Beauty, constitute a 44-painting series, exploring fire in its conte ...

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Movie Review: The Tillman Story
August 16, 2010, No Comments

Remember Pat Tillman? He was the NFL star for the Arizona Cardinals who gave up a $3.6 million contract and enlisted in ...

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The Santa Fe International Folk Art Market
July 4, 2010, No Comments

In conjunction with the July 9-11 Santa Fe International Folk Art Market, the largest market of its kind in the world (n ...

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Is Albuquerque Studios In Freefall?
May 15, 2010, 2 Comments

Abq. Studios came to New Mexico in 2007 with what I reported in January was a $91.5 million investment in real estate dr ...

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Movie Review: No One Knows About Persian Cats
April 18, 2010, No Comments

No One Knows About Persian Cats (a film by Bahman Ghobadi) is, among many other things,  a band-on-the-run film, with t ...

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RIP Howard Zinn, Wake Up Progressives
March 7, 2010, No Comments

Howard Zinn believed in our ability to change the world through acting, speaking and writing. Zinn encouraged us to sear ...

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Imagining and Witnessing the Whitney Biennial: A First Look
March 3, 2010, No Comments

Theres no theme to the recently opened Whitney Biennial, in a year when the themes of collapse and disillusion that haun ...

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Interview with Retrepo’s Sebastian Junger
February 6, 2010, 2 Comments

The top documentary prize at Sundance this January went to Restrepo, the film by writer Sebastian Junger and  photograp ...

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Bruce Mau Out Of Denver Biennial
December 8, 2009, No Comments

Bruce Mau is out as Denver Biennial of the Americas artistic director. His studio says In Good We Trust, which informed ...

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Robert Frank at Metropolitan Museum of Art
October 28, 2009, No Comments

Last Saturday Robert Franks film Cocksucker Blues (CSB) (1972) played at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where a  50th ...

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A Woman with a Past: Georgia O’Keeffe and Abstraction
September 18, 2009, No Comments

The Whitney Museum opens Georgia OKeeffe: Abstraction, a new look at the artists abstract works. Works include photograp ...

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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 ...

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Movie Review: Food, Inc.
June 6, 2009, No Comments

It sounds too easy to describe Food Inc. (Dir., Robert Kenner, 2008, USA) as a movie that you might not be able to stoma ...

Rocket men and the students who help them
May 1, 2009, No Comments

The New Mexico Education Launch May 2 brings rocketships to a place theyve already been, but will be spending more time ...