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During three weeks in April 1951, Jack Kerouac famously wrote On The Road by typing continuously onto a 120-foot roll ...
First, there was Duchamp’s “Fountain,” and since then piss, dung, feces, even menstrual blood have bee ...
The counterculture movement was in essence a western phenomenon. That’s the premise of West of Center: Art and the Cou ...
On November 22, I visited the newly opened Clyfford Still museum in Denver, which for the first time presented the artis ...
I cannot recall a single calendar year in which Austin was privy to a deep well of varied, talented musicians. If 2011 w ...
Writer and thinker Christopher Hitchens (center, above) died last Thursday night, December 15, at MD Anderson Cancer Cen ...
As the year of film festivals gives way to a stampede of hype for annual awards, eyes are now directed toward the Sundan ...
For Andrew Berardini, Art Basel Miami Beach 2011 was stressful, according to his report in Artforum from the celebrity-f ...
David Lynch does not like mere prettiness. Instead, he declares, “I like mistakes and accidents, which is why I like t ...
Anyone who spent time in Texas this summer knows that this year’s weather has been extreme. Texas summers can be bru ...
Austinites Max Colonna, Josh Halpern & Chase Weinacht — collectively known as Marmalakes — released thei ...
Fort Collins, Colorado, tasked with creating a Rocky Mountain Regional Arts Incubator, won a $100,000 “Our Town” gr ...
A recent New York Times headline about waning American influence in the context of the G20 summit caught my eye the same ...
The 18th Annual Austin Film Festival ended last week, and Austin is still reveling in the films, conferences, parties an ...
Transmedia is one of those new words (birthdate: 2007) you may not have heard of: Here’s the wiki. And it may not be ...
Often, for artists, a move to New Mexico from Los Angeles or New York has been perceived as a drop out of sight, off the ...
Brooklyn-based managing partner of artMRKT Productions and heir to the Forum Gallery “throne” built by Bella Fishko, ...
Alexis Marceaux’s sophomore release — Orange Moon — was recorded upon moving back to the Crescent City aft ...
Long ago, “friend” was a noun and “city” was a location: Santa Fe, at the weary end of the Santa Fe Trail, from ...
Ben Redman (drums, 12-years old) and his brother Max (bass, 11-years old) began playing gigs around Austin in 2008 under ...
On October 1, 2011 the Salon wrote that the “Creative Class Is a Lie;” no less than 5 days later Richard Florida of ...
On September 22, I took a hard-hat tour of the Brad Cloepfil-designed Clyfford Still museum in Denver. The 28,000-square ...
Writing in The New Yorker in October of last year, Malcolm Gladwell queried the influence of social media on social acti ...
Collaborators Eiko and Koma performed three dances from their Retrospective Project Saturday night at the North Fourth A ...
I am usually not one to play favorites, but I will say that The Sour Notes have been my favorite Austin band for the las ...
There are plenty of music-related events going on this weekend; you know, with the ACL Music Festival and all of its bas ...
Santa Fe may have invented its own genre of “new age graffiti,” giving further credence to Jeffrey Deitch’s st ...
“Archaeology and The Shape of Time” at Fisher Press (August 26-Sept. 27) is an exhibition of small scale black-and-w ...
I read somewhere that the highest temperature in a public sauna is 106 degrees Fahrenheit. I can top that. The city of A ...
The word from Aspen this month proves to nobody’s amazement that Aspen remains the Rockies resort town where hedge-fun ...
Cosanti Foundation, whose principal project is Arcosanti, architect Paolo Soleri’s mesa-top urban laboratory in Pa ...
The following are openings/closings for Austin, TX and Santa Fe, NM for the weekend of August 5, 6, and 7, 2011. In Sant ...
I have known for quite a while that I wanted to write about the show at Stubb’s happening on Saturday, August 6th. Avi ...
From September 16th through October 23rd – only four and a half weeks- three brand new dogs will fire up the art ...
The last night of Art Santa Fe, I asked critic and historian Peter Frank about his experience here. He said (I’m par ...
1. Because a talking cowboy is even better than a laconic cowboy The myth of the ranch man wearing a slight bow to his l ...
The last time I saw Andrew Kenny perform was at a wedding at the Elks Lodge in Austin, Texas. I am guessing that Kenny p ...
Centro-matic’s tour concludes at The Mohawk in Austin, TX (with Sarah Jaffe opening) on Sunday, July 10th. And, AdobeA ...
Why yes! I do know that I am declaring Facebook’s Myspace land (like descent into Pets.com) immediately after Zuckerbe ...
In a remote village in the Thar desert of Pakistan, the women are primarily Hindu in a Muslim country. Not only that, bu ...
If you live in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and you have not seen this news: Please go to this link at NMFireinfo dot wordpre ...
Here come the Mormons. Forget about the campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, where two of the aspirants ...
From the Harwood Museum Website: Libby Lumpkin, art historian, curator, and professor of contemporary art history and ar ...
Xander Singh and Luc Laurent, aka Pepper Rabbit, currently reside in Los Angeles, but they are originally from New Orlea ...
Artists like Robert Smithson or Christo who use the earth as a medium have nothing on the mining companies that are out- ...
Dunn and Brown Contemporary, a 12-year-old Dallas gallery focusing in high-end contemporary art, is changing its name in ...
I walked into what appeared to be an unpolished exhibition when I saw Susan Collis’ ‘So it goes’ at Lora Reynolds ...
Peter Mulvey is truly a world class guitar player, singer-songwriter, and storyteller. If you haven’t heard his musi ...
In 2006, writing for Metalsmith magazine, I had the opportunity to review the Charles Loloma jewelry show that revealed ...
My first foray into radio was with a local talk station in Denver. Right after the job offer, my anticipatory excitement ...
I, Shithead by Joey Keithley of D.O.A. (his stage name is Joey Shithead) is the lead dude in the most important band you ...
Marimbas del infierno (Marimbas from Hell), a Guatemalan film written and directed by Julio Hernández Cordón, had its ...
“Prodigy” is that small apotheosis reserved for the young. Mozart, Mendelssohn, Michael Jackson they have ...
If Bernd and Hilla Becher tried to systematize industrial operations into banal presentations, flat-framed black-and-whi ...
Live music has always been the golden rock n roll goose laying some very profitable eggs, but in the last couple years o ...
Editors Note: Ai Weiwei has been arrested in Beijing and on April 4, 2011 there are fears for his safety amid a crackdow ...
Serbian-born engineer and inventor Nikola Tesla went west for a period in the late 1800s to conduct research in Colorado ...
As the 2011 Armory show, opening on Piers 92-94 on March 3d, makes its second annual Exhibitors Focus a look at Latin Am ...
When I first heard about RAW it sort of sounded like the arts version of the “McIndie with a side of cheese fries ...
The strength of a countrys industries is in its exports, at least thats what were told. Should film be any different? Su ...
It may seem futuristic cinema to picture men in helicopters stampeding wild horses down the Western range – but ra ...
The Art of the Americas Wing at Museum of Fine Arts Boston opened to the press on November 12th and to the public on Nov ...
Tattooing has come a long way since the days when it was associated mainly with drunken sailors and prison inmates. Toda ...
It is somewhat ironic that Julian Schnabels current exhibition, “Julian Schnabel: Art and Film”, at the Art ...
Much-awaited, The Fighter takes you to the ring with the talented sensitive boxer Mickey Ward, a struggling welterweight ...
Vertical Migration, like other works by choreographer and dancer Sher-Machherndl, is a dance about human life where mome ...
Composer Peter Garland had traveled so many years in Guatemala, Bali, Java, Australia, the Philippines, and for a signif ...
A lone middle-aged woman crosses the bridge to Ciudad Juárez. The short distance from El Paso, Texas to Juárez is ...
Keep Adding is a multimedia art collective of artists Brian Bixby and Noah McDonald that emerged in Las Cruces, New Mexi ...
In a moment of anger two years ago, Conrad Burns, the Republican former senator from Montana who received campaign funds ...
Its pretty rare, even these days, when you can spot the imminent death of a common cliché. Very soon the old adage, ...
The current status of the world is alarming: between inundation of digital data and environmental crises in the so-calle ...
SANTA FE-There was a rumble or three at the NCECA Critical Santa Fe symposium, as Garth Clark played human trip-wire dur ...
Le Chat Lunatique (whose name was loosely inspired by a “Beware Of Attack Cat” sign spotted on a French ga ...
Walking up a stretch of Santa Fe Drive Arts District past Mexican and Ethiopian restaurants and tattoo shops on a Wednes ...
The Austin City Limits Music Festival takes place from October 8th to the 10th at Zilker Park in Austin Texas. This abso ...
The late Donald Fisher, founder of the Gap, amassed a major collection of contemporary art. He lent some of it to exhibi ...
Why come to a festival like the Toronto International film Festival (TIFF) if not to find what Michael Lewis calls ̶ ...
NEW YORK – The news came this week that The American, the latest with George Clooney, took in more than $16 millio ...
Pearl Aday (she was named after Janis Joplins “Pearl” album) was born into rock and roll royalty in 1975 to ...
ASPEN–Richard Carters New Paintings: Future Beauty, constitute a 44-painting series, exploring fire in its conte ...
While driving from Denver home to Santa Fe I was listening to the Wisconsin Public Radio show, To The Best of Our Knowle ...
As we have reported here, the Paolo Soleri Ampitheatres future has been uncertain. If you are a reader of adobeairstream ...
The Mile High Music Festival at Dicks Sporting Goods Park in Denver, Colorado this weekend is exactly what it sounds lik ...
Is a Titan IV Stage II rocket engine a work of art? It was designed to fly to Saturn, but never made the journey. How ab ...
The one thing I have learned over the last few years about bands is that no matter what level of success they have, whet ...
In the heart of New Mexicos Pecos Wilderness, Round Mountain rises to a height of 10,700 feet, offering panoramic views ...
Despite several formal high points, and some strong visuality, another show purporting to have artists talk deeply on sc ...
A prominent thinker on ecological economics, Nate Hagens, explains consumerism in terms of evolutionary biology and evol ...
In the largest room at LTMH Gallery, Shoja Azaris images of Iranian holy martyrs striking poses of power and courage shi ...
Most bands talk about “paying their dues” and basically what that means is playing their music for months or ...
Thursday night is the opening preview for Art Chicago at the Merchandise Mart featuring 150 galleries and dealers from a ...
Documentaries are always a reliable strength at the Tribeca Film Festival. This year, they are led by what might be call ...
Photographing the present as if it were already the past may well be what many photographers aspire to achieve as they l ...
There are plenty of chronicles of the post-industrial landscape. Few are as allusively eerie as David Trautrimass. Dav ...
On June 19, 2002, Bangladeshi born U.S. Citizen Hasan Elahi handed his passport to a TSA Agent at the Detroit Airport. T ...
In The Runaways, the debut feature for music video director Floria Sigismondi, the early tempestuous days of Joan Jetts ...
You have to stay through 1:08 of the video below (and see also 6:59) to see in situ the four diptychs of the Lorraine OG ...
Theres no theme to the recently opened Whitney Biennial, in a year when the themes of collapse and disillusion that haun ...
Trophies in demand will always sell, but does it mean the art market is back? At Sothebys in London this week, a sculptu ...
A few days remain to see the exhibit of works on paper by Nelleke Beltjens at Hosfelt Gallery. Betljens draws in ink on ...
In 1938, Life Magazine called Georgia OKeeffe “the worlds most famous woman artist.” Intended no doubt as ...
In a landscape architecture show recently closed at UTEP, Snagged underscores the grim cultural and aesthetic repercussi ...
A greater percentage of adults attend arts events in the Mountain Region than the US average artgoer, but arts attendanc ...
Art Santa Fe Presents (Charlotte Jackson) and the Museum of New Mexico Press have just published Frederick Hammersley, a ...
As bank misadventures hold the unemployment rate at 10 percent and companies cut costs mercilessly to survive the shock ...
In the last month and a half the news of the world previously known as print media continues to be grim. The Washington ...
The Road is a walk-through a post-apocalyptic landscape of rags, grey skies, and desperate survivors eating the flesh of ...
For cinephiles, Broken Embracess story, told by a movie director who was blinded in a car accident that killed his lover ...
“Society is basically not interested in art,” Donald Judd said. “Art has a purpose of its own.” ...
It is not easy to explain the Burning Man experience. This is something I have wanted to attend for 10 years. Having rea ...
The Whitney Museum opens Georgia OKeeffe: Abstraction, a new look at the artists abstract works. Works include photograp ...
Forbes, the magazine that loves to categorize things, came out with a new ranking August 20th – The top 10 America ...
Sundance has found a new home, or at least a second home, in New Mexico. Call the picture Bill Richardson and the Sundan ...
The Equitable Building, a 12-story office tower for the insurance company of the same name, always caught my eye when I ...
Im not a big fan of Jerry Jones, the hovering owner of the Dallas Cowboys who thinks hes as qualified to be on the field ...
From 1967 to 1977, a clutch of hardened former student protesters, led by an earnest journalist (Ulrike Meinhof), a char ...
A long wait at the DMV, while my 17-year-old son took his driving test, was interrupted by a tweet on my Blackberry. It ...
“No Discipline” is a journey through Ron Arads designs, from battle-worn chairs and sound systems to his ste ...
Robert Stones new documentary, Earth Days, opens this week, as opponents of global warming seem to have found a new R ...
The Cove by Louie Psihoyos of Boulder Colorado stands out as an exemplary personal journey tale in what is now a longsta ...
Summer is classical music festival season in Colorado. No matter the destination one is sure to find some of the finest ...
When I walked in to David Floria Gallery the morning I left Aspen I had the sense I knew everything about Herbert Bayer, ...
At a screening of the Hurt Locker that I paid to attend on the west side of Manhattan, where people tend to deal with wa ...
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 ...
When you are in rainy New York this summer, one of the exhibitions to see is “Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Ou ...
Clay is an impulsive medium. It begs to be touched, formed, and shaped. At the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadel ...
All relationships have expiration dates and bands are no different. This is a eulogy from a distance to Unit7Drain, a ba ...
Since demolition began in 2009 at the Santa Fe Indian School, many watchers have wondered if the Paolo Soleri Ampitheatr ...
Printmaking is a very fine art. Whether lithography, monoprints, woodcuts, or chine collé, the act of making a print ...
Theres Life After Spock “¦. Now that youve seen J. J. Abramss Star Trek, the prequel to the show that launche ...
Julius Shulman at 98 is the man responsible for forging a relationship between photography and the built environment.
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