May 11, 2012
Home – no City or Media
Podcast (a2mediastream): Download On May 15th in New York, top auction house Christie’s holds a first time-ever ded ...
Barbara Buhler Lynes, who became curator of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum when it opened in 1999, resigned that post ...
Original readymades? Hm. Oxymoron? Not if they are slightly altered readymades, like Duchamp’s. The Contemporary A ...
Fusebox is the “hybridized” art festival that is mashing-up all things art-related in the Austin this week. Founder ...
Ged Quinn opened this week at the The Modern in Fort Worth with works described by the museum as “awe-inspiring in the ...
Seth Siegelaub’s disembodied voice echoes through the futuristically decorated, cement-floored chamber of the Time Cap ...
Maastricht (Netherlands) – If art follows capital, then much of it is headed toward the former epicenter of intern ...
The Nicolaysen Art Museum in Casper, Wyoming has been chosen to team up with Google for the fifth annual “Doodle 4 ...
At the Digital Media Symposium at the St. Julien Hotel ballroom in Boulder, the room’s vibe is outdoorsy brainaic, per ...
We’ve all been there, deep amidst the mayhem of too many people on a crazy New Orleans street, during Mardi Gras, ...
I spent the better part of last night watching the Grammys and of course, it was bad, but it was also good: There was Br ...
After school in Santa Fe, I would go to the candy store on Canyon Road (now Nüart Gallery), and load bags full of Blow ...
Film is (maybe) almost history. Soon, it looks like, those hot reels–romanticized in the 1980s vehicle, Cinema Par ...
While European Union leaders meet in Brussels today on bulwarking “a firewall” to the eurozone crisis, Skate ...
As Mitt Romney who is said to be the richest presidential hopeful we have ever had squeaked out of the Iowa caucuses wit ...
Current exhibitions by Jim Hodges at Barbara Gladstone, and Laleh Khorramian at Nicole Klagsbrun, along with Lars Von Tr ...
On November 22, I visited the newly opened Clyfford Still museum in Denver, which for the first time presented the artis ...
Writer and thinker Christopher Hitchens (center, above) died last Thursday night, December 15, at MD Anderson Cancer Cen ...
Cowbird is the latest from artist/programmer Jonathan Harris. If you’re not familiar with his work already you can lea ...
Creative Santa Fe, a nonprofit that emerged in 2005 out of the University of New Mexico BBER economic-impact study, and ...
I left San Francisco 2 months ago for my last tour of 2011. I started my journey in Los Angeles and Miami, and then I pr ...
Anyone who spent time in Texas this summer knows that this year’s weather has been extreme. Texas summers can be bru ...
Fort Collins, Colorado, tasked with creating a Rocky Mountain Regional Arts Incubator, won a $100,000 “Our Town” gr ...
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 ...
On October 25th an invitation-only crowd celebrating the artist Theaster Gates filled the Rose Bar at the Gramercy P ...
So here’s the question: How much fame do you have to have to rewrite the US Copyright Law? Honestly, I think the situa ...
Transmedia is one of those new words (birthdate: 2007) you may not have heard of: Here’s the wiki. And it may not be ...
In 1656, Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn (1606-69) went bankrupt. These were the pre-Gagosian days, when artists themselves ...
Long ago, “friend” was a noun and “city” was a location: Santa Fe, at the weary end of the Santa Fe Trail, from ...
This year’s pilgrimage to Marfa on the occasion of Chinati’s 25th Anniversary Weekend was well worth the eff ...
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 ...
The Trinity Site opens only twice per year for public tours. Because, today, it’s “now only mildly radioactive,” y ...
Design Santa Fe 2011 deals in the theme of “Change Makers,” with the change question going to the social effects of ...
What’s happening this weekend? More like, what isn’t happening! AUSTIN Well, the first event isn’t ...
Chairs have been the subject of paintings throughout history. Van Gogh painted one, so did John Singer Sargent, Henri Ma ...
Austin – New gallery Champion OPENS Wild Beasts a group exhibition, downtown Austin—E 8th and Brazos. Although t ...
I read somewhere that the highest temperature in a public sauna is 106 degrees Fahrenheit. I can top that. The city of A ...
Guy Tillim’s color photographs (2007-8) of quotidian African life in and around late-modern colonial buildings in ...
Art Exhibit at Kirkland Museum, featuring artists who broke with tradition, closed on August 14th. “The influence of d ...
What’s going on this weekend—August 12-14—in terms of art openings, closings and events? Let’s start with Santa ...
Cosanti Foundation, whose principal project is Arcosanti, architect Paolo Soleri’s mesa-top urban laboratory in Pa ...
Chances are you’ve probably seen Tiger Darrow in at least one of the many films in which she has appeared. Her acting ...
HEIR today, gone tomorrow is currently on view at the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center (MACC), curate ...
In 1976-78 while the rest of us were watching Saturday Night Fever and listening to Stayin’ Alive, some hard-at-wo ...
In 2005 when Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s “air” reportedly sold on Ebay for $529.99, I was shocked. The latest g ...
Surrounded by hand-painted signs, rare bookstores, and vibrant art culture, TypeCon 2011: Surge went-off in New Orleans, ...
Why yes! I do know that I am declaring Facebook’s Myspace land (like descent into Pets.com) immediately after Zuckerbe ...
If you live in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and you have not seen this news: Please go to this link at NMFireinfo dot wordpre ...
I’ve been reflecting the last few days on the question of sheep (baa, baa) and the mainstream media. (Take Anthony Wei ...
My music tastes have significantly mellowed since the late 1980s when bands such as the Cro-Mags (Emo’s, June 2nd) and ...
The Tree of Life takes you from creation to heaven – I’m not kidding – with a long interlude into an intimate ...
Building affordable houses that are fast to construct, ready for storms, LEED-platinum-certified, and beautiful is a lof ...
There Is “exactly enough time, starting now” for American architects and engineers to marshal a new invention – ...
My first foray into radio was with a local talk station in Denver. Right after the job offer, my anticipatory excitement ...
If you follow art news, youre well aware that Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was detained by officials in Beijing on April 3rd ...
Remember Iceland, the island nation whose inhabitants are so beautiful that todays version of Dr. Evil tried to buy th ...
I was recently at an old geezer punk show and I heard this one particular quote mutter through all the bar chatter that ...
This article is a slow pitch to all the DJs sitting in the brick and mortar mega-corp offices broadcasting on a waveleng ...
Politicians love to talk about the fiscal deficit, but what about Americas infrastructure and transportation deficit? Ta ...
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 ...
The strength of a countrys industries is in its exports, at least thats what were told. Should film be any different? Su ...
Podcast: Download The Aobe Airstream podcast is back again today with David DArcy at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. Th ...
It may seem futuristic cinema to picture men in helicopters stampeding wild horses down the Western range – but ra ...
Tattooing has come a long way since the days when it was associated mainly with drunken sailors and prison inmates. Toda ...
The current status of the world is alarming: between inundation of digital data and environmental crises in the so-calle ...
A long roadtrip from Santa Fe to Denver and back finds the author ruminating on how many times she has wondered: Just wh ...
On Sunday morning if you were watching “This Week with Christiane Amanpour” you would have heard the bells ...
Isca Greenfield-Sanders: Light Leaks will be presented in the David & Laura Merage Foundation Gallery at the Museum ...
The 17th Annual Telluride Blues & Brews Festival takes place this weekend starting on Friday the 17th and ending on ...
In one county in New Mexico, archeological and eco-tourist conservation staved off fracking. But we appear to be the luc ...
While driving from Denver home to Santa Fe I was listening to the Wisconsin Public Radio show, To The Best of Our Knowle ...
White images, scratches on Plexiglas, reflecting on the white light of history, the urge to indelible amid the prevalenc ...
It is no coincidence that Richard Phillips “Mirror,” a 1998 charcoal and chalk on paper drawing from the K ...
The Launchpad in Albuquerque is one of those cool places that manages to pull in a lot of great acts for cheap ticket pr ...
Before Colorado had The Fray, The Flobots or 3OH!3 there was Big Head Todd and The Monsters. Which to this day is stil ...
When Paola Santoscoy met Adam Lerner in Autumn 2008, she had no idea that the encounter would lead her to Denver to cura ...
MAY 17, AUSTIN–A few weeks ago David Ellis painted an improvisational mural on the side of Co-Labs warehouse build ...
No One Knows About Persian Cats (a film by Bahman Ghobadi) is, among many other things, a band-on-the-run film, with t ...
Being an artist in todays global art market means logging lots of frequent flyer miles with projects in museums, galleri ...
Photographing the present as if it were already the past may well be what many photographers aspire to achieve as they l ...
On June 19, 2002, Bangladeshi born U.S. Citizen Hasan Elahi handed his passport to a TSA Agent at the Detroit Airport. T ...
Trophies in demand will always sell, but does it mean the art market is back? At Sothebys in London this week, a sculptu ...
Pat Steir was one. So were Ida Applebroog, Harmony Hammond, May Stevens, Carolee Schneeman, Cecilia Vicuna, Emma Amos, J ...
No one could be more unfulfilled than Adrian Jacobs (Adam Goldberg), a composer who fits all the Grand Guignol cliché ...
“Confluencias: Arte Cubano Contemporaneo,” at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, assemble ...
Last Saturday Robert Franks film Cocksucker Blues (CSB) (1972) played at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where a 50th ...
“Society is basically not interested in art,” Donald Judd said. “Art has a purpose of its own.” ...
The Denver Biennial of the Americas has some awesome growing pains. Denver artists and art dealers are getting nervous. ...
Reader Mail Correction: Dear Ms. Goebel, I recently read your article, “The Price of Being Damien Hirst” fro ...
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 ...
Where did it all begin? The Philadelphia native Benjamin West was known for irreverent remarks and upstart costume drama ...
From 1967 to 1977, a clutch of hardened former student protesters, led by an earnest journalist (Ulrike Meinhof), a char ...
Artist Jay De Feo was for the duration of her life associated with the Bay Area, and sometimes mistaken, by her name, fo ...
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 ...
Utopia never looked so empty in the documentary California Company Town, which visits places that once were communities, ...
The Cove by Louie Psihoyos of Boulder Colorado stands out as an exemplary personal journey tale in what is now a longsta ...
When I walked in to David Floria Gallery the morning I left Aspen I had the sense I knew everything about Herbert Bayer, ...
Clay is an impulsive medium. It begs to be touched, formed, and shaped. At the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadel ...
Since demolition began in 2009 at the Santa Fe Indian School, many watchers have wondered if the Paolo Soleri Ampitheatr ...
Examining the continuity of space amid changing conditions is one way the Philadelphia Museum of Art curators responsibl ...
Susan Rothenberg, Bruce Nauman and Richard Tuttle make up the New Mexico trifecta in New York.
Julius Shulman at 98 is the man responsible for forging a relationship between photography and the built environment.
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