October 28, 2009 // Comments //

Sustainable living and art collide in Boulder where a cooperative group of art students under the guidance of visiting Dutch and Slovenian artists designed the “Chicken Shack Village.” On September 26, the Boulder Museum of Contemporary …

October 28, 2009 // Comments //

“Confluencias: Arte Cubano Contemporaneo,” at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, assembles what organizers are calling the largest group show of contemporary Cuban art to occur in the United States, since Alfred Barr in 1944 …

October 28, 2009 // Comments //

Last Saturday Robert Franks film Cocksucker Blues (CSB) (1972) played at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where a  50th anniversary exhibition of Franks The Americans runs through January 3. Frank looked at ordinary Americans, and at …

October 26, 2009 // Comments //

Provoke, was the Japanese magazine and collective founded in November 1968 by a group of photographers and critics including Koji Taki, Takahiko Okada, and Takuma Nakahira (b. 1938), joined by Daido Moriyama in the second issue. …

October 19, 2009 // Comments //

The exhibit by artist Chip Thomas, “Culture Clash,” is over at the Center for Contemporary Arts Muñoz-Waxman Gallery in Santa Fe. But that was just a citified sampling of Chip Thomass real work on the Navajo …

October 18, 2009 // Comments //

Site Santa Fes eighth biennial, “The Dissolve,” harkens a glorious return to the imaginal the retinal and the animated –via a show being nimbly co-curated by Sarah Lewis and Daniel Belasco. Lewis is being vetted for …

October 12, 2009 // Comments //

A major event at Haifa had nothing to do with the festivals competitions. It was the screening of the new Israeli feature,  Lebanon.  It was not the official Israeli opening of the film, which had played …

October 9, 2009 // Comments //

“Society is basically not interested in art,” Donald Judd said. “Art has a purpose of its own.” That purpose can be discovered in Marfa, Texas, where this weekend marks the annual celebration of Judd and lectures …

October 8, 2009 // Comments //

I first wrote about James Drake for a catalog essay accompanying his 2005 City of Tells show at SITE Santa Fe. His monumental charcoal drawing, City of Tells, combines into a scroll-like mural the manners of …

October 8, 2009 // Comments //

AdobeAirstream’s Ellen Berkovitch interviews artist James Drake at his studio in Santa Fe, New Mexico, about drawing, literature, and influences past and present.