Annie Leibovitz was the recipient of a “woman artist of distinction” honorific bestowed on her at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum  in Santa Fe several years ago. Leibovitz has been back in the news recently discussing her …

I spent the better part of last night watching the Grammys and of course, it was bad, but it was also good: There was Brian Wilson, for instance, and how bad can that be? (Not as …

Steven Holl Architects has prevailed over architecture firms Snøhetta and Morphosis to design an expansion for the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, it was announced February 2d. Core to the program will be a new building to …

Santa Fe jeweler Ion Ionescu was awarded the prestigious AGTA Spectrum award for evening-wear jewelry last October. He won for “Pillow for Dreaming,”  a palladium and black rhodium ring in which a. 36 ct. carved labradorite …

Wow. More serious news from the gallery closing world. BOX Gallery, at 1611 Paseo de Peralta, owned by Michelle Ouellette since 2000, and home to an emerging/contemporary program as well as hosting shows by some of …

The New York Times has reported that artist Mike Kelley was found dead Wednesday, age 57, at his home in South Pasadena, an apparent suicide over despair about a broken love affair. An American tragedy. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/02/arts/design/mike-kelley-influential-american-artist-dies-at-57.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries

While European Union leaders meet in Brussels today on bulwarking “a firewall” to the eurozone crisis, Skate’s Global Art Industry Art Investment Review released December 23 reports that the art market in 2012 will “decompose into …

I had a floor glue moment the other day at Aaron Payne Fine Art when I turned around and looked dead on at Homage (recto), a 5 x 4 foot canvas by Emil Bisttram, astonishingly painted …

Craig Anderson has resigned as executive director of the Center for Contemporary Arts in Santa Fe to “focus on curatorial pursuits.” In what appears to inject a note of managerial uncertainty for an organization that has …

Gregory Sholette writes: Things have changed since we witnessed the power-scrubbing of Zuccotti Park’s People’s Library[1] and the mulching of the encampment’s hundred-page opus of dissent written on corrugated scraps of cardboard and inverted pizza boxes, …