As Mitt Romney who is said to be the richest presidential hopeful we have ever had squeaked out of the Iowa caucuses with eight votes, The Washington Post reported today that arts and architecture graduates have the …

The Issues in Contemporary Architecture series continues at New York’s Museum of Modern Art with Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream,” opening February 15-July 20, 2012, in which five domestic architecture companies explore new architectural possibilities for …

Okay, well, we’re cheating a little bit because this exhibit of Francesca Woodman photographs has already opened, and runs through February 20th at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Francesca Woodman went to Brown University …

LACE, or Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions,on January 27th will re-present Suzanne Lacy’s 1977 performance work then called Three Weeks in May, now being called Three Weeks in January, as a citywide public performance and event still …

This April’s literary publication of  The Pale King, the last book written by David Foster Wallace, had that odd media-world tinge of  knowing, in reading about the book, that Wallace was dead and no more work was …

Writer and thinker Christopher Hitchens (center, above) died last Thursday night, December 15, at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Texas. He was 62.  Great tributes to him (in my view) include this one, by his pal …

A famous art critic (true story) waiting for light in front of Delacroix’s Jacob and the Angel in St. Sulpice Chapel offered to me that his favorite painter was neither Delacroix nor Poussin but Fragonard, who …

Creative Santa Fe, a nonprofit that emerged in 2005 out of the University of New Mexico BBER economic-impact study, and has been funded by the City of Santa Fe to increase arts and cultural awareness and …

Podcast: Download James Drake‘s Salon of A Thousand Souls, a one-man show curated by New Mexico Museum of Art curator Laura Addison, can be seen at NMMA in Santa Fe through April 22, 2012. Not a …

Swiss design studio Greutmann Bolzern is on tap tonight at Swissnex San Francisco with an installation-event, Bubble Ballet, in which the design star of the show are those ephemera known as soap bubbles. The description goes …