Rust and Bone (France, 2011) is director Jacques Audiard’s sixth feature-length movie since 1994. It follows A Prophet, an all-male story set in a Corsican prison that hammered emotion through an unrelenting dyad of prison yard and …

As I approach the Berkeley Art Museum up Bancroft Avenue my attention’s distracted between a glimpse of sculpture centipeding across the bright green grass (a Calder), and in bright red tag, the word SNITCH, marking the …

Podcast (a2mediastream): Download The Frightening Sound of Munch Munch Munch is just one of the titles of Judy Pfaff’s even-more-over-the-edge objects that are on view at Robischon Gallery in Denver through December 29th. Pfaff like Rosalind Krauss …

David Brooks wrote that Lincoln shows the nobility and malleability of politics, politics as the one change agent that can really deliver. I sat rapt by the movie’s demonstration of Lincoln’s political legerdemain, maybe because of …

About a week before Election Day I encountered, at Aaron Payne Fine Art, a painting titled Circle of Flowers (1969) by Alma Thomas. President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama selected two Thomas paintings for the White House …

It is presidential election day at last (along with major elections for Congress and Senate) and cartoonist XKCD dot com developed this image as a look at how things have changed in the US since 1788. …

I attended part of a daylong Creative Albuquerque symposium on October 19th. Titled Profit: From Striving to Thriving, it dealt in a mission to give ”creative” economic training to artists and creatives. Yet how problematic this area …

Dia de los Muertos happens to fall on my mother’s birthday (or vice versa). She passed away in 2011 but November 2d forevermore for me will be a day of the year when I pause to …

The Guardian (UK) two days ago published this article in which critic Dave Hickey recites the reasons he  is quitting the writing of criticism (being held “hostage to rich collectors,” chief among them.) Visit here. Hickey authored …

Albuquerque architect Bruce Warren Davis moved from a roughly 1700-square-foot home in the Nob Hill area to a just-over 1000-square-foot dwelling that he designed downtown. Long an innovative and canny solar aficionado, Davis has made the …