August 30, 2012 // Comments //

Rebecca Solnit is a writer’s writer, one of those voices on art and environment and atomic weapons and San Francisco and walking and many, many other subjects that, if we are being really really honest, describes …

August 29, 2012 // 1 Comments //

Ten words and thirty-seven forged steel letters, their material having had genesis as World Trade Center steel, spell out a sentence by Virgil, from The Aeneid: “No day shall erase you from the memory of time.” …

August 27, 2012 // Comments //

Wendover, Utah is a town on US 80, on the state line between Utah and Nevada, situated in the salt-flats and desert of the Great Salt Lake. Before the Center for Land Use Interpretation acquired property for …

August 20, 2012 // 1 Comments //

Among the most inventive things I saw at Santa Fe Indian Market this weekend (from a discrete selection): Glen Nipshank’s work. Nipshank is Big Mountain Cree. His work (as seen at Robert Nichols Gallery) tends to folds …

August 16, 2012 // 1 Comments //

Tomorrow night, August 17, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival hosts a Salute to Indian Market Program, at 6:30 p.m. in the Saint Francis Auditorium. (It is free and open to the public, who can come and …

August 2, 2012 // 2 Comments //

It’s become a trope of creative placemaking, one of the most discussed new forms of art funding that I reported on last October for New Formula, that arts “assets” can transform, vitalize and invigorate future economic …

July 31, 2012 // Comments //

Tonight, July 30th at 6:30 SITE Santa Fe presents critic Dave Hickey interviewing Irving Blum. I was going online to look for Ferus Gallery documentation, as well as a backstory to the art dealer who changed …

July 27, 2012 // Comments //

Consider that perhaps the vitality of new design is actually coming from the continent where the World Architecture Festival will be held this October: Asia. Consider also that, as reported on July 26th by ArchDaily, the …

July 26, 2012 // Comments //

Opening this Friday night, July 27th at Turner-Carroll Gallery, 725 Canyon Road, is a show of new work by artist Jennifer Joseph , who keeps changing it up in ways that reveal a brave as well …

July 24, 2012 // Comments Off //

Of the many things written (including this early post on the movie industry’s response) about the devastating and terrible crimes committed by alleged shooter James Holmes in Aurora, Colorado, at last Friday morning’s midnight showing of …