Podcast (a2mediastream): Download On July 14th the Santa Fe Opera House erupted with standing ovations at the world premiere of the new critical edition of Rossini’s Maometto II – an opera that had its very first …

Maometto II tells a 15th-century story of a Byzantine-era war in which the Venetian city of Negroponte is laid siege by Turkish Sultan Mehmet II. Next Monday our audio podcast on Maometto will air on AdobeAirstreamRadio. …

The Yowayawa Camera Woman diary has evolved from a website in which Tokyo photographer Natsumi Hayashi displays levitating self-portraits of herself, rather a Sandy Skoglund meets Pippi Longstocking, to a realized art show on view in …

July 7th at St. Francis Auditorium found artist Judy Chicago sharing a stage with art historian and queer theorist Jonathan D. Katz, to discuss a body of her work that she began in 1982 and had …

Podcast (a2mediastream): Download Rick Silva is a new media artist whose recent works explore landscape, remix and glitch. He makes new media work from video to video games and shows it at venues including festivals, cyberspace …

Yesterday came news that ArtNet magazine, 16 years old and the “first and longest running online art magazine on the internet,” closed. This link from ArtInfo reports on the financial losses ArtNet was suffering (an astounding …

Podcast (a2mediastream): Download More Real: Art in the Age of Truthiness, opens at SITE Santa Fe on July 6th with a weekend of special events. Curated by Elizabeth Armstrong of Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and co-organized …

Nancy Holt’s Sightlines, curated by Alena J. Williams, is a touring show now enjoying a stop at Santa Fe Art Institute through June 29th. (Meantime, a group show dedicated to the land art movement, Ends of …

Podcast (a2mediastream): Download In 1976 composer John Cage said, “music as a I conceive it is ecological.” He added that maybe “music IS ecology.” John Cage would have turned 100 years old in September 2012. Santa …

Podcast (a2mediastream): Download Artist Mark Bradford installed a painting, “With That Ass, They Won’t Look at Your Eyes,” at Rubin Center for the Visual Arts, at University of Texas at El Paso, on May 24th. He …